Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-03-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS

trial show to be held during the week
CT April 2.
1t 10 estimated that there are now
in Idaho LOO cars of potatoes, $50 in
the hands Of the growers and $50 In
hands of buyers.
Rupert is to hay- new movie
theatre, and building erected espe
cially for that class of. entertainment
was started last week.
Baseball enthusiasts are again com
ing to the front and the fans are be-
ginning to lay plans for fast team
for Rupert again this season.
The three-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Lorenzo Christensen of Shell
ley fell into a tub of hot water and
was so badly burned that death re
suited few hours later.
1t is reported that the snowfall this
winter along the Salmon river is the
heaviest for many years and that hun
dreds of elk, deer and mountain sheep
have been driven down to the river
So far the shipments of potatoes
from this state via Pocatello amounts
last years shipment of 6,527 cars will
be reached before the season closes.
Boxing in excellent form, Al Som
mers. claimant of the Pacific coast
middleweight championship, was
awarded the decision over Jack Torres
at Wallace, after fifteen rounds4 OF
hard fighting.
The city Of Nampa, according to
well substantiated rumors, will before |
many months have elapsed have one
of the largest and most magnificent
photoplay and vaudeville theaters in
the northwest.
w. III. Wilhelmy, who was brought
back to Pocatello for trial, has been
released on $500 bond. Wilhelmy is
charged with the embezzlement OF
800 from the Bower Wholesale COM
pany of Pocatello.
Pocatello will have a municipal
market if the plans as suggested to
the council by Thomas Ferguson are
put in operation. A committe has
been appointed by the council to in
quire into the matter. =
Belief that emulation of Bible char
acters and religious zealots by fasting
for long period would bring her rich
reward, led to the death last week of
Mrs. George Johnson, member of the
Pentecostal mission of Star. T,
Manager S. j. Donaldson of the
Southern Idaho Producers association
does not predict fall in potato /
prices as the local demand is keeping
the price at 1910 in Pocatello in spite
of the $2.55 rate in Chicago.
Captain Woodson Jeffreys of the
machine gun company of the Second !
Idaho regiment has opened recruiting
headquarters at Weiser and if the
pI esent plans are carried out Weiser
will be the future home of this COM
pany. L
The Ladies' %Auxiliary of the Ru- G
pert Commercial club has inaugurated a
a bird house contest for the pupils of L
the manual training department of the t
local school, together with any boy j
or girl not over IL years Of age in a
The city. t,
Three prisoners escaped from the c
county Jail at Lewiston They re- o
moved a section of iron railing in the
corridor and then dug through a
rick wall Their escape was not dis II
covered until they had been gone sew Il
,ral hours. n
Minidoka project farmers will ex-
pertinent with a new crop for this =
section the coming season, A. N. d
sregg of Twin Falls, representing the *
}. Landreth Seed Co. of Bristol, Pa, q
icing now engaged in contracting for &C
,ean seed acreage.
Appeals for relief of Belgian chill :"
rem, many of whom are starving, have =.
o impressed members of the Metho- =.
list Ladies' Aid society of Meridian -
hat they executed plan to raise -,
unds for this relief work by means OF -,
cooked food sale.
Pocatello citizens and especially nc
MEMBERS of the bar are much elated 70
yer the passage of the bill to give M
hat city a session of the supreme
curt. Boise will still have two ses-
ions. and Occur d'Alene, Lewiston III
nd Pocatello each have one. --
Charles Wall, rancher of the a
outh Mountain district. was caught II
yer on the south slope of Parsnip
eak with band Of 5000 sheep in
eep snow and his feed exhausted.
Ie lost quite a bunch of them before III
ay and grain was gotten to him.
Potatoes and patriotism combined ii
ade the seventh annual potato II
reakfast' of the Twin Falls Com ii
ercial club one of the most success
Il that has been held since the novel III
fair was inaugurated. The banquet ii
ok place March 10 and was attend Ii
by 220 citizens.
The sanitary reforms accomplished II
. Iarnn. II NNnili- mill 49,. -. LII