Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19
SLAUGHTER OF FOREIGNERS
BY VILLABANDITS REPORTED
Under The Capitol Dome


The public utilities commission is
now compiling its annual report and
expects to have it ready for distribu-
ton within a short time.
Notary public appointments were
announced at the governors office
yesterday as follows: William H.
Campbell. Lackedge: A. E. Hudson,
Wilder: Gilbert Brinton, Gooding; ].
n. c. Wylie, Boise; B. l.. Garner, New
dale
The public utilities commission re-
ceived a Geographic query yesterday
from officials of the Union Pacific
railroad to know whether it would in
tervene in the Minnesota potato rate
case. The commission expects to do
so and through funds raised from the
outside will be represented at the
Minneapolis hearing.
w. w. Briggs was a visitor at the
state game department yesterday. Mr..
Briggs accompanied by his son, w. F.
Briggs and John Weidman, have just
returned from hunting trip to Silver
Mountain and Crook ed river. They
brought down deer and three goats
at Silver mountain and four more
deer and lynx in the Crooke ed river
country. IT'S the last time I shoot
goats on mountain peaks" said Mr.
Briggs. Asked why, he said that the
steep falls they take after being shot
practically ruins the hides. One of the
goats plunged 500 feet after being hit
with the bullet And that reminds
me of a story" said State Game Ward
en- Jones. "A couple of hunters went
out after mountain goats and while
one of them was building a fire the
other decided to take a look around
and bag a goat is possible. Shortly
afterwards he returned and declared
to his partner he had been successful
in his quest. When did you shoot
then, l heard no shot?' queried the
companion left in camp. Shots, II
should say not replied the other. II
just went up and run em off the cliffs.
the blame things killed themselves.
The public utilities commission is
sued an order last night suspendine
the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany's tariff No. 1865 for period Of
six months or until June /, 1917. This
tariff affects rates on ores and concen-
trates from Burke and other stations
to Gem and Wallace. In another order
the commission suspends a rate on
waste rock and tailings from Burke to
Wallace to the same date for the same
road.
Frank A. Mccall, former lieutenant
colonel of the Second Idaho infantry,
physically disqualified when in mob
ilization camp in this city prior to the
entrainment of the regiment to the
border. was elected prosecuting attor-
ney of Bonner county. fact his
friends in Boise will be glad to learn. |
He was former adjutant general of |
the state.
Word reached state officials yester-
day that Lawrence F. Stone of Post
Falls, former University Of Idaho
student, has been appointed second
lieutenant in the regular army. He
was an officer of the varsity cadet
corps. Recently he took the regular
examination at Fort George Wright.
The potato growers of the Greeley
belt in Colorado have interviewed in
the Minnesota potato rate case, the
public utilities commission was noti-
fled yesterday.
The state game department has been |
informed that II. II. Quarles and party |
had returned from successful Big |
game hunting trip to Silver mountain. |
A number of deer were bagged.
State Game Warden Jones has not
as yet received the bull moose head and |
hlde from st. Anthony, but when seen I
yesterday said that it would be in this
Week and he would Immediately see
that II was mounted and placed i'll the
state house as an exhibit.
Roy Ivy and family have been sum-
moned to Boise by the state health de-
partment and will undergo treatment
Tor prevention of rabies to which they
We're exposed. The head of a cow was
sent to the state bacteriologist for ex-
animation from the same Vicinity near
Blackfoot 1t seems that stock were
dying in that locality and it was after
wards learned the cause was rabies. II
IL pelieVed TO have been contracted
through the bites of infected dogs.
The state farm markets bureau is in
receipt of several calls for good farm
hands and the positions are open to
those who care to apply. Several OF
the positions are very good ones. the
bureau states.
Senator-elect ID. L. Ingard of Canyon
county is in the city today and paid
his respects to Governor Alexander. He
was member of the last senate and
was reelected at the recent general
election. Senator Ingard heads the
Canyon county Democratic legislative
delegation.
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