Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-08-28
IDAHO STATE News

which had reached beneath the fes
of her finger, but which was almos
unnoticed by Mrs. Katherine Keene.
OF Moscow, Is directly responsible &c
her death.
Vester Farr. the 11-year-old son {
Mr.. and Mrs. H. e. Farr, was she
while hunting near his home in Arim'
A boy companion discharged hi
gun accidentally. Death occurred
| few hours later.
Moscow enjoys the distinction {
having an apple tree in bloom at thi
time. The tree is six years old an
last year bore fruit abundantly. Thi
is the second time this year the ire
has been In bloom.
AS the result of injuries sustaine
in an automobile accident In Sal
Lake City, Ross B. Cartee, a we
known and popular member Of pit
neer Boise family, died in a hospita
in the Utah capital.
While tearing down shack on thei
ranch at Crystal, Mr.. and Mrs. Williar
Spencer were severely injured. TIL
accident happened when the roo
caved in ON the couple and pinned
| them to the ground.
The honey crop from Twin Fall
will be increased fully third thi
year and is of unusually fine quality
particularly the comb honey, which
pure white and as fine as ever pre-
duced and in great demand.
1t is said that never were the DIR,
farm wheat growers of the Rexburl
section so prosperous as now. TIL
yield, too, is record one, running
from thirty-five to fifty bushels pc
acre over the tract OF about 10000
acres.
The Idaho Match Block works nea
Standpoint sustained loss by fir,
amounting to seventy thousand dol
lars. The plant was not damaged, tn
loss being confined to three millio.
five hundred thousand feet of selecte
white pine.
Mrs. Daniel Lowe committed suicid
at Idaho Falls by taking poison. i
woman had visited the home durinl
the day and had told her stories abou
her husband while she was away on 3
visit, all of which are said to be with
out foundation.
The Bannock County Fair associa
ton has set the date for that fair OF
September %, "a and rs. Those in
charge state that many high-class en-
tertainments are now being contract
ed for and that the livestock exhibit
and crop display are the mainstays OF
the big show.
Mrs. Jose Mendoza of Boise was
killed and her husband and eldest son
painfully injured when Mr.. Mendoza
car, in which he and his family were
driving to Boise, skidded over the
grade at the upper end of Castle rock
and landed upside down on the rocks
IL feet below
Owing to the fact that the popula.
ton and membership of the Pocatellc
stake of the Mormon church have
grown so rapidly, there will be two
days session of the stake held at
Downey for the purpose Of its reor
ganization. The stake has been in ex'
lstence seventeen years.
Deciding that o salary Of $40 a
month is not sufficiently remunera
tive, Marshal w. T. Creason of Star
has handed In his star. His action
follows the decision of the village
board to cut the police expense item
in half by reducing the pay from $40
to $40 per month.
Fred Brown. an Oregon Short Line
while camping on the Fire
Hole river near Yellowstone station,
shot and instantly killed big black
bear with a 12-gauge shotgun. The
animal was tearing the cupboard from
It's hanging on tree when discov-
cred. The bear weighed 514 pounds
Andy Johnson, who lived near Wen.
dell, was electrocuted at Hagerman.
Johnson was employed as linemar
for the Great Shoshone e. Twin Fall,
Water Power company and at the
time of the accident, was working In
a tree some IL feet from the charged
wires and in some manner came In
contact with the wires.
The attorney general is of the opin
lon that the laws of Idaho, governing
the conduct Of street or interurbar
railways, do not vest the public utili
lies commission with authority to re
luire the Idaho Traction company and
The Boise Railroad company to enter
INTO an agreement for the transfer
and exchange OF passengers.
Revised and corrected figures or
the abstracts of the thirty-seven coun
ties in the state, as compiled by thu
state auditor and placed before the
state board OF equalization for consid
grafton in equalizing values as be
tween counties, place the total as
sessed valuation on all classes of real
property as reported for 1915 al
800 .642,066.