The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-28
IDAHO STATE NEWS

plymouth.
Stricken shortly after having eater
his dinner, William H. Mckinley dice
At Caldwell.
Mink Creek people are feeling goot
over their new road which is practi
cally completed.
Delinquent taxpayers in Canyon
county this year number several hun
dred less than a year ago.
The light and power line extension
has now reached Kuna, and the work
men engaged on the job are starting
to run the lines in that village.
Arrangements are already under
way for a fitting celebration of Labor
day in Boise this year by the various
industrial organizations Of the city.
Under suspension of the rules the
Nampa council last week passed the
required ordinance by which s29,630
is appropriated to cover expenditures
during the next year
G. W. Fletcher, president of the
Idaho National bank at Boise and pres
ident of the First National Bank of
Weiser, died suddenly in Portland
from bronchial trouble
More than 100000 was paid out on
warrants by John w. Eagleson. state
treasurer, last week. The warrants
paid represented the fund apportioned
to the public schools of the state.
Lloyd Egley. II years of age. while
fishing with his father on the spillway
of the St Anthony-Ashton Electric
company's dam, three miles from Ash
ton, fell into the Snake river and was
! drowned.
The prospect for small grain is
good except in the unirrigated dis
tricts in the eastern part of the state.
Potatoes are somewhat uneven, but
are doing well, and the corn though
late is growing rapidly
Within 80 days, if the present rate
of output is maintained. the Shope
brick making machine will complete
the manufacture of the 100000 bricks
that will enter into the construction
of the big Morris block at Lewiston.
The first large shipment of Idaho
lambs to the eastern markets was
made from Gooding last week, and it
is expected that more than $4,000
lambs will be moved to the markets
of the middle west before Septem-
Der l.
The state land board is advertising
sale of lands to he held at the court
house in Idaho Falls Saturday, August
H. Nearly 5000 acres of dry farm
lands, located about fifteen miles west
and north of Idaho Falls will be in
cluded in the sale.
Fifty days Imprisonment in the
county Jail and fine of 800 and
costs, was the punishment melted out
in the district court at Caldwell to o.
X. Brody, the yong rancher charged
with having Intoxicating liquors in his
possession in prohibition territory.
The Bannock County Fair associa.
ton has commenced preparations for
the annual county fair to be held at
Downey early in September, The
county commissioners have appropriate
ed $500 and 1t is promised that this
years event will far eclipse any pre-
viOus effort
John Harvey, about 26 years old
ployed for the past three months in
farm work near Blackfoot, was in
stantly killed when deputy sheriffs of
Bingham county were raiding sup
posed gambling den in the south part
of Blackfoot
The Chicago & Northwestern which
is taking a census of the sheep and
horses in the intermountain country,
estimates the lamb crop in Idaho at
$3,000,000 A great number Of lambs
will be kept by the sheepmen this
year for the replenishing of heads
where old ewes have been sold to out
side interests.
pleted plans for assembling equipment
to move crops, and it is expected by
the operating and traffic departments
of the Oregon Short Line that suffi-
cient first-class equipment will be at
all terminals in Utah and Idaho to
give to the shippers frst-class box
cars as they are needed.
Lightning has caused three fires in
the Boise forest recently, according
to the local forest office, but the vege-
tation is still so green that the fires
did no harm beyond burning few
trees.
Teachers taking the state examina-
ton are to be questioned as to their
knowledge of Idaho history, according
to an announcement made Saturday
by Edward o. Sisson, commissioner
of education.
On Good Roads day sixty-three
miles of road work was completed by
volunteer workers in Lemhi county at
the low cost to the county of $60.S5.
Meals were provided by the women Of
the different communities.
The Pocatello General hospital is to
have new Improvements costing ap-
proximately $29,500. The present
building is to be remodeled and an ad-
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