Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-03-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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in rooming house at Idaho Falls
The coroner decided that he died
| from natural causes.
The Tilden bridge over the Snake
river, which is being built Jointly by
Blaine and Bannock counties, will be
ready for traffic May /.
From present indications the farm
ers in Idaho will have an exception
ally prosperous year on account OF
the unusually heavy snow.
Growing OF seed for the eastern
seed houses will be given greater at
tention in the Twin Falls sections
this season than ever before.
All boys and girls of Caldwell who
can be interested in these lines of en-
deayor will this spring be organized
into flower and garden clubs.
The affirmative debating team OF
the Idaho Technical Institute won at
Caldwell from the team representing
the College of Idaho The question
related to ship subsidies.
The Mormon church has plans
adopted and all arrangements made
to commence the erection of $4,000
stake tabernacle at Rigby as soon as
the spring weather is favorable,
j. T. Pence of Boise is in Washing
ton endeavoring to secure an amend
ment to the Indian appropriation bill
authorizing the diversion of surplus
water from Fort Hall irrigation pro-
ject into the Bancroft country.
Purchase by the United States OF
the King Hill system in this state
and its completion by the reclamation
service is the object of a bill intro
duced in the present congress by Con
gresham Robert NJ. McCracken.
Idaho is seeking to have the fed
eral government buy number of irri-
cation projects in that state which
have failed and turn them over to
the reclamation service to give the
settlers sufficient water to raise
crops.
The attitude of the people generally
toward the proposition to erect new
school building in Twin Falls was
shown in the bond election held last
week Owing to inclement weather
only 1853 votes were cast of which
only nine opposed.
The Rigby Commercial club was re.
Gently recognized with membership
of 1926 New and specially built quar-
ters have been secured which are
well furnished, and the new organiza-
ton is q strong working force for the
city's good.
Plans for the observance of Pioneer
day at Bull on April Is now indicate
that T. will be the biggest event ever
pulled off on the Twin Falls tract.
There will be a monster parade, in
which it is estimated there will be
300 automobiles.
Mrs. Carl E. Thompson, living one
mile east of Southwick committed
suicide by shooting herself with
pistol in the forehead She had an
epileptic conyulsion about noon, and
is said to have been mentally con
fused all afternoon.
While leading a hog into a sled at
the Bellinger ranch, near Haley, pre-
paratory to bringing it and several
other hogs to town, the animal reach
ed out with its hind hOof and kicked
George Bellinger in the left eye. He
may lose the sight Of the eye.
Rupert is now claiming the basket
ball championship of Idaho and Of
fers to pay the expenses of any team
in the state or neighboring states
which can show that 1t has a claim
on championship honors to come to
Rupert for a series of two or three !
games.
Preparatory to the state trap shoot |
ing tournament to be held at Twin |
Falls June ~ and 49, members of the |
Twin Fails Gun club are engaging in |
a number of interesting informal prac-
tice shoots. An attendance of be- |
tween 100 and $50 marksmen is an
ticipated at the state tournament.
A group of Indians from the Fort
Hall reservation created some excite.
ment at Pocatello by resisting the To-
cal police, who attempted to arrest |
the red men for being intoxicated.
After an exciting scrimmage three of
the band were arrested and lodged in
the city jail, but the fourth escaped.
President S. T. Fletcher and Vice
President Clay Vance of the United
association, who have been
in Pocatello on a business trip, have
assured President McAlpine of the
Commercial club that it is the inten-
ton of the organization which they
represent to hold the annual conven-
ton in Pocatello this fall.
Plans have been perfected by the
Methodist ministers from Pocatello.
Idaho Falls, Twin Falls and other
points in Idaho for a rousing cam
paign to raise money for the con-
'truction of a Methodist college to be
coated at Cooling An endowment
und of 100000 has already been OBJ
aimed and $l50O00 more is needed.