Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-09-18
In THE GEM STATE

Paroles were granted To "a convict
by the state parole board at its meet
ing last week.
Idaho gets sos, Oil as her shar,
from national forest receipts for tn,
past fiscal year.
Three barns and a number OF wind
mills were upset by a windstorm OF
Camas prairie last week.
Premium lists for the Idaho Stat,
fair, scheduled for Caldwell on Sep
TENDER 81, 28. 20, 80 and October l
are being distributed.
The conflict between Minidoka ant
Lincoln counties over the Indebtedness,
OF the former county to the latter wa.
carried to the supreme court.
After much agitation of the propo.
sal, the Boosters club directors
decided to drop the idea OF holding a
precinct fair this fall at Meridian.
The new $4,000 Lincoln schoo
building at Montpelier will be complet
ed In a short time, which will give tn,
city three up-to-date school buildings
The stike of prune packers at the
Mayield Fruit company plant at
Eagle, In which 80 of the IS women
employed walked out, lasted just "a
hours.
In the embezzlement of state fund by
former State Treasurer Allen. will
make application for a pardon at the
next meeting of the state board of
pardons.
Fred Coleman, former deputy state
treasurer, and who Is serving a sen
tence in the state penitentiary at
Boise on account Of the part he took
SIX-Departments
A mad bull completely demolished
the Ford automobile of Mrs. Thomas
Stephens of Montpelier when the two
met In a head-on collision near st.
Charles a few days ago.
Delegates have been appointed to
represent Idaho at the thirty-fifth an
nual session of the Farmers National
congress, which will meet In Omaha,
September rs to october l.
Dairymen and farmers of the Teton
basin and Bear Lake valley, In Idaho,
are enjoying n of the finest years
In the history of dairying and agri-
culture in this section of the west.
Lee Moorehead of Boise died on the
Lakeport train as the result of az
accident which happened last week
In Long Valley, where the young
mar was working on a threshing ma
chine.
Kuna wants to incorporate as a vii
lage. 1t has a population of 227, ac-
cording to the detailed census report
accompanying the petition for incor-
poration filed with the county com
missioners.
A suit involving the water right OF
an entire town as we'll as all the prop
erty holders therein, has been filed
In the district court of Lincoln county
by the Idaho Irrigation company and
Lee j. Mott.
Harry w. Larson has entered suit
In a justice of the peace court at
Shoshone against the Oregon Short
Line to recover damages claimed for
the loss of a weeks washing and q
suit cas- containing the anne.
Governor Alexander paid his re-
spects to the president Friday, con-
ferred with the secretaries of the
interior and agriculture regarding the
exchange of state school lands for
government lands, and left last week
for home.
Patronage at the city market one
day last week dropped off to such an
that the farmers who have
been bringing their produce to the sale
grounds at Columbia park, Boise,
the past two months are some
what discouraged.
Fifteen cases of whiskey, twelve
sacks of beer, one auto truck and two
are in charge of the sheriff, ar.
rested by Deputy Thompson of Black.
foot. Thompson overlook the truck on
the macadam road south of Blackfoot
and stopped 1t.
An examination was conducted In
TO the sanity of Mrs. Jennie Culp, of
but was not completed. Mrs.
mind is said to have become
affected by a severe illness some time
ago but as she Is not considered In
sane, the judge hesitates to send her
to the asylum.
Idaho's ~amendatory local option law
said to be one of the most stringent In
the United States, operative now In
counties and which will ap
ply to this state as a whole after
January l, 1915, is constitutional in
every form, according to supreme
court decision.
An amended decree In the suit In
which Henry B. Purl was recently
a divorce at Boise, from
Laura NJ. Purl has been filed and ap-
proved by the court. The decree
wards to the mother the custody of
daughter, Virginia and gives
Ter SIS a month allowance for are
nd maintenance Of the child