The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-22
IN THE GEM STATE


st. Lukes hospital at Boise, Idaho.
L. G. kiersted of Boise, has been
made War Savings Stamp publicity
Edirector for Ada county.
The Lewiston-Clarkston Traction
company of Lewiston Saturday asked
| the, public utilities commission for per-
mission to ADVANCE rates from to I
cents.
George Krassel Of New Plymouth,
was shot and killed by w. L. Reed at
the home OF. the latter, on the South
Fork of the Salmon about twenty miles
below Knox, early last week.
Laborers employed on state con-
tracts can be worked only eight hours
a day, said William j. Hall, state com
missioner Of public. works, in letter
addressed to contracterssef state work.
Through the. efforts Of parties at
Nampa, representing the Idaho Cement
StaNe SilO company, factory will be
erected at Nalnpa. Large supplies Of
satisfactory sand are available, it is
reported. m fsg. w .,
The Idaho Power company, in re-
port filed with the public IS utilities
commission, says it has sufficient cleo
tricity to operate pumps on western
Idaho irrigation projects at a miximum
capacity.
Three persons are missing as the
result of the overturning of a launch
on the Upper Twin lakes, northern
Idaho, according to telephone advices.
Six other passengers on the launch
were rescued.
Water users on the Twin Falls Oak
ley project will endeayor to destroy
dams built by beavers on Goose creek
and it's tributaries in Cassia county,
with view of increasing the flow Of
irrigation water.
The Lewiston Valley Water com
pany of Lewiston wants to double its
rates for service. 1t has filed a formal
application with the public utilities
commission to charge $40 an acre for
water. Heretofore it has charged but
So.
BY virtue of Walloping delivered
to Twin Falls, Burley is winner of the
initial half season Southern Idaho
league pennant. Twin Falls and Ru-
pert tie for second place, and the other
clubs finish in the following order:
Paul, Filler, Bull
Canyon county road and bridge
bonds to the amount Of $4,000 were
sold Saturday by the board of county
commissioners at par, to kalman, Mat
teson & Wood of st. Paul, MINI. Half
OF the bonds bear interest at Az per
cent and the remaining $24,5OO worth
bear 5 per cent interest. The purchase
was unconditional.
Reports current at Nampa indicate
that Owyhee stockmen are experience
ing greater difficulty obtaining salts
factory range conditions for cattle and
sheep, because Of the long continued
drouth, than they have experienced for
years. Many sheepmen are shipping
sheep to Idaho forest reserves, to Col
orado and California ranges. Cattle
men have indicated that they will be-
gin to gather their stock about Aug. 1.
Conditions in the Upper Snake river
valley, where loss of crops was
threatened as result of a water short,
age, are becoming settled again, ac-
cording to w. G. Swendsen, state re-
clamation commissioner. Trouble
which threatened for time in that
section over the shortage Of water has
been averted, the commissioner said,
and he is now endeavOring to get the
farmers who have water to divide up
as far as they can with their neighbors.
]. High tribute is paid in the current
issue of the American Forestry maya
zine to Capt. Homer Smith Youngs,
company Il. Sixteenth U. S. infantry,
an. Illinoisan graduate of the Univer-
sity Of Idaho school of forestry, whose
widow is Anne Geraldine Parker
Youngs of Los Angeles. Mrs. Youngs
is the mother of son Captain Youngs
never saw. The magazine recounts
how Captain Youngs was commissioned
at San Francisco soon after his mar
rage and went overseas in 1917.
Oscar O'Harrah, a young shepherd
er of Idaho Falls, was placed under
arrest after having attempted to work
a "get-richquick" scheme whereby he
a 81 and $40 bill in such
a way as to make whoever he gave the
two bills to believe they were reseiv-
ing two $40 bills.
There is no fishing at the Payette
lakes now, according to Otto NJ. Jones,
state game warden, who has just re-
turned from trip that took him to
the summer resort. He says no one
is catching either bass or trout. The
game department expects to plant fish
in the lakes and attempt to stock it
up.
Pocatello business men are taking an
active interest in the boy scout move