Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1915-03-12
idaho STATE NEWS


nivaI Of rare fund to be held March 2
to a.
Horses sold at Caldwell last week
brought as high as 5000, while num-
Der sold for s175.
I The Caldwell city council has voted
to pay off ten thousand dollars OF It's
bonded Indebtedness.
There were 1,256.729 hogs raised in
the sixteen counties in Idaho In 1914,
and $3.50 hogs lost from cholera.
A consolidation of the high schools
in the districts of Tendayis, Roswell,
Apple valley and Parma is being
planning.
Fire destroyed the home of NJ. w.
Keller In the south part of Meridian.
The blaze seemed to have originated
from defective fue.
Boise women are adopting the sug-
gestion made elsewhere to utilize corn
meal instead OF wheat during the high
prices of the latter commodity
Oregon Short Line agents and
freight agents from the southeast
gathered at Pocatello on March 3, to
ak over the business of the coming
year
The Pocatello Chronicle will soon
begin publication as a full-fedged
morning daily The paper is now pub
lished as Sunday morning weekly in
magazine form.
County agriculturalists will be in
stalled in a number of counties in the
near future, according to H. W. Hoch-
baum, of the agricultural extension
bureau of the university.
Removing a steel plate that had
been riveted over a weak place in the
Canyon county Jail. at Caldwell, three
prisoners dug through the brick wall
beyond and made their escape.
While holding sagebrush for her
brother to cut, the little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Stitsel Of the Clay
tonia neighborhooa, had three fingers
of the right hand all but severed.
Jesse Rifle of Fruitvale suffered
painful accident last week when one
Of his fingers was caught in gaso-
line engine and so badly crushed that
it was necessary to have it amputated.
At the district l. o. o. F. convention
held at Caldwell last week, a perma-
lent district organization was effect
I'd There were Is visiting delegates
md local Odd Fellows at the meeting
md banquet.
After a fight which has been waged
or six years the Academy OF idaho
has been officially changed to the Ida
10 Technical institute by the state
legislature, and the governor has Civ
IN his sanction.
At Soda Springs, recently, a farmer
lauled nineteen sacks Of wheat to
market, receiving therefor S4669. The
ocal paper commented: This is the
highest price ever paid for wheat in
mis- section Of the country"
A change in the districts Of the
fountain States Telephone & Tele-
;raph company will result in the dis
continuance of the district headquar-
CT 1T AlOlt kN4ltlt AG0AkAuE lLG GLh-
ion from six to five districts.
According to the monthly recapitu-
alton report Of State Treasurer cage,
on, Idaho has s1,SS9,49A99 cash bzl-
nee at present During The past
lonth the state has been enriched
4,S1O.3l by interest earned on state
lnds
The president has signed Represen.
alive Smiths bill. providing 5hat a
reference right of entry under the
nlarged homestead law shall be given
, persons who first oDply % have the
inds designated for enlarged home
teading.
The report of the Nampa Associat-
d Charities, just made public, shows
nat the organization during the past
ear collected s511.71 and disbursed
} needy persons $432.62. In addition
, this sum OF money. the society re-
eived and discussed many substan-
al donations OF coal, clothing, etc.
The assistant attorney general has
ecided that unjust discrimination
ust exist between competing lines
hen one of the lines refuses to put
to effect joint through passenger and
eight rates between competing
oints, before the public utilities COM
ission can force such rates to be
ade.
The census of 1910 showed the state
Is a population of 325,594 and there
ere cast at the November election Of
at year S6159 votes for governor.
hich would be approximately 3.S per
mt of the population.
The question Of adopting the COM
ission form OF government was
tied upon at Idaho Falls on March
The vote was very light, only
'out 80 per cent of the people voting.
ne result was Col against and PSI in
vor.
Engineer Parmalee and Fireman
Inner we're killed as the result of an