The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-09-01
In THE GEM STATE

Canyon county Idaho, boasts Of the
production OF 700 bushels Of white po-
tatoes from thirty acres.
An automobile hit boulder in the
road near Dietrich and was wrecked,
the occupants being injured, but none
seriously
The farmers in the King Hill irri
CATION project, near Glenns Ferry are
again threatened with a shortage of
water for the balance OF the irriga-
ton season.
Frank Guidici, the Eight Mile
home for two days, is now in the Gus
tody OF the sheriff. He is believed to
be dcmented at times
F'ire which started in shayngs in
the boiler room OF the Duluth sawmill
/ AZ Harrison resulted in the destruC-
tion OF the mill The loss is $4j, 900,
with insurance of $4,000.
/ Lemhi county is preparing to sur
! yey that portion of the proposed route
| OF the BoiseButte highway which
/ ,
! line tC the Montana boundry.
| It is said that many Of the farmers
! who are in a position TO hold their
| crops are unwilling to contract at
| present prices, in the belief that the
| recent advances in the market will
| continue.
Threshing is now in progress
throughout the wheat belt in southern
Idaho Local buyers report goou yields
! in the irrigated districts, but that the
dryfarm yield is generally somewhat
below the average
The report of the investigation of
the King Hill irrigation project made
by the commission of three has been
completed and forwarded to the sec
rotary of the interior The King Hill
project is now state property
Vivian Hovey, young rancher of
the Sage creek district, twenty-six
miles north of Salmon, was shot and
killed by Stonewall BalIinger, half
breed Indian, after a dispute over a
stock range. Ballinger fled to the |
mountains.
The governor announces that he !
win ash the legislature to make an
appropriation for the purpose of buy |
ing and preserving the site of old Fort !
Lemai, near Tendoy, as a memorial
TO the first white settlement that was
attempted in Idaho.
Three Twin Falls congregations
have outgrown their church buildings
Recently the Baptists sold their church
to the Latter-day Saints. Last week
the Baptists purchased the present
Presbyterian edifice A new rresby-
terian church is planned.
II IS authoritatively announced by
the state game department that it will
recognize the first day of September
as the open date for the shooting of
duck, goose, snipe, plover and swan.
The federal law, however, fixes Octo.
Der / as the opening date.
The Western Potash company with
at Idaho Falls. has been
organized and proposes to operate on
the great sagebrush areas in the
southeast, Turning sagebrush in port
able burners and having extracted
from the ashes 20 per cent potash.
A verdict of murder was bought by
the coroner's jury at Twin Falls
against Harold and Lynn Lovelace,
brothers, u and II years old, respec.
lively who have confessed to shoot
ing and killing Thomas Hamiu, man
Ial training teacher of Carson, New.
Conditi,.s in the Wood River sec,
lion regarding the sheep industry are .,
becoming very acute The high prices
Of sheep and mutton and the natural
Increase of the bands combined have /
ed the sheepmen to increase their =
lands far beyond the capacity of the q
'ange- v
II is being charged that hunters in
Idaho go across the state
inc into Utah for game when bust.
less grows dull in this state. After
tagging coyotes in Utah the scalps are
ent to Salt Lake and the feet cut off S
md forwarded to Boise. where bounty \
collected b
With The Best for Idaho Children IL
IS its slogan. the teachers Joint in II
titute OF Ada, Adams. Blaine. Boise, il
'anyon. Gilmore, Gem. Owyhee and Il
Washington counties, comprising the "
outbwest section of Idaho. will be
ED in Boise at the high school build. A..
ne Eeptember to 3. inclusive. ii
Boise automobile dealers and tbeir n,