Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-21
IDAHO STATE NEWS

| lied in Idaho at an early udle-
Twin Falls retail grocers have adopt
ed the leash and carry" plan.
Twenty-eight men attended the first
class of the radio school established as
branch of Boise high school.
A big drive In the interest of the
Red Cross Christmas membership cam
paign Is on In Idaho this week
An average of S42616 per head was
received at sale of Shorthorn cattle
at farm near Middleton last week
The state travelling library has
large number of books dealing with
the war that may be borrowed by the
reading public.
The state highway commission has
authorized the secretary of state to
sell to the state land board road bonds
In any sum desired.
] c. w. Bryan has been arrested at
Sacramento on the charge of having
stolen car belonging to Lou White of
| Pocatello nearly month ago.
Widespread suffering and many
deaths may hinge on the turn of the
temperature in Idaho unless the pres
ent acute coal shortage is relieved
An earthquake shock, lateral and
vertical, was felt at Pocatello Wednes-
day morning of last week severe
enough to waken scores Of people.
The executive committee of the
state council Of defense has asked the
Ada county auxiliary of the state coun-
Gil to take a census of alien enemies |
In the county.
A temporary frame building, j6 by |
%, is being built on the campus at the
Lewiston state normal to replace the
administration building which was de-
stroyed by fire.
Caesarina Lawrence. a Middleton
girl, has been awarded prize of 500
given by the Oregon Short Line for
the best pig grown by boy or girl
in Idaho in 1917.
Jack Dunmire accidentally shot him
self in the right foot at his home at
Caldwell with shotgun, with which
he had been hunting. 1t was neces-
sary to amputate at the instep.
The Minidoka county sheriff has
closed a German Lutheran school at (
Paul and other church schools will
meet with a like fate if the school /
work is carried on in German.
In response to numerous requests +,
hat have come to the secretary of the
Z. Nj. G. A. at Pocatello, a class in Z
,,sIftarx, troinfno will ho 0rOap izad for y
IL those who may be interested. y
The Idaho Cattle & Horse Growers z
ssociation will meet at Idaho Falls :
anuary 4 and s. at which time num- 4
er of questions of Importance to the
attic growers will be discussed. ;,
Fuel Commissioner Garfield has X
romised Senator Borah to make a q
pecial effort to get coal for Idaho and !,
aid he would start an investigation N
nd issue the necessary orders imme- q
lately. J. :
There is % per cent water loss in u
lie canals of the South Side irriga- "a
on project, according to information -
lat j. Ill. Smith, state engineer has 81
in report to the state N
nd board. =
Owners of small bands of sheep in ~
anyon county have asked the Canyon N
rm bureau to assist them in launch n
e plan for cooperative handling of "a
cir fiocks on the grazing lands in ~,
e Payette national forest. -
b. d. Weeks, for the past five years &s
resident of the Sheaville vicinity in ~,
yyhee county, committed suicide by III
ooting. Dependency and worry w
out the war are believed to have we
en- the causes of the act. NJ
Wong Guey Lee and Wong Yin left 9a
Use last week for Seattle, whence @e
ey are to sail for China to end the-r -
US in the Flowery Kingdom. Wong va
ley Lee has been resident of Idaho mg
: forty-siX consecutive years. ~
Captain W. Fl. Carrithers last week M
med sixty-four Idaho physicians and an
ntists to places on the twelve dis nm
ct advisory boards that are being g
,anized under his direction to as M
[ the federal government in ex- 81.
lifting the work of gathering drafted &
n together. sgg
Protest against the proposed western -
light rate advance. which the rail- aa
DIS had asked from the interstate @W
nmerce commission December II, ~.
been forwarded to Washington by va
rotary George b. Graft of the traf- M
department of the Boise, Idaho, n@
club. XII
IN earthquake lasting several sec iSgsgg
Is and of sufficient violence to ~.
rm the enuD community occurred 9
Idaho Falls Wednesday morning, MI
.ember II. ut 4 o'clock. People in 81
I'M called the office of the sheriff g9
police, thinking that violent ex- mg
sion had occurred. kA
ne Of the questions to be consid- so.
by the Idaho WoolgrowerS' asso- M
q. ~.