The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-05
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one firm.
A reduction in wages of 20 per cen
Is announced by the school board t
the men engaged on the construction
of the high school at Bull.
Crops worth $4,000. have teel
saved from grasshoppers in Idaho II
the last two years, through activity O.
the county and state extension
workers.
Application Of the Standpoint Cham
Der of Commerce for an emergenc,
freight rate on hay from southern
Idaho has been received at the office
of the public utilities commission.
A petition asking the Filler board t.
declare paving ordinance providing
for an Improvement district has beer
signed by more than 70 per cent OF
the resident owners of Main stree,
property.
The Lewiston Gun club has decided
to hold the annual tournament on April
ia, rs and &C. A feature is to be q
five-man team contest from each club
One hundred dollars will be offered to
the winners.
What is thought to be solution OF
the alfalfa weevil embargo has been
found In the proposed establishment
in the state of Idaho of three or more
fumigation plants for the treatment OF
all hay before shipment.
Shipment of wheat out of Twin Falls
county by the Idaho Wheat Growers
association, which was discontinued
when the price dropped to $1.3O, was
resumed last week. The association
is advancing 81 bushel on all wheat
shipped.
The deed for the Payette site of the
south Idaho sanatOrium was secured
last week in most enthusiastic meet
ing of the chamber of commerce of
that city, the necessary $4,000 purchase
price of the tract being raised in less
than half an hour.
A Pocatello dispatch announces that
the way for Governor D. w. Davis to
become secretary of the interior has
been clarified by the withdrawal of
Major Fred R. Reed, managing d.
rector of the Idaho Reclamation asso-
citation, from the race.
The POcatellO Rotary club at it's last
meeting unanimously endorsed reso-
luton asking the state legislature to
pass an emergency bill providing for
the postponement of the collection of
taxes for this year on account of the
stringent financial situation.
Herman Burcher, who is said to
have profited from nefarious money
getting schemes in Pocatello, has been
apprehended in Portland. Burcher,
while in PocatellO, is alleged to have
cashed number Of forged cashiers
checks on the First National bank of
Park City, Utah.
Sixty-six head of purebred Jerseys
were sold at a Foundation Jersey
sale" held recently at Payette. The
highest price paid for a Jersey COW
was $605, paid by Mr.. Berry of En-
NETT. The animals brought an aver
age price of $21s.55, and the entire
herd sold for $4,000.
An investigation committee inquir-
ing into the cause Of the death of
August Schuppenies, section hand,
who was killed at Shoshone, December
f24, reported that death resulted from
carelessness of the section hand, In
that he failed to take warning Of the
bell of the approach of a train.
An average return from the sale of
milk, butter and cream per COW above
the cost Of keeping them, of 1888
was made, according to records on
234 cows in the Cow Testing associ-
alton at Gooding. The average gross
income was placed at $142.35 and the
cost of keeping was placed at $6S.52.
The chamber of commerce of POca-
tello has issued can to all CONNER
cial bodies Of Idaho and Utah to ap-
peal to the state public utilities COM
missions for consideration Of freight
rates on grain in these two states.
The Oregon Short Line has declined
to make any decrease in this commOd.
ity.
Albert H. Conner of Standpoint,
speaker of the thirteenth Idaho leg
slature and candidate for the Repub.
lican nomination for United States SEN
ator at the Pocatello convention in
1920, has been appointed assistant at
torney general, to handle the legal af-
fairs of the public utilities commits
sion.
Forty settlers in Owyhee county
have brought suit agains the tax col
lector of that county, seeking to re-
strain him from collecting taxes on
their property The men are holders
Of Carey act tracts and contend that |
their lands are not taxable because
they have not received patents for
them.
Breaking their way through drifted
snow in many places six and seven
feet deep, members Of relief party |
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