The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-09-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS

ioSCo Ou TIC opening Jay.
The Rhinehart studio at Montpelie
was totally destroyed by fire. The OF
lgin of the fire is unknown.
! While hunting on Silver creek Or;
Cockrell and Seth Ball, in crossing
the divide, killed a huge silver-tippeC
bear.
J., Se~venty-seven bushels of wheat pei
acre is the yield from ten acres on
the farm of H. w. Bradley, who lives
> n mile east from Wilder.
Three men arrested at HALEY,
: charged with transporting liquor into
Blaine county, were fined 800 and
sentenced to serve thirty days in jail.
If a request made to the public utili-
ties commission by farmers in the
vicinity of Wendell is granted the
roadbed of the defunct Southern rail-
road will be made into an automobile
boulevard.
Frank Brandt and Miss Leona Year
wood of Kuns are patients in the
Canyon hospital at Caldwell as the
result Of a collision between the mo-
torcycle on which they were riding
and an automobile.
Archie Winters was arrested at
Mountain Home on a charge of boot
Logging. The sheriff, it is alleged,
found Winters in the act Of dispens-
ing whisky from an automobile park
ed in a dark spot.
The report of the board of trustees
of the Pocatello General hospital for
the fiscal year ended June 80, which
has just been submitted to the mayor
and city council, shows a net balance
Of approximately $500.
Settlers in the vicinity twenty-five
miles from Downey have supplied
themselves with ice from the ice
cave which is located there all during
the heated term. All the year round
there is Ice In the cav
E.. F. McNew, of Twin Falls, was
putting on an automobile tire and
struck 1t a blow with q hammer. The
tire exploded with terrific force. Parts
of the rim struck McNew on the head,
inf1icting serious injuries.
While the yield of unirrigated grain
In the eastern counties of the state is
below expectations, good reports con-
to be received from irrigated
wheat, oats and barley, according to
he weather bureaus crop report. :
Martin Phelps, who lives thirteen :
niles from Montpelier, brought his T. !
son to town for examination |
md treatment and the doctor, upon l.
examination, found the child to be t
differing from infantile paralysis. G
Hanging to the limb of a maple tree c
q a grove a short distance from the e
ONE of his parents, the body of Jo- II
eph H. Wilson was found at Caldwell. h
When discovered life had been extinct o.
several hours. III health led to
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H. J.. Byrne, q freight brakeman, :,
I'll under a car In such a manner as -
!, lose a leg. Whether he fell from re
lie train or slipped under it is not pl
nown. The accident occurred at In m
pm, where the train stopped to set tt
1T a car. m
~ - DbatOa AAal 4s - LOMC III uS
Hewlett, who passed through TO
several days ago in charge
a truck load of liquor consigned to
liel & Christopher of Lima, Mont,
d who were later arrested at Idaho
Ills, will make a test case of the we
W. -,
Wounded by the accidental dis ua
arge of a shotgun, the charge en- co,
ing his thigh, o. E. Kirkpatrick, a hi
ming man, crawled to his home half
mile away near Leesburg, and
nmoned' help by telephoning to
Ighbors. His wound is a dangerous ~,
eau
Sugar beets are generally good and elet
approaching maturity. Potatoes "
doing well except In a few places onl
ere they were injured by the frosts
the previous week. Beans suffered
injury from those frosts.
IS are reported to be in excellent No
dition.
i an endeayor to feed the oil In
We With fuel in a restaurant at st. ii
hony, the cook mistook the burn ID
for the tank. Result, a fire &C
CHI called out the fire department, III
ch did not quench the flames until
interior Of the building was de- n,
yed. Loss $1,000. q.
biggest hau of bootleg whis- NJ,
ever made In the state OF Idaho 80,
made by the sheriff of Ada coun- -"
twenty miles out of Boise, as it men
being brought to Boise, evident zion
preparatory to doing a big business SAID
ircus day. The haul consisted of the
of whisky. and
e ministers of Pocatello have sue teres
ed in ~persuading the city coun- cent
0 permit the construction of a toget
'orary frame tabernacle within Wi
ire limits. The building is to be +bo
for an extended evangelistic a.,
'aign by DR.. Ostram and other
~evangelists, which is set for p
part of September.