The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS


seventy i've per cent. or $4,000. of
the S1o0DoO allotted to the stare OF
Idaho in the College Of Idaho endow-
Iueut fund campaign las been sub
scribed.
Harry Hinton, Who had served three
years of a tive 20 fifteen-year sentence
at the Idaho penitentiary, made his es-
cape from rhe convict road camp near
Barberton
Arrests for having liquor in ones
Possession viii cease in Idaho If Perry
Virgil, Boise taxicub man. wins his
habeas corpus fight in the state SUI
preue court
Former Senator Fred r. Dubois has
been appointed as civilian member Of
the board of ordnance aud fertilization.
This appointment carries with IL sal
airy of $500 IA year.
J. X. White, the stale, 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 IA 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
a purse in 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
made 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 rifle and shot
gun organizations met fifty-nine strong
at the courthouse and pledged them
selves to support Sheriff Pfost ut any
time he might call upon them to meet
any emergency that might arise within
the county. All We're sworn in as dep.
utieS.
As the first step in what Adjutani
General Charles 5. 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
tody at Fernwood, Il lumber town, on
March Is.
From $50 to 300 calves are being
vaccinated against blnckleg each day
by County Agent Il. II. 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 to thirty
farms each day
The management of the King Hill
irrigation project has been taken ovel
by the irrigation district which has
been formed by settlers living on tn,
project. Outstanding bills now due
will be paid by the state during the
next six weeks. aud final settlement
viii be made May /.
An urgent appeal to the principals
of all high schools in the state ha'
been issued by the state farm markets
bureau. urging them 10 secure th'
names of students between the ages o.
16 and u for enrolment In the Jnite'
States Boys Working Reserve 50 tina
Idaho's quota Of 1000 can be raised,
Members Of the home guard Of Sand
point aided by United states arm!
soldiers took charge of the city fol
lowing AN outbreak 10y Industrial
Workers Of the World and their sym
pathizers The regular soldiers pa
trolled the streets and the home guar
began rounding up alleged Industrial
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