The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-02-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

! few feet from the house.
Shipments of sheep aggregatine
twenty-one cars have been made from
Star in the past few months.
The county commissioners are con
sidering the proposition of establish
ing a public hospital at Twin Falls
Leslie K Pollard, graduate of the
Salmon high school, has been nomi
mated by Senator Brady for the Naval
academy at Annapolis.
State Senator Jerome Day Of
Moscow, better known as Jerry" Day
has announced his candidacy for Dem
ocratic national committeeman.
Sixty days for stealing 60 cents is
the penalty which Edward Lee re-
ceived when he plead guilty to the
charge of petit larceny at Pocatello'
That Pocatello will have a street
railway system in the near future now
seems assured. There are two com.
panies in the field seeking fran.
chise.
Two young men charged with hav-
ing stolen a load of potatoes from
Emil Lindburg, near Idaho Falls, were
captured near Shelly and will be
placed on trial.
No clew has yet been discovered as
to the identity of the man whose body
was found in the river near Pocatello
last week No money, valuables OF
papers were found on the body.
Yielding to the new order of the
county prosecutor to discontinue the
use of slot machines as well as
punchboards, all Nampa proprietors
have slowed away these devices.
That the Wilder branch railroad
will be fully electrified and service
instituted before the end of June is
the assurance given out at Caldwell
by those who know the plans of the
Caldwell Traction company.
Settlers on government projects
will not be required to pay their
water charges in advance this season
as was recently ordered by the re-
clamation commission. The order to
this effect has been rescinded.
John Kilenis made good on his con
tract to throw three men In an hour
at Pocatello, although the last man,
Art Chester of Pocatello, gave him a
hard tussle and Kilonis had only -four
and half minutes to the good.
The first statewide farmers con.
ference to discuss many conditions
and other subjects of interest to those
engaged in farming was held in Boise
last week at the call of w. G.
Scholtz, director of farm markets for
Idaho.
The governor has issued a reprieve
to Mrs. ]. D. Ross, the woman who
was, with her husband and son, sen
fenced to serve an indeterminate SEN
tence in the state prison for having
stolen goods, and for receiving stolen
goods.
Illinoisans now living in the Bull
are making preparations for
a grand reunion there on February 26
There are more than $50 names al
ready on the register and the entire
day and evening will be devoted to
the affair.
The work of excavating for the
erection OF the Fales Houston Pack
ng company's plant at Prospect, just
North of Pocatello, is progressing rap
dly. The building of this plant will
give Pocatello one of the most up-to'
late packing plants in the intermoun.
ain country.
Formal complaint has been made
O the public utilities commission by
he Northwest Investment company, |
the telephone users of
North Pocatello, against the rates for
now in force by the /
Mountain States Telephone & Tele {
,raph company.
An extension Of the o. S. L. from ,
small station on the Rog- 7
rson branch eight miles southeast OF I
Twin Falls, to Castleford, a distance c
f twenty-five miles, and the compile I
ion of the Raft River extension out S
( Burley, started several years ago, t
) expected this season. v
At a largely attended mass meet
ng at Bull of farmers it was decid. S
q TO devote HVe udyS 10 TOdu WOIh, D
ne farmers to donate the time and Il
ne use of their teams and men to Il
with the highways COM R
lissioners of the Bull highway dis a
'ict in repairing the roads of the lf
istrict d
The Franklin County Good Roads
ssociation is planning to join the p
orthern Utah Commercial clubs and W
God Roads association for the pur la
SO of permanently locating the Lin CT
Din and Yellowstone park highways II
trough Cache valley, thence through cl
rankin county to Bannock county el
l the north IL
The first baseball fatality Of 1916
the state of Idaho, if not in the d'
alton, took place last week In the la
,untry two miles from Nampa, when NJ
ildred, the 6h-year-old daughter of u
r. and Mrs. Frank Marek, was w
ruck over the heart with a baseball w
i'd died from the effects of the blow %
few minutes afterward. us
The utilities commission has grant
a certificate of convenience to ~
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