Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-12-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

was discussed at Nampa at an Aida,
meeting of the representative railroad
men of the fourth district of the Idaho
division of the Union Pacific system.
Boise is to have the sixteenth an
nual conference of the Western Retail
Lumbermen's association and Lumber
mems Mutual society, which is to he
held three days, February 20, p and
%.
Children of school ages will not he
compelled to attend school during the
epidemic of Spanish influenza. This
Is the decision reached by Edgar Meek,
probate judge and truant officer of
Canyon county.
In the latter part of 1919 or early In
1920 airplanes may be landing close to
the federal building in Boise, deposit
ing mail. This is not chance imagin-
alton. Boise Is on a direct flight line
i between salt Lake and Seattle.
Word has been received of the death
of Capt Clifford Hughes of Caldwell
from wounds received at the front.
/ Captain Hughes was member of the
Caldwell company and saw service on
the Mexican border as a private.
John Russell Hit, who failed to APP
pear when he was summoned by the
Ada county draft board to appear
October for entrainment for Jeffer-
son Barracks, No. to enter limited SER
vice division of the army, was arrested
last week at Blackfoot
Any creamery in Wyoming, Montana,
Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Oregon,
Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mex
leo, AMI Utah is eligible to the butter
scoring contest of the Western Dairy
Products show which is to be held in
Boise February TO- II and u.
The next term of the district court
will begin at Caldwell, January g. if
health conditions permit. Probably
the most sensational case to come
up will be the trial of Samuel
F. Davenport, charged wi{h the muir
de. of Henry Stricken at Nampa Au
gust 26.
The state board of education will
recommend to the coming legislature
that the maintenance of all state in
situations under its jurisdiction have
their budgets increased from 10 to 10
per cent for the next biennium over the
appropriations made for the same in
situations two years ago.
Boise will entertain the new state |
ol1.cials and members of me legisla- |
ture of Idaho in January with a re
ception to be held in the rotunda of |
the capitol building followed by ball |
to be held in either the Elks' hall or in |
the Mosque, according to preliminary |
plans arranged last week.
Sterilization of mentally and socially |
unfit persons, to control reproduction /
of this class of incompetents in the
state of Idaho, is recommended by DR..
DOrr Poynter. superintendent of the
Idaho State Sanitarium at Nampa, in
his first annual report to the board of
directors of the institution.
A man named John e. Beckman was
brought before the council of defense
at idaho Falls, charged with refusing
to buy Liberty bonds and making I'M
complimentary remarks when asked to
join the Red Cross. The committee
decided that he should buy $500 worth
Of thrift stamps and donate $25 to the
Red Cross, which he did.
The Bannock county chapter of the
American Red Cross held an auction
sale one night last week, where num-
erous articles of home manufacture
we're sold to the highest bidders. 1t was
me of the first big gatherings since the
lan was lifted. Crocheted and tatted
articles were auctioned, and the sale
,etted a snug sum for the chapter.
Sarah Hardness, who was adjudged
guilty of contempt of court by the pro-
,ate judge of Bannock county and was
Imprisoned in the Bannock county jail
Until her attorney paid a fine of $25,
las set up a complaint which consti
utes cause of action for damages
or alleged false Imprisonment, the
tate supreme court has held.
Those who are protesting against
he proposed change of time effective
January 1, (Which will place Boise in
'acific coast time) are entering their
lex about so days too late. A hear
ng was given at Helena, Mont, last
une at which time everyone was given
n opportunity to present his argu-
rents against the proposed change.
Last year the revenue was S413,-
0S.6S from 24,76S automobiles, so 4
hat the increased registration this B
ear of 1913 more machines than in
DIT added s163, 776.SS to funds for
tate and county roads over the reye- 4
ne for last year.
Motorcycle registration dropped
-om T52 in 1917 to only 707 this year. 2
he highest registration In the last
We years was in 1916, when 754
Iotorcycle owners paid licenses. .
Three men who broke Jail at Bur-
Y. overpowering the jailer and beat
* up one of the prisoners who had y
ven evidence against them, We're re- =
lptured after short but exciting