Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-11-06
NORTHWEST NOTES IDAHO STATE NEWS

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tor.
Mrs. Alice Thomas, wife of Ticket
Agent w, J. Thomas of the Short
Line, died at Pocatello following the
oirth OF baby daughter
Fire partially destroyed the pump
house of the Smith Ice company OF
Pocatello, The fire is thought to have
been caused by defective wiring.
Officers are searching for Mr.. and
Mrs. George De Mers of Arimo, De
Mers is charged with embezzling
about $500 from the w. o. X. Ele-
sator company.
At the fall term OF the district
court at salmon, two cases against
sheepmen under the two-mile limit
law have resulted in damages being
awarded to the Plaintiffs.
Considerable interest has been man,
Tested of late about Boise and
throughout the state in the organiza-
ton or an aero club and the forma-
ton of aero squad adjunct to the
idaho national guard.
Beginning November 2, the san Pc
dro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake line will
put into effect reduced rates on re-
frigerator service from California,
Utah and Nevada to points in Idaho
on its connecting lines.
Fire destroyed fifty tons OF hay on
the Moore ranch and about sixty tons
Of the ranch of Benjamin brothers,
near Salmon. The two places are
about mile apart, and the fires are
believed to have been OF incendiary
origin.
After running down number of
clues In search for Leonore Hibbard,
the 13-year-old girl who disappeared
from Pocatello, officers are still at a
loss to know where the girl is. The
girls mother believes she swas kid
mapped
r. M. Bardsen, prominent business
man of Pocatello, Idaho and Butte,
Montana, is charged with manslaugh-
ter in a warrant issued as result
of the death of Mrs. Alice Gray, In.
iured in an automobile accident near
McCammon
The state board of pardons has re-
fused to issue pardon TO Fred M,
Coleman, defaulting state treasurer,
who confessed to the embez2lement
of $4,000 of state funds, and Is serv-
ing an indetermiante term In the
penitentiary
Fire in the furnace room of the
main building of the Idaho Technical
institution at Pocatello threatened the
destruction of the entire building. The
fire was discovered by member OF
the faculty and extinguished by the
fire department.
The judges in the butter babies
contest at Salmon have awarded the
prize for best baby boy to Fred w.
Carl and for best baby girl to Mary
Ferguson. The winners scored so per
cent There were thirty-nine entries
in the various classes.
There has Just closed in Twin Falls
two weeks series of lectures diff
fering in character from any ever de.
Iivered here. These lectures, twenty
two in number, were given by the
Rev. DR.. Edwin Lincoln House along
the line of Christian psychology.
In the Occur d'Alenes a vast army
of men is busy in the mines and 9th
er industries the mineral output Is
being kept at the record mark, the pay
checks are coming regularly, and the
whole district has every mark of be-
ing at the high tide of prosperity.
One of the most successful ana
largely attended teachers institutes
ever held in the state, was held at
Pocatello last week. Six hundred
teachers were registered and the five
days session included addresses by
some Of the leading educators of the
country.
Startling charges OF receiving pro.
lection for vice from city officials OF
pocatello and county officials of
Rannock county have been made to
the board of pardons 10y Walter A.
Grant, convict who claims to be a
political prisoner forced to suffer
by ''higher-ups."
Mrs. Grace Gray, agent for pub,
fishing house and originally from
Portland, was instantly killed in an
automobile accident near McCammon,
when a heavy car driven by r. M.
Bardsen left the road and went down
fifteen-foot embankment Mr., Bard
sen was slightly injured.
What may have been a murder was
revealed when sheepherder found
the body OF man near American
Falls with a bullet hole in his skull.
Indications were that the body had
been exposed for several weeks. There
was nothing on the body to establish
the dead mans identity.
A. II. Shirley, arrested on com,
plant of G. M. Printy, charged with
trespass, was tried at HALEY and was
fount not guilty. Printy took up a
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