Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-11-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS

A. L.. Bosnia of Deer Flat was drag
ged considerable distance and badly
bruised when his team, frightened at
threshing machine. ran away.
The board of education has been
advised by the contractor that work
on the new high scholo building at
Pocatello will be completed during
the coming week.
in celebration of the fifth anniver-
saFy of the organization OF their as
ISOLATION, the old volunteer firemen
or Boise entertained members and
their families one night last week.
B. j. Nordyke, a pioneer OF Idaho,
died at Boise last week at the age
of SO. He had been a mining man
for years, spending most of his time
at the Atlanta or Rocky Bar camps.
The ladies of the Methodist church
of Meridian enriched their aid society
treasury to the extent of about $3.50
with the election day dinner and the
entertainment given on barbecue
day"
C.. S. Moody, adjutant general of the
National Guard of Idaho, and repre-
sentative-elect from Bonner county to
the next legislature, has announced
his candidacy for speaker of the
house.
At meeting of the Pocatello Rifle
club held last week, number of new
members were added and steps were
taken to obtain from the government
the first installment of rifles and am
munition.
The Oregon Short Line has filed
with the public utilities commission a
new tariff providing for an increase
of demurrage charges from 81 per day
to S. per day after cars are held four
days or longer.
Members of the Boise Valley Cow
Testing association are planning for
a thorough survey of the first six
months achievements at a dairymen's
meeting to be held in Meridian Fri
day, November II.
Water right costs on the Boise pro-
feet will be announced IN the near fu-
ture, and will be between SIS and $50
per acre, declared Chief Counsel VIII
R. King of the United States reclama-
ton service at Caldwell last week
A picture of Company G men,
bers, taken at Nogales, has been re-
ceived by the Caldwell Commercial
club, framed and hung in the club
rooms. The picture is neatly labelled
at the base with the names of the
boys.
Although blind, John A. Carver, a
former student in the blind depart.
ment of the Utah school for the deaf
and the blind, has been elected pro-
bate judge of Franklin county, Idaho
He will take his position upon the pro
bate bench January 1.
Inability of the European govern. |
Inents to procure transports is seri-
ously hampering the shipment of
cording to statements of the French
agents who have just concluded an in
spection at Caldwell.
The Parent-Teacher association will
meet at Deer Flat November 80,
when swings will be put up and i'm
made to the grounds.
Dinner for those participating in the
work will be served on the grounds
by the ladies of the association.
]. w. Musser announces that he is
getting along splendidly with his pro-
cot to build an interurban railroad
rom Preston to Blackfoot. The pro-
ect is known as the Pocatello Trac-
ion & Interurban railway and will
raverse a wonderfully fertile coun-
ry.
w. H. Esterbrook and Vivian A.
'horne have given an option on the
Senner group of silver mines, TWEEN
weight miles north of HALEY, to a
,oeur d,Alene mining company which
5 interested in a number of the rich
alena mines there. The price is
10000.
]. L. Ivie, a Blackfoot farmer, is
expected to undergo treatment which
I'LL safeguard him against rabies. A
orse owned by Ivie contracted rabies :
rom some dogs. In an effort to save
ne animal, the farmer worked about
5 head, aud it is feared his hands
ecame infected.
B. F. Shawhan, who has been man
ging the Kings Hill irrigation pro-
,ct for the state, reports that, as a
ssult of a recent conference with Sec
stary Franklin K. Lane, he believed [
lie prospects of having the tract TAX
1 over by the federal government
ere very favorable.
Two to three feet of ice throughout >
lie cave for its entire length of about =
le-quarter of a mile was found by :
rank F. Spofford, assistant super
SCR of surveys, as a result of the in
sstigation he made of the cave locat- 4
about twenty-five miles east of Du- Q
lis, Fremont county. =
Arrangements are under way by I
e Pocatello lodge of Elks for what t