Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-02-23
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The Van Sicklin Livestock company
recently sold 5000 sheep and. their 3d.
acre ranch three miles west of Weiser
to the Idawyo Sheep company.
Between $40 and SIS was realized
for distribution to needy families of
the community from the big charity
ball planned by ladies of Caldwell.
While on freighting trip to Mac
kay ]. c. Bassett of Challis had one
foot SO badly frozen that It was found
necessary to amputate several toes.
About 100 teachers attended the
convention of the Bannock County
Teachers association, which was in
session at Pocatello Friday and Satur-
| day.
Caldwell lodge No. 10. I. o. o. F.,
claims to be the largest of this order
in the state. Ten new members were
initiated last week, and the lodge now
has more than 215 members.
| The fourth annual convention OF
the Bannock County Teachers asso-
citation, was held at Pocatello last
week. More than 100 teachers we're
| in attendance from all sections of the
county.
J. E. Teerink of the Emmett Bench
brought wagon load of young hogs
to the Emmett market last week
which which topped the market at
$10.59 per hundred weight. They av-
eraged s27 each.
Oznie Winters, the 17-year-old Cald-
well youth, who played the male lead
opposite Miss Mary Lane in 'The $50
Taxi Tour on Three Cents" has been
/ committed to the state industrial
school at st. Anthony.
C. w. Dyer of Twin Falls, forme-
sheriff of Twin Falls county for two
terms, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head in his tent
at Jarbridge. Business reverses are
attributed as the cause for the act.
The anti-alien land ownership law,
rejected by the legislature few
weeks ago at the request of the state
department, after representations from
the Japanese embassy, may yet be
come a law, it is believed by its sup
porters.
Freight shipments from Nampa In
January, 1917, were practically 20 per
cent greater than for the same month
a year previous. A total of 116 car
load shipments were forwarded over
the o. s. L. from Nsmpa this past
January
Marriage licenses have had to be
refused a number of couples recently
at the county clerk's office at Poca-
tello, owing to the fact that one or
both of the contracting parties had
not been divorced for 3, period exceed
ing six months.
J. e. McMullen, who has been work
ing in Pocatello, was taken into Gus
tody last week by Sheriff Powell OF
Butte and returned to that city to
answer to the charge of Transporting
woman from Great Falls to Butte
for immoral purposes.
Robert NJ. Terrell. appointed by Gov
ernor Alexander as additional judge
for the Fifth judicial district, is
young attorney who has taken prom
inent part in the public affairs of Pc
catello and Bannock county ever since
be located there in 1905.
Practically all but 1000 of the 5000
acres of state land offered for sale in
Caldwell last week was taken by
eager buyers at prices quite satisfac-
tory to the commissioner who con-
Quoted the auction, the average price
being about $22 per acre.
Charged with grand larceny in the
alleged stealing of four horses and
two sets of harness in January from
a Boise contracting firm, Frank Beat
ty and Frank Brassfield are lodged
in the Ada county jail, having been
brought back from Lander, Wyo.
S. ]. Donaldson, manager of the
Southern Idaho Producers association,
with headquarters at Pocatello, has
been called upon to testify at an i'm
portant hearing of the potato rate
question to be held before the inter-
state commerce commission at Salt
Lake City.
The February number of the Civic |
club, a paper devoted to the interests
Of Pocatello club women, contains an |
article of more than usual interest IN |
the story of the life of Miss Minerva |
Kohlhepp, native artist of Idaho
who has won national recognition in |
ler calling.
e. R. Hickey, who has occupied the
position of assistant yard master with
he Oregon Short Line at Pocatello,
charged with entering car containing
IN interstate commerce shipment and
lbstracting a case of whisky, has been
POUND over to the federal court and
lis bond fixed at $1,000.
Representatives of the Parma