The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1920-01-15
In THE GEM STATE

Charges that falSifying scales are IN
common use in Idaho have been made
by Ernest Crouch, deputy state sealer
OF weights and measures.
Leroy Falin, a sheepherder is In
Jail at Payetle. charged with stabblES
gill Weeks. a fellow employee. Weeks
viii recover unless complications
arise.
Harry NJ Barr, an Oregon Short
Line fireman. was fatally injured when
he was run over by his locomotive at
American Falls. Both legs were sew
cred from the body.
The handsome home Of Senator
Harding OF Oneida county at Malad
has been destroyed BY ire ihe house
had JUST been completed at cost OF
between $1,000 and $1,000.
Lewiston has had over 80 inches OF
snow this winter. this being equivalent
10 two and one-half inches Of rainfall.
This is about one-sixth III the average
annual precipitation for this region.
The building fund for the new Bap-
fist church al POcatello has reached
the sum OF $500. This amount was
subscribed by members and the con-
gregatiOn at the last two Sunday meet
ings
Local engineers have sent an invita-
ton 10 Or. ElwOOi Meade. noted Amer
lean and Australian engineer. 10 come
10 POcatello and address the Idaho
irrigation congress when Il cOnvenes
there January l. TO II.
Manuel Gonzales. a Mexican. was
the first victim in Pocatello OF wood
alcohol. Gonzales died ON December
81 al the home OF freud. The Mex
can was known 10 rhe police 10 be
addicted TO wood alcohol
Idaho has sold 646. 1OS.65 acres OF
land since statehood. mas piled up en-
dowment funds aggresaIing about sl2.-
10000 and has still in her possession
unsold land sufficient to bring her en-
dowments 10 more than SG0.O00,Oo0.
Friends of James Hovermale. who
shot and killed Myron Beach and then
shot his own wife M Fell, have started
a subscription list with the intention
OF raising money 10 employ counsel 10
defend Hovermale AZ his trial when II
comes up.
The Idaho State Teachers associa-
ton at the close OF n two-day con-
vention AT Boise, elected Frank w.
SimmOnds of Lewiston president for
the ensuing year and adopted resolu-
tions emphasizing the teaching OF sane
After over a year OF discussion and
planning by the Commercial club and
the city council. action has been taken
by the council Of Lewiston looking to-
ward the immediate location and i'm
provement OF a site for an automobile
tourists camp.
Determination OF water rights is
not proper function OF the state pub
lice utilities commission. that body
told the Mountain Home Water Users
Protective association MS IL dismissed
The associations complaint against It's
irrigation company.
The plant Of the Oregon Packing
company al Lewiston has closed after
4 ecord breaking summer and fall.
In spite OF the fact that last summer
Wa very unfavorable for the growing
" tomatoes. the packing plant had
-Ua of 20.OOO cases.
Governor Davis. heading western
delegation some 20 strong (including
even governorsl. will proceed from
Denver. Colo. January 10. In a spe-
.ial car to carry 10 the national con-
-ress at Washington. ID. c. the out
Inc Of reclamation needs OF the irr'-
.ated west.
LaYere Bennett and Earl Crothers.
ged and ,. respectively. of Jerome.
ecured a quantity az blasting powder
rom tent In which road making ma /
erial had been stored and set Il OF /
With a match. The older boy WAS so /
ably burned that he died within a
ew hours and the younger suffered |
evere and painful burns
The state auditing committee Gre I
ted by the last legislature and au- ]
hOrized TO expend $4,000 in auditing 4
he books and accounts of NIL state 4
apartments during the years 1917 1
9ls. claims to have already saved the
mount Of the appropriation and has
expended less than half of the appro-
Ration made by the legislature.
That the corporation business OF
iahO is growing rapidly appears evi-
ent from figures that Secretary OF
tate Jones has just made public. They
INV that the total capitalization Of
tensed domestic corporations In Ida
. amounts TO 07.547.O3e. Foreign l
qualified 10 transact bust
PISS ia the state have a total capiiaii-
'tion OF SIS. S2T.5O0.
Idaho woOlgrOwers. meeting az
Else. gave approval 10 the action Of
ttorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
the direction Of a divorce OF meat
lckers from other industries and
hes OF business Other resolutions
lopfed favor tep-year grazing permits
public lands federal arbitration o.
age and labor disputes. segregation