Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-02-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS

1t cost the state s192.50 for an audit
of the books of the state penitentiary.
Much activity is expected In thu
building line in Pocatello the Goa
ing summer.
"Hinkey" games are under the ban
in Mountain Home by order of the
sheriff Gambling is the reason giv,m
for this action.
The Knights of Pythias are making
elaborate preparations for the district
meeting of the order which meets al
Mountain Home on the 10th.
Engineer Ed. Smith OF Pocatello
was killed when twelve cars were
piled up in wreck near American
Falls, his fireman escaping uninjured
VIM, H. Hornibrook OF Albany, Ore
gon, formerly of Twin Falls county
Idaho, has been appointed by Presi
dent Wilson as the United States rep
resentative to Siam.
At the request of the credit men OF
Pocatello, the Idaho Legislative bu
reau will see that the uniform Ameri
can credit bill Is introduced at this
legislative session.
Judgment of the lower court was
affirmed by the supreme court las
week in an appeal by Charles Dris
kill, sentenced last fall from Nel
Perce county for a statutory offense,
An action has been filed in the dis
trict court of Gooding county invov
ing the title to some 80 odd acres Of
land which includes the location OF
the Thousand Springs power plant.
Alfonso Legion, the Italian arres.
ed at Pocatello last week for the theft
of library from house he had beer
occupying at Mountain Home, has
been held to the district court fol
trial
The Boise Commercial club has de
cided to increase the number of d.
pectors from 10 to 81, in order thai
as far as possible each line of bust
ness of the city may have repre-
sentative.
Discussion of the foot and mouth
disease, rabies and hog cholera were
features of the annual convention Of
the Idaho Association of veterinary
Graduates, which was held in Boise
last week.
The Methodists of Idaho Falls have
decided to erect a new church build
ing, promising to have ready for oc'
cupancy within the year one OF the
handsomest church buildings in south
ern Idaho.
Bosses famous chicken with the
sWallow-tail-coat, the glories OF whose
costume have been exploited through
out the press Of the east and middle
west, is no more, the bird having
been found dead last week.
Representative Addison T. Smith oil
Idaho, discussing presidential politics
and looking ahead to 1916, finds no
man on the horizon looming bigger
than Senator Borah of his own state,
says Washington dispatch.
In response to petition, Mayor
Clark of Idaho Falls has issued a
proclamation calling an election for
March to vote upon the question as
to whether Idaho Falls will adopt the
commission form of government.
Mike Hepa and Gus Thoris, Greek
section men, have been arrested al
Shoshone, charged with robbery of in
terstate cars, from which shoes were
taken in transit. A number of pairs
sold at Shoshone have been recoy'
cred
That the two Caldwell men, ]. c.
Johnson and son, Byron, and an un
known man who were found dead In
a refrigerator car at Huntington, Ore.
were asphyxiated by the gas from a
coke stove was the verdict of the
coroner's jury,
Senator Brady Is making deter
mined effort to have the war depart
ment establish a remount station at
Boise barracks There are only two
remount stations now west OF the
Mississippi river, one in Montana and
the other in Nevada
The Boise Statesman says that not
only did the grand jury find condi
lions at the Children's Home sufficient
to warrant a clean bill Of health, but
half the members we're so impressed
with the work at that institution that
they made private donations before
leaving.
According to information received
from Lewiston, that city may have an
extension of the Pittsburg & Gilmore
road. 1t is rumored that there are
some such plans being made, and that
they are likely to be precipitated by
the separation of the Northern Pacific
and the Great Northern.
H. d. Curtis, president of the HALEY
National bank, w. F. Horne, former
county clerk and now chairman OF
the board of county commissioners,
and Mayor Henry Plughoff have been
arrested on the charge of grand lar.
ceny of appropriating from Blaine
county 13 bonds valued at $500 each.