Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-12-15
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The State Federation of Labor will
meet in Boise for its second annual
meeting January Is and 16.
Colonel NJ. W. Wood, U. s. A., will
go to Fort Douglas, Salt Lake, to mus
ter out the Second Idaho infantry.
For the first time the village of
Middleton is this season to have a
thoroughly organized charity board.
The omnibus fish hatchery bill
passed by the house last week car
ries $4,000 for a fish hatchery in
Idaho.
Alfalfa hay is now selling for s12
at Wendell. This is the highest price
yet paid in Idaho for hay this fall. so
far as the market bureau can learn.
Appropriations of nearly a million
and a quarter dollars will be asked
from the next legislature by the state
board of education for state educa-
tional institutions.
The session of the district court at
Pocatello has been indefinitely post
poned for the reason that Judge ]. J..
Guheen was called away to Illinois
by the death of his sister.
Creation of a new sewer district, to
include not only the High school site,
but adjacent blocks as well, was
agreed upon at the regular meeting
of the city council at Nampa last
week.
Senator-elect B. a Cummings of
Bannock county has announced his in
tention of introducing early during the
coming session of the state legisla-
ture a bill repeating the public utili-
ties act.
Kenneth L. HUMPHREYS. only son Of
Superintendent and Mrs. James T.
HUMPHREYS of the Idaho industrial
training school at st. Anthony, died
in Seattle, after two weeks illness of
pneumonia.
Stringent measures are to be taken
by the municipal authoriti IS in the
town of Rigby to eradicate rabies,
which is said to be causing a wide
spread scare among the people of that
community.
The jury at Emmett in the case OF
the state VS.. Nick ST. Clair, charged
with first degree murder, returned a
verdict of guilty and fixed the penalty
at life Imprisonment. st. Clair was
convicted OF killing his wife.
At a big rally held at Caldwell the
farmers OF Canyon county perfected
an organization known as the Canyon
County Farm bureau. Publication Of
monthly news bullatin to be sent
free to all members " rs arranged for.
The 10 months old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Bend Of Glenns Ferry,
died as the result of burns received
when it pulled a pan of boiling water
off a stove on to itself. The child's
head, shoulders and limbs were
scalded.
Colorado potato growers and the
Idaho public utilities commission have
asked the interstate commerce COM
mission to hold joint hearing at Salt
Lake for the benefit of potato grow
ers in the two states. and those in
California.
Senator Borah has offered an
amendment TO the deficiency appro-
priation bill appropriating $4,000 to
survey the Black canyon irrigation
project and determine whether or not
it shall be taken over by the govern
ment and completed.
The Second regiment Idaho infan-
try has been ordered home. There
will be no sick men to leave behind
and when the Second hits Boise it will
be intact in it's organization with the
exceptions of the men who were sent |
home or discharged and four deaths. /
The apple growers of the Lewiston |
section are receiving excellent re-
turns from their crop and there is a |
decidedly optimistic feeling among |
the fruit growers as to the future of |
the industry. Returns on fancy" |
grades are netting the grower s1.S5 to
S1.50 per box.
The United States civil service COM
mission has announced that an exam
nation will be held in Pocatello on
January 20, for male stenographers
md typewriters TO fill position in the
ield service. Salaries range from $500
o $1,000, and several vacancies exist
1t the present time.
1t is announced that the movement
n favor of an eight-hour day and min
mum wage for women, which original
ID in Pocatello. is making rapid head
way throughout the state. A bill en-
,odying these features has been pre-
jared and will be presented 10 the
oming session of the state legisla~
ure
That Idaho is one of the greatest
heep raising states of the west has
gain been emphasized by the fact
hat a car of Idaho lambs won the
arload championship against all COM
rs at the International Live Stock
how at Chicago. These lambs sold
Or s21.25 per hundred pounds, break
lg all previous records by cents.
Richard Clen,mOns 1O-vaar-old son !