The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-02-18
Items From Neighboring
r. Towns and States r

There are over 150 silos in Idaho.
Pocatello has AZ prisoners in the
county Jail.
Bliss voted $4,000 for good roads.
123 votes for and only against
The town of Rupert has voted s2O,-
900 bonds for new school house.
Eugene Debs is making a speaking
tour of the West and is in Idaho this
week.
One hundred and sixty final proofs
have been won on Camas Prairie land
in the last year.
e. Noble of Shoshone has just landed
the coveted appointment as postmaster
of his home town.
Some excellent new art showings
have just been made by Twin Falls
men at Jarbidge.
One Twin Falls bootlegger was found
guilty by jury and three others
plead guilty last week.
A Jerome Duroc-Jersey swine breed
er has prize family of pigs. seventeen
of them in ALL in one litter.
| National Commander Palmer of the
| Grand Army of the Republic is visiting
Idaho points this week
The big Smith Candy company OF
Twin Falls. declared ten per cent
stock dividend last week.
Seven bootleggers were arrested at
Twin Falls last week as a result of
a campaign on the part of the sleuths-
Clarence Van Duesen. the auditing
expert to whom is due much of the
stir-up in Idaho politics. has sued the
Statesman for $4,000 for alleged libel.
Col nuggets found in the crop of
chicken killed at Antelope creek near
Mackey have started a new mining
town. No gold has ever been known
there.
Shoshone ladies had a three days
course OF lectures on home economics
last week by Miss Kelly and Miss Hays
of the state. university extension bur
eau
Lynn Christian of Twin Falls was
killed by a train where he Is believed
to have attempted to steal ride be-
tween the engine tender and the bag
gage car.
Minor W. Bownen of Twin Falls has
been selected principal and Thomas w.
Patter of Twin Falls and Boyd G.
Baumgartner of Nampa as alternatives
to the naval academy at Annapolis.
One of the big case that Judge All
shie, formerly of the supreme court. Is
to handle this spring is the prosecu-
ton of murder case at Grangeville.
his old home town.
The legislature at Boise will pass on
the criminality of the state land board
In diverting 1900 acre feet of Salmon
river dam water to Harry Aliens Deep
creek orchard and clover patch last
July.
Capt. P. H. Crow. of the quarter
department of the Idaho ma
tional guard. has been appointed Ad
jutant General of the guard for the
next two years. He lives at Twin
Falls.
4 d. B. Bliss, one of the older pioneers
Of this part of Idaho and for whom the
town of Bliss was named. fell from
load of hay and was killed. Heart
DISEASE was supposed to have caused
his death.
The fruit men of Twin Falls wan, 70
withdraw from the Payette sub-cen-
trail Of the North Pacific Fruit Distrib-
utors, claiming that they are discrim-
mated sagaint in labelling the prod
acts for market.
Mrs. y. C., Granthan of Mountain
Home endeavored to save her two
babies from gthei5 burning house. The
-oof fell in and blocked her way out
and both childrAn perished in the
smoke and flame.
Two Shoshon@ men sold nne foun-
ain pens for two bits apiece as long
Is their isupHfy lasted. when the sher
c took them in and stopped their trade.
The pens came from the Baugh drug
tore at Shoshone-
L. e. Dillingham;. editor OF the
Mackey Miner has been appointed one
If the new Blacikfo6t asylum trustees
.. L. Bruce. bank scashier Of Black
Dot and former. State Senator Geo.
Fisher Of Bancroft. are the other two.
Alphonso Legeau. an Italian scc-
ion hand at Mountain Home. found
400 library which he appropriated aad
Ihipped to himself At PocateIso usees
IN assumed name. I'm too snot<h
or them" he said whom he took The
'tuff against the advice Of friends He