Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-01-16

EuWaru ". hosenneim WAS Auuittcu
to practice before the supreme court on
examination last week.
Major Woodson Jeffreys of the adj
jutant generals department received a
telegram yesterday announcing his
brother. DR.. o. A. Jeffreys Of Nezperce
was en- route to Boise to visit him.
Il. o. Sisson, commissioner of edu-
cation, is now in the southeastern part
of the state holding conferences with
the trustees of the various school dis
tricts and visiting state institutions.
He will not return Jan. "a when the
state board of education meets.
The supreme court will hear argu-
ment Monday morning on the applica-
ton for a writ of prohibition applied
for by Charles L. Joy & Co., to be
directed against the commissioners,
sheriff and prosecuting attorney of Ada
county, to prevent collection of $500
county license for the sale of pure al
cohol The case is a test one to de-
termine whether or not drug stores
have to pay such license before they
can sell alcohol.
The exhibits of the state at the
Panama Pacific exposition were
shipped to Boise collect and the
freight charges amounted to $1l3O.
This came as a surprise to the mem
bers of the Idaho commission as there
had been an understanding that If the
state paid the charges one way the ex-
hibits would be returned by the ex-
position management prepaid. 1t is
probable that the capitol building COM
mission will advance the money to
meet the freight charges and that the
common carriers shipping will refund
the amount paid out to the state. The
exhibits were being unpacked at the
old state house annex yesterday They
will be stored in the annex and the
main capitol building, the mineral eX-
hibit placed in the basement of the
latter until such a time as arrange
ments can be made to display the ex-
hibit In charge of some one in the ro-
tunda of the building 1t is understood
one of the cars of exhibits was broken
into at Ogden. Nothing of importance
is said to have disappeared.
When Charles George, the condemned
Shoshone county murderer, received
notification that the death sentence
hanging over him had been committed
TO life Imprisonment, he drew the
prison officials hand through the open
ing in his cell door and fervently
kissed it, so deep was his emotion that
he was not to die. George is Bull
garian and hardly speaks the English
language. In fact it is said that on di-
rect examination at his trial he was
given an interpreter and on cross -eN-
animation was required to answer
questions in what little English he
knew or by motions. Shortly after the
communication he was allowed to leave
his cell where he had been in solitary
confinement for months, and given
"place in the sun" He is now having
a great many more liberties.
State officials have been informed
that j. NJ. Edwards. the man who was
charged and tried for assisting his
daughter to escape from the industrial
training school at st. Anthony, was
liberated because the jury that tried
him last week at St. Anthony dis
agreed. Edwards maintained that he
thought he was doing the best thing
for his daughters sake in helping her
to leave the institution.
Under the caption prominent Re-
publicans Get Together" the News of
Standpoint publishes a story telling of
an alteration that took place on the
streets OF Standpoint Bonner county,
between Lieutenant Governor Herman
| Fl. Taylor, candidate for the Republic
can nomination for governor and
Chairman Williams of the Bonner
county central committee, which state
officials are exhibiting not little in
tercst in The News says in its cur
rent issue
Lieutenant Governor Taylor met
County Chairman Williams about
O'clock, or about an hour and a half
before Standpoint is wont to begin its
evening Sabbath devotions, and Taylor
charged Williams with circulating re-
gardng Taylors sitting in a game of
poker and winning and another man
losing. Williams denied circulating
the story but intimated that he knew
whence it came.
lie llc DdSSeU anu bIntT WOTuS,
uglier if not shorter were also tossed
hbout with reckless abandon, il is said,
pr the Sabbath quietness. Anyway,
Ehc mixing and in-fighting followed
tlosc upon this and it became a COM
bined boxing and wrestling affair and
both went to the mat but neither took
he count
Perry Wilson. neutral got them
Enlightened out and when he released
Williams. and when the latter Invested
himself of his mackinaw, the second
ound began. A feature of this round,
is stated. was that Williams grabbed
small child's sled and brought 1t
own on Taylor's head The sled got
he worst of it, according to Informal
ion.
Taylor says he struck the first blow