The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-09-22
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Emmett are bringing good prices.
More than $4,000 worth of cream
will be shipped from Cambridge dur.
ing the year 1916.
On the opening day of the Boise
schools there were rs more pupils en-
rolled than last year.
A strong effort is being made by the
Cambridge Commercial club to put the
Canyon road in better condition by
next spring.
Forty-one carloads of potatoes were
shipped out OF Caldwell during Au.
gust. 1915. and sixty-one carloads dur.
ing last August
Ted Marks. while working at the
mill at Emmett, fell distance of
twenty feet, escaping with a badly
sprained ankle.
l.. b. Douglas. a Nampa dairyman.
has been fined $50 for selling milk
when he knew there was case of
typhoid fever in his home.
Roy Nelson of Pocatello has been
appointed a lieutenant commander In
the United States navy. and is now In
charge of the submarine HI,
Attendance at the Nampa schools
this year show a wonderful increase.
From total of sos in the grades last
year, the enrolment this year jumped
to 951.
A blaze started from a defective fue
was discovered on the roof OF the
Methodist parsonage at Meridian and
extinguished by the village fire de-
partment without serious loss.
Peaches, just Is of them, that fill
regulation sized box, were exhibited at
Boise last week. One of them weighed
IA ounces and a fraction and was
more than / inches in circumference.
Canyon countys tax levy has been
fixed at so mills. This is one and a
half mills lower than the levy OF last
year, which II Is claimed was the
lowest made by any county of the
state.
The town of Cambridge and sur
rounding country were never more
prosperous. Crops in general have
been good, prices are excellent, and
new enterprises are springing up in
the town.
Marion A. Lufkin, in jail at St An
thony, charged with conspiracy TO
kidnap Roland Hartman, son OF the
late E. II. Hartman, railroad king
has been bound over to the district
court for trial
The matter OF voting bonos TO the
amount of $l25,000 will be submitted
to the people of Bonneville county
Der Z. the money to be used in build
ing a court house
Thomas Nevins, who died at Boise
last week, was one of the best known
and best loved prospectors OF the old
days. The latchstring OF his cabin
always hung out, and many the man
he had aided in time of need.
Nick St Clair who killed his wife
on the road between Sweet and Mon
tour, was placed in the Caldwell Jail
to forestall mob violence, and later
bound over to the district court for
trial. He seems Indifferent to his
fate.
The spiritual and moral welfare OF
the Idaho boys on the border is be
ing properly looked after, according
to Chaplain Stewart, who was in Ida
no on a furlough last week. He speaks
in the highest praise of the Idaho
boys.
1t is being demonstrated that pota
toes are profitable on dry farms. AL
bert Alternately. recently brought To
Cambridge a sample of IL potatoes
from one hill of dry land. They were
perfect in size and conformation and
weighed six pounds.
Another proposed extension to small
railroads in the Twin Falls district
died when the Boise Payett Lumber
company purchased from the Oregon
Short Line IL carloads of rails bought
up four years ago for the Perrine
electric road in the Snake river val
ley.
ID. C. Brichaux, an automobile driv-
er of Ontario, Ore, has confessed
killing X. @. Goodwin, a wealthy
sheepman OF Ontario and Boise. and
throwing his body in the river, but
declares the killing vas accidental
and that he tired to dispose OF the
body. fearing no one would believe
his story.
During the progress OF poker
game In a negro roomiug house at
Blackfo0t. Don Brock. a negro belong
ing TO the street paving crew. wa
shot and killed Four negroes and
che white have been arrested incluI
ing Billy Jordan. another negro. who
suffered the loss OF an ear and many
bruises in the mix-up
Shelley is to have a sugar factory
The new factory will be erected about
fYe-eighths Of mile east OF the rail
way depot az Shelley and is 70 be com
pleted in time to handle next years
crop
While cleaning his rife last week