The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-12-17
idaho STATE NEWS


T. C. Coffin has resigned as assist
ant attorney general and has move'
from Boise to Pocatello to make hi
home.
The state building of Idaho main
tanned at the Panama-Pacific exposi
ton has been sold for $500 as salvage
1t cost the state $4,000.
H. H. Lester, rancher Of advanced
age residing a mile east of Nampa
narrowly escaped death on Monday
when attacked by an Infatuated JERSEY
bull.
After celebrating something more
than three hours, the jury at Caldwell
in the Barton VS.. Woodward damage
suit for $4,000, brought in verdict
for $4,000 for the plaintiff.
Shade Fields stands acquitted Of
the murder of Edward Ward, whom
he shot near Norwood in Boise coun
ty last September The jury is said
to have reached verdict on the fifth
ballot.
Preliminary hearing of r. M
HOupSOu, Mdldu VI u66lol, WIZ oAoe
and killed George Mclaughlin on the
Thompson ranch, was held December
IL. Tohmpson's bail was fixed at
$4,000 and was furnished.
The president of the Aero club Of
America has appealed to the national
guard of Idaho to assist in the coun-
try's preparedness by contributing to
q fund for the purpose of establishing
an aeroradio station in Idaho.
A coroner's jury at Malad which
investigated the killing of George Nc
Laughlin by Ray M. Thompson did
not place the blame for the killing,
simply stating that Mclaughlin came
to his death from a bullet wound.
A numbr of Boise valley dairy
herds have changed hands recently
at prices far above the average.
Every fall there is movement in
dairy circles in this part Of the state,
but this year the turnover was larger
than usual
A Bose bird lover counsels caution
In the use of poison for the exter-
mination of English sparrows. Great
care should be taken, says the writer
to place the poison SO that our native
resident birds, and winter visitants
cannot get it.
The district judge has discharged
the jurors who served in the first trial
at HALEY of the case of the state of
Idaho VS.. Jesse Hembree, charged
with grand larceny, the jury having
disagreed The defendant will be
given another trial.
The county treasurer OF Bannock
county reports that numerous bad
checks have turned up in payment OF
taxes In each instance the receipt |
given has been cancelled. In future |
checks rendered in payment of taxes
will have to be certified
The years ore production in the
Occur d'Alenes, regardless of the Sc
rious checks that have been due to
smelter troubles, will eclipse any pre-
vious record, not only in value but
in the tonnage shipped, according to
Robert N. Bell of Boise, state mine
Inspector of Idaho.
Jim Harry, an alleged former con-
vict, was shot and so badly wounded
that he died shortly afterwards at
The dead man and two
burglarized a hardware
store, and, as they were making away
With their loot, encountered the night
in the Short Line yards.
Guy Buster, who has just been
H. Brown at North Fork
wo years ago, was taken to Salmon
rom the Boise penitentiary last
week by Sheriff Stroud On arriving
It Salmon, Buster was married to
Mss Bessie Kouba by the probate
Judge.
President Miles F Reed of the Ida
o Technical institute has just COM
leted an extensive trip throughout
he southeastern part of the state.
he object of the trip was to arrange
ONE plan whereby the high school
curse is to be so standardized as to
lessen the labor of the fac
lty in first year college work.
In spite of all the grain which has
cen sold by the farmers in the Mid
ale and Cambridge section this year.
nd all that has been kept for seed for
ext year and what Is needed to feed
lie stock through the winter, there is
Ill million bushels stored in the
arehouses In the two towns.
In a brawl in which whiskey played
part, according to officers In the
leriff's office, Louis Pappas, Greek
hand, drew knife and
'andished 1t at John Pappas, another
reek and fellow workman, at Beatty,
It'll the result that he now faces q
large OF assault with intent to kill
State Treasurer Eagleson has COM
eted his financial report for the
onth of November, which shows
ate funds on hand at the close of
siness for that month. The total
Mount on hand on that date was
9,569.44 II
Caught with the goods on him, ac-
riding to information from the sher
s Office, James Papus, a Greek