Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-09
jury AWARDS LAND
TITLE TO PLAINTIFF
w. s. Miller's Claim to Valuable
Tract Declared Valid in
Court; Other Items Of News
From Gooding.

Gooding, March 8-Both w. 8. Mil
Ter and DIR. F. T. Cary claimed to
have deed to a valuable ten-acre
! tract of land northwest of the city,
given them by Edwin f. Boren some
five years ago. Mr.. Miller lost his
deed, but he had occupied the land all
this time, and In the trial here in the
district court this week, submitted
evidence to the effect that though his
deed was lost, he had recorded the
deed back in 1913. The suit was
brought to quiet title to the land with
Boren and Cary named as the de-
PENDANTS. The jury. after 20 minutes
elaboration, returned a verdict In IA
vor Of Miller.
CANDIDATE LACKING.
The city election is to be held April
%, less than two months away, and
no candidates for the offices are yet
announced. A mayor, four councilmen
and a city clerk are to be elected 1t
is reported that Mayor John Thomas
will not be a candidate for re-elec-
ton.
RETAIN PASTOR.
The Presbyterian church, at a BUSH
ness meeting of the congregation a
few days ago, voted unanimously to
continue Rev A. c. Evans in the pas
torate of the local church and to raise
his salary $500 a year, beginning April
/.
Is ALIVE AND WELL.
After five long years Of anxious
waiting, Ed Sliman has received word
indirectly through a relative in Mex
leo that his wife and loved ones were
alive and well in Syria. He had not
heard from them since before the war
started in 1914 and had long ago
given up hope that they were alive.
HAS NARROW ESCAPE.
Felix Bumboa of Bliss had a narrow
escape from death Sunday when the
Buick car In which he was riding
slid off the steep grade of the state
highway near Bliss and rolled down
the embankment. His injuries We're
confined to a few cuts about the face
and he was brought to the Gooding
hospital for treatment. A derrick and
six horses were used to recover the
damaged car.
PERSONALS.
Mrs. Claude E. Thomas died of
pneumonia following influenza Mon
day, only a few rays after her child
was born.
j. M. Hill was taken to the local
hospital seriously Ill with tuberculosis
Tuesday. His -year-old babe. who
had been i'll with bronchial pneumonia,
died the same evening.
Forty-one inches Of snow fell dur
ing the past week at Soldier Ranger
station and rs inches at Haley.
Five dairy meetings and one silo
excursion are on thefarm bureau pro-
gram for the coming week, the OBJ
ject being to boost the dairying in
dustry in this county. State Dairy
man Cammack, G. e. Frevert of the
U. S. department of agriculture and
Gustave Kunze Of Bull are scheduled
to speak.
F. H. Winters, H. S. warnock. R. X.
johnson, G. I. Daniel and Clifford
Nyemaster were named directors of
the Union Ditch company at the an
nual meeting Saturday.
Gooding now has "a hours telegraph
service. Three telegraph operators have
been installed at the local station, TAX
ing over the previous duties Of one
operator and a clerk. The service
previously was confined to the hours
between Z a. m. and p. m.
H. H. Robson, popular cigar store
proprietor, was married Sunday to
Mrs. Mary w. Hendricks OF Tyler,
Texas.
DR.. J. H. Cromwell writes that he
expects to be homo from France about
April 1.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. M. Fike and Mr.
and Mrs. T. e. Painter arrived home
this week from their winters stay in
southern California.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Churchill left
Saturday for an extended visit with
relatives at Butte, Mont.
DR.. H. q. Lamb came home his week
from Chicago, where he purchased an
x-ray equipment and where he took
a two weeks postgraduate course In
surgery.
Z. C. Egelus has received word of
the safe arrival at Newport News. Va.
Of his son, Fred, who had been in the
service in France for more than a year.