The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-06-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

oeiStNo a. pioN hAOOl.
The clearing for the site at Black
foot where the new Eccles hotel is tc
stand has been begun.
1t required about three days work
with men and teams to repair break
in the Farmers Union ditch near
Klondike point
There were 29 marriage licenses is
sued in Ada county during the month
of May, as compared with 80 licenses
issued the preceding month.
AS a result of an examination into
the mental condition of Mrs. Minnie
| Price of Payette last week, she was
ordered to the Blackfoot institution.
News comes from Washington that
the committee on agriculture and for.
estry in the senate has allowed $4,000
for an investigation of the cheese in
dustry in southern Idaho.
A Great Northern passenger engine
was derailed and fell into the Koote-
nal river near Katka. II. A. McGinn,
engineer, and e. Dempsey, fireman.
both of Hillyard. Wash, are missing.
What may prove to be one of the
greatest drawing cards for tourists to
this state Is the discovery of a wonder
full cave in the lava, 20 miles south of
Martin and about 60 miles from Hal
ley.
Fred T. Dubois, former United
States senator from Idaho, who I'M
derwent a delicate operation to his
throat at the Mayo's establishment at
Rochester, Mimi, on May IS, is recov-
ering rapidly.
Ollie, the 6-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Mickey Gill of Bear Creek,
was drowend in Canyon creek. Ac-
cording to report. the girl slipped and
fell from plank which was used in
crossing the stream.
June 10 the business men of Boise.
under the auspices of the CONNER
cial club, will pay visit to the loop
towns They will go via the interur
ban in a special car, and will be &C
companied by the city band.
Contractor Faubion has fired the
first kiln of brick which he is burn
ing at Nampa by way of testing the
feasibility of turning out locally the
great quantity of brick to be used in
the new high school building.
Residents in the vicinity of Edge
tension to their doors of the electric |
power line, and several of them are
taking advantage of the opportunity |
to further modernize their homes.
It is estimated that Utah and Idaho
will produce 100000 tons more of
beets this year tlTn in 1915. The pro
duction of the two states last year
was one million tons and the acreage
has increased 10000 acres since last
year.
Boise voters recalled their mayor,
Jeremiah w Robinson, and Council
recall election, S. H. Hays being elect
ed mayor by a majority of 1873 and
William Stevens councilman by ma
jority of 324.
Congressman Addison T. Smith has
bill authorizing the secre
tdIl 10 tUleI iulO d ltdoC lOl q pei iOd
of fifty years of the surplus power on
government reclamation projects to
irrigation districts for the reclamation
Of arid lands.
The movement for the establish
ment of city park in close proximity
to Pocatello, on which the Civic club
and other bodies took action a short
time ago, embodies request to the
federal government for a grant of 800
acres for that purpose.
An automobile in which a man and
, woman were riding turned upside
Town over an embankment at Nampa,
was righted with the assistance of wit
nesses to the accident, and in few
minutes was again carrying the occu-
pants on their way no one being in ,
ured.
A Kansas City dispatch says Frank
5rice of Boise, who sold shipment
If cattle on the Kansas City market
bout 10 days ago. has since rounded
I'D among breeders of fine cattle in
he territory about Kansas City car
DAD of registered Shorthorn bulls to {
,e shipped to Idaho. |
Citizens of Bull are rejoicing today
,ver the fact that the city council has I
losed a contract for the installation
# a first-class sterilization plant for I
he water system which supplies the a
ity. 1t will be of the liquid chlorine h
ype and will insure an adequate sup 0
ly of fine water at all times.
Boise women will Immediately com e
hence the making of convalescent
utfts for soldiers, their first goal be r
ng one dozen outfits, which shall each IN
include two pair of pajamas, surgical
kirt, bed socks, other socks, sheets, v
illow cases, bath towels, plain tow
Is. face towels and washrags.
Tree planting in burrows plowed on Z
ontour lines was done on the Pocatel s
, division of the Cache with such sue n
ess this spring in the setting Of the e
rees and the promise of better con
itions of soil for development OF c.
pots and the conservation Of moist \
re, that burrows are being plowed n
,r similar purpose on Peck noun. II