The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-11-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS

IDAHO is very encouraging, according
to Robert j. Bell, state mining inspsc
tor
| Mrs. Alice Thomas, wife OF Ticket
Agent w. ]. Thomas OF the Short
Line, died at Pocatello following the
birth 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 $1,000 from the w. o. X. Eie-
vator 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 Q, 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 a number of
clues In search for Leonere Hubbard,
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 was kid
mapped.
r. M Bardsen, prominent business
man of Pocatello, Idaho, and But
Montana, is charged with. manslaugh- |
ter in warrant issued as result
Of the death OF Mrs. Alice Gray, In
jured in an automobile accident near
McCammon.
The state board of pardons has re-
fused to issue pardon to Fred M.
who confessed to the embezzlement
of $22 900 of state funds, and is serv-
ing an indetermiante term in the
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
ire department.
The judges in the butter babies"
contest at Salmon have awarded tbs
prize for best baby boy to Fred w
Carl and for best baby girl to Mary
Ferguson. The winners scored SO pc
,ent There were thirty-nine entries
n the various classes.
There has just closed in Twin Falls
/ two weeks series of lectures diff
ering in character from any ever de-
iyered here. These lectures, twenty
wo in number, were given by the {
rev. Dr. Edwin Lincoln House along
he line of Christian psychology.
In the Occur d'Alenes vast army {
# men Is busy in the mines and 9TH {
r Industries, the mineral output is t
eing kept at the record mark, the pay g
hecks are coming regularly, and the c
rhole district has every mark Of be- t
ng at the high tide of prosperity. c
One of the most successful and
lrgely attended teachers institutes
yer held in the state, was held at
ocatello last week. Six hundred ?
sachers were registered and the five =
avs session included addresses by :
ome Of the leading educators of the
0untry.
Startling charges Of receiving pro
,ction for vice from city officials OF r
ocatello and county officials OF
annock county have been made to
lie board of pardons by walter A. q
rant, convict who claims to be a !"
POLITICAL prisoner forced to suffer =,
Y '4higher-ups." "
Mrs. Grace Gray, agent for a pub Z,
shing house and originally from n
was instantly killed in an .,
ltomobile accident near McCammon, =.
hen heavy car driven oy R H. ~
ardsen left the road and went down ~
ffteen-foot embankment. Mr.. Bard. hi
n was slightly injured. Nv
What may hav. been a murder was
vealed when a sheepherder found E,
g body of man near American vi
Ills with bullet hole in his skull at
dications were that the body had he
en- exposed for several weeks There tn
Is nothing on the body to establish -
e dead man identity.
A H. Shirley, arrested on com,
hint CT c. M. PriI..y, charged with
,spass, was tried at HALEY and waf TIL
int not guilty Printy took UP sc'
mber of hers belonging to Shirley ini
der the respass Ivy and was hold. pit
, them. They were let out by some LIE
e and Printy tried to show thai ha
irlcy was the one who had done it So