Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-16
IDAHO STATE EEWS

the commission form of government
Receipts of the state game fund will
De used to pay bounties on predatory
animals if the sheepmen have their
way with the Legislature.
The past year has been a profitable
one for the sheepmen of Idaho, 1t was
~nnounced at the annual meeting al
Boise of the Idaho Woolgrowers' asso.
citation.
Governor Alexander has requested
he resignation of DR.. J. W. Givens OF
Orofno, as a member of the board OF
| .rustees of the Idaho State Sanitarium
at Nampa
At a meeting OF the stockholders OF
| he Canyon county fair association
held at Caldwell, it was decided to
make every effort to insure the contin-
uation of the institution.
According to letters that have been
eceiyed by the secretary of the Poca
clio Commercial club, an outside syn
petroleum refinery in the Gate City.
To be wounded several times and to
)e one Of sixty-seven men left out Of
100, was the experience of a former
bocatello boy, Reginald j. Murray,
no has been a participant in the Eu
opean war.
An invoice of furniture, both old and
Jew, belonging to the state capitol.
will be made by State Treasurer
1agleson as the result of a resolution
unanimously passed by the state CAPT
oil commission.
Dreamland hall at Twin Falls, occu.
led as an armory by company d, l.
n. g., and skating rink, was totally
destroyed by fire last week. The res.
Ience of Frank Tessler, adjoining on
he south, valued at $500, was also dc.
5troyed
Joe Mcguire was seriously injured
and an automobile was wrecked in an
.ccident near Shelley. In trying to
void an ice covered place in the roal
9hile going at good speed, the car
st beyond control and went down
steep embankment.
1t is claimed that Alma Bergman is
he true name of the girl who is now
nder arrest in Salt Lake under the
.llas Joan WORTH charged with de-
auding merchants. She came to
daho Falls with her parents when
bout years of age.
James II. Wallis, former pure food
commissioner and sanitary inspector
Of Idaho, arrested at Salt Lake on a
warrant charging him with classifying
he records of the state of Idaho while
in its employ, returned to Idaho with
out extradition proceedings.
Fred l.. Huston, state auditor, has
been indicted and arrested at Boise on
barge of misapplyng public funds
Iuston was released on bonds OF
1000. The indictments is said to
have its source in the maintenance OF
he dairy food and sanitary depart.
nent.
Representative Addison T. Smith, at
the request of the Grand Army veter.
ans of Boise, has urged the secretary
Of war to direct that In future head
stones erected over the graves of sol.
Tiers shall show the age and date of
death of the veteran, as well as his
name and regiment.
Company D of Twin Falls has been
declared winner of the fall shoot In
competition with all companies of the
IDAHO national guard. Seventy-one men
out of the total enrolment of seventy
'hree completed the course, and the
score of the company is 91.5, far bet.
.er than any of the other companies.
One of the exhibitors at the annual
show of the Idaho State Poultry &
Pet Stock association was Mrs. c. V.
richardson of Indian valley, who rails
5 turkeys. she has done much be-
er than many farmers the past sea.
sen, having marketed over 800 of the
lids and received nearly $500 for he.
work.
At a conference OF members of the
'tah-ldaho Millers' association, held
II Salt Lake and attended by repre-
of seven large -four milling
Companies, the explanation was made
hat the unprecedented scarcity OF
heat in Utah and Idaho at this time |
lad been the cause of 30.cent ris
II the price of -four per hundred
weight
Edgar Wilson, one OF the first Idaho |
e ngre ssmen, died at Boise last week |
It his apartments in the Owyhee hotel |
Acute pneumonia was given as thu |
cause of death. His estate Is rated a
around hundred thousand dollar
and is represented principally by bank |
stock.
Victor o. Johnson, well-known |
awyer, died at Shoshone, aged AZ
from tuberculosis. Before settling In
shoshone Mr.. Johnson had won promi
hence in his profession both in Ne
Draska and Oklahoma
John Hart, president pro tempore o
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