Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-21

A report from Twin Falls says:
A well equipped and thorough going
incipient burglar is believed by the Of
ficers to have been caught in the ar
rest in Twin Falls on Friday night of
w c. Farris, aged about 80, a convict
paroled from the state penitentiary.
Farris was arrested by Deputy Sher-
if w G. Thompson on complaint made
by Earl A. Beck, director OF United
States irrigation Investigations at
Twin Falls. alleging the theft of sew
eral articles of jewelry and other val
uables from his trunk at the Weaver
apartments. Some of the articles lost
by Beck were found by the officers in
their search Of Farris' room at local
hotel. Without further court proceed
ings. Farris was turned over to the
custody of state officials on Monday
Evan Evans, chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee, left
yesterday afternoon for Grangeville
after spending two weeks here con-
sulting with state officials and others
regarding political matters.
The announcement was made at the
fish and game department yesterday
that Chief Deputy w. II. Thorpe and
Deputy Frank Strives, had been d.
rected to see to the loading of so elk
at Gardner, Mont, which the govern
ment has agreed to allow Idaho to
place in its game preserves. The elk
come from the Yellowstone national
park. They will be taken to Twin
Falls and Cassia counties where 25 of
them will be distributed and the other
25 to Franklin and Power and Oneida
counties. The state pays the cost of
arranging for the shipment, the load
ing, etc, and the sportsmen of the
counties in which the preserves are
located are raising the funds to pay
the freight. The game department con-
siders 1t has been very fortunate in the
matter Of securing elk from the gov
eminent for this state has received 100
in the past two years. OF this number
80 were placed in the Black Lake game
preserve. That was about a year ago.
The original 80 are still there and sew
eral others have been added since the
herd was unloaded. Within 10 years
1t is believed the number of elk in this
state will have multiplied greatly.
A dispatch from Moscow says: The
question agitating political circles OF
north Idaho is how to settle or unite
on one candidate from the north for
governor.
f. E. Elliott of Bonners Ferry, can
didate for the Republican nomination
for congress, states:
1T is immaterial, in my judgment,
from what section a man may come
from who seeks the nomination for
governor. The man best fitted for the
particular office to which he aspires
is of much more importance than his
location or the particular point from
which he might come from"
Many of the older politicians gath
cred at the Lincoln Day celebration,
freely stated that did not believe the
man had yet been suggested in north
or south Idaho who would land the
nomination and make the race for gov
ernor against Governor Alexander on
the Democratic ticket.
There were 760 members Of the Sec
ond infantry Idaho National Guard, in
| dAlCHudHCt ~ the Inspection,
according to the bulletin issued from
the adiutant generals headquarters.
The bulletin says;
While the attendance figures above
showed a substantial increase over the
previous year, the figures were not
satisfactory In that the number OF alb
sentees was far above what 1t should
have been. There was an average OF
approximately IA men absent from each
company and for this reason the regi-
ment was criticised by the war de-
partment The dates for the inspec-
ton Of the different companies have
been published and every member
should know the date for the inspec-
ton OF his company Some OF the
eastern regiments reported every mem
Der present last year. We arc at