Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-07-03
IDAHO STATE NEWS


shot and killed another herder, Evan.
gelist Pepper, is being held at Black
foot for murder.
It will cost nearly 100000 to oper>
ate the city of Pocatello next year,
according to the budget drawn up by
the city fathers.
1t Is feared that Bob Lumpkin, an
employe of the Canyon Canal com
pany, has been drowned in the Pay
cite river, near Montour.
AS result of being tossed from a
horse he was riding near his home at
Centerville, Benjamin Koppes, aged
81, died at a Boise hospital
In accordance with the unanimous
vote of something more than 1900
people who enjoyed Nampa's grand
'songfest" last week, this affair is to
be made an annual event
A fifty-ton oil fotation mill is be-
Ing added to the smelter equipment at
the Lost Packer mine in Custer
county The Loon creek placers in
the same district are being actively
worked.
The lead mines at Gilmore, are in
creasing their output, owing to the
rise in lead prices. The Wilbert
mine has reopened and figures on
shipping 1000 tons of concentrates
per month
The Wilson dance hall at Pocatello
was destroyed by fire on June
81. Two persons who discovered the
fire claim they were awakened by an
explosion. The loss is partly cover
ed by insurance.
Cherries In carload lots are being
sent out of Payette for the eastern
markets. This Is the first carload
shipment ever made from this point.
Three cars have been sent out and
others will follow.
Increasing business on the Inter-
mountain railway has made necessary
the addition of another passenger
train between Barber and Centerville,
connecting at Barber with the Ore
gon Short Line service.
A report comes from Northfork,
down the Salmon river, that an organ
lied band of horse thieves Is operat-
ing just over the line from that Sec
ton In the Bitter Roots. Stock own
ers are rounding up their horses on
that range.
Mrs. Josephine Baird of Rockland
died at a hospital from burns she re-
ceived few days before. While
burning trash In her yard Mrs Baird
fell In the burning heap. Her cries
brought help, but not before she was
terribly burned.
The skeleton of a man was found
lodged on gravel bar in the Snake
river few miles south of Idaho Falls
last week. 1t Is believed that the
skeleton is that of George Neal, who
disappeared from his home in Idaho
Falls last September.
The indictment brought by the re-
cent Ada county grand jury against
William Howell, Ada county commits
sioner, was made null and void by the
supreme court when 1t handed down
a decision ordering him discharged on
writ of habeas corpus.
The first case of state free travel.
ing library books to be sent through
The parcel post was mailed from
Boise, last week, to Grangeville.
Heretofore freight has been the pre-
yailing means used in the transporta-
ion of the states books for rural
communities.
e. Rogers is being held in Pocatello
n the county jail as a result of stab
Ding fracas at American Falls, as a
.'esult of which Clyde Cfoos was fatal
~ injured. Both men were drunk and
the best Of friends. A pocket knife
was used and Croos was stabbed four
times, one thrust In the abdomen
proving fatal.
An Emmett correspondent says the
prospects for a large fruit cropp In
creases nearly every day. Last week
the Model Fruit farm had large
quantity of peaches on the market
which found ready sale at rs cents
per crate of four one-gallon baskets
Apricots are also coming in, as are
raspberries.
William Kneebone met with a seri-
Gus accident while hauling wool from
the Gooding ranch on East Fork to
the siding near Gimlet. While going
down small hill the king-bolt on
the wagon broke, releasing the reach
pole. Mr.. Kneebone was thrown
from the wagon and sustained a
broken collarbone.
An investigation at Pocatello shows
that the average wage paid girl stem
ographers is $12 per week, without
board or lodging; lady clerks aver
age 81 per week, without board or
lodging; laundresses 81, without board
Or lodging; mattresses from SO to S.
a week, with board; domestic serv-
ants from SO to s.. with board and
lodging
From messenger boy for the West