Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-08-07
idaho STATE NEWS

Idaho national guard.
With two new business establish
ments and a new school house in
sight. the village Of tSar 10 coming to
the front.
William Summerill was arrested at
Pocatello, charged with forgery. The
man came from Ogden and Is said to
have passed bad check at Pocatello.
George NJ. orston, formerly OF Poca.
tello and for the past three years in
the Blackfoot sanitarium for treat
ment of paralysis, died from that dis.
ease July 25.
The Tilden bridge over the Snake
river seventeen miles northwest of
Pocatello Is to be rebuilt by Joint Of.
fort of the county commissioners of
Bannock and Bingham counties.
In order to enable him to put In
large crops Of grain in the most up-to.
date manner Joseph Sullivan OF Eagle
has ordered one Of the first tractor
blowing outfits brought to that section.
The school board at Pocatello has
let contracts to various companies for
new equipment which will be used in
the portable school houses and later
to be transferred to the new high
school.
Fire completely destroyed the home
OF Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kreiger, who
reside four miles southeast OF Nampa.
Matches In the hands of a 4-year-old
son of the family account for the
blaze.
Recently two corporations have been
formed, which affect for the most part
the section of the county lying In and
adjacent to Pocatello valley, one OF
the biggest dry farm sections In the
county.
Douglas Knox. of Emmett, while on
a fishing trip, was kicked by q horse,
the force of the blow knocking him
over an embangment, two ribbs being
broken, while he suffered numerous
bruises.
The most important step that has
been taken In Idaho to place impetus
behind the campaign for better roads
was taken In Boise last week with the
perfection of the Southern Idaho Mo
tor association.
Annual budgets for the University
of Idaho, Idaho Technical institute.
Lewiston Normal school and Albion
Normal school were finally approved
by the state board of education at
Its meeting last week
Angered at a blow ON the head said
to have been dealt him by his wife, J.
Robertson, miner, living at Kellogg,
Is said to have cut his throat and then
rushed into the jungles west of town
and has not since been seen.
An experiment being tried this year
at the fruit farm of Harry Yost east
of Meridian may lead TO the establish.
ment of profitable new industry In
the Boise valley. This proposed In.
dustry is the manufacture of cherry
Juice.
Fire completely destroyed the cloth
Ing stock, valued at $4,000, OF Leo
N. Lewis and the building owned by
Trapp & Pierce at Pocatelio. The fire
started In the center OF the building
from an unknown cause and spread
very fast.
h II. Jennings has taken posses.
sion of the Boise RailDad company's
and will commence operating
It Independently OF the other city and
Interurban lines, which are now being
operated by the Electrical Investment
A telephone company has been or
sanized In Pocatello valley. The com.
)any has for its purpose the building
md equpping of telephone line to
connect all the ranches In the Pocs.
clio valley and also provide for long
distance connection.
The majority Of the people In Idaho
lsmand an increase in the United
states forces for national defense, In
he opinion Of AdJutant General Grow
II the Idaho national guard, and he
% expressed himself in telegram to
he New York World.
Numbers OF arrests have been or.
ered by the state engineering depart.
nent In cases Of alleged unlawful
pening Of headgates to take water
rom Wood river that had been cut
fl. These offenses are all charged
gaiRst farmers above Magic dam.
The first abstract OF real property,
or the use of the state board of equal
sstion at its next meeting, was re.
eived at the state auditors office last
'eek. 1t came from Jefferson county.
he total value of the real property
4 that county was named as 1881.
TO-
The dead languages as taught In the
Ugh schools OF this state have to 60
his is the verdict of the state board
education as the result OF action
lken last week Substituted In their
lace will be scientific and vocational
objects to At students to meet the
robiems of everyday life.