The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-08-11
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The primary election is on in
Idaho. Filing of nominations by all
political parties was finished with the
close of official business on August s.
The program has been completed
for the great War Bonnet Roundup,
which will be held at Idaho Falls, be-
ginning September 4 and continuing
five days
Every effort is being made to bring
the Idaho regiment, which is sta
toned on the border to war foot
ing, but it is reported that the num-
Der of enlistments is not wholly en-
couraging
In the Twin Falls district there are
openings for dozen or more hay
hands and to get them it is said that
ranchers in that section are willing
to pay the transportation of men who
will work
Forty-four bushels of small grain
per acre was the yield on the farm
of the state institution for the feeble
minded, at Nampa. This product was
from twenty acres of barley and six
acres of wheat.
At the farm markets bureau at the
state house 1t is said that the demand
for hay hands, irrigators and mixers
and other laborers is greater than the
supply and that they have been unable
to fill the openings.
On the farm of S. c. Scism in the
Deer Flat country there has just been
no cd nd cd Orfu Of
white clover, the production of which
was 126 bushels and 10 pounds Of
seed, valued at $4,000.
While playing about the sawmill
owned by his father, 6year-old Tru-
man Mining of Nounan, got his left
hand caught in the cogwheels of a
planer, and the index finger was torn
completely from the hand.
Plans of an extensive nature are
being perfected in Twin Falls and
community for the entertainment on
October 10 to IS, inclusive, Of the BIZ
ennial gathering of the Idaho State
Federation of Women's clubs.
County agents in Ada and in Can
yon counties have distributed plac-
ards urging cooperation of the
ranchers in the two counties in war
ring on the grasshoppers which
threaten to do a great deal of dam
age.
The Boise Railroad company is in
trouble and foreclosure proceedings
and a petition for the appointment of
a receiver have been filed in the Unit
ed States court on behalf of the Ger
mantown Trust company of Philadel-
phia
John Ahlfors died in Ketchum last
week from dropsy at the age of rs
years He came to Wood River TWEEN
ty-seven years ago, and lived for
many years near Galena, where he
conducted a station. He was also a
prospector.
While endeavoring to shoot a mink
that had been destroying poultry at
his home near Crystal, Charles Shaw
was seriously injured. When the gun
which he had was fired the breech
block blew out, striking him in the
cheek bone.
George Haroldson and two Japanese ;
had an argument over water near
Idaho Falls, and as a result one of the
Japs is in the hospital and Harold
son was placed under arrest, charged
with hitting the Jap over the head t
with shovel '
rainstorm in the northwestern :
part Of Malad valley did considerable
damage to the crops. The Jensen
road leading from Malad valley into
Bannock valley is almost impossible.
In some sections the flood carried
fields.
Thrown from a hay rake upon
which he was riding in gathering up
lis crop of hay, D. H. Kube, OF
Irangeville, narrowly escaped death
Physicians found Kube severely bruis
ID from head to foot with a displace-
nent between the fifth and sixth yer
ebrae.
The warm days and nights have
worked wonders with the beet crop in
he Rigby section and they are round
ng out in fine shape. The backward B
nd frosty spring retarded the crop &
materially but now as whole the con s
ition is such that normal crop is ii
expected. 81
The home of Joseph Aldrich, post 81
laster of Holbrook, a small town b;
rest of Malad, was struck by light 81
ing and as a result Ralph, the s "a
ear-old son of Mr.. Aldrich, was 81
urnad havond racoonition 6-vear. III
Id daughter is in a critical condition q
nd the premises were entirely de- #aa
Lroyed. ES
The agent of the Twin Falls-Sal s.
ION River. Land & Water company
as been cited by the state land board
appear before the members August NJ
and show cause why the contract no
ven his company by the state for Al
nds under the Carey act should not cis