The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-09
idaho STATE NEWS

football material of the University into
a winning team.
The amount of money spent in build
ing at Nampa during the year of 1919
exceeds that of any previous year as
far as the records show.
The Minidoka county cooperative
cheese factory now is receiving $500
pounds of milk per day from II pa
irons. Daily receipts are increasing.
Boise postoffice has added a new
motorcycle to it's equipment which will
be used by one of the carriers in MAX
ing the mail collections about the city.
Representatives of the Idaho State
Teachers association, which now num-
bers more than 1900, assembled at
Boise last week for their annual meet
ing
A saving of crops worth $275.323 on
62,2O5 acres Of land was effected in
Oneida county by the cooperative
poisoning of ground squirrels in the
last year.
Joseph SOrensen reported to the
Madison county farm bureau that he
had killed 500 sparrows with half a
quart of the poisoned bait distributed
by the farm bureau.
Organized labor in Idaho is prepar-
ing for the fifth annual session of the
Idaho state federation, which is sche-
duled to meet in PocatellO January
II, ID, IA, Is and 18.
There has been no shipments of
| Idaho potatoes recently because of the
cold weather, but the quoted price has
gone up to $3 hundredweight, or
$1.SO a,bushe, it is reported.
Loss estimated at between $4,000
and 100000 was caused by fire at
Malad which destroyed a garage and
forty-five high-priced cars stored in
it, and damaged nearby buildings.
1t is said that former Governor Haw-
ley has the support of the cattle grow
ers of the public land states of the
west for appointment as secretary of
the interior to succeed Franklin X.
Lane.
Two men were arrested and placed
in the county Jail at Caldwell upon the
charge of holding up poker game
and taking the sum Of $500, which
made up the pot then lying upon the
table.
Farmers of Idaho planted $4,000
acres to winter wheat last fall, which
was equal to the acreage seeded in
1918, according to survey just COM
pleted by the state crop reporting
service.
Formed for the purpose of further
protection Of motorists, the Motorists
Protective association has obtained ap-
prevail of it's charter by the secretary
Of state of Idaho and is now launching
a campaign for members.
Plans for gymnasium and cOmmu-
nifty hail. to be built at Rupert by the
L. d. S. church, have been drawn. The
building will be of brick, 50x120 feet,
with concreted basement, to include
dining ROOM shower baths, etc.
Pelts Of 35 beavers have been col
lected in the office of the state game
warden. With the exception of five,
the skins We're from animals killed
under state permits issued in cases in
which the beaver were damaging prop
erty.
II. A. Lyon, director of the state
farm markets bureau, will succeed y.
2. Henderson, as state director of
fairs, serving in this capacity without
extra compensation, Miles Cannon,
state commissioner of agriculture, has
announced.
During the fall but g. per cent of
the rye. acreage of 1918 was seeded, or
total of $3.50 acres. The condition Of
this crop on December l showed 50
the Kansas City-San Francisco air |
per cent compared with 95 per cent
the previous year.
Charles Rogers, % years old, of Kel-
logg, was shot and killed at Vancou-
ver Wash, while attempting to escape
from the police Rogers, with Mike
Lachere, was arrested shortly after
midnight. The police say the two men
were caught in the act of robbing a
gum machine.
Hay is quoted higher throughout the
Idaho Falls section than ever before.
Thirty dollars in the stack is not an
price Carloads of corn are
being shipped in for stock Short crops
Of feed and the big demand on account
Of the early and severe winter and
stock from the outside shipped in is
Suit for $4,000 has been filed
against Walker D. Hines, director gen.
sral Of railroads for the United States,
~ Earl Wayland Bowman, Idaho poet
Ind writer, for the loss on November
Il at Laramie, Wyo, of the manuscript
# Observation-Disclosures" a novel of his
'wn life on which he has been work.
ng for many years.