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Show IDAHO SIAIE NEWS Thirty-five Idaho postmasters wcr appointed one day last week. It cost the state $192.50 for an audit of the books of the state penitentiary. Much activity is expected in tha huilding line in Pocatello the coming com-ing summer. "Hinkey" games are under the ban in Mountain Home by order of the sheriff. Gambling is the reason given for this action. The Knights of Pythias are making elaborate preparations for the distric' meeting of the order which meets af Mountain Home on the 15th. Engineer Ed. Smith of Pocatello was killed when twelve cars were piled up in a wreck near American Falls, his fireman escaping uninjured. . Wm. H. Hornibrook of Albany, Ore-igon, Ore-igon, formerly of Twin Falls county, Idaho, has been appointed by President Presi-dent Wilson as the LTnited States representative rep-resentative to Siam. At the request of the credit men of Pocatello, the Idaho Legislative bu-.reau bu-.reau will see that the uniform American Ameri-can credit bill is introduced at this legislative session. Judgment of the lower court was affirmed by the supreme court last Iweek in an appeal by Charles Dris-kill, Dris-kill, sentenced last fall from Nez Perce county for a statutory offense. An action has been filed in the district dis-trict court of Gooding county involve ing the title to some 90 odd acres of land which includes the location of the Thousand Springs power plant. Alfonso Legion, the Italian arrested arrest-ed at Pocatello last week for the theft of a library from a house he had been occupying at Mountain Home, has been held to the district 'court for trial. The Boise Commercial club has decided de-cided to increase the number of di-pectors di-pectors from 10 to 21, in order that as far as possible each line of business busi-ness cf the city may have a representative. repre-sentative. Discussion of the. foot and mouth disease, rabies and hog rholera wero features of the annual convention of the Idaho Association of veterinary Graduates, which was held in Boise last week. The Methodists of Idaho Falls have .decided to erect a new church building, build-ing, promising to have ready for occupancy oc-cupancy within the year one of -the handsomest church buildings in south, ern Idaho. Boise's famous chickenwith-the-swa.llow-tajl-coat th,e glories of whose Costume have been exploited throughout through-out the press of the east and middle west, is po more, the bird having been found dead last week. ' Representative Addison T. Smith of Idaho, discussing presidential politics, and looking ahead to 191G, finds nq man on the horizon looming bigger; than Senator Borah of his own state, says a Washington dispatch. In response -to a petition, Mayor Clark of Idaho Falls has issued a proclamation calling an election for March 2 to vote upon the question as to whether Idaho Falls will adopt tha commission form of government. Milte Hepa and Gus Thoris, Greek section men, have been arrested at Shoshone, charged with robbery of interstate in-terstate cars, from, which shoes were taken in transit. A number of pair.s sold at Shoshone have -been recovered. recov-ered. That the two Caldwell men, J. C. Johnson and son, Byron, and an unknown un-known man w-ho were found dead in a refrigerator cart Huntington, Ore., " were asphyxiated by the gas from a coke stove was the verdict of the coroner's jury. Senator Brady is making a determined deter-mined effort to have the war department depart-ment establish a remount station at Boise barracks. There are only two remount stations now west of the Mississippi river, one in Montana and -the other in Nevada. The Boise Statesman says that not only did the grand jury find conditions condi-tions at the Children's Home sufficient to warrant a clean -bill of health, but half the members were so impressed with the work at that Institution that they made private donations before -leaving. According to information received from Lewiston, -that city may have an extension of the Pittsburg & Gilmore road. It is rumored that there are some such plans being made, and that they are likely to be precipitated by the separation of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern. II. D. Curtis, president of the Halley National bank, W. F. Home, former county clerk and now chairman of the board of county commissioners, and Mayor Henry Plughoff have been arrested on the charge of grand larceny, lar-ceny, of appropriating from I'.laino county 13 bonds valued at $500 each. While driving across an irrigation ditch near Idaho Falls, John Alfred Anderson, age 30 years, a farmer, was thrown from the wagon sent and killed, one of the wheels of the wagon passing over his body. The several women's clubs of Idaho are all writing to the Idaho representatives rep-resentatives in congress urging upon them the passage of the Palmer Owet child labor 'bill, the slate child labor: law being one of the first results ol the united efforts of the women ol the stale. The Canyon County Farmers" Mutual Mu-tual Fire Insurance company held it." annual meeting in Caldwell last weel: According "to the reports the company has in force over two million dollar? among the farmers of Canyon, Ada and- Washington counties. |