Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-11-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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this year.
The Volunteer Firem ms association
celebrated its sixth anniversary a
Boise last week
The Red Cross society of Cambrldg,
Is furnishing twenty-five Christina.
kits for the soldiers
II. Prisand, who so nearly lost hi,
life In a runaway accident ut Payette
last week. win recover.
Ed ID. Douglas arrested on a charge
Of having burned the haystack of Hen
ry Blucher, near Eight Mile, has been
released on $500 bond
Moses Maxfield, in his ninety-second
year, whose friends claim for him that
he is the oldest man in Boise, is recov-
ering from a brief illness.
United States Senator W. e. Borah
has reconsidered his decision to re-
tire from public life and will become
a candidate for senator to succeed him
self
Mrs. Mary Iyers charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses,
was bound over to the district court
with bonds Of $1,000 in the prelimin-
airy hearing at Pocatello
The federal grand jury has indicted
Il. HOfstede, an attorney of OroGno,
for inducing Leland Mooers and others
to avoid registration for military serv-
ice June 8, in violation of the act of
May IS.
III. Il. McGown and associates of
New York have taken over the opera
tons Of the Boise-ROchester mine at
Atlanta on a lease and option basis,
and have arranged to put force of
men to work this winter.
A carload of Canyon county clover
seed shipped last week from Caldwell
is believed to have been the most val
liable car of products ever sent out
The seed company placed its valuation
at approximately $4,000.
A genuine case Of hog cholera was
found in the Riverside district last
week by DR.. Il. 2. Durham, in charge
of hog cholera control and investiga-
tons in Canyon, Ada Gem and Owy-
hee counties for the United States de-
partment of agriculture.
Idaho jack rabbits are reported to be |
in demand by Chicago commission |
houses. Although jack rabbits in Idaho |
are seldom used as food it is said that |
in many Chicago restaurants they are |
now being regularly served as ''hares"
and that the demand for them is in
The German class has been discon-
-inued in the high school at Payette
On account of Jack of interest in this
study. The domestic science depart
nent is stressing food economy meth
DDS. There will be no big feeds at
lass parties during the continuation
If the war.
In order that the continued feeding
If wheat to hogs, wheat that our al
les need, shall be stopped in Idaho,
:. +. Bicknell, food administrator for
he state, is going TO great lengths to
,et food for the Idaho hog delivered
lere at a price that will be saving
n wheat.
The Oregon Short Line has issued
tatement in which it is claimed that
he existing car shortage in Idaho is
lrgely due to the failure OF shippers
4 loading and unloading. Instances
re cited where cars have been held
p as much as four days longer than
'as necessary.
Driving n large car, Henry Munson,
wing near Keever, lost control, tipped
YER and scattered his companions
yer a distance of fifty feet. William [
liss received dangerous injuries. Will |
am Greenwood received several in
Iries, Munson and two men named
Iardy and Stone were not severely
urt. !
After several days use of canned
'uit, put up last August, the family
Lawson Shepherd, of Pocatello, dis L
,vered that it contained quantities of .
'ound glass. Mrs. Shepherd and [
her members of the family have COM
aimed of severe pains since eating q
e fruit. No dangerous symptoms D
I'VE developed. 1
Thinking to escape the rush of an L
lgry hog, Clay Kearns, who is en-
Dyed at a packing plant at Eagle,
mped fence beside a chute up
hich he was endeavoring to drive the =
ute, and landed in the middle of II =
rye vat of hot water which was being
ed for scalding, but miraculously es-
ped without Injury. :
A post card vote of the patrons of nj
e Filler school district is being made 8,
is week to determine whether the q,
al school shall be in session for 10
: days week after Christmas. y,
lder this plan the term would close h,
April Is and release all of the pu- 10
5 needed for work on the farms. be
Lawrence Smith. aged IL, of Poca-
10, was run down by an automobile
d fatally injured, death resulting -
On after he had been removed TO the n,