Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-10-30
IDAHO STATE NEWS

| peen shlppeQ 10 Europe rro war pur'
poses.
Eleven workmen are now on the
payroll of the new packing company
at Eagle, which 10 operating meat
packing plant.
| II has been decided to increase the
convict road camp at Shoshone to
thirty,five men, there being at pres
ent twenty convicts at work there.
j. W. Killian, living Ave miles west
OF Blackfoot, purchaser OF his first
automobile. was thrown through the
wind shield and sustained serious in.
juries.
| The state veterinarian located a
case OF blackleg on the Beavers farm,
two miles east OF the Cole school, last
week. The herd was ordered vacci.
mated.
| The Fruitland association shipped
four cars OF apples last week, of the
Roman Beauty variety. One OF their
cars Of Jonathans has landed in
Maine.
John Peterson and Louis Anderson
stockmen from Horse Prairie, bought
all the beef bulls and bull calves that
we're for sale at the recent L,emhi
county fair.
The city council at Idaho Falls. in
response to petition signed by over
half the taxpayers OF the city, voted
to open the picture shows and thea.
tiers Of the city on Sunday.
| On a ten-acre field. Frank Johnson
OF Twin Falls, this season harvest
ed a yield of forty-two bushels OF
cleaned beans per acre, He viii real
iEe $i13.s2 per acre for his crop.
Thomas Smith. an elderly gentle.
man, was struck and run over by an
automobile at Pocatello Smith is oil
the general hospital In serious con.
dftion, although physicians claim tina,
will recover.
In the federal court at Pocatello
the jury disagreed In the case against
John Fennel, charged with selling
whiskey 10 an Indian, and he was re.
leased on his own recognizance until
the March term.
J. C. Brown engineer of the forest
service, 10 In the North fork country
surveying lines to establish grade
for the river road that will be a link
in the proposed state highway from
1 Montana through Idaho.
A new picture theatre 10 being
erected at Pocatello. The building
villa be 60x120 and will be construct
ed Of stone and Are brick, with a
seating capacity OF 1000, and will
open the first of the year.
A. v. Cox Of Meridian, employed BY
the telephone company on construc
ton work near Silver City, was in
| jured when pole upon which he was
working fell with him. The injury
is not thought to be serious.
Andrew Jensen, who with his wife
conducted a boarding house at Idaho
Falls, committed suicide by taking
strychnine, after setting Are to the
| house. Jensen had threatened several
times to kill his wife and six chill
dren.
J. X. White, state dairy food and
sanitary Inspector, has issued a warn
ing to the druggists of the state to
the effect that he has, reason to be
lieve that spurious aspirin and neo
salvarsan are being peddled In the
state.
| Only irrigation systems from which
the water IL sold or rented or used or
lands outside the state are subject to
taxation under the laws OF the state
OF idaho enacted in 1899 and amend
ed In 1912. Other companies are ex
empt from taxation.
The PocatelIo police force has cap
tured three men who are believed u
be band of crooks which has robbed
clothing stores and wholesale houses
and has used Pocatello as headquar
ters for dividing the loot The men
arrested are Mexicsns.
| Mrs. M. C.. calvin of Northfork has
a raspberry bush from which she has
gathered berries every day since the
beginning OF July. The fruit resem
bles the Cuthbert red raspberry, but
| experts are at loss to account fol
| such long bearing period.
The 4-year-old son OF Frank Mou'
ton, Of Brownlee, came near meeting
| horrible death when he was attack
| ed by hogs at the home place. Hi
father rescued him from the attack
ing hogs before he was fatally injur
| ed, but he was badly bitten.
Ten homesteaders OF Blaine coun
ty. whose places adjoin an unoccu
| pied school section, last week present
ed petition to the state Land board
| asking that the state sink a we'll a
Its expense, on the school section
| and supply the settlers with water
but the proposal was turned down.
John Bell was captured while TAX
ing some drugs from a drug store at
| Blackfoot. He was taken before the
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