The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-07-20
IN THE GEM STATE

Prizes totaiing s28.s79 an.
offered exhibitors az ~. So
OF Idaho this fall. a'r
/. f. Goodheart was l,h,,.. "a,
derrick pole felt striking h,,n ~
the head as he was helpjDy - -.
UP nay on his ranch AT Five Nils
The Brotherhoos Of American yoe
men y TO inaugurate an active cam
palgh Ia Boise for $50 rnetob4.rs 49,,
win De initiated early IN August
y " Bacus janitor la the grad.
school at Goodlng. shot ana pm
himself. Whether Ii was an acrlde.,
Or suicide. has not been determined
ldaso farmers who have einyer and
alIaiia seed for sale this fan are 80
ing TO be ia clover. ngursfivlv s,,a.,-
ing because Of shortage OF ne erou
In different sections.
The Non-partlsan league il as,,y
campaign hay in Idaho while the surf
shines The propaganda prenar..B
Ior the state Is being spread dalIy
now BY the organization.
In the nelghbOrhOod Of 100 drug.
gists were present for the yeari,
meeting Of the Idaho Pharmaceutical
association, which opened at Gurer
Hot Springs Monday, July 0.
The public utilities commission has
forwarded TO the interstate commerce
commission at Washington q petition
In Intervention In the potato rate case
hled by the Minnesota potato grow
ers.
The state highway department has
completed plans for bridge Of three
Sofoot spans to be built by Wash
ington county across the Weiser rly-
er half mile east OF the city of
Weiser.
+. w. Mullen, a brakeman. slipped
and fell under Il moving train of cars
at Montpelier and had a leg cut off
above the knee, an arm amputated
above the elbow, and one hand severed
at the wrist
Huston Frost. Jr., one of the best
known ranchers in the Boise valley,
died last week as the result of being
thrown against a feed rack while
| lassOing a wild horse. His skull was
broken and his spine hurt.
Senator BOrah in conference with
Lord Northcliffe, suggested there win
be large quantities Of potatoes in
Idaho, Utah and other northwestern
states this fall available for export 10
England via the Panama canal
Clay Tallman. commissioner Of the
United States land office, is coming
to Idaho to make personal inspection
of the Twin Falls Oakley irrigation
project and the Twin Falls Salmon
River irrigation project in October
Juan ]. Calzacsrta, As, owner Of the
CalzacOrta block in Nampa, and
former manager of the Canyon Auto
mobile company, was shot and killed
early Sunday morning. Mrs. Marie
Calzacorta, his wife, was arrested and
held without bond.
The state farm markets bureau has
sent out letters to the threshermen
of the state calling attention 10 the
new law which requires threshermen
and seed hullers TO buy licenses at
81 each from the state before com
mencing operations.
Seventy million bushels is the first
estimate of the grain crop Of Wash
lngton, Idaho and Oregon, as made
by r. ]. Lord. representative #
Spokane milling company, who has
just returned after visit TO the
principal grain growing sections.
Dick Donovan, head of the labor de-
parment in the state farm markets
bureau, would help solve the labor
shortage on the farms in Idaho by
mobilizing the Migrants and making
them 90 to work, either Of their own
voIition or under the direction of the
civil officers.
AKRON B. Lucas, an IS-year-old New
Meadows boy, who has just been ac-
cepted for naval service. comes OF a
fighting lineage that reaches back Ia
Revolutionary days, Young Lucas
father is the only one Of his progeni- |
tors who has not seen actual warfare |
under the flag.
The Shoshone County Power COM
pany has asked permission Of the pub /
lie utilities commission to extend its /
transmission lines from Wallace 10
Murray. where it wishes TO furnish 4
current for 10 miles Of placer mining I
claims owned by the Yukon Gold com
pany on Prichard creek.
The extension department has re-
Gently completed a survey Of the al
falfa seed SITUATION In southern Idaho.
The acrea.'t is Gar below normal, the
report says. N Twin Fails county
the alfalfa and clover seed acreage
this season il but 5000 acres; last
season il was 10000 acres