Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-02-20
0AHO STATE NEWS


Clarence Won Dusen, an expert &C
ountant, and his assistant, P. A. Nc
Iahon of Boise are auditing the
ooks of Blaine county
| Canyon commissioners are busy de
Using means of saving the county
money and succeeded in cutting ex
| enses in county physicians depart
aent to the tune of 81 500
&. II. Seymour, a wealthy stock
| ser of st. Anthony, died at Long
each, Cal where he had gone to
| pend the winter mon his and was
| AIKEN i'll with typhoid fever
| Senator Borah has offered his bill
u,horizing loan of fifty million do
| RS to the reclamation fund as an
amendment to the administration
water power bill now on the senate
alendar
The Commercial club of Caldwell
has introduced decided innovation
n club work in the organization and
fostering of Junior Civic league
open to high school boys between the
ages of Is and 81.
Tony Al son and George Griffith
alleged violators of the liquor laws OF
the state, were apprehended at Poca
ec,4o. A charge of illegal transports.
lion was filed against the pair and
they were jailed
The Greeks Of Pocatello have made
preparations to erect a church ON the
east side Of town A good many
treeks are located there and a regu.
arly ordained priest will be assigned
o the local focA.
While officers were seeking him
with warrant, B. Greenlee, accused
If embezzling about $500 of funds be
,onging to the Boise BARRIERS union
walked into the office of the sheriff
and gave himself up.
Chester Kissinger, young man re-
siding in the vicinity of Snow, was
stabbed by Louis Hickman, resi-
dent of the same locality, the ARRAY
-aking place at a dance. Kissinger
was not dangerously injured.
Chapter 179 of the Session Laws OF
1913, creating state highway com
mission and providing for special IL
cense to motor vehicles is constitu
tional, according to a decision rem
dered by the supreme court last week
1t is the belief among some of the
flour milling men of Idaho that the
farmers are intoxicated with the high
price of wheat and that a sharp reac
tion will take place If more care is
not shown in the marketing of their
crops.
Asserting that reports have reached
him that sanitary conditions at Lava
hot springs have become so bad as t.
require the attention of the state, the
governor has asked the land board to
send one of it's members to make an
inspection.
The report comes from the Clear
water timber district that the burned
over timber in the Washington creek
district is being felled at the rate OF
about 100000 feet a day, and the cut
ting of the Scofield timber will be
completed in April.
In order to pay outstanding indebt
edness and take up warrants that
have been issued for some time on Q
deficiency basis, the city council Of
Pocatello has passed an ordinance au
thorizing the sale of municipal bonds
in the amount OF approximately $25,
900.
On April 10, just five years from
the last dacennial census and mid
way until that of 1920, the estimated
population Of the city of Boise will be
31,301, compared with 1913 In 1910
an increase of 1898 or at the rate
of 80.4 per cent for the five-year pc
Rod
AS the result of stabbing ARRAY al
the state prison, when Jack Edwards
colored, long termer sent UP from
Lincoln county, attempted to murder
a fellow prison inmate named Tracy
a white man serving a term from Ban
mock county, Tracy may die from his
wounds
Ten residents of the Mud lake sec
tion have been arrested for cattle
rustling and are now in jail at Rigby
1t is said the practice had been tC
kill the cattle and bring the beef in
quarters to market Thirteen quar-
tiers of beef were located In the vari
GUS premises.
A San Francisco dispatch announces
that James w. Jones, formerly super
ntendent of exhibits for Idaho, was
Friday made superintendent of exhib
its by Chief Dennison of the division
of horticulture, which includes fori.
culture. This is the worlds most
elaborate and most beautiful exhibit.
A coyote affected with rabies was
killed at Murphy. 1t appeared at the
schoolhouse when the children were
playing in the vicinity After being
chased around tho huildinp savaral |