Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-05-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS

In Star.
BY way Of creating two public parks
and beauty spots In Nampa, the city
council is cooperating somewhat with
members Of the Century club.
Plans are being perfected for the
organization of a strictly amateur
baseball league along the Boise and
Snake river valleys this summer.
All dangerous and unsightly build.
ings in Meridian are doomed to de-
struction as result of action taken
by the village board of trustees.
The state bacteriologist last week
received from Bellevue the carcass of
cat that showed signs of rabies. 1t
had attacked boy before it was
killed.
Plans are under way for the cree
ton of a $4,000 hospital in Poca-
tello, which will be under the direc-
ton of Sisters of Mercy of the Judge
Mercy hospital at Salt Lake.
Despondent because of financial and
domestic troubles, Carl Scarberry,
formerly a waiter, plunged into the
river at Boise and was going under
the third time when rescued.
The worst wind and dust storm the
Twin Falls tract has experienced in
i've years struck Twin Falls almost
without warning Saturday night and
continued unabated nearly three
hours
In Idaho, 200 mills reported a pro-
duction Of 770,031, 900 board feet of
lumber in 1915. The estimated num-
Der of mills in the state is 210, and the
estimated production for last year IT,
000, 900.
Miss Ethel Il. Redfield, for the past
four years superintendent of public
instruction for Nez Peroe county, has
announced her candidacy for the Of
fee Of state superintendent OF public
instruction.
Mrs. Adelaide V. Leonard, a pioneer
Of Silver City, died at Berkeley, Cal,
last week, at the age Of rs years. Mrs.
Leonard, whose husband was prom
inent mill man Of Silver City, came to
Idaho as a bride in 1867.
With the advent of spring, Black
foot has taken on a building boom
that promises to eclipse anything of
the kind in her past history. There
are under construction at this time no
less than twenty residences and many
more are planned.
In the arrest of Walter Curnans,
alias Charles Smith, at Dubois, for the
murder of his wife, local authorities
believe they have the slayer of ]. C.
Smith, killed year ago at Pebble,
Idaho. Curnans, or Smith, beat his
wife to death with an ak.
The net profits of operating mines
in Shoshone county for the year 1915
were increased last week by $685.
019, by the fling Of the annual net
profit report of the Hercules Mining
company. The Hercules company is
the fourteenth company to file.
Governor Alexander has appointed
B. A. Cummings, prominent attor-
ney of Pocatello as commissioner
from Idaho at the national conference
of commissioners on uniform state
laws, which is scheduled to meet In
Chicago August % to 20 of this year.
Canyon county has some lands on
its hands which 1t is quite willing to
sell to any reasonable bidder The
county now holds tax deeds to about
twenty-one lots and one or two small
farm tracts which have been turned
over in lieu Of payment of taxes lev
led.
Shade Field, the sheep camp tender
who shot and killed Edward and
Wayyman Ward near Donnelly, last
September, and who was later acquit-
ted of the murder on the ground of
self-defense, died at Weiser last week,
following an operation for intestinal
trouble.
The state veterinarian asserts that
there is not one-tenth the number of
cases of hog cholera in Idaho at pres
emit that there were at this time last
year. He attributes the decrease to
the measures taken to prevent out |
breaks where they occurred in 1915
and to general preventive measures
adopted.
Farrell Young, q boy of 16, has per |
fected a wireless apparatus at Poca-
tello that has power sufficient to catch |
messages sent out by ships at sea on
the Pacific. The young man has re-
peatedly communicated with Salt |
Lake and San Francisco. The station |
cars built by Farrell himself at cost
Of approximately 800.
In order that the school children of
Idaho may not suffer through lack of
educational facilities in those dis
tricts where the legal school tax levy
Of 8 mills does not supply sufficient
funds for the maintenance of the
schools, the Oregon Short Line has
agreed to withdraw its protest against
q higher levy up to Is mills in those
districts in which the railway com.
pany is taxed.