The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-04-12
IDAHO STATE NEWS

More than $4,000 was realized M
the Bahl Community day as result OF
the public auction for the benefit OF
the Buhl Red Cross chapter.
Fire destroyed "Pinetop.' the beau
tiful mountain home of w. IL, Esta.
brook, three miles south or Idaho City,
with all its contents. one afternoon
last week.
The second kellogg soldier 10 give
his life for his country is Alfred /.
Hough, who died March % at Fort
Sam Houston following "a six weeks
illness with pneumonia.
The $500 cash bond Of A. l.. Carpen-
ter, !. w. w organizer, charged with
attempting TO influence jury, was or
dered forfeited by Judge Steele at
Moscow, Carpenter having failed TO APP
pear for trial.
A man who fiourished knife and
declared he would get his breakfast
out OF someone's ribs" was arrested
at Nampa and Is being held In the city
Jail pending an Investigation. lie re-
fuses 10 give his name.
June % TO 20, inclusive, win be the
dates of the Caldwell Chautauqua, the
secretary of the local committee has
been advised. The entire program has
been made up of numbers with gen
eral patriotic trend, the announcement
adds.
Secretary Il. A. Krussman OF the Po-
eatello \. NJ. c, A. has just returned
from trip TO Camp Lewis, where he
visited with about twenty Pocatello
boys stationed there. Mr. Krussman
says the boys are in all fine physical
condition.
According to a story told the public
utilities commission by Barber wo.
man, the jitneys plying between the
mill town and Boise are going 10 ia.
crease their rates from % to 80 cents
trip. She wants the commission to
interfere.
A Burbank federation of more thar
twenty-five women's clubs OF Canyon
county was organized at Caldwell last
week at meeting held at the Century
clubrooms at the city library. About
eighty delegates and visitors attended
the meeting.
Governor Alexander may appoint 4
northern Idaho man member of th'
| state highway commission wnile in th'
panhandle country, to succeed Il. A
Van Sickle OF Weiser, according TO 1
statement he made just before leaving
for Spokane.
With the completion last week o
the organization the Valley council
of defense, Idaho in all the forty-on,
couaties of the state is now prepared
for complete and active cooperation
with the state and national bodies II
carrying on war activities.
James Wilson, OF Soda Springs, VIII
was arrested at st. Anthony for max
ing disrespectful remarks agains
| President Wilson and disparaginI
statements against the American ma
ton, was sentenced TO sixty days Il
the county Jail and fined SIS.
The president has signed n proclama
ton restoring about $4,000 acres o
land in southeastern Idaho, north an,
south OF the Snake river, from Goa
Withdrawal These lands were with
drawn for the purpose Of classification
as to their value for coal.
The Bingham county chapter OF tn
Red Cross organized soon after tn
| United States entered the war, nov
has enrolled more than 5000 activl
members, with branch chapters a
Springfield, Shelley, Sterling. Aber
deem, Pingree. Firth and Tabor.
A plan TO build a ditch TO furnisl
water for 500 acres of land west o
Nampa, which Is now watered out o
the Sixth street lateral. from which
water Is also being taken by city users
is under consideration by the city coun
Gil, as a means OF reducing the de
mands on the lateral.
State, county and city officials ar,
preparing to take immediate action 10
the use OF convict labor for the pro
| duction Of war supplies. I'm the even
OF the passage of a bill now before
the United States senate authorizing
such course
Frank j. Hagenbarth Of Spencer hai
been appointed by the secretary Of ag
rIculture and the food administrator
as member Of the advisory commit
tee of farmers and livestock grower
20 assist the government la working
/ out food problems.
DespOndent over domestic Difficult
ties. Is. G. Houser, employed at Namps
I by the Oregon Short Line, drank car
bolic acid al his home. The timely ar
rival OF a physician within few min
utes after his rash act was all tina
I saved Houser from death.