The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-12-16
IDAHO NEWS REVIEW

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Nampa section are being paid more
than three thousand dollars day in
cash for their milk products, has slim
ulated interest in other sections both
among the farmers and banking and
business interests.
Births In Idaho were more than three
times the number of deaths in the same
tlme, according to the monthly report
of the vital statistics section of the de-
partment of public welfare Boys for
the first time in months outnumbered
girls in the birth rerord by totaling 500
as against 4S8 for girls
Tales Of unemployment, woodpiles
and resultant distress were told the
city fathers Of Boise at council meet
ing by E. l.. Mcbride, self-terme "vag-
rant" when he presented petition,
signed by 100 jobless men, requesting
some solution to the problem of the
unemployed.
Maximmo Silva, 35, shot and in
stanly killed his brother, Antonio, at
Nampa recently. The shooting was
the termination of long standing diff
ference between the two, a sum of
money Dwell and the alleged threaten
ing of Mrs. M. Silva by Antonio, be-
Ing causes.
The State Of Idaho now owns for
ested area (including barren or graz
Ing lands, young timber growth and
merchantable timber within such area)
OF 1880 acres. OF this acreage there
IL about $4,000 acres in northern Ida
no and about $4,000 acres in southern
Idaho.
Bosses poor and unemployed got
real treat just because q baker left out
the salt in stirring up batch Of 1OVU
loaves Of bread Half Of the batch was
sent to the city welfare director and the
rest to the Salvation Army. The sup
ply was quickly disposed Of, some
mothers carrying home to their fam
lilies as many as eight loaves.
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The dairy survey being made by Ben
II. Bussman, secretary OF the Chamber
OF Commerce, is bringing in a great
many requests for more cows from the
farmers and dairymen Of the communi-
ty. This information is being received
through the questionnaires mailed out
to farmers and left at cream stations
and the cheese factory for the farmers
to fill out
An organized ring of drug peddlers,
has been broken up by the police at
POcatellO. The raids were conducted
with the utmost secrecy until all of
the gang had been taken. Several hun
dred dollars worth of morphine, CO.
caine and opium have been seized, as
we'll as the paraphernalia for smoking
and using various drugs.
Hugh Sproat, president of the Idaho
WoolgrOwers' association, returned
from Washington, d. c., where he went
in the interest of permanent tariff
on wool, declared the growers are sat
sfied with the emergency tariff, as it
provides rore protection on WOOL than
they had ever hoped for. The duty Oh
wool in the grease is Is cents pound,
and As cents on secured wool.
| f. s. Moore of the Emmett forest
office denounces as untrue and ridicul-
GUS the stories going the rounds con
corning the burning Of hay and homes
belonging to squatters in Bear valley,
In the Payette forest. Two huts that
had been deserted and were practical
ly worthless as places Of habitation
and were a menace to the surrounding
timber were burned by order Of the
forest service
A committee has been formed at Ru-
pert to launch an organization to furn-
ish credit for farmers, to buy dairy
cows through the war finance corpora
ton. This committee will confer with
the bankers in the county, take out in
corporation papers and begin business
at once. It Is formed to encourage the
dairy industry in this section. The
paid up capital is said to be fixed at
$4,000.
Mayor Ralph Louis and Chief of
Police Carlson me taking drn atic stems
to put an end to the wavo Of hOld-ups
and house-breaking in Idaho Falls
Every man not being able to give q
strict account of himself Is being
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investigation. In addition to this May