Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-01-15
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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and 81.
The annual report of State Fish
and Game Warden Jones shows the
total receipts for the year 1915 to be
s55,8O4.O4.
The annual convention OF members
OF the State Horticultural society will
be held at Twin Falls February 2,
and inclusive.
A movement is on foot at Eagle for
the purchase Of the old dance hall for
the purpose of converting 1t into q
community meeting place.
Senator J. H. Brady of Idaho, who
has been Ill since December 4, prob
ably will not be able to resume his
senatorial duties for three months
During the past year the state re-
ceived $3,125,416.34 and disbursed 49,
21O,03762. An average of two thou
sand warrants per month were paid
AS a result of his willingness to
sell bootleg whisky to the sheriff, A.
H. Cresbo, Mexican, operating at
Kimberly, now languishes in the
county jail
Two million dollars was the price
paid at public auction at Twin Falls
for all the holding and property OF the
great Shoshone & Twin Falls Water
Power company.
Petersons candy and iewelry store
at Lava Hot Springs was entered and
a number Of watches, jewelry and
other merchandise were taken. The
robbers forced window.
r. Haga, miner, who was arrested
in Arco chared with obtaining money
under false pretenses, was tried at
HALEY, found guilty and sentenced to
forty-four days in the county jail.
The emergency employment law,
intended to permit counties to furnish
emergency employment to those in
need of work, was declared unconsti-
tutional by the supreme court in an
opinion handed down last week.
Two young men VINO attacked the
proprietor of an Idaho Falls garage,
in an endeavor to steal an auto, strik-
ing him over the head with an ron
bar, have been sentenced to from one
to two years in the penitentiary.
The game census for 1916, taken by
officials of the Sawtooth national for
est, shows the number of deer, elk,
mountain sheep and goats to be as fol-
lows: Deer, $50; elk, none; noun
tain goats, 250; mountain sheep, 65.
The city of Pocatello, through its
special attorneys, has filed with the
public utilities commission a certifi-
cate of public convenience and neces-
sity, under which immediate steps
will be taken to construct a,water sys-
TEN.
The city of Pocatello has rejected
the Pocatello Water company's prop
osition to sell its holdings for $780, |
900, and given the fire and water |
power to take necessary
steps to acquire water plant for Po-
catello.
w. A. Brodhead, of Mackay, has |
been appointed by Governor Moses
Alexander as member of the state
highway commission for another
three years Mr.. Brodhead has been
chairman of the commission for the
past year.
Milton McNanery, charged with at
Ivory Cxua hia * yaaro1d |
niece, was bound over to the district
court in the sum of $4,000 The hear.
ing was held at Mountain Home,
where the offense is alleged to have
been committed.
The ladies of the HALEY Avis I'm
club sold during the holt
lays 1908 Red Cross seals, realizing
s72.03 for the benefit of the campaign
against tuberculosis. The sale of seals
IN HALEY was the largest of any city
Of it's size in this state.
The Pocatello Commercial club will
soon be installed in its new quarters
n the Caldwell building ON South
Main street. The rooms are being
fitted UP for the use of the
club and when complete will be both
,ommodious and convenient.
Funeral services for the six mem
)ers of the Ekersell family were held
1t Rexburg. January T. Mr.. and Mrs
Arch Ekersell and family of four
children were burned to death in a
ire that completely destroyed their
lone at Salmon on December 80
Fred M. Coleman, defaulting deputy
tate treasurer, was denied a pardon
asst week by the pardon board, all
hree members voting against the ap-
'lioation. He cannot make another
APPLICATION within six months, accord 4
ng to recent ruling of the board.
The firemen Of the Pocatello depart
nent are face to face with the alter
lative of waiting indefinitely for their
alaries or filing suit in an endeavor
o make the city pay up. There ap-
'ears to be no money in the depart
nent devoted to the paying of the
remen.
The police court business of Poca-
clio is nearly four times that of Salt
AXE, according to the official records
4 the police courts of the two cities |