The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-10-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

hold,ro =. are completed for the
s IN jerome on October anS
event. n ana held
a. p ~ masonic grand lodge, in session
AZ Boise during the past week clo 1.oa
us conclaVe with the selection :,
Twin rails as the 1915 meeting nlaca
Snoshone now has woman nro.ia
I'M, Ing over the school board. Mrs 1oa
wheeler having been chosen - 49,. ~.
board. Vi the
FREQ M. Coleman has finished his
"orA with James S. Bogart on the
ooOAs OF the state treasurer's Office
ana is once more housed in the state
penitentiary. ~ ''"'e
Inc city council has fixed the c;,v
tax levy in Caldwell at Is mills for
the ensuing yea. This Is mills
higher than the levy of 1914, when X
mills suffced. 'A -
drainage and irrigation were tbs
TWO topics which received more ev.
tended consideration at the frst fall
meeting of the Commercial club Las
week at Caldwell.
rupert is making great prepara.
lions to entertain the thousands ~
visitors expected for the first Mini.
doka county fair to be held on tho
2Sth' 18th and Both of this month
Between sixty and seventy state
banks have filed with the state hank
examiner statements of their condi.
ton on September 2, as called for bv
the comptroller of the currency
On October LIST the Bull companv
OF the Idaho National Guard Will he
mustered into the service Of the state.
The Bull company is to take the
place of the one disbanded in Idaho
Falls.
Success seems to attend the efforts
OF Meridian hunters of big game. Two
hunters returned last week from the
upper country with two bear and two
deer, bagged in trip of about ten
days.
The residents of Fruitland were ter.
rff1ed one day last week when large
coyote made his appearance and en-
gagged in a rough and tumble fight
with every dog with which he came
in contact.
An unknown man attacked Andy
Smith at Pocatello, robbing him Of
$40 while he was walking on Fourth
avenue. The robber slugged him on
the head and he is now in a critical
condition.
Establishment of Methodist col.
lege in Idaho at Gooding, where a
site has been donated, is to be the
1916 idea of the Methodist conference,
which draws it's membership from
Idaho and Oregon.
Salmon City, Lemhi county, wants
a company of infantry, and Blackfoot
wants to organize troop of cavalry.
Applications for both those companies
have been received at the Office of Ad-
jutant General Crow.
A. A.. Richards Of Emmett last week
had shipped forty and one-haf cars of
prunes, loading 1000 crates to a car.
These were picked from forty acres
of young orchard and forty acres Of
old and were all in fine condition.
C. P. Hartley Of Emmett picked
thirteen cars of prunes from nine and
six-tenths acres. Frank Short of
Eagle up to date has picked fourteen
tons to an acre, from nine acres Of
old and ten acres of young orchard.
Twin Falls is assured of a million
dollar sugar factory to be built by
the Amalgamated Sugar company to
handle the 1916 crop if contracts
guaranteeing delivery of the beets
grown on 5000 acres in this section
are secured.
Potatoes are beginning to move
slowly from Caldwell again, after an
interval of more than two weeks dur
ing which digging and shipping were
almost entirely suspended. Shipment
of the local crop ceased because OF
the break in prices.
Floyd Schults, head pharmacist OF
a Pocatello drug store, was severely
injured as the result of being sand
bagged by two men on South Garfield
avenue. Schults was delivered bot
tie of medicine to a sick person at
the time of the attack
A posse is searching the mountains
on the western border of Long valley
for "Shad' Field, a sheepherder, who
committed a double murder by shoot
ng Edward and Wayne Ward, broth
ers, we'll known and highly respected
ranchers of that section
Mrs. Frieda X. Roos has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Clifford to sue
coed Eli NJ. Downing, who resigned
On February Samuel q. Tough was
appointed to succeed Downing, but
has since failed to qualify, thus neces-
stating a new appointment.
Three Idaho postmasters have been
appointed as follows: Albert Beut
Ter Sharon, vice Mrs. Emily sleight,
resigned. Mrs Mamie G. Choate'
Trakean. vice Frederick Choate' re-
signed Mrs Ethna NJ. Jordan, Webb
vice Charles C. Miles, resigned.