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Show IDAHO STATE NEWS While cleaning his rifle last week, Dr. Ralph Falk of Boise accidentally discharged the gun, the bullet hitting him in the shoulder. The young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dorman of Cadwell fell on the sidewalk while playing and broke a bone in one of her feet A representative of W. A. Clark, of Butte, has been investigating the Owyhee mining district, causing considerable con-siderable excitement in that section. The governor last' week appointee more than 150 Idaho men delegates to the National Dry Farming congress, which convenes in K Paso, Texas, early in October. C. H. Beatty, a prominent sheep man of Burley, Idaho, has sworn out a complaint against Attorney James H. Bacon of Pocatello charging charg-ing him with embezzlement. Pete Olson, a carpenter employed at Emmett, fell from a plank on which he and a fellow workman were standing stand-ing to the first floor, 16 feet below, and sustained a broken wrist. Shelley is to have a sugar factory. The new factory will be erected about five-eiglr:hs of a mile east of the railway rail-way depot at Shelley and is to be completed com-pleted in time to handle next year's crop. It is announced that Senator Borah, Senator Brady and the two members of the house from Idaho will enter the fall campaign in this state shortly short-ly in the interest of the Republican ticket. Loss of city revenues from polict fines, special licenses, reduced prop erty and a smaller county road levy will necessitate Boise taxpayers pay ing an increase of approximately $45, 000 in taxes over last year. Under direction of L. R. Simmons of Washington, D. C, specialist in farm bureau organization, a comprehensive compre-hensive effort is to be made to develop the Canyon county farm bureau into an effective and model body. ( Former Assessor A. O. Christophei of Canyon county, against whom ouster ous-ter proceedings are pending, was bound over to the district court to answer an-swer to the charge of embezzling J587.50 of the funds of his office. W. S. Harrison, a prominent rancher living south of Twin Falls, lies in a hospital, suffering from two broken ribs, a broken collar beme and other injuries, suffered in an auto accident, caused from running over a dog. A coroner's jury at Mountain Home decided Pio Gayo came to his death by the accidental discharge of a gun carelessly held in the hands of G. H. Striekler. Justice of the Peace Downs bound Striekler over on a charge oi manslaughter under $1,000 bonds. Fourteen warrants were sworn out Saturday in Mackay against residents resi-dents of that city who are alleged to have been selling and transporting intoxicating in-toxicating b'quor during the past four months. When the arrests were made a little riot beean but no nerson was hurt. Though he had pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery upon up-on the . person of his mother-in-law, Frank Crane, a young business man of Nampa, vigorously demurred when Justice G. T. Moore sentenced him to serve sixty days in the county jail and pay a fine of $200. The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Polly, who reside two miles southeast of Burley, was drowned in a cistern. The little fellow fel-low was playing in th neighborhood of the cistern and running on to the cistern cis-tern top stepped upon a rotten board which gave way under his weight. One thousand dollars for one Ram-bouillet Ram-bouillet ram, the highest price paid' up to that date at the annual ram sale and sheep show held in connection connec-tion with the national convention of the National Wool Growers' association associa-tion at Salt Lake was the record rec-ord set by a Weiser sheep owner. September 22 has tentatively been selected as the date for the annual fair of the Star schools. Plans already al-ready announced and exhibits known to be in course of preparation assure, say those interested, that this year's fair will eclipse last year's highly successful suc-cessful exhibition in numerous ways. Sugar beets are generally good and are approaching maturity. Potatoes are doing well except in a few places where they were injured by the frosts of the previous week. Beans suffered considerable injury from those frosts. Peas are reported to be in excellent condition. In an endeavor to feed the oil stove with fuel in a restaurant at St. Anthony, the cook mistook the burners burn-ers for the tank. Result, a fire which called out the fire department, which did not quench the flames until the interior of the building was destroyed. de-stroyed. Loss $1,200. Martin Phelps, who lives thirteen miles from Montpelier, brought his 7-yeur-old son to town for examination and treatment and the doctor, upon examination, found the child to he suffering from infantile paralysis. The raise In water rates granted .he Idaho Improvement company of Mackay in December, 1913, on condition condi-tion that the company make improvp-lieuts improvp-lieuts in its plant before July 1, 1016, las been revoked until the changes n the plant have been made. Jimmy Whittaker, the boy who at :he age of il years, murdered his nother, and was sentenced to the daho penitentiary for a period of .wenty-five years, may be safely set it large at the time he is eligible to arole, in the opinion of an alienist nko was in'erviewed last week. |