Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-03-27

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at Logan, Utah The question deba,
ed was that OF permitting railway
o pool their earnings.
Entering a plea of guilty immedi
ately after being indicted at Pocatell0
'eter SWensen, IS years old, was sen
enced to 10 months at McNeil'l
-sland, for running an Illicit still AM
making counterfeit money.
The justices of the Idaho suprem
court have appointed Mrs William
Ba,derston state law librarian, t.
succeed Mrs. Minnie Priest Dunton
Who presented her resigna ion, to be
come effective on April /,
The body that was found in The
snake river, near Payette has beel
ully identified as that of John ]
Lane Of Tunkhannoch, Pa, who was
drowned January 29, 1915, while worL
ing on the bridge near Nyssa.
State banks will be in position
to take advantage of the federal re
erve act when the laws passed a,
he Thirteenth session Of the Idaho
legislature go into effect, in the opin
ON of State Bank Examiner Hit.
Fred Barrett, alias Frank Jenkins
apprehended by the sher;ifs depar,
ment and held at Shoshone on mi
nor charge, is found to be wanted In
Monroe county, Tennessee, whence he
alleged to have escaped six years
go.
The Twin Falls North Side irriga
ion project applied to the land board
asst week for permission to substitute
4 sliding scale of water rights for the
present fiat rate of $50 per acre fol
and as yet unsold, or which may be
resold.
Using the same tactics he had pul
sued in handling the Kings Hill APP
preparation bill, the governor trans
nitted the Gem irrigation distict ap
Jropriation measure to the secretary
If state with the amount practically
cut in two.
The fight against hog cholera ir
outhern Idaho to prevent the ruin OF
most profitable industry, carried or
comparatively between the producers
ne state and the federal government
las been productive of results during
he past year.
Fred Gossett, one of the prisoners
who escaped from the county jail al
Caldwell while awaiting sentence fol
owing his conviction on a charge Of
5rand larceny, has been sentenced tt
'erve from six to fourteen years IL
he penitentiary.
Voters of Pocatello have left ne
doubt as to their desire for a new
school. At a special election, held tt |
decide whether or not the city should |
be bonded for $125,0OO for high schoo |
urposes, the bond issue was carried
by vote of Sal to 70.
A Caldwell firm of horse buyers
has given out the information thai
IN the past four months they have
put into circulation as the result o.
heir purchase and resale of horses II |
he market there the sum of three
hundred thousand dollars.
The small son of John Schlager O
Canyon Creek was badly injured bNI
he explosion of dynamite car
which he had placed in the stove
Two fingers and the thumb of the
light hand were taken off at the frs
oint and he also received bad cut
)ver the right eye.
A link connecting the east and wesl
IDAHO Pacific and north and soutt
IDAHO central state highways, which
ntersect at Twin Falls, with the ma
icnal highways of Nevada, will be
Completed when the work begun lasl
week on the road between Twin Falls
md the Nevada state line is finished.
Announcement that no special ses
ion of the legislature would be
allied, Is made by the governor. He
"sAu nv hou CCdocu W COuSlueT SuCL
! proposal since deciding to sign the
appropriation bills, and will not ISSUE
call for an extraordinary session II
he appropriation bills work out any
ghere near in accordance with hif
1eas. ii
The first car of freight other than
hat for the railway company's own
Sc, was shipped to the Boise basin
lst week by the Idaho Intermountain
ailway.
A new turbine water wheel was In
tailed at the HALEY Electric power
lant last week and will add a third
r more to the efficiency of the light
nd power system.
Farmers in the vicinity of Boise
Ill realize this season the great
eneit which the storage dam at Ar
DIV Rock Is to be to them. The
reat dam will be able to store water
NO years before it was anticipated II
ould be near enough completed te
o so.
FShermen of the Pend d'Oreille
9ction will lose heavily as a result
the governors action in vetoine
al.