Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-02
IDAHO STATE NEI..

: C. NJ Boyce fell on the icy paw,
ment at Pocatello and suffered tn
{ fracture OF a collarbone.
While talking to friend on a trai
near Caldwell, Carl Schoonorer wa
stricken with heart disease and fe
forward dead
A bottle placed In the rapid waite
of the Snake river at Nampa, Idaho
travelled the eighty miles to Weiser il
three days
Frank w. Weeks, who was connect
ed with theatrical company and VIII
was taken Ill with pneumonia at Rex
burg, is dead,
A car containing 42,28O pounds O
Hour was sent from Idaho Falls t
Portland, Ore, consigned to the Port
land Touring mills for the Belgium
The state game warden estimates
that 5000 deer have been killed Ii
the state within the past year, ant
that $50 elk and 100 head of mountain
sheep and goats were slaughtered.
Charles Oxman, who has confessed
o numbering a man at Los Angelo
while committing robbery, claims he
was born at Mullan, Idaho, and tina,
his father was Methodist minister
j. Downey, aged so years, committed
suicide at Pocatello by drinking three
ounces OF poison. 1t Is said he had
been drinking and in fit of despond.
ancy took acid in his boarding house.
The 2-year-old son of William Gil.
bert OF Eagle, died from burns sus.
tanned Monday when he fell in a tub
OF scalding water The boy fell back
wards into the scalding tub while
watching his mother scrubbing.
From Arimo comes the news that
he w. 0. Kay elevator, which was
burned recently, is being rebuilt by
large force of men and that it will
soon be ready for receiving grain In
arge quantities.
Word comes of the death of VII.
lam Scott, formerly of Pocatello, who
'assed away at Los Angeles. Mr..
colt had suffered a general break
own. He was 68 years of age. He
vas well known to Idahoans as I'm
lie Billy"
Fred M. Coleman, deputy state treas.
rer, is now in the state penitentiary
lnder sentence of two and one halt
o ten years at hard labor for the
mbezzlement of state funds to the
mount of $4,000. Coleman entered
plea of guilty.
Chief of Poleice T. B. Losiuer OF
'ort Hall Indian reservation, Deputy
,heriff Robert Obey and an Indian
famed Pizier were all wounded in
istol battle at Idaho Falls. Losiuer
nd Pizier were both shot through the
Iody. All will recover.
John Lane, major general of ar
hlery under General Robert e. Lee
the civil war and pioneer of the
.orthwest died at his home in Lewis
on. He was a son of General Joseph
,ane, former United States senator
nd first governor of Oregon
VIII Davis, colored, attempted to
murder Lillian Banks, also colored, at
ocatello by shooting her four times
Though bullets penetrated vital or.
ans, it is thought the woman will re-
over. Davis tried to kill himself be.
ore being captured, but failed.
Idaho may lock arms with Oregon
nd Washington and, on January /,
GIG, go over into the prohibition col.
INN. This is the plan OF the dry"
dvocates of this state, who have rails
d in it the most momentous political
jsue in the history of this state.
B. B. O'Neil, known as Big Bar.
ey' ONeil was released from the
!aho state prison on Christmas. His
7lease came as Christmas gift from
lie board of pardons. Governor John
|. Haines went to the state prison =
nd personally delivered the pardon. :
During the second week In Janu.
ry the dairymen and swine breeders
Ill meet in Boise for their annual
AS in many cases, the
lterests of the two are identical, and
leir problems the same, they have
ecided to associate In their pro
am.
Three million dollars has been
,ent in the stores and hotels of the
ate and in transportation by the
lnters within the year ana there is
100000 worth of food value secured
ON the game that is killed and the
ii that are caught in the state with.
a year. according to the report Vi
g state game warden.
A bill has been introduced to In.
ease the appropriation for the Occur
Alene public building from one hun.
ed thousand dollars to one hundred
d twenty-five thousand dollars, the
crease being needed to erect an
equate building to accommodate
g postofflce, land Office and federal
urt
The Oregon Short Line Railroad
mpany is ordered and directed t
thin twenty days by the public util