The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-05-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

In Pennsylvania, was drowned at the
Hatatorium at Boise.
c. ID. Thomas. a prominent business
man of Twin Falls, suffered a com
pound fracture Of the right forearm
while eranking an automobile.
The formal opening OF the Inter.
mountain railway took place on Satur-
day, May s, when an excursion train
was run from Boise to Big Bend and
return.
Rural free delivery route No. will
be established at Tharp, June Is. The
route, twenty-six miles long, will serve
i02 families tri-weekly The carriers
salary win be $612.
That the Idaho Montana state high.
way route, connecting Salt Lake City
and Butte. is to pass through Salmon
has been definitely decided by the
state highway commission.
Something more than nine thousand
pounds of milk was delivered to the
Eagle cheese factory the first two days
Of its operation as q branch of the
Boise Cooperative Creamery com
pany.
B. F. Coleman, real estate man OF
Salt Lake City, climbed out on the
railing of the railroad viaduct at POca-
tello, and deliberately jumped on to
the railroad tracks below. being fatally
| injured
| Mrs. ]. V. Osborne of Burley was
taken to Twin Falls to serve a four
months term in the county jail for
! bootlegging, Minidoka county having
no place for the keeping OF woman
/ prisoner.
i State bonds to the value of $685.
/ SOC, ON which the state is now paying
per cent interest, will be called in
4 by the state treasurer July /. Nine
issues will be wiped out of existence
4 by this payment
Copies of the Thirteenth session
laws, bound in pigskin, were distrib'
uted last week by the secretary OF
states office to state aud county of.
fcials. Members OF the legislature are
also entitled to have them.
] NC G1llIOlC DHfGiOpiuNht AEAE w
| postal affairs coI~ ittee has about
completed its efforts in behalf of a
| rural route between Mountain Home
and Smith Prairie Petitions all along
the proposed route have been unani-
mously signed.
Port Hill was practically destroyed
| by fire last week. The cause is un.
/ known. 1t destroyed Lingerell &
Kelly's general store, two vacant
/ buildings, the English hotel and an.
! other smaller hotel. The loss will to.
tai about $4,000.
Six or more persons were recently
taken i'll simultaneously in Standpoint
/ after having partaken Of a quantity OF
buttermilk purchased OF a rancher
Two OF the victims, Mrs. f. ID. Ray
mond and child, were exceedingly sick
for several hours.
More than / 400 school children took
part in the open-air May festival in the
city park at Twin Falls on May s. The
exercises consisted of folk dances
drills, choruses and three May-pole
dances, and we're witnessed by an i'm
mense crowd of people.
Mrs. Leona Boylan OF HALEY swaJ
lowed a needle ten years ago. Last
week as she was being made ready for
an appendicitis operation a sharp-eyed
surgeon, with the aid of his trained
hands, discovered the needle sticking
from the skin ON her right side.
Professor Mac Hoke OF the agrieul
tural department OF the Twin Falls
high school, has been appointed by the
department OF agriculture Of the state
university to promote the work of the
boys and girls agricultural clubs dur
ing the summer in Twin Falls, Cassis
and Minidoka counties
Maurice Barns, aged 16, residing
near Hansen, suffered a compound
fracture OF both bones OF his left
leg just below the knee. from the kick
Of horse. He was in field at the
time of the accident. Unhitching his
team he managed to mount the other
horse and ride to the house.
The jury in the case of W j. Thorn
| as VS.. Pocatello, in which damages oil
$4,000 were asked for the loss OF the
plaintiffs child. which fell into the
river two years ago, brought in a yer
dict in favor Of the city. The city
was held not responsible for the fact
that there was no railing on a private
footbridge spanning the river, from
which the child fell.
The whereabouts OF r. F. Knoll for
mer agent Of the American Express
company. who suddenly disappeared
from Weiser nearly three months ago
has been cleared up upon receipt OF a
letter from Knoll, who is in Cardiff
Wales.
State Examiner Van Mugs has hand
ed In his resignation TO State Auditor
Huston, taking effect May l. and has
associated himself with the Registe'
Printing & Publishing company %
Idaho Falls, publishers OF the Idaho
Register