Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-10-26
Pithy News Notes
From All Ports of
IDAHO


HANGED by the installation OF new
auxiliary pump, which will augment
the water pressure and aid materially
in fighting fires
Pocatello.-Feeder sheep by thous-
ands are going into the North Side
Twin Falls tract along the Snake riv-
err II is estimated that between 300
600 and 100000 will be fed in that
section. The annual winter bands that
are fed in that district will bring the
total up to more than a half million
sheep.
King Hill-The Oregon Short Line
railroad has commenced work on i'm.
proving the section between King Hill
and Reverse. A second track is be-
ing built between these two points and
the road changed between Hammett
and Reverse, 1t is announced.
Blackfoot.-The Farm Bureau re-
ports shortage of labor to harvest
the potato crop in Bingham county,
ana appeals sent out to adjoining
counties reveal the same condition.
The condition will he relieved in
measure when, by special arrange
ment with the school board of Black
root, number of students will be
released from their studies TO helm
on the farms.
Pocatello.-Lettuce shipments from
iuaho have reached the peak and an
average of 40 cars is being shipped
daily. Up until recently shipments
have been averaging about 20 cars
daily. Few prunes are now going
through.
Boise.-R. II. Smith, former Cassia
county sheriff, was found guilty of
Mann act violation by jury in fed
eral court Friday after trial before
Federal Judge f. S. Dietrich.
Pocatello.-A case of importance to
the whole northwest involving thous-
ands of dollars in freight on which n
refund is asked, and of still more inn
portance for its bearing on future
shipments, will be heard In Weiser
in the near future, before Examiner
Cassidy of the interstate commerce
commission.
Pocatello.-Allen Baugh, %, en-
ployed as car checker by the Short
Line, was seriously injured as the re-
suit of being caught between the
couplings Of two freight cars while at
work in the local railroad yards.
Pocatello.-Be Lake voters will de-
eide November {, whether Paris is to
remain the county seat, or whether il
viii be removed TO Montpelier. A pc
tition carrying the signatures of three
flfths of the qualified voters of the
Bear Lake county was presented to
District Judge J. Bailey Lee and the
court issued the order calling for the
election.
Boise.-The Idaho State Pharmaceu-
ticol association will hold its sixteenth
annual convention in October 1t is
expected that delegates from all sec
tions of the state will be in attend.
ance.
ad.-Represcntative meeting of
farmers from the Snake river valley,
including Grandview. Hagerman val
ley, Gooding, Mountain Home, King
Hill, Paradise valley and other sections
was held at Mountain Home for the
purpose of discussing the price of al
falfa hay.
Pocatello.-Work is progressing sat
isfactorily on road projects in Idaho,
according to c. w. Cross, chief loca-
<or of the u. S. Bureau OF public
roads who inspected the work done
on the Warren road, Cascade Knox
and the Knox YeIlowpine road.
Pocatello.-0ne hundred and fifty
three coyotes one gray wolf, two
stock-killing bears and two bobcats |
were killed in Idaho by ten federal
hunters in one month
Pocatello-T is scarcity Of
labor in the western and central part
OF the state according TO word re-
eeived by the chamber of commerce.
Twin Falls.-Twin Falls was chosen .
as the 1923 meeting place for the COM
ing year, at the secOrd annual reunion
at Burnley OF the Seventy-Niners.
Boise.-One hundred twenty-three
carloads OF potatoes have been shipped
from. the ldaho-Oregon sections, as
compared with 90 cars shipped the
same date in 1927 and 80 cars shipped
in 1920, according to a report issued
by the United States department of
agriculture.
e.-Exhibitions from the various
departments of the University of Ida.
no proved feature of the annual
Idaho state fair.