The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-02-18
IDAHO STATE NEWS

appointed one day last week.
Il cost the state S1s2.50 for an audit
Of the books Of the state penitentiary.
Much activity Is expected In the
building line in Pocatello the com
ing summer.
"Hinkey" games are under the ban
in MountztR- Home by order OF the
sheriff. Gambling is the reason given
for this action.
The Knights OF Pythias are making
elaborate preparations for the district
meeting Of the order which meets at
Mountain Home on the 18TH
Engineer Ed. Smith Of Pocatello
was killed when twelve cars were
piled up in q wreck near American
Falls, his fireman escaping uniniured.
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
resentattve 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 last
week in an appeal by Charles Dris
kill, sentenced last fall from Ne7
Perez county for a statutory offense.
An action has been filed in the dis
trict court of Gooding county involv
ing the title to some 80 odd acres o.
land which includes the location o.
the Thousand Springs power plant.
Alfonso Legion, the Italian arrest
ed at Pocatello last week for the thief
OF a library from a house he mad beer
occupying at Mountain Home, hal
been held to the district court fol
trial.
The Boise Commercial club has de
cided to increase the number of di
pectors from 10 to 81, in order tina
as far as possible each line of bust
ness of the city may have a repre-
sentative.
Discussion OF the foot and moutl
disease, rabies and hog cholera wer'
features of the annual convention o
the Idaho Association of Veterinar,
Graduates, which was held in Bo.s
last week.
The Methodists of Idaho Falls hav
decided to erect a new church build
ing, promising to have ready for oC
cupancy within the year one of tn
handsomest church buildings in south
ern Idaho.
Bosses famous chicken-with- the
swallow-tail-coat, the glories of who's
costume have been exploited through
out the press of the east and middl
west, is no more. the bird havin
been found dead last week.
Representative Addison T. Smith 1
Idaho, discussing presidential politics
and looking ahead to 1916, finds n
man ON the horizon looming bigge
than Senator Borah OF his own stat'
says a Washington dispatch.
In response to petition, Mayo
Clark of Idaho Falls has issued
! proclamation calling an election fC
March q 70 vote upon the question q
to whether Idaho Falls will adopt tn
commission form of government.
Mike Hepa and Gus Thoris, Gree
| section men, have been arrested {
Shoshone. charged with robbery of IL
terstate cars, from which shoes wer
taken in transit. A number of pail
sold at Shoshone have been reco
cred.
That the two Caldwell men, ].
Johnson and son, Byron, and an N
known man who were found dead
| ayrefrigeFator car az Huntington, Ore
were asphyxiated by the gas from
coke stove was the verdict of Il
coroner's jury.
Senator Brady 10 making a dete
mined effort to have the war depar
ment establish a remount station I
Boise barracks. There are only tW
remount stations now west of Il
Mississippi river, one in Montana ar
the other in Nevada.
The Boise Statesman says that N
only did the grand jury find conc
lions at the Children's Home sufficiel
to warrant a clean bill OF health, b.
half the members we're so impresst
with the work at that institution TIL
they made private donations befol
| leaving
According to Information receive
from Lewiston. that city may have {
extension OF the Pittsburg & Gilmo
road. Il Is rumOnsa that there Al
some such plans being made. and tn
they are likely to he precipitated
the separation of the Northern Pacii
and the Great Northern.
H. d. Curtis. president OF the Halle
National bank. w. F. Horne, form
county clerk and now chairman
the board OF county commissioner
and Mayor Henry PiughO1 have be-
arrested On the charge Of grand Ia
ceny. OF appropriating from Blair
county IS bonds valued at $500 eac
While driving across an irrigati'