Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-03-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS

A4'iA IetAn mum HDhAs
Seventy-fiye per cent. or $4,000, o
the 100000 allotted to the state o.
Idaho in the College of Idaho endow
ment fund campaign has been sub
scribed.
Harry Hinton, who had served thre'
years of five to fifteen-year sentence
at the Idaho penitentiary. made his es
cape from the convict road camp neal
Barberton.
Arrests for having liquor in ones
| possession Will cease in Idaho if Perry
Virgil, Boise taxicab man, wins hi;
habeas corpus fight in the state su
preme court.
Former Senator Fred T. Dubois has
been appointed as civilian member OF
the board of ordnance and fertilization
This appointment carries with it sal
airy of $500 year
]. X. White, the state, dairy, food
and sanitary inspector, is planning to
use all the power of his office to sup
press the sale of impure and injurious
substitutes for food under the plea OF
war saving"
If Idaho farmers fear a shortage Of
labor this season, men can be imported
into the state from the Pacific coast,
Harvey Alfred, director of farm mar
kets bureau, announces in bulletin
issued by his department.
The body of an unidentified man was
found in the hills near Pocatello. There
was a bullet hole in the right chest. A
small amount of money was found in
purse in a pocket. Practically all
The flesh had disappeared from the
bones.
An Arbor day proclamation has been
issued by Governor Alexander in
which he urges upon the school chill
dren of the state the necessity for
planting trees this spring. The day
will be observed on different dates in
the state.
The agricultural extension depart
ment of the State university is pur-
chasing strychnine and saccharin
through the federal bureau of biolog-
ical survey for the farmers Of the
state. to aid them in the determination
of rodents.
Nine Caldwell merchants who have
heretofore maintained individual deliv-
cries have formed union delivery as
a means of conserving man power and
in accordance with the request of the
food administration that deliveries be
nade with as little expense as pos
sible.
One hundred and twenty-five men
EMPLOYED in the Boise Payette Lumber
company's camps in Valley county quit
work last week. The men claim TO
have walked out because their pay was
cut down when their hours of employ
ment were reduced from ten to eight
hours.
Members of the Boise rife and shot
gun organizations met tifty-nine strong
at the courthouse and pledged them
selves to support Sheriff Pfost at any
time he might call upon them to meet
any emergency that might arise within
the county. All were sworn in as dep
uties.
As the first step in what Adjutant
General Charles S. Moody announced
would be a general roundup of Indus
trial Workers of the World in northern
Idaho, some fifty supposed members OF
the organization were taken into Gus
todv at Fernwood, a lumber town, on
March IS.
From go to 800 calves are being
vaccinated against blackleg each day
by County Agent r. H. Musser and A.
L. Barry. who is assisting him in the
CANYON county farm bureaus annual
vaccination campaign. Visits are be-
ing made to from twenty-five to thirty
farms each day.
The management of the King Hill
irrigation project has been taken over
by the irrigation district which has
been formed by settlers living on the
proiect. Outstanding bills now due
will be paid by the state during the
next six weeks. and a final settlement
will be made May L.
An urgent appeal to the principals
of all high schools in the state has
been issued by the state farm markets
bureau. urging them to secure the
names. of students between the ages OF
l6 and 21 for enrolment in the United
States BOYS Working Reserve so that |
Idaho's quota of 1000 can be raised.
Members of the home guard OF Sand
point. aided by United States army
soldiers. took charge of the city fol
lowing an outbreak by Industrial
Workers of the World and their sym
oathizers. The regular soldiers pa
rolled the streets and the home guard
began rounding up alleged Industrial
Workers.
John Francis Greeninger, who was
near Nampa when a run
AWAY team dragged a hay derrick
luder a high tension electric power
ine. had received $1,000 life msur-
,nre nnlicy less than twenty-four hours