Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-02-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

| tWenty-one cars have been made from
Star In the past few months.
The county commissioners are con
sidering the proposition of establish
ing a public hospital at Twin Falls.
Leslie X. Pollard, a graduate of the
| Salmon high school, has been nomi.
mated 10y Senator Brady for the Naval
academy at Annapolis
State Senator jerome Day of
Moscow, better known as Jerry Day,
has announced his candidacy for Dem
ocratic national committeeman.
Sixty days for stealing 60 cents is
the penalty which Edward Lee re-
ceived when he plead guilty to the
That Pocatello will have a street
railway system in the near future now
seems assured. There are two com.
panies in the field seeking fran.
chise.
Two young men charged with hav-
ing stolen load OF potatoes from
Emil Lindburg near Idaho Falls, were
captured near Shelly and will be
placed ON trial.
No clew has yet been discovered as
to the identity of the man whose body
was found in the river near Pocatello
last week. No money, valuables or
papers were found on the body.
Yielding to the new order of the
county prosecutor to discontinue the
use of slot machines as well as
punchboards, all Nampa proprietors
have slowed away these devices.
That the Wilder branch railroad
will be fully electrified and service
instituted before the end of June is
the assurance given out at Caldwell |
by those who know the plans OF the |
Caldwell Traction company.
Settlers ON government projects |
will not be required to pay their
water charges in advance this season |
as was recently ordered by the re-
commission The order to
this effect has been rescinded.
John Kilonis made good ON his con-
tract to throw three men In an hour
at Pocatello, although the last man,
Art Chester of Pocatello, gave him
hard tussle and Kilonis had only four
and a half minutes to the good
The first statewide farmers con-
ference to discuss many conditions
md other subjects of interest to those
in farming was held in Boise
asst week at the call of w. G.
Soholtz, director of farm markets for
de.ho.
The governor has issued reprieve
o Mrs. j. D. Ross, the woman who |
vas. with her husband and son, SEN
enced to serve an indeterminate sen
ence in the state prison for having
tolen goods, and for receiving stolen
sods.
Illinoisans now living in the Bull
ountry are making preparations for
grand reunion there on February &c
here are more than $50 names al
eady on the register and the entire
ay and evening will be devoted to
he affair
The work of excavating for the
rection of the Fa.es Houston Pack
lg company's plant al Prospect, just
orth CT Pocatello, is progressing rap
lily, The building of this plant will
i've Pocatelo one of the most up-to
ate packing plants in the intermoun-
lin country.
Formal complaint has been made
, the public utilities commission by
lie Northwest Investment company,
presenting the telephone users of
orth Pocatello, against the rates for :
disorders new in force by the n
ountain States Telephone 4 Tele- r
raph company.
An extension of the O. S. L. from
edwin, a small station on the Rog
son branch eight miles southeast of
win Falls. to Castleford, a distance
twenty-five miles, and the compile
On of the Raft River extension cut
Burley, started several years ago,
expected this season.
At a largely afforded mass meet :
& at Bull OF farmers it was decid. -
to devote five days to road work.
Q farmers to donate the time and
e use of their teams and men to
-operate with the highways com
ssioners of the Bull highway dis
let in repairing the roads of the
strict 9
The Franklin County Good Roads -
ISOLATION is planning to join the
'rthern Utah Commercial clubs and
od Roads association for the pur
3 of permanently locating the Lin
IN and Yellowstone park highways
'ough Cache valley thence through
anklin county to Bannock county
the north
The first baseball fatality of 1916
the state of Idaho If not in the o
lion, took place last week In the -
lntry two miles from Nampa, when
ldred, the 6h-year-old daughter of
and Mrs. Frank Marek, was F
uck over the heart with a baseball
| died from the effects of the blow
ew minutes afterward.