The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-03-31
idaho STATE NEVIS

dental board by the governor.
The forest service is planning to
construct a number of drift fences as
soon as conditions will permit, to par
allel the Wood river Salmon river
road.
Charlie Chapman of American Falls
entered a plea of guilty in the district
court to the charge of violating the
liquor laws of the state of Idaho. Chap
man was fined $3.50.
Lee Caldwell, charged with attack
ing Postmaster Boyle of Regena, Janu-
airy 6, has been convicted of assault.
The attack was made with the intent
of robbing the postoffice.
The proposition of bonding the Bur-
ley Independent school district for
ten thousand dollars, with which to
complete the new high school build
ing, carried by a vote of 297 to 81.
Suit for recovery of the amount
Canyon county claims is due from for
mer assessor and tax collector, Geo.
II. Moore, now given as $3,317, exclu-
sive of accrued interest, has been filed
at Caldwell.
w. H. Smith, about 80 years of age,
who resided on a homestead near
Rogerson, committed suicide at Twin
Falls by shooting himself through the
head with a revolver. No cause is
known for the deed.
The Pocatello weather bureau re-
ports that the snowstorm of March %,
during which 14.6 inches of snow fell
in twenty-four hours, was the heaviest
ever recorded at that office. The total
fall of snow for this winter is now 62.S
inches.
Plans are now well under way for
the construction of a Masonic temple
in Moscow, to cost $4,000. At the
last meeting of the Masonic lodge the
matter was taken up and it was de-
cided to issue bonds to finance the
project.
Bull will assume metropolitan airs
on July 1, when the city will have two
letter carriers. The stamp sales in
this p~ostoffce will exceed $1,000 for
the year ended March 81, and sales
amounting to $4,000 entite the office
to two carriers.
Discovery of anthony ores on the
Idaho Northern branch of the Oregon
Short Line near Cascade, has caused
the company operating the mine to
ask the railroad for through rates on
the ore from Cascade to Chicago and
other eastern cities.
Madame Richard, an alleged travel
ing saleswoman for a Salt Lake cloak
and suit house, was arrested at Poca-
teIlo as she stepped from the train at
Butte, charged with the theft Of a $500
diamond brooch from the person OF
Miss Caroline Hurlburt at the Nicollet
hotel.
The P~ocatello city council has au-
thorized the park and highway COM
mittee to prepare a lease On forty
acres of land owned by the city, which
the Idaho Technical institute
farm, the land to be leased to the in
stitute to be used for experimental
purposes.
The Oregon Short Line is preparing
to move one of the largest lamb crops
ever produced in Idaho. Reports of
The condition of the lamb and wool
in the Gem state received by
the general offices are that extra
stock cars may be required to move
the lambs.
At a meeting at Boise under the aus
pices of the Boise Municipal league a
movement was inaugurated to recall
Mayor ]. w. Robinson, because of al
eyed failure to keep his pledge to the
people in the matter of law enforce
nent and his handling of the police
department.
Ranchers and interested parties
rom all sections of the Boise valley
between Boise and Caldwell were in
attendance at the big mass meeting at
Star, at which the matter of creating
/ drainage district to include many
thousand acres of lands north of the
liver was discussed.
The state utilities commission has
'pened the hearing on the application
VI Lut Village VI htOduul1Ou lOI d Ger
ificate of convenience and necessity.
'he village has voted bonds for the
obstruction of a municipal water
liant, and is ready to go ahead as 0 0
s the certificate is granted.
Rifing United States mail sixteen
ines, George Holderman, railway
lail clerk, formerly of Twin Falls,
onfessed at Butte, according to Of
GERS, that he had secured $4,000.
he operations alleged cover a period
{ years and the first registered letter
was on Minidoka-Buhl branch.
Judge Guheen of the district court
granted an injunction restraining
Iayor George Williams from signing
n ordinance passed by the Pocatello
ouncil, granting a franchise to the
'ocatello Traction & InterurDan COM
any.
The Pocatello Commercial club will
pool tables for the use of its
and several other features
to the development of the So
ial side Of the organization will be
dded.
The circuit court of appeals at San