Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-01-21
Under the Capitol Dome

The adjutant generals department
today issued commissions to Captain |
F.. A. Teter, First Lieutenant McMar
| tin and Second Lieutenant Hodge, |
newly elected officers of Company c.. !
Occur d. Alene, Second infantry, Idaho |
national guard.
| Director Scholtz OF the farm mar
ket's bureau spent Thursday in Wen
dell where he attended a meeting of the
state grange. He intended to go to
Weiser today but was prevented from
doing so from severe cold.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the secretary Of state today by
the Annis Drug company Of St Maries.
The corporation is capitalized for
$4,000. The incorporators are Arthur
B. Annis. Mary D. Annis and Frank ].
Fuller.
The climate OF the Boise valley and
Boise seemed like the balmy spring to
State Bank Commissioner G. r. Hit
and Deputy Commissioner E. w.
Pierce, who are back from New Mead
ows where they experienced 81 de-
four and FIVE feet deep on the level.
They were there a week and the mer-
curry keep we'll around the Code
gree below zero mark, occasionally
dropping down to below 30. When
walking back and forth they followed
paths shoveled out of the snow and
were Just able to see above the snow
line.
Articles Of Incorporation were filed
with the secretary of state by the Mu-
tual Dairy Ranch company which is
capitalized for $4,000 and has head
quarters at Pocatello. The incorpor-
ators are Elizabeth Kinport, Jacob
Mccartney and J. D. Browning
The state land board did not reach
the Big Lost River project affairs until
at a meeting held late this afternoon
at which time the contract presented
by the Utah Construction company, to
irrigate the lands within the project on
a unit basis, was considered. 1t will
probably be approved with but few
slight changes. The board looks with
favor upon the main provisions in the
contract and while this afternoons de-
alterations may result in some of the
terms being changed to give greater
protection to the entrymen and state,
the contract it was strongly intimated
has an excellent opportunity Of being
accepted
= Copies of the eleventh annual report
OF the state banking department can
now be secured as a supply of them
e are on hand with Commissioner Hit
+. The report is an interesting one and
( shows an excellent banking condition
t among state banking institutions.
e Deputy State Game Warden White
o head of Idaho Falls is still in the city
= and has been enjoying his visit here,
= calling in state officials When seen
n today he said that when he left the
= eastern part of the state there was
d plenty of snow there. 1t has been re-
d ported in that section, he said, that the
o oregon Short Line railroad intended to
= open the Yellowstone park branch ear
i lier this year than usual, owing to the
heavy SHOWS. That road believes that
y If the track is kept reasonably we'll
Il cleared there will not be so much
y danger from floods in the spring. The
e snowfall along the track is heavied this
n winter than for many years.
= DR.. Hilton, veterinarian of New
:, Plymouth, will take the pasteur treat
n ment for DR.. Laubaugh. state bacteri-
n ologist, has reached the conclusion
after an examination that the COW
q which bit him. and whose head was
! forwarded to the state bacteriologist
It department. was suffering from rabies
J. The public utilities commission Is Al
Occur 'Alene today conducting a hear
ing into the complaint of that city
n against the Interstate Utilities Tele-
Y phone company alleging its rates are
d high and unreasonable. The franchise
under which that city is operating was
revoked by the council. There Mas beer
trouble between the city and the tele.
phone company for some time.
J. The taking of testimony before the
r; public utilities commission In the case
E. of the Washington Water Power com
lie pany versus the Montana Power com.
pany ct al. closed yesterday and was
Id taken under advisement with instruc.
tons for the interested parties to f1lt
briefs within 10 days.
The certificate of necessity asked fo1
by the Washington corporation wa.
characterized by Attorney Babb of tn,
Federal Mining company as nothinl
short of an injunction to prevent tn,
Montana corporation from supplyins
the mines OF the Occur d'Alenes will
electrical energy. Attorney Babb salt
or the Washington Water Power com
n pany, having attempted to increase tn,
On charges for power when renewal %
to contracts was sought. was itself re
no sponsible for the entrance of com
peting company into the territory, an,
in thus was not in equity and good con
~ science entitled to the relief sought.
90 At the session OF the commission
nc hearing of water rates of the Mullai
81 Water company, conducted by d. Z
-, Keys and A. NJ. STROBE. was held. Ma