The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-08-26
.IDAHO STATE NEWS.

]. H. Lewis. q former resident OF.
Pocatello. was shot and instantly.
Killed In Mackay by drunken miner.
the miners name was Jell Blaylock.
A small gooseherry bush thorn
which had reached beneath the flesh
Of her finger, but which was almost
unnoticed by Mrs Katherine Keeney,
Of Moscow. IL directly responsible for
her death.
Vester Farr. the 11.year-oId son OF
Mr. and Mrs. H. Il. Farr. was shot
while hunting near his home In Arimo.
4 boy companion discharged his
gun accidentally. Death occurred 4
few hours later.
Moscow enjoys the distinction OF
having an apple tree in bloom AZ this
time The tree Is six years old and
last year bore fruit abundantly. This
is the second time this year the tree
has been In bloom.
As the result OF injuries sustained
in an automobile accident In Salt
Lake City, Ross II. Cartee, well
known and popular member. OF pio-
neer Boise family. died In q hospital
in the Utah capital.
While tearing down a shack on their
ranch at Crystal, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Spencer were severely injured. The
accident happened when the roof
saved in on the couple and pinned
them to the ground.
The honey crop from Twin Falls
will be increased fully third this
year and is OF unusually fine quality,
particularly the comb honey, which Is
pure white and IS fine as ever pro
duced and In great demand.
II is said that never were the dry
farm wheat growers OF the Rexburg
section so prosperous as now. The
yield. too, il = record one. running
from thirty-five to nifty bushels per
acre over the tract Of about 100000
acres.
The Idaho Match Block works near
Standpoint sustained loss by nre
amounting to seventy thousand dol
lars. The plant was not damaged, the
loss being confined TO three million
Ave hundred thousand feet OF selected
white pine.
Mrs, Daniel Lowe committed suicide
at Idaho Falls by taking poison A
woman had visited the home during
the day and had told her stories about
her husband while she was away on 4
visit, all OF which are said TO be with.
out foundation.
The Bannock County Fair associa.
ton has set the date for that fair on
September 30, ~ and 2b. Those in
aharge state that many high-class en-
ertainments are now being contract
I'D for and that the livestock exhibit
snd crop display are the mainstays OF
che big show.
Mrs. Jose Mendoza OF Boise was
killed and her husband and eldest son
painfully injured when Mr.. Mendiola's
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 Pocatello
grown so rapidly, there will be two
days session OF the stake held At
Downey for the purpose OF its reor-
Ranizatlon. The stake has been In ex.
lstence seventeen years.
Deciding that a salary OF SO a
month is not sufficiently remunera.
tive. Marshal w r. 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 $50
10 $40 per month.
Fred Brown. an Oregon Short Line
brakeman, while camping on the Fire
Hole river near Yellowstone station.
shot and instantly killed a big black
bear with a l2gauge shotgun. The
animal was tearing the cupboard from
It's hanging on tree when discoy.
cred The bear weighed 5f4 pounds.
Andy Johnson. who lived near Wen.
dell, was electrocuted at Hagerman.
johnson was employed as a lineman
for the Great Shoshone a Twin Falls
Water Power company and at the
time OF the accident. was working IN
a tree some Is feet from the charged
wires and in some manner came In
contact with the wires.
The attorney general is OF the opin-
ion that the laws OF Idaho. governing
the conduct OF street or interurban
railways. do not vest the public utiii-
ties commission with authority to re.
quire the Idaho Traction company and
the Boise Railroad company 70 enter
into an agreement for the transfer
and exchange OF passengers.
Revised and corrected figures on
the abstracts Of the thirty-seven coun.
ties in the state. a. compiled by the
state auditor and placed before the
state board Of equalization for eonsld.
GRAFTON in equalizing values as be-
tween counties. place the total as
sessed valuation on all classes Of real
property as reported for 1915 at
$500 $40, 066.
Federal bureau control OF the wat
srs of Idaho streams, to the detriment