Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-09-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS


jured last week when his automobile
turned turtle three miles north O.
Blackfoot.
Success beyond expectations of the
snterprising promoters attended Cald
wells first annual fashion show, hello
last week.
The fourth annual Kendrick fab
and harvest festival will be held Sep
:ember 27-2S29 under direction Of the
Kendrick Chamber of Commerce.
-Four persons were killed at North
Springfield, Pa, when the automobile
IN which they were riding was
struck by New York Central train.
Hugo Lamp. young man of Durant
was instantly killed when he lost his
balance and fell under the wheels OF
an automobile truck near Lake Park
Authorization of the consolidation OF
school districts Nos 33 and "a, in the
south part of Canyon county was made
by the county commissioners last
week
Operations at the Vienna mines are
progressing satisfactorily, and a re.
viyal of former times when Vienna was
a lively camp is predicted, says the
Haily Times.
1t is stated by Oregon Short Line of.
ficials that Idaho shipments of grain
and livestock are larger than they
have been for many years past at this
season of the year
President Wilson has detailed First
Lieutenant Avery D. Cummings OF
the Thirtieth infantry as professor OF
military science and tactics at the
University of Idaho.
Pablo Etturife, who was bitten by a
dog near Soda Springs, developed
rabies and died in commissions just
thirty days after he had been bitten
This is the first case of the kind in
this section of Idaho.
Colonel E. R. Place, well known in
Boise as a promoter interested in the
proposed Western Pacific railroad line
from Winnemucca to Boise, was mar
ried August 80 in Spokane, to Miss
Corene Balm of that city.
Conditions are generally favorable
for the rapid progress of farm work,
and much of the third crop of alfalfa
in the warmer districts has been cut,
according to the weather and crop re-
port issued by the weather bureau.
Under a ruling of the state land
board, settlers taking up land on the
Heating Land company's Carey act
project in Lemhi county must make
oath that they believe that there is
sufficient water supply to irrigate their
lands.
Jonas Brown, Familiarity known as
Uncle" one of the best known pio-
neer lawyers of the state, is dead at
Boise from heart trouble at the age of
81 years. Mr.. Brown was one of the
charter members of the Masonic lodge
of Idaho.
|. j. Purser, while pitching hay near
Rigby, had the misfortune to fall on
pitchfork. The tines of the fork pierced
the feshy part of his left leg, the tines
striking the bones and then glancing
through the flesh, making a
very painful wound.
Bessie Hutchins, aged years, was
fatally injured at La Belle, by horse
which she was leading. The animal
became frightened and, plunging
a wire fence, pulled the child
through the barbed wires, infiicting
wounds from which she died.
The threshing separator belonging to
George Hugo of Kooskia was de-
stroyed by fire, the result of an ex-
plosion of smut, while threshing on
the farm of John Young at the head Of
Misery canyon. Several hundred bush
els of grain were destroyed at the |
same time.
Prof E. V. Ellington of Idaho has
been appointed dairy farm expert for
the dairy division of the government |
and will be stationed at Salt Lake City |
October l. Professor Ell
ington resigns a place on the faculty
If the University of Idaho to accept
he federal berth.
The last chapter, believe state Off
Gals, in the treasury steal of Idaho
vas written last week when the state
depository board, composed OF the
Governor, attorney general and secre-
airy of state, accepted from the Ma
ional Surety company check for
;147,61491, representing the states
oss.
Professor ]. Wyley Sessions Of the
daho Technical institute in the agri-
cultural department is of the opinion
hat there are lands in Bannock coun-
Y upon which alfalfa and clover seed
an be produced as successfully as in
he Twin Falls country, and he hopes
0 have experiments made on some OF
hose lands next year.
The state board of equalization has
,ade large reductions in the assessed
aluations of railroads and power
ompanies in this state. AS a result
f the reductions the total equalized
alua of nrnnerty in the state for 1916