The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-19
In THE GEM STATE

| were taken from an alIavad
oooliegger at Pocatello one dav last
week. last
by way of creating two public Maria
-nu beauty spots in Nampa, the city
council is cooperating somewhat with
members Of the Century club.
Inc new chapel of the stake q,
satey was dedicated last week The
building contains electric Hehts and
heating system and cost $1,000.
by selection of the department Of
agriculture, Canyon county is 70 ba
the thlrd county in the United States
III winch home survey is to be made.
committee on finance consistins
OF the bankers and business men Of
the city raised $500 in two hours for
the support Of baseball club in Rur.
ley.
Fire originating from a short cir
cunt IN electric wiring destroyed the
oarn and garage owned by s. NJ.
Nixon at PocatellO, entailing a loss
estimated at $4,000.
Plans are under way for the cree.
ZION of a $4,000 hospital in Poca.
teilo. which will be under the direc-
ton OF Sisters of Mercy Of the Judge
Mercy hospital at Salt Lake.
A carload of yearling steers from
6urley' were sold at Portland last
week for 1915 per 100 pounds. This
Is the highest price ever paid at the
local stockyards for yearlings.
A baseball league has been organ.
lzed comprising the towns of Rupert,
Burley, Kimberley. Twin Falls, Sho-
shone and Jerome. 1t is known as the
southeastern Idaho State Baseball
league.
Jess Mcconnell, rs years old one Of
the Mcconnell brothers, well-known
sheepmen of that section, committed
suicide by shooting on Monday morn
ing at his sheep camp. one mile north
OF Gal dena. 1t is said he had been
respondent for some time.
Near Filler there is thirty acres of
mother beets from which it is hoped
to raise a large quantity Of sugar
beet seed during the coming year. A
similar field of beets is beng planted
at Burnley. They are among the few
such fields in the United States.
The state board of livestock sani-
tary inspection adjourned last week
without taking any action with re-
| spect to the eradication of rabies. Il
did not appear possible that the board
could do anything more than has
been done to keep down the scourge.
Governor Moses Alexander of Idaho
and A. G. Bachelor, road expert OF
the executive board of the American
Automobile association, will be among
the speakers when the annual conven-
ton Of the Intermountain Good Roads
association is held in ogden, Utah
June Is and a.
J. B. Jones, son of State Game War
| den Jones, resident of Pocatello, wa
arrested last week for stealing dia
monds and the sum of $3.50 in casl
from Mrs. Ida Dexter of Salt Lake, OF
train coming from Butte. 1t is sale
Jones confessed taking the diamonds
but pleaded intoXication.
The Snake River-Yellowstone Base
ball league has been organized. con-
prising eight teams-Driggs, Drum
mond, Ashton, St Anthony, Sugas
City. Rexburg and Rigby. Thes'
towns have all agreed to observe ev
cry Wednesday afternoon as a hal
hn1 NJ To haanhnn
The mineral exhibit shown by tn
state OF Idaho at the Panama. Pacific
exposition in San Francisco last yea
has been installed in the old Contra
school building at Boise and is nov
ready for inspection. The exhibit il
said by mining men to be the most
complete ever assembled by any state.
The worst wind and dust storm the
Twin Falls tract has experienced in
five years struck Twin Falls almost
without warning Saturday night and
continued undated nearly three
hours.
In Idaho, 203 mills reported a pro
duction Of 77O031.O0O board feet OF
lumber IN 1915. The estimated mum
Der OF mills in the state is 2l0, and the
estimated production for last year III,
100000
Miss Ethel f. Redheld. for the past
four years superintendent of public
instruction for Nez Perez county, has
announced her candidacy for the OF
fee of state superintendent OF public
instruction.
Mrs. Adelaide v Leonard. a pioneer
Of Silver City. died Al Berkeley, Cal
last week. at the age Of rs years. Mrs
Leonard whose husband was prom
tnent mill man OF Silver City. came &C
Idaho as a bride in 1867.
With the advent OF spring. Black
foot has taken on n building boom
that promises TO eclipse anything Of
the kind in her past history. There
are under construction al this time nc
less than twenty residences and many
more are planned.
Despondent because OF financial ano
domestic troubles, Carl Scaroerry |
formerly a waiter. plunged into the |
river al Boise and was going under
- .hs-a alma uvhsn rescued