Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-02-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

/ GUILTY. nave idlith 10 answer bI NE lft
questionnaires mailed to them.
The Purity league is the name of a
new club recently organized by several
members Of the younger set at Twin
Falls
w. w. Spier Of St. Anthony has sue
ceeded to "A place on the board of di-
rectors at the Blackfoot insane asylum
made vacant by the resignation Of Geo.
II. Fisher Of Bancroft.
On account of lack of space in the
/ present location, the pOstoffice depart
ment is considering moving the Merid'
ian postoffice to another location with
in a few weeks, it is said.
An ordinance providing for the ap-
pointment of plumbing inspector and
for the licensing and regulation of
plumbing shops passed first reading be-
fore the city council at Nampa.
The federal government has granted
to the state of Idaho 3,631,77S acres
of land for educational endowment,
which at the minimum rate of $40 per
acre makes a considerable sinking
fund.
George Burke, owner of garage at
Mountain Home, was shot and killed
by his wife, Emma, as the result of ii
family quarrel, during which it is said
Burke threatened to give his wife a
beating.
Elmer Davis was arrested at Idaho
Falls last week, being wanted in Rock
Island, ILL.,, for murder committed in
1913. He was working in a restaurant
ut Idaho Falls and gave his name as
Ed Day.
a broken collarbone, broken nose,
and deep scalp wound and other in
julfes of a minor nature, were sus-
tanned when Edgar Jones, aged 16, was
struck by an automobile truck at
Nampa.
The legislature will be convened in
extra session ut an early date by the
governor, according to the gossip at the
capital. 1t is generally believed that
the legislature will be convened about
February IL.
Bert Black and Doyle Fender, son
and nephew, respectively, of William
A. Black, deceased, are legal heirs to
a section of land bequeathed them in
a Photographic will left by Black, jury
at Caldwell decided.
The high school at Pocatello nearly
had disastrous fire when 100 tons of
coal caught fire through spontaneous
combustion. The coal was moved and
he fire extinguihed by f1remen, assist
al nv Short inc fire fiphterS
g. w. Dana, of Montpelier, has dis
covered that for four years he has car
led a 22-caliber bullet in his head i'm
'edded between his scalp and skull.
When he was injured he thought he
lad keen struck by lightning.
Twenty-seven Idaho counties now
lave, or will have, county agricultural
gents in the near future. Excepting
IDAHO, Adams, Owyhee, Butte and Gus
er counties, all counties south of the
salmon river have organized farm bu-
eaus.
Harry 4. Lewis, brakeman on
reight train, was knocked from the
tops of the train by a truck which was
Eft too near the track at Burley. The
ngine ran over his left arm, cutting it
fl just below the elbow, and his right
rm was broken.
After a hearing lasting two weeks
efore Probate Judge w. a. Hyde con
lany years engaged in business with
=. H. Cattle of Pocatello, the court re-
lsed to permit the instrument TO be
limited to probate.
In Idaho there are 1896 los acres
{ unappropriated and unsurveyed
nd to choose from for homesteads.
My 1870, 227 acres of this is surveyed
t the present time, but the general
nd office announces it will be glad
survey anything wanted on applica-
on.
All men of military age who have
zen placea in class one in the draft
ust be examined Immediately by the
lysicians of the county exemption
,ards, according TO Il wire which has
zen received at the adjutant generals
flee from the provost marshal gen
al
Four stacks of hay belonging to
iguel Gabica, Spanish sheep owner,
ere burned two and one-half miles
nth of the Nampa ferry on Snake
YER As the stacks We're in differ
It yards nj least 1000 feet apart, it is
lieved the fire was of mcendiary
igin.
Mrs. Ada \. Brauner. who suffered
injury TO her ankle when the stair
~ of the Arnold lodging house ut
lmpa fell with her several months
O, is entitled 10 recover damages in
Z sum of $500 from Il. Il. Smell and
,orge Everett. from whom she had
Used the property, Il jury has decided.
with assertion that 1000 cars OF po-
toes must be moved from Idaho Falls
thin the next sixty days TO prevent
= to the shippers. the Bonneville
,tntV DDfafO Growers nSspeiofiou