The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-10-14

fetloWtng Wefe eBoctod: }. Harry Mn
house, q KELLOGG, president, W. H
Bonneville, Of CoeuK d'Alene. vice
proeident; Burd Wall. Of Twin Falls,
secretery: Charles Owens. Of Boise,
Nsmpa 81 : cost OF a..
az, 600 five years ago. the beet sugar
| factory Of the Ufah-16aho Sugar com
pany 1t this place IL crumbling into
ruins under the efforts Of 200 wreck
ers Of the Dyer construction company.
The building n being raxed after three
yearH' unsuccessful effort to operate
the factory 1t Z profit. OFFICERS Of the
company declare that the soil here II
unsuitable for the culture OF sugar
bee<s.
Twin FaIls.--The Twin Falls Canal
company has lot contracts to various
companies for improvements OF their
system, amounting to approximately
$4,000 Under the first bids submit
ted the cost Of this work WAS estimAt-
cd 1t $4,000. The installation OF Z
concrete flume It Cottonwood was
awarded to the Idaho Construction
company. OF Boise. and the work OF
enIArging the high line canal from
Cedar Draw west for IS miles was
awarded TO the Smith 4 Green COM
pany and the Morrison nudsOn com
pany. both Of Boise.
Twin Falls. The Boise Payette
Lumber company, which recently pur-
chased from the Ostrander Lumber
company Of this city IT. yards 1t sew
eral points on the North Side tract,
this week consummAted = transaction
whereby they become the owners OF
the Bull Lumber yards 1t Bull. 16
miles west OF Twin Falls. The Bull
yards. which were established with
the town some nine years ago, were
owned by G. II. NcQuown, OF Bull,
and J. 8. Taylor. OF Salt Lake City.
Mr.. McQuown has been manager OF
the yards for the past eight years and
has been offered the management OF
the yards by the new firm.
Boiss. The state OF Idaho viii have
to be reimbursed S13s,608.S2 by the
bondsmen Of o. v. Alien, self-confess-
ed cmbesxler OF public funds serving
= term In the penitentiary here, to
square It's accounts.
This fact II shown In q report filed
with Governor Alexander and Attor-
ncy General J. H. Peterson by James
8. Boeart, who has been making a
careful check on the treasury books
with the assistance of Fred M. Cole
man. defAultinE deputy state treasur-
or. When he took charge Of the books
and accounts there was an admitted
shortage OF }S2,b1703 as found by
Axel p. Ramstedt. president OF the
Utilities Commission. To this he adds
$4t.0s1.79 - part shortage and part
interest on embezzled funds to which
the state IL entitled to recover from
the Nationsf Surety company on Al
LENS bomb
Botse.-The public range OF Idaho
does not belong to the sheepmen but
10 the United States, and the sheep
men have no more right to It than |
those conducting the livestock indus |
try.
This Ia, In brief, the decision of the |
supreme court OF this state In an issue |
which has long held the stock and the |
at swords points over d. |
vision Of the range for grazing pur-
poses.
II holds constitutional territorial |
act. known In the revised codes as sec |
ton 6S27, which was attacked. An |
appeal will probably be taken to the |
supreme court of the United States.
For years heterogeneous on the
leases OF stock and sheepmen have |
caused war. Sheepmen took their
ilocks onto the public range which the
stockmen believed belonged to them.