Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-04-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS

J. K. White, former state sanitary
inspector, is to be commissioner of
public welfare.
Weiser's X. P. lnitiatory team won
the contest from Boise and Nampa
teams at the district convention held
at Weiser.
Spanish influenza has broken out at
the state Industrial training school at
st. Anthony, about ninety. cases having
developed
A resident of Kuna has sent east
for some skunks and will start a skunk
farm. The skunks are deodorized, and
are about the size Of common cat.
Work was started last week on a
new dancing pavilion for Burnley. The
building win be 120x50 feet 1t will
be equipped with all modern improve
ments.
Authorities are investigating the
supposed murder of a newly born babe,
whose body was found in a suitcase
at the foot of a railway embankment
at Wallace.
Pocatello has been put on the route
of the Victory loan flying squad.
Seventeen visiting planes will make a
landing at Pocatello April IS, accord
ing to plans.
More than 2GO state farm loans
which have been allowed to become
delinquent are to be foreclosed at
once unless settlement is made, the
land board has announced.
Preliminary work on a 100000 job
of widening and deepening head of
Spokane river at Occur d'Alene for
the purpose of draining $4,000 acres
of oyerflowed lands has been started.
The 8-year-old daughter of Mrs. e.
A. Mecham of Oakley is in a serious
condition through having been struck
and gnns over by an automobile. The
car passed over her head and chest.
Accused of removing a portion of
his opponents right ear with his teeth
during a street brawl, w. C. Simmons
is charged with. mayhem by J. J. Blu
chanan in a complaint filed at Twin
Falls
A concrete wing to the bridge across
Snake river on the Clear Lakes road
has been built by the commissioners
Of the Bull Highway district to pro-
tect the approach of the south end of
the bridge.
Mrs. Evangeline White has rendered
to the city council at Twin Falls a tri-
angular piece of ground at the corner
Of Main avenue west and Washington
street to be used as a city park. 1t is
probable that the city council will ac-
cept the gift.
The Idaho, Uncle Sans largest fight
ing craft and the most formidable bat
tleship afloat, has gone into commits
sion at the New York Ship Building
corporations yards. The Idaho is 624
feet long, having normal displacement
of $4,000 tons.
Boise weather bureaus weekly crop
bulletin will start its regular summer
publication April 9, and will furnish
farmers throughout the state with
much information OF value concerning
crop and livestock conditions in the
various localities.
The forestry office reports a snow
slide on Moore creek summit about a
week ago which broke down fine
spruce trees more than 300 years old.
This slide which is most unusual in
this section, is an indication of the
unusually heavy snowfall and unusual
moisture.
Senator NJ B. Yeaman of Bonneville |
county and Representatives Ezra P. |
Monson of Franklin county and A. H.
Morgan of Washington county will |
supervise the expenditure of $4,000 |
to be used to investigate state depart |
ments and to check up their books
and accounts.
One of the first public highways to
receive attention is the North Pacific |
highway, which will cross ShOshone
Location work on the Lewis
KoOskia section of the Lewis and
Clark highway, which will cross the
part of the state, is well
under way by the engineers.
Four hours after he had been noti-
fled that C. A. Glougie had been rob
bed of a set of harness, Larry Ma
Ioney, chief of police ut Nampa had
located the harness in Nyssa, Oregon,
where farmer had taken it after
having purchased it from a second
hand dealer. and c. H. Carpenter was
lodged in Jail.
The case of a man, aged 80, whose
name is withheld by attending physi-
clans, a patient in the hospital at
Twin Falls, who has been asleep for
a days, has been diagnosed as one
If lethargie encephalitis or sleeping
sickness" The patient at first was
ed through a tube but is now awak-
med for brief periods and takes his
meals, in normal manner.
Raising the S150000 guarantee for
he Willard-Dempsey boxing contest
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