Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-07-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS


and will leave August to enter the
navy.
Summer travel has started through
the Salmon river country to Challis
hot springs. Robinson bar and Stanley
basin
Nampa's assessed variation for real
estate for 1918 is 81. s't,2TT. CaldwelPs
assessed valuation for real estate is
$1.s15,210.
Cattle are said 10 be il much better
condition now than at this time last
year They arc doing especially well
in the eastern eoun .es-
Crop conditions in north Idaho are
not as satisfactory as they ordinarily
are, extreme dryness having hurt the
grain crops in particular.
Great activity is evidenced in the
Twin Falls county Red Cross chapter,
and IS. 0. s. calls are being sent all
over the county for knitters.
Ada county commissioners are meet
ing daily as a board of equalization
for the purpose of equalizing the 1918
assessments and allowing exemption
claims.
The sale Of 1000 acres of state land
IA Gooding county, and of not to ex-
coed $500 acres near DrummOnd, has
been authorized by the state land de-
partment.
The HOLSTER Land company is the
name of new organization just
formed az Twin Falls, and which has
filed its articles of incorporation, cap
iralized at So. 600
Irrigated pastures and meadows are
in fine shape. Haying is the order Of
the day. Much alfalfa has been cut,
but only small portion Of the first
cutting is in the stack.
Campaigns directed against Idaho
rodents in 20 counties have saved the
state considerably over $4,000, ac-
cording to w. E Crouch Of the United
States bureau of biological survey.
Ammer E Lowe was killed near
Media in a haying accident. His chest
was crushed and his lungs punctured
when he was thrown from hay rack
and either run over or stepped on by
a horse.
Although the number Of silos ana
dairy cows in Ada county has in
creased above 10 per cent, it is ex-
pected that the butter fat to be mar
keted will be $4,000 pounds less than
for last year.
draft for $1,000, the amount bid by
Bonneville county sheep men for the
two pounds of White House wool auc-
toned off in Idaho, was received last
week at the governors office. and viii
be transmitted 10 the Red Cross.
Ability or willingness of parents CT
parents-in-law OF a registrant to pro
vide for his dependents must not be
considered by draft boards in recIassi-
ffcation of registrants. the adjutant
generals office has notified the boards
of the state.
Work on the reduction of Middle
Fork hill in connection with the state
highway viii begin at once. Great sat
isfactfon is expressed that the highway |
has undertaken the elm |
nation OF the heavy grades on this !
part of the road.
George Goebel of Prairie, Gilmore
was bound over for hearing
in federal court, by the United States
in Mountain Home, upon
a $500 bond, when he was arraigned
for alleged statements against the reg
of draft men.
In order to meet the demand of the
Twin Falls district for farm labor,
George s. McGraw. district inspector
for the United States employment ser
vice. has placed with the federal en-
oloyment service station at Pocatello
1 call for six men daily.
Arthur E. Ashley of Boise is the in
7entor of a device called the Ashley
rood lift motor ventilator, a device TO
lift the hood of a small automobile,
permitting the air TO pass underneath
he upper part of the hood. driving
he heated air out and thus cooling the
motor.
Idaho shippers who paid demurrage
harges as levied against intrastate
hipments during the period from jan
Iary 20 to February 10, this year, are
Untitled to refunds equal to the diff
erence between the rates during that
eriod and the prevailing rate before
nd after.
The 15-months-old daughter Of Mrs.
G. Palfreyman. of PocatellO. was
laying around wash boiler filed with
oiling water. and while the mother
-as in the house tending to other du-
es the child pulled the plug out of the
asher, which allowed the boiling wa
sr TO run out over her body, infiict-
lg fatal injuries.
Edward Hofstede, an Orohno attor-
ey. who was convicted in the federal
1urt last November on charge Of
ding young man to avoid registra-
on under the selective service law,
nd was sentenced to serve four
onths in the Latah county Jail at
oscow. was disbarred last week by
Ie state supreme court from the prac-
&c of law in Idaho.