The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-01-19
IN THE GEM STATE


Pocatello and Idaho Falls has been es-
tablished.
Charles ~ Daily. whose careless
handling of a loaded gun caused con-
sternation at Boise, has been commit
ted to the Blackfoot insane asylum.
The annual report Of the state board
OF dental examiners shows that the
receipts were s1,97s.O5. and the expen.
ditures $l.1Ss.7O. The balance is
S7s035.
The State Bank OF Middleton per.
petrated a pleasing surprise upon its
stockholders by distributing a special
dividend of per cent as a New
Years gift
The first Of the robins reached Boise
last week and pioneers OF the city
say this is an indication OF an early
spring and urge citizens to see that
the birds are fed.
The Second Idaho regimental band
has been assigned to Twin Falls as its
home station. When the regiment was
called to the colors the band was sta
toned at Standpoint [
Business OF the Nampa postoffice
for the year 1916 was exactly 80 per
cent greater than the total for 1914,
and SHOWS an increase OF about 81
per cent over the figures for 1915.
Ed Watt, a shoe sinner at Burnley.
was shot through the lower jaw by
an unknown man. The cause OF the
shooting is as yet unknown. Watt is
under a physicians care and is IN
able to talk.
The sixth annual conference of OPP
Grating Engineers and the eighth an
nual convention of the Idaho Society
of Engineers will be held in the rooms
of the Boise Commercial club Janu-
airy 16 to 20.
The secretary of agriculture, in ap-
portioning a million dollars available
this year for the building OF roads in
forest reserves, allotted s10S,730 to
Idaho. This money will be available
for expenditure next summer.
w. H. Sweeton and Joseph Burnett,
both of Holbrook, were given the Pas
| teur treatment by Dr. T. B. Beatty,
| secretary of the state beard of health
at Salt Lake last week. Both had
been bitten by supposedly rabid ami
mails.
John Hewett, aged years, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hewett, was in
| stantly killed at HALEY while he and
| his brother. Frank Hewett, 10, we're
| playing with a loaded shotgun. Mrs.
| Hewett was in an adjoining room pre-
| pairing supper.
o. L. knight, a carpenter of Burke,
and his wife, were crushed and smoth-
cred to death when a shed near their
| residence, under which they we're
standing, gave way under the weight
OF snow piled up on it and crashed
| down upon them.
Proposals to establish a cannery in
| Caldwell have been received after re-
| naming Quiescent for some months
| Prospects are now regarded as bright
that the enterprise will be pushed
| through, presumably in time to begin
| operations next fall. ..~.-.-
R. Hoag, a former resident of the
/ south side, shot and probably fatally
wounded his wife on their ranch near
| Jerome, and made his escape A
searching party is securing the coun
try. hut no trace of the would-be muir,
derer has S,en found.
The Farmers and Housekeepers
week at the Idaho Technical institute
| at Pocatello in conjunction with the
conventions of the state seed growers
diarymen. swine growers and live
stock interests, was held last week
with several hundred delegates and
visitors present.
Three years ago. after a Fourth OF
July celebration. a handsome. big fiag
belonging to the Falk Wholesale com
pany at Boise. which adorned the
front of the building. was removed
during the night and no trace OF Il
was found Last week II was return
ed with a note expressing the peni
tence OF the thief
]. Fred Williams, business agent Of
the state department of education, has
addressed a letter to the state land
board calling its attention TO the fact
that the state has a good claim 10
school lands said to be worth half a
million dollars along the Idaho-Nevada
boundary, which have not been claim
ed by the state hitherto.
State prisoners will petition the leg
iSlature for changes in the starute
laws TO provide for the establishment
OF an educational department in con
neCtion with the penitentiary. for the
enlarEing Of the state fs=m, for the
better employment of conyicts in road
building and for the creation OF the
Office OF parole officer.
At the state honey producers meet
ing held al OWN Falls last week The
| officers elected were. c. r. Harper OF
Filler, president: J. H. Stone 90 Black
foot. viCe-president: F. c Bowman Of
Idaho Falls. secretary trea sursr: c. II
Stinson OF Twin Falls. assistant secre
tar: Frank Beach Of Burnley. II o
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