Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-02-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Grange was organized at the Ten
Mile Heights school house last week.
The Moose lodge has decided to
erect two-story building 50x130 feet
on their lot at Emmett.
The board of county commissioners
of Bannock county has appropriated
the sum of $4,000 to establish a coun-
ty agent in Bannock county.
Outgoing shipments from Caldwell
for the month ending January "a con-
sisted of seventy-nine carloads Of
livestock, farm produce and mill pro-
| ducts.
Idaho fruit growers, in convention
at Boise, laid plans for a systematic
campaign to increase the membership
of the State Horticultural association
to 1000
! ]. c. Martin, rancher living just
outside Caldwell, sustained fracture
of the collarbone and serious internal
Injuries when he fell from load of
baled hay to the pavement.
A semi-offcial report to the effect
that large foundry is to be estab-
lished in Pocatello in June is in cir
culation. Little information has been
given out in regard to the matter
The sugar factory building at Shell
ley is progressing favorably. Accord
ing to Secretary Nicholson, from 200
to 300 men will be employed on the
ground as soon as the weather breaks.
The admission of Kansas into the
nj har Nv
members of the Kansas club who
gathered in Buhl last week and cele-
brated with a basket supper and pro-
gram.
The Thayer-Moore Brokerage COM
pany of Kansas City has bought the
bonds of the Little Willow Irrigation
company of Payette at par The
amount involved in the transaction is
$165,000
The month ofJanuary was the cold
est experienced at Boise since 1898,
the weather bureau announces. The
mean temperature was 1872 degrees,
which is more than degrees below
normal.
The organization of mining de-
velopment bureau modelled after the
one at Helena, Mont, was discussed
and favored at a meeting of the min
ing committee of the Boise CONNER
cial club last week.
The basis for the annual settlement !
between the Boise project and the |
Nampa & Meridian irrigation district. |
just determined, shows that the rec
lamation service owes the district |
the sum of SS,39730.
Membership of the Canyon county |
farm bureau continues to climb. Last |
week, with the addition of twenty |
one names enrolled at an enthusiast
tic meeting at the Scism school house,
the membership reached $40.
People of the Franklin community
were both enlightened and enter
tanned Thursday of last week, when
a carefully planned country life in
stitute which lasted throughout the
day was held at the Franklin church.
Mrs. A. L. Cook, owner of the
Cook drug store at Pocatello, sold
out her business last week to G.. w
Derr, B. M. Hines and B. F. Hough.
This is one of the best known insti.
buttons in the state and the Oldest
drug store in Pocatello.
Former State Senator B. P. Shaw
han of Idaho, who is in Washington
working on the King Hill irrigation
appropriation, was one of the com.
few Outsiders" who heard
President Wilson deliver his world
'eace speech to the senate.
While attempting to solder an emp
y gasoline tank in a shop at Boise,
ack Dalton, chief mechanic of the
company, was badly burned about the
ace, left ear and hands, as the result
4 an explosion of the tank, the force /
4 which rocked the building.
Mining claim owners on Florida
1ountain in Owyhee county, at the
oints of their shotguns, have driven
# intending entrymen under the
40-acre homestead law who were at
empting to cover that mountain with =
heir filings, according to report. :
In decision handed down last :,
eek the state supreme court con-
rms it's action of some months ago
| affirming the judgment of the j
ixth judicial district in finding VIII 3
am w. Lottridge, a former Lemhi Is
ounty bank cashier. guilty of en- 81
szlement.
Silas Wilson Of Nampa, president
the Idaho State horticultural as tc
'ciation, in addressing the opening
'ssion Of the organization at the =
oise meeting, said he saw no reason
r encouragement among horticultur-
is Of the state because of the 1916
nit "cleanout" pl
A bill has been introduced in con- az
ess by Senator Borah to appro- pr
late $4,000 to build a fish ladder %
er the Sunbeam dam at Sunbeam p
the Salmon river above Challis. If ~
instructed this will oman IN again "