The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-01-02
IN THE GEM STATE

AIRY ~ To -.
Ten foreign companies doing bust
ness in Idaho increased their capital
zafion the past year to the extent of
S6300T 900.
Fred Boyer, who has been trapping
on Lick creek. came out last week
with several hundred dollars worth of
mink and marten skins.
December reports indicating that
three additional Counties have become
involved in fhe idaho smallpox epi-
Ill mic. making IL total Of 26 counties
in the state.
With the forwarding of a charter to
the james +. Sage post of the Aneri-
can Legion at Burke. the Idaho branch
of the legion has reached a total of
eighty-tive posts.
Governor Davis cabinet has lost
one of its members in Guy Bowerman
of st. Anthony, who resigned and last
week gave over his office to G. B.
Walker of briggs.
lnGiln appropriation bin as report
ed to the house Of representatives car
ries an appropriation of $40, 100 for
improvements maintenance and opera
tion Of the Fort Hall irrigation sys-
TEN.
Three hundred seventy-sev IN new
domestic corporations filed their arfi-
cles in the office of the secretary of
state during the past year, while a
foreign corporations qualified to do
business in Idaho.
There were 3175 pounds of white
arsenic. 800 pounds of Paris green, 1909
dozen lemons 1900 gallons of molasscs
and about $4,000 pounds of bran used
in the Lewis county grasshopper cam
paign The past year
Notice that Idaho will fight to the
last ditch efforts of the Mountain
Home Telephone < Telegraph com
pany to compel state assessors to cut
its taxes in half has been filed by Roy
i. Black, attorney general.
More was saved by the killing of
grasshoppers in one county of Idaho.
under farm bureau auspices, last
spring and summer, than ii is costing
to run the entire University of Idaho
extension division this year.
The total automobile registration for
1919 will exceed that OF last year by
aT..,roxiilkstei,- Iotst0 The total nt1m
her Of ears registered in 1918 was b.
oS9, while The number of cars register
ed for 1919 to date is Al ,775.
o. +. Henderson, must answer in the
district court to formal charge of
mansaughter. being charged with re-
sponsibility for the death of Michael
Morris. an employee of the Bernhardi
carnival shows. during the fair at
Boise.
The trial of Leroy G. Jones. present
United States marshal, against whom
the state of Idaho brought suit to re-
cover approximately $4,000 alleged
to be unaccounted for in the fish and
game department, has been postponed
sixty days.
james Hovermale. former soldier
of Felt, a station on the Ashton-Nictor
branch, shot and killed Myron Beach
and then shot his own wife with Il
Winchester rifle. Hoyermale claims
self-defense. Mrs. Hovermale. although
severely injured. may recover.
The Mountain States Telephone 4
Telegraph company has been ordered
to show cause before the state pub
lie utilities commission January 5
1920, why it has failed TO file its in
ventory of physical property within
the time granted by the commission.
The civic committee of the Retail
Merchants association of Idaho Falls
through the chairman of the commit
tee. will take up with the city council
after rhe first of the year the matter
Df REMEMBERING The business house:
and residences of Idaho Falls on ;
more comprehensive basis.
Figures showing that the total capi
talization of licensed domestic cor
porations in Idaho has mounted f,
s30T ,54T ,039 and that foreign corpora
tions qualified To do business in iii,
state have Il total capitalization o
f1S3,S27 800 have been made public b,
Robert Q. Jones, secretary of state.
Statewide Endorsement of the pro
posed creation at Washington of
AVtiVfd1 btdiu VI Hufiit Ntik~s W nav
executive powers covering the entir
engineering field, will he one resul
of the convention in Pocatello Janu
ary -, IL and IA Of Idaho irrigation
Experts and engineers, ii is predicted
The year just closing was one o
he most disastrous in the history o
he state in the point of fires, due t
he fact. it is claimed, that privat
corporations owning timber failed t
assume their responsibilities in cor
lection with fire fighting and hecaus
hey engaged inefficient workmen i
7. w. w. members and others.
The state board of examiners, /
session at Boise with o. p. Hendel
shot, secretary, and Miles Cannon
commissioner of agriculture, endea,
,red TO arrange contract with tn
lirectors of the state fair. by whic
he obligations of $4,000 over an
,bove the annual appropriation mad