Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-10-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS


at Hansen.
The state has 100000 acres OF
school land. It is scattered about in
The different counties, but the largest
areas are in the panhandle and in
southeastern Idaho.
Attorney General Peterson has ad
yised the state land board that it had
no ground for a civil action against
Fred L. Huston, state auditor, in the
so-called Huston loan case
D. W. Burke Of Wallace was sent.
enced in the district court last week
to serve one to two years in the peni-
tentiary. He had been convicted
twice for selling liquor illegally.
Oren Winslow of Greenleaf, dupli-
Eating his achievement of last year,
again captured first prize in the 10
ear contest OF the boys corn clubs OF
the state at the Idaho State fair.
School land sold within the last two
Or three years brought an average
price of SIG an acre. The state is now
selling 5000 acres a year This
brings in a return of about 1886, 1000
yearly.
Plans are being perfected for a
meeting in Pocatello in January Of
dairymen, pure seed associations,
swine breeders and livestock associa-
tons. It is expected 1000 delegates
will be present.
Judged from present conditions. the
growers of Idaho potatoes are going
20 make a big cleanup this year. The
yield has generally been very salts
factory and the price is likely to con
tinue to advance.
The jury panel in the trial of Her
man J. Rossi, charged with the MUIR
der of Clarence Dalquist at Wallace,
was exhausted Saturday, and new
Venire Of fifty men was ordered en-
paneled by the sheriff.
The report OF the Pocatello postof-
fee, which has just been made public
by the postmaster, shows gross re-
ceipts for the quarter ended Septem-
Der 80, amounting to S16,496. This is
an increase OF S5,102 over the previous
quarter.
On the ranch of Richard Scoble near
MuldOon a horse belonging to County
Commissioner S. J. Benson is dead as
a result of an attack of rabies. 1t is
the first case in the state where a
horse has been the victim of the bite
Of a rabid animal.
Mrs. Marie Petree, who was injured
in an automobile wreck September "a,
when the auto in which she and sew
sral others were riding was struck by
a Short Line engine at crossing be-
tween Hot Springs and Topaz, died at
a Pocatello hospital October Z.
Nathaniel Berridge will harvest
about half a crop of grapes from his
vineyard near Collister. His yield is
usually between II and 13 tons. The
grapes developed this year from the
dormant buds, after the first blossoms
were destroyed by the spring frosts.
The fine strawberries recently sup
piled to the hotels in Boise have come
from the Pierce tract at Pierce Park,
rented by L. W. Nye. The yield aver
aged IA crates a week from a second
crop. Mr. Nye has received s11S this
fail from 500 Early Progressive plants
set out the 18th of May, 1916.
In a raid at Pocatello, eighteen per
sons were arrested, charged with vio-
Iation of the liquor laws All of the
men were Greek but Jim" Morris,
Jerval Smith, Bert Smith, Hyrum
Fox, arrested at Yellowstone hotel, /,
and Albion Hinckley. Two women
were included in the dragnet.
A runaway horse hitched to a corn
cutter caused a horse driven by Mrs.
N. Fitzpatrick of South Boise to take
fright, as a result of which Mrs. FitZ- /
patrick and her sister, Mrs Mary D. 3
Cleaver, were thrown from the car
rage. Mrs. Cleaver's leg was broken
and Mrs. Fitzpatrick received bruises.
There were very few cases of con-
tagious disease in Pocatello during
the past month, according to a report
by the health officer. His list for the
month shows that there was one case
Of chickenpox. one of smallpox, one
VI SNdA AtI ACfCAf wv " PLOA0 ANf1As
One of whooping cough, and none of
diphtheria.
The twenty-seven indictments re-
turned last week by a special grand
Jury against F. E. Wonnacott, former
county assessor, and his
Two deputies, w. w. Leeper and Ray
Thompson. charging embezzlement
md mutilation of public records, were
dismissed in the United States dis
riot court.
John L. Woody. Arnold S. Lyon and
\. B. Mcintyre, members of the
BOARD OF county commissioners of
,atah county, have been cited to ap-
year before the supreme court Oc-
ober 16 to show cause why they |
hould not be punished for contempt /
BECAUSE of having evaded a peremp-
DRY writ of mandate. I
Construction work on the new Pres 1
yterian church in Twin Falls, viii be- I
i'm soon and the building. when com {
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