Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1915-04-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Pocatello is assured Of a quarter
million dollar packing plant.
r. A. Bean Of Rock Creek, Twin
Falls county, had his leg broken in a
runaway.
s George G. Wentz. aged &c, is dead
. at Salmon, where he had made his
, home for forty-eight years.
The business district Of Council, tina
county seat of Adams county, was
swept by fire last week. Seven build
ings were destroyed.
w. A. Broadhead Of HALEY was Sc.
lected chairman Of the new state
highway commission at its first meet
ing held last week at Boise.
While driving a four-horse team to
a loaded hayrack. at Middleton. L. W.
Thomas was tipped off in such a man
ner as to fracture his right arm
Acceptance of the new power rates
for southwestern Idaho las been filed
/ by the Idaho-Oregon Light & Power
! company with the public utilities com
mission.
Herbert Wing former state engil
neer, has been employed by Attorney
! General Peterson to act temporarily
as an assistant in the attorney gen
erals office.
While there is little cholera in any
section Of the state, the government
agricultural workers want all traces
of the disease swept out and ara
working to that end.
The 3-year-old child OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Williams was burned to
death near Riparia when their family
home was destroyed. The mother, an
invalid, was rescued with difficulty.
Goodng is now secure as the coun-
~ seat OF the new county of that
name. according to stipulations filed
in the district court where a suit was
pending by the town Of Wendan con
testing for that honor.
Isaac Warren, a negro was convict
ed OF murder in the first degree for
the killing Of William Jackson at Po-
cetelo last January and a sentence
of life imprisonment in the state pen
iteatiary was given the prisoner
President NJ A. Brannon Of the Uni
yersity CT Idaho has rendered his res
ignation, to take effect July /, due.
it is said, to dissatisfaction with the
action Of the conference committee OF
the legislature on appropriations in
reducing his salary.
The Payette business men have re-
Gently organized, in an effort to mar
ket for the farmers the products of
the lower Payette valley. They are
holding regular market days and offer
inducements to the people Of the sur
rounding country to get real bargains.
Miss Della Lundgreen, who was
raised in Idaho Falls, but has been
stenCgrapher in the state engineers
office for two years, was the success
full bidder for transcribing the records
Of Boundary county. against the bids
Of several Portland parties.
Dean A Wilson a junior in the
Nampa High school, was the winner
Of the gold medal in the essay con-
test conducted under the auspices of
he Idaho society, Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution. His essay was EMIT
ed Frontier Days Of America"
A Shoshone dispatch says Mrs.
Peck, mother of Francis Peck, COM
nitted to the penitentiary few days
lgo died on Wood river, aged 90
'ears. The mother was not appraised
If the trouble of the son She was
II long time from tuberculosis.
w. H. Colyar. who went under the
llias of W. w. Rene while in Idaho,
nd who was taken back to Visalia
ounty, California, in February,
harged with failure to provide for
minor children. has been sentenced to
hree years, after pleading guilty
By the consolidation of the Idaho
oregon Light & Power company, the
daho Railway Light & Power COM
any and the Idaho Power & Light
ompany the costly competition the
hree companies have engaged in for
ne past two years in southern Idaho
J to cease.
April 1918 has been designated as
lone Industry week in a proclama-
on issued by the governor. In the
reclamation he urged that the week
2 observed by all citizens of the
ate and special efforts be made at
lat time to encourage the principlel
patronizing home industries.
That there is a big deal pending'
hich, if successfully closed. means
)thing more nor less than that the
oney necessary has been raised for
Of the Boise-Butte-San
-ancisco railroad its entire length
ON Butte via Boise to tidewater at
IN Francisco, is the Information that
mes from Boise.
AS the result Of the arrest of Mar
ret Conway, and several witnesses
40 are held in jail at Pocatello, Of
ers believe that the murder OF Ed
White at Mackay over two years
o viii be cleared up.