Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-06-22
'lDAH0 STATE NEWS

nit between Atlanta and Rocky Bal
and the road viii not be open to We
hicIes for 10 days
The Hotel Heigho was formally re
opened at New Meadows las week
with dinner and bail which was 81.
tended by about 200
AT the regular meeting OF the Poca-
tellO lodge Of the Woodmen Of the
World, held on June -, it was voted
to invest 500 in Liberty bonds.
With the return of many residents
who spent the winter at outside
points, the houses in Atlanta are all
occupied, and many families are NOV
ing into tents
| George Steele. 60 years Of age. died
AT his home in Iona last week after a
long illness. Mr.. Steele was one of
the pioneers of the section, coming To
Idaho from Utah in 1886.
Sale of $4,000 sheep and lambs and
a sheep ranch and sheds at Payette by
o. NJ. Doubleday Of Boise to Lester
c. SeawelI of Payette for price ap-
proximating $4,000 was announced
last week.
ShoshOne county's total subscrip-
ton to Liberty loan bonds reaches a
total Of S1,OSO,OOO This is outside the
couDtys share in credit from subscrip-
lions of railway companies. This is
over $50 per capita.
The state highway commission has
let contracts amounting 70 $4,000 for
work on several OF the state roads.
for the Improvement OF which the last
legislature authorized the issuance of
Sl,000OO0 in highway bonds.
BannOck county Will receive nearly
S1l 900 as its share OF the state auto
mobile license tax. as under the pro-
visions Of a law passed by the last
session of the legislature each county
retains IS per cent of the amount col
lected.
While attempting to pass between
two cars which were about to be
coupled. Albert Desand. an employee
of the Short Line shops at Pocatello,
was so badly crushed that he died soon
after being taken TO the emergency
hospital.
Rev. and Mrs. B ". Rice. of Cald-
we'll are now riding in shiny new
car presented to them both as a token
of appreciation by friends and as a
means of charging their field OF ser
vice. the machi2e being bought by
popular subscription
A cOroner's inquest was held at
Idaho Falls over the body of r. Lee
Rose. who was shot and killed at the
sheep camp of Arthur Bell. near
Gray's lake. about ninety miles east of
Idaho Falls. but the blame for the
shooting was not fixed
Mrs. J. NJ. Sturgeon has served no.
tice that the Canyon County hospital |
at Caldwell Will be permanently closed !
July l. she and her husband wishing |
To retire. II is believed that the public |
will get back of some sort of move
ment 10 retain hospital in the city.
Those in a position to know declare /
thar Idaho's apple crop this year viii
be 100000 bushels. while the COM
mercial crop of the state is estimated /
at 245.0OO barrels of three bushels
each. Last year Idah0'S total apple
crop was estimated at l, S23. coo BUSH
Els
The Utah Power & Light company
has begun an action in the United
States district court for the eastern
district of Idaho against the Last
Chance Canal company OF Grace and
-. -. 400 ,-b,r la<apfourS RI I'D |
Indicate the water rights III Bear river
md Bear lake
J. II. Holloway. a rancher living
hree miles below Bellevue. met with
painful accident last week. Firing
shot at stray coyote. the team with
which he was blowing became unman-
gable. In an endeavOr TO replace the
utomatic revolver in his pocket. it
ras accidentally discharged. the bullet
assing through the knee cap.
The party of state officials known
5 the "fiying squadron" spent the last
hree days of the past week in Ban
ock and Power counties for the pur-
ose of arousing interest in the war
tuation. Meetings were held at Me-
ammon Friday evening. at Lava Hot
prings Saturday afternoon and at
oda Springs Saturday evening
State Bank Commissioners Hit has (
sued a warning to prospective inyes- !
RS in oil stocks to exercise great I,
lution in making such investments. l
here are several brokers in Poeatello 9
lndIiug these stocks, but, according +
Commissioner Hit. none OF them :
~ complied with the requirements II
the state 'olue sky" law, and IL IS 4
opposed TO bring all such concerns i
account h
Fully 5000 persons took part in a b
Iteration at Paul 90 June Il. partici-
ted in by beet growers sugar manu-
cturers. Red Cross members and
her patriotic citizens. The occa- o
N was in the first place celebration Ct
honor OF the big sugar factory n
lich is being built there by the W
cleS interests and also in honor OF ol