White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-08-01
Idaho News

AMERICAN FALLS-At the cheese
factory for the week ending June 81,
| 400 pounds of milk were received
and about 700 pounds of cheese made.
The factory is shipping 1000 pounds
of cheese to Pocatello this week.
WALLACE.-Fire, discovered at an
early morning hour recently, swept
between the 600 and 900-foot levels OF
the Hecla Mine at Burke. 1t was not
checked for some time.
| BOISE.-Operation at the Kraft
cheese factory at Pocatello have not
yet reached capacity, according to l..
H. Rogers of the factory staff, who is
at the Oyhee Hotel here. 1t has ca
pacity of $4,000 pounds of loaf cheese
daily. The Pocatello plant will care
for eight states, acting as distribu-
ton center for Nevada, Montana, Wy
oming Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washing
ton and California. All varieties of
cheese are made.
TWIN FALLS.-Dischargin shot
gun, set to guard a cherry orchard
against pillage, as he crawled under a
fence into the premises, Roy Callahan,
81 years old, was instantly killed at
Hagerman recently. H. F. Woods,
owner of the orchard, is held in the
Gooding County jail awaiting charge
of murder as the result of the coro-
ner's inquest.
WORLEY. = Doubt concerning the
death of Miss Bertha Leck, young
nurse of Spokane, found recently with
patient here, was cleared with the dis
covery of two letters by the coroner
in which she declared her intention of
taking her life. One of the letters
was addressed to her mother and the
other to sweetheart in California.
Miss Leck was attending Mrs. e. D.
Daniels, sufferer from mental trou-
BILE.
GRANGEVILLE.-Boys' and Girls
clubs of Clearwater, Lewis and Idaho
counties will show pigs, cattle, sheep,
grains, dairying, sewing, canning and
other exhibits at the Idaho County
Fair, September Is, Is, IL.
BONNERS FERRY-Rural mail de-
liveries were started recently to the
Paradise Valley district, E. G. DeWalf
having been appointed mail carrier
until the postal department makes a
permanent appointment. Deliveries
will be made on Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays.
ELK RIVER.-Fire badly damaged
the home Of G. W. Schmaltz recently.
Part of the furniture was saved and
prompt work by the fire department
prevented the fire spreading. The fire
started in the attic. The cause is not
known. A number Of gun shells were
stored in the attic and the heat may
building and furniture were covered
by insurance.
NAMPA.-No water can be furnish.
ed water users Of the Nampa and Me-
, ridian irrigation district except
through rotation. Recently the irriga-
ton supply reached the point where it
: was impossible to furnish water for
J irrigation except in rotation head.
j. Water will be delivered to ranch users
4 in the Nampa section for four days,
0 then the Meridian section for five
8 days, then in the Boise section for
t five days. An effort will be made dur
l. ing these rotation periods to make de.
;. liveries of water to orchards and gar
n dens.
f COEUR D'ALENE.-A steady gain
g was made in the production of metals
l. in Idaho during the first half of 1924
Il according to statement issued by
J. the department Of the interior. The
|. value of the output in 1923 was $26,
d 510,524. All the large mines Of the
b Occur d'Alene district with the excep
n tion of the Callahan lead-zinc property
n are active for the first time in several
years, and many Of them are produc
ing at the maximum rate, spurred or
. by better market conditions.
: BOISE-Demand by Idaho CONNER
= cial bodies and travellers that t he
: Washington plan of regulating motor
: bus transportation be introduced il
Idaho is regarded by state officials O.
- Washington as a tribute to the worl
= of the Department of Public Works
" Washington makes a cautious investi
;. cation before granting certificates tt
:. either passenger or freight motol
= lines, and afterwards closely regulates
:. rates and service. In Idaho a free
- for-all system of using the roads is
-, permitted, but the joys of competition
= are declared to be minimized by the
- absence Of regular service and up-to
= date equipment. Several Washington
stage lines operate from East side
- cities into the panhandle of Idaho
The Washington operators obey the
r same regulations in Idaho that are
s. forced upon them in Washington, anG
y their example is declared to have con
WINGED Idaho people that the Washing
ton system is best.