Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-09-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Apoul ~ CdlltduS OF melons ndu
been shipped from the Emmett sec
ton at the close of last week.
A comparison of the equalized valu.
ations Of last year with those of this
year show that personal property was
increased this year a total of $685.
III.
State Bacteriologist Laubaugh has
completed his examination of the head
OF a deg which it is said bit seven
persons in Nampa. He found the ami
mai had rabies
The lions Cooperative Mercantile
company at Poeatello has leased the
new addition to the bottllng works,
which was never used to any extent,
owing to the local option law.
Louise Buster of Ketchum and her
husband We're found guilty of selling
liquor at Haley, the woman being
fined $500. and both being given two
hours in which to get out of town.
The Elberta fruit harvest is on In
full blast, and large and increasing
shipments are being made daily,
TWenty.one carloads were shipped
from Emmett in one day last week,
The general tax levy to meet state
expenses, the maximum of which was
fixed at 100000, is 00lSO0055l9 for
the state of Idaho, as against a levy
OF 002l16669 for last year to raise
100000
All those who have been In the
Payette valley this season and have
Travelled through the Squaw creek
country and Long valley agree that
the crops are most bounteous and
the general conditions highly favor
able.
There are so few desirable houses
for rent in Caldwell that more than one
family moving there recently has
found il necessary to build their own
home. At no time in the past four
years have there been SO few vacant
houses.
Preparations are now being made
for the ElWyhee festival to be held
in Glenns Ferry on September l6, II,
IS. The fair will be primarily an ag
ricutural and livestock fair, though
baseball and carnival attractions will
abound
State Veterinarian Bodle has re
turned from Owyhee county. where he
went to look over the situation with
regard TO scab that had been reported
in that territory. lie said he found
seven bands of sheep which had the
disease
j. W. Hardin, resident OF the Lew
iston country for forty years, the
greater portion Of which time he has
been engaged in farming, says he has
never seen such crops as the farmers
Of the Mohler section now are har-
yesting
Christian Anderson, freshman last
year at the University of Washington
and a resident of Parma, was killed
near Parma when an automobile he
was driving turned turtle, pinning
him under the car, breaking his neck
and fracturing his skull.
According to reports reaching Mos
cow James Lawton for the past three
years a resident of HeImer and post
master at that place, is alleged 10
have skipped out abandoning the
postoffice and decamping with $40 OF
federal funds, besides other accounts.
Owing to the location of the new
passenger station at PocateIlo, the |
Oregon Short Line has now begun re
moving the steps which formerly led |
to the old depot. They will be chang.
ed to a new location for the convent |
ence of pedestrians from the east side
Of the city.
Inspectors of the United States blu. |
reau of animal industry and officials
of the forest service are puzzled over |
disease heretofore unknown that |
has made its appearance among the |
wild mountain sheep in Custer county. |
1t is feared the wild sheep may be ex-
terminated
The Pocatello Gas company has
been sold to the North American
Power & Light company and William
A. Behr, general manager of the com
pany, announces that the plant will be
enlarged and about 100000 will be
spent in Improvements and additions
to the plant.
William Findley, who lives near
Feezeout, noticed that several of her
hens We're laying on top of a small
stack Of hay near the barn When
she gathered the eggs and endeaYored
to break them to use in some pastry,
she found they were well cooked, hav-
ing been baked by the sun
Il. E. Rork, for the past five years
a resident of Gooding, has been com
mitted to the insane asylum at Black
foot. Physicians who examined him
gave it as their opinion that he
was suffering from paranoia, having
the fixed delusion that his neighbors
We're conspiring against him and
stealing his crops every night.
Attention was called to kissing and