The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-07-07
IN THE GEM STATE

Idaho's automobile registrations
continue to increase. The total reacneo
10000 on June "a.
-four mill is to be erected at Buhl
which will have a capacity OF loo par
rels of -four day.
Streets are being paved ana WALKS
laid at Orofno, the amount OF the COLI
tract being about $12,OOO'
The cut worms have been at WorK
nm the beets and potatoes, around La
belle, destroying several acres Oh
each. |
state party platform conventions
were held at Boise on June ~. me
Progressives announced they would
not favor a third party ticket.
Electric interests in eastern ldano
and Utah are planning an electrlc
railroad system from Salt Lake to the
Yellowstone park, via Pocatelio.
The board of village trustees has
nassed an ordinance making 1t pos
sible to fine persons who allow poui-
try to run at large in Glenns Ferry
From Oreana comes the report that
a diamond has been discovered on
Castle Creek. The stone is genuine
u is claimed, and about the size OF
pea.
The village ordinance requiring that
all dogs be muzzled has been sus'
pended by the village board at Flier'
pending the apparent lack of danger
from rabies.
A statement to the effect that gov
eminent action seems to have entire
ly stamped out the foot and mouth
disease among cattle, is made by the
state veterinarian.
Mrs. ]. F. Barnes Of Nampa was
painfully injured when the automobile
in which she and her 14-year-old son,
Boyd, were returning from Boise was
struck by an interurban car east OF
Nampa.
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company has applied to- the public
utilities commission for permission to
change it's long distance rate between
Cottonwood and Grangeville, reducing
the rates.
Upon checking up results of the ru-
raj home survey she has been making
in Canyon county in the past six
weeks Miss Jessie Hoover of the Uni
; versity of Idaho finds that she has
visited 400 homes.
Governor Moses Alexander, com
mander in chief, officially reviewed
:: the Second Idaho infantry, 1000
( strong, from a reviewing stand in
= front of the statehouse at Boise on
the evening Of June %.
= Reports on new construction and
general traffic conditions along the
route of the Salt Lake-Yellowstone
highway being received at the associ
= alton headquarters at Idaho Falls are
l. of the most favorable import.
The Panhandle brewery building al
- Occur d'Alene has been purchased BY
a company which intends to begir
Il canning all kinds of preservable fruits
" and vegetables which are obtainablt
in that locality. The brewery build
ing was purchased for $4,000.
% w. D. Wilcox of Chicago, who wal
. granted franchise some months ag'
y to establish a gas plant in Idah'
- Falls for the purpose of selling ga
70 for domestic purposes, has been max
d ing canvass of the city to learl
just how many residents want gas.
y, An application was made last weel
- by the city of Occur dAlene for
~ writ of review on the decision of tn
~ public utilities commission denying t
that city reduced water and ligh
Il :, rates. The writ was granted return
- able before the court on August q
q the first day Of it's Occur d'Alen
u term.
~ Albert Grub, 3-year-old son of De
u Grub, was shot and instantly kille
= by his brothers, John and Edward
nc ranch home, near May. The thre
u children, left alone in the house, &c
NC their fathers 5000 rifle and wer
To- playing with it when the accider
~ happened.
W Lieutenant Colonel Marshall Y
GU Wood, retired, is now back into actiN
service, and ordered to conduct IL
Ss physical examination on all membel
NJ of the Idaho national guard incidel
NY to their muster into federal servic
ne Colonel Wood, who is 70 years oil
ZIG retired in 1914
The home of Deputy Sheriff Jam
s Francis at Pocatello was looted
's~ practically every article of val,
while he and his family were enjoyil
-, a few days on his ranch in the JAG
w sons Hole district. The job was
nm quick one, for the deputy was on
away twenty-four hours.
Grace Blair, who conducts resc
u about a mile from Soda Springs, sh
and killed Albert Hess, % years Of a,
-" a sheepherder of Pennington, Uts
Trouble arose between Hess and t
'ei' woman, it is said, over the matter
'he change for $40 bill, and Hess is
VI legged to have attacked her and Civ
eA- her severe beating.