Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-12-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Bee. seed growing at American
Falls has proven a great success, one
local farmer realizing $40 per acre.
The first installment of refunding
bonds offered to buyers by the NamPa
| & Meridian irrigation district was sold
last week.
The Second Idaho regiment was
given an enthusiastic reception by the
citizens of Idaho on its return from
six months duty on the Mexican Dor
der.
One hundred thousand bags of beet
seed were raised at Idaho Falls this
year for the United States Beet Seed
company Pea seed raising is also
profitable there.
Purchasers Of articles of clothing
from the Idaho guardsmen will lay
themselves liable to arrest and fine
of $500, or six months imprisonment,
or both a fine and Jail sentence.
Idaho is one of the states which will
be greatly benefited by the 640-acre
homestead act which has been passed
during the present session Of congress
and which is now before the president
for his signature.
The Second Idaho regiment received
a genuine Christmas present, a check
for $4,000, presented by Timothy Re
gan, pioneer business man of Idaho,
to go toward paying the troops the
money due them from the state.
Rinaldo Aristedemo was convicted
of the killing of Faba Favero, an at
tractive young Italian woman, who at
the time of the murder was living with
her husband in Pocatello The jury
recommended life Imprisonment.
Peter W. Shelby former railroad
builder and railroad executive, died at
Cleveland, o., last week, from pneu-
monia. His last engineering feat was
the supervision and construction OF
the Pacific & Idaho Northern railroad.
During a melee in pool hall at Po-
catello, Harry Mantis is said to have
drawn a revolver and fired at Steve
Andrus, proprietor of the hall, after
the two men had engaged in a rough
and tumble fight, but the bullet went
wide
An order became effective last week
by which the freight service on the
Malad branch of the Oregon Short
Line becomes daily, instead of only
three times a week, as heretofore. This
improvement will be greatly appreciat-
ed by all shippers.
The state land department will sell
$500 acres of state school land in the
north end of the state next month
This will be the first school land sold
in the Panhandle country in three
years The appraised value ranges
from $40 to s25 an acre.
James Wright, an employee of the
Boise-Payette company, died at Boise
from an accident which occurred three
days previous while he was aiding cut
ting down a dry tree. The tree fell
and struck live one, splintered off
and fell back, striking Wright on the
head.
The secretary of the Pocatello rail-
road Y. NJ. c. A. received wire last
week from E. E. Calvin, president Of
the Union Pacific, informing him that
made for the purpose of remodeling
the present building and constructing
a much needed addition.
Sydney Smith, on trial at Pocatello
for the murder of Charles Rawlins, a
Pullman porter, was found guilty of
voluntary manslaughter. The men be-
came involved in a row over a game
of CRAPS" and during an exchange of
shots which followed Rawlins was
shot through the left lung and killed.
The Idaho Mining association,
through Secretary Ravenal Macbeth,
has announced that it will do all in its
power to assist the federal govern
ment in the prosecution of Frank A.
Palmer, who is reported as having
been arrested in the east in connec-
ton with an alleged Idaho mining
swindle.
In order that the overdue payroll for
the officers and enlisted men of the
Second Idaho regiment might be paid
without further delay and give the
men spending money for Christmas,
Governor Alexander is said to have
guaranteed the payment of $4,000 to
the Boise banks, soon after the legis-
ature convenes.
Governor Alexander has announced
hat the members-elect of the state
board of prison commissioners had
decided to name Frank E. Dekay of
8lackfoot as warden of the state pen
Tertiary to succeed Warden John
Shook, who has presented his resigna-
ion to the board of prison commits
iioners. effective January 1.
The highways designated by the
state highway commission for the ex-
'enditure of the $1.5OO,OO0 which the
state legislature viii be asked to ap-
)ropriate are as follows: Idaho-Pa-
life s265.122 Yellowstone Park, $751;
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