Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-09-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

tIlulO WILL uGtFO
Excavation work for the new Cath
olic hospital to be erected at Pocateno
has started
The Baptists hold a state convention
at Mountain Home September 26 to
% and are expecting more than 100
delegates.
A. E. Gibson Of Caldwell has been
honored by the appointment as grand
guardian in the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows
Andy Mattson last week sold IA
acres Of land adjoining Filler for 1929
per acre, the highest price ever paid
for land in that vicinity.
E.E. Elliott, candidate for congress
man at large in Idaho, reported 70 the
clerk Of the national house or repre-
sentatives that he has spent nothing
in his race.
The Payette Rife club has received
its charter from the National Rife as
ISOLATION and its documents from the
war department authorizing II to make
requisition for the rifles and ammuni-
ton.
While cleaning his doubIe-barreled
shotgun at his home on Willow Greek,
John Higgs was accidentally killed.
HIggs was about to go duck hunting
and while cleaning the gun a cartridge
exploded.
Eight Idaho infantrymen, who have
been on the Mexican border near No
gales, returned home last week. They
have been released from their enlist
ment under the dependent families
regulation.
The Bank Of Soda Springs. new
institution recently organized By fifty
of the leading stockmen, merchants
and farmers of the Soda Springs coun-
try, has been formally opened for
business.
An ordinance has been approved by
the Twin Falls council for submission
October "a for a proposition 10 issue
$4,000 bonds for construction Of city
building and $4,000 for new crossing
intersections.
The chairman Of the finance COM
mittee of the PocatelIo school sys-
TEN, estimates that the expenses Of
the operation of the schools for the
coming school year will be something
close TO $4,000
Ferdinand Herberlin, aged so years,
was Instantly killed when his automo-
bile was struck by light extra west
bound engine at a grade crossing one
mile east Of Topaz station Five other
occupants OF the car were injured
The Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph company has begun the
work Of improving the line between
Montpelier and Pocatello. The old
poles are to be replaced by new ones
and an additional copper wire viii be
strung.
Lorenzo Thomas, the 12-year-old !
son of Bishop and Mrs. W. H. Thomas
OF Malad, was killed while trying TO !
ride pony in the yard at his fathers |
home. The boy mounted the pony for |
q ride, when the animal reared and |
fell backward.
While prying an idler underneath a
stacker dredge, at Dredge, Al Carter |
met with an accident, the bar slipping, |
his hands and arms passing between
the stacker belt and idler and against |
2 steel bulkhead, sustaining a broken |
arm, and three broken ribs.
Pocatello will have an automobile /
show from October 29 to November 3,
the same dates as the Idaho stock
growers convention, according TO the
decision of the state automobile asso-
citation. The affair is under the aus
pices of the state association
Word has been received Of the death
Of the Rev. H. A. Mullen, pastor of the
Elsinore Presbyterian church, San
Cal, following an opera
ion for a severe attack OF appended
is. Mr. Mullen was for a number OF
Tears pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Pocatello.
A E. Cariswell, so years Of age, who
was arrested at Salt Lake City charged
With making an attack upon q little
girl at Pocatello d month ago, was
AIKEN back to Pocatello by an officer
rom that city. The prisoner was
positively identified by the girl as the
nan who attacked her.