The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-04-14
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Nampa continue.
Eighteen carloads of horses were
shipped out of Caldwell one day las
week.
Suits are to be instituted by Can
yon county against delinquent tax
layers.
The city council has passed an ordi
nance permitting picture shows at Pc
catello to remain open on Sunday.
A rife club will be organized at the
Idaho Technical institute and all stu
dents more than IS years of age are
eligible.
The citizens of Boise county are de
handing better mail service from
idaho City, their county seat, and also
from Boise.
%. O. Cain, a horseman from Twin
Falls, was kicked in the face by an
animal at Caldwell last week, sustain
ing painful injuries.
Arrangements are being made to
lease a large tract of Indian lands on
the Fort Hall Indian reservation for
growing of sugar beets.
Vigorous steps are to be taken this
season to combat the potato diseases
which have already gained such a
strong foothold in Canyon county.
George Ness, 81 years old, employ
de by the Electric Investment com
pany as lineman, was killed at Boise
by contact with a high tension cleo
trio wire.
Ralph Hawk has been arrested in
Shoshone at the request of Sheriff A.
Clements of Blaine county, charged
with the theft of about $40 from a
s~heepherder.
Burglars entered the office of the
w. j. Harvey Lumber company at Po-
catello and robbed the safe of about
$50. This is the second lumber COM
pany's to be robbed within the month.
Johnny Carter, sentenced from Bon
neville county in February, 1915, for
burglary in the first degree, has been
granted a pardon. Carter was but II
years old at the time of his convic-
ton.
Ito Yamaguchi, a Japanese, who has
a tract of land on the ceded project
at Fort Hall, cleared $1,000 last year
in sugar beets, and now has a 300
acre tract which he is devoting to the
industry.
The new S~tockgrowers bank at Po-
catello has filed a certificate showing
an increase Of the capital stock from
100000 to s160,000 and an increase
in the number of directors from seven
to fifteen.
Ramsay M. Walker, vice-president
of the Wallace National bank of Wal
lace, has been appointed to succeed
Herman ]. Rossi as member of the =,
state board of education and board OF
regents at the University of Idaho.
An unidentified Indian was found ;
dead beside the Short Line tracks at
Pocatello. 1t is believed by officers
hat the Indian may have been drunk :
tried to go to Fort Hall by :
Both legs and one arm were =
ut off. Z
The Pocatello Social club ha filed ;,
Of incorporation with the city '
Jerk. The articles set forth that the :,
of the club are to promote the :,
ocial, moral and intellectual develop q
of the Greek and Italian citizens q
+ the city. =
Tentative steps have been taken by -
he Nampa chamber of commerce by '
lay Of cooperating with the Idaho =
Holiness school officials in =.
heir campaign to develop one of the u
est college n Industrial schools in III
lie northwest. d.
The Pocatello high school debating -
ram defeated the st. Anthony team ~
the question, Resolved, That the -
ederal Ownership of the Telegraph W.
Desirable" tbs is the first defeat
ficted on the st. Anthony high
debaters for five years. ~
The state law making it unlawful ~
r any one to fish for trout in small 20
ountain streams during the month .'
April resulted in the arrest on
pril s of seven men who were fish
6 in Rock creek, a small stream W.
'rdering the south limits of Twin .n'
Ills. XII
Glenn o. Street of Pocatello mar a.
WY escaped death neal McCammon
len his car turned over and burned ~
!. Street was travelling at a good 1ne
lie of speed when the steering gear "o
ught and turned the car over, pin 4
lg him underneath. He was res 'or
by a farmer. onl
Congressman Smith of Idaho has N
given the assurance of the Sec US
airy of agriculture that it is his in oNa .
ltion to continue the hog cholera an
work in Idaho during the COM soo.
year, which has been carried on pio
ing the last two years under the T
'ervision Of DR.. w. A. Sullivan. sch
is considerable construction Llel
in progress at Pocatello at this the
g. 1t is estimated that there are tenn
Yards of seventy-five private resi- scne
ces under construction and fen opin
'ortant business structures under stru
The total amount of money in guar
yed in this work has been esti- com.