Idaho Board to Enforce Full Cash Valuation for Property
State Board of Equalization unanimously backs assessing property at full cash value. Governor Hawley urged strict legal compliance, with threats of prosecutions and removals for noncompliance. The plan covers railroads utilities and patented lands as bases for taxation.
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Board of Equalization
State Board of Equalization
Attorney Generals Office
Capital News
Hawley
Idaho
Scientific Housekeeping for Farmers Wives and Colleges
An early 20th century piece argues for women’s training in practical and scientific housekeeping as essential to farm life. It praises farmers institutes and traveling schools, urging colleges to educate farmers wives in modern domestic science to elevate both family well being and broader productivity.
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Iucn
Judge Called To Sit In The Supreme Court Of The State
First District judge Pacatelloe has been assigned to sit on the state Supreme Court for the coming week. He has presided here for five weeks, authored opinions in Whitway Emmett Canal and Farer Gumert cases, and was elected district judge in 1902. He has wide criminal trial experience and notable constitutional rulings shaping Idaho law.
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Supreme Court of the State
Ife
Tle
Bady
Third Judicial District
Joseph Rieh
Water Rights Case Involving Idaho Irrigation Company
Frost and others versus the Idaho Irrigation Co and others concerns water rights from Big Wood River in Glare and Lincolm counties. Over 20 plaintiffs and several hundred defendants faced an action to vacate an order and allow additional defendants. a referee was used and the case was appealed after evidentiary phase.
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Duke
Lancotn Wainty
Supreme Court
Tia
Frost
Idaho Fugation Company
Actin
Big Wood River
Glare
Lincolm
Idaho Irrigation Co
J.C. White and Co
James H. Hawley
Land Decision Reverses Land Office in Cook Homestead Case
The Field Division of the Land Department contested George I Cook’s Homestead Entry for noncompliance. Initially the Blackfoot Land Office favored Cook, but on review the Commissioner reversed. Cook appealed to the Secretary of the Interior and the case was decided in Cook’s favor, a sweeping win for homesteaders.
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Land Dept
George I Cook
Walter Hoge and Son
Lind
James TH. Anderson Esq
Gus Spongberg
Mussionet
Blackfoot
Cook
Iis
Commissioner of the
General Land Office
Secretary of the Interior
Pioneer Mrs Lindsay and Clara Putman Laid to Rest
Mrs Sarah Lindsay of this city, a Bear Lake County pioneer, died last Saturday after a five year illness. She was born in Missouri in 1838 and crossed the plains with an ox team about 45 years ago. She leaves eight children, forty six grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren. The second ward funeral was led by Bishop Lindsay of Ovid with brief consoling remarks from J R Shep Seth St W Wallantine and Bo voulsen. Last Monday night Miss Clara Putman daughter of Seth and Annie Putman of Auburn Wyoming died of heart trouble after months of illness. She was sixteen and beloved by many. Friends mourn her passing with funeral speakers W G Hayward and John A Stucky offering encouragement.
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Sarah Lindsay
Bear Lake County
Lindsay
Jacksn County
Missouri
Eght
Graud
Joseph Smith
Relief Society
Thomas Minson
Ovid
Clara Putman
Seth
Annie
Auburn
Wyoming
Miss Putman
Public Buildings Must Have Outward Swinging Doors
The text requires all new or renovated public buildings to install outward swinging doors for main halls and outward opening egress. Within six months from March first, existing structures used for churches theaters schools or public gatherings must conform or face fines from $100 to $1000. Sheriff Rich notes no involvement with home dramatic companies in Paris or elsewhere.
Farmers Union annual meeting elects officers for three years
At the Farmers Union annual meeting in the court room on Tuesday afternoon A M Rich was elected President J W Cook Vice President W J Ream Secretary J Russell Shepherd Treasurer and J T Shepherd Director for a three year term John Quayle and Alma Findlay were named Directors for one more year The secretary reported 1910 transactions including fencing rope twine flour and salt with substantial savings and a 7 percent invoice price increase approved to benefit the secretary’s services
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Farmers Union
A. M. Rich
J. W Cook
W. J. Ream
J. Russel Shepherd
J. T. Shepherd
John Quayle
Alma Findlay
Bear Lake County
I. T. Shepherd
The
Union
Second Ward Relief Society Succeeds In Prank
The Second ward Relief Society visited Mrs. Susan Price last Thursday and left a china set after a pleasant evening. A humorous plan then spread to gather at Mrs Geo Ashley’s home the following Thursday. All met at Mrs Ashley’s place yesterday and presented a rug and a vase of carnations as a return gesture.
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Second Ward Relief Society
Susan Price
Sister Price
Mr. Price
Socrets
Geo Ashley
Mrs Ashley
Mrs. Ashley
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Uswry
Tion
Isa Pall
Trarmers
Manus
Plains
Scientfic Housekeeping
Padge Tesent
Nepside
Sitten
Whitway
Emmett Canal
Puerto
Cau Lake Votiety
Escent
Monts
State
Budge
Bannock County
Devers Hay
Andy
Ine Grove
Toneray Rudge
Res
Paris
Thomas Sleight
W. G. Hayward
John A. Stucki
Misa Putman
Sherif Rich
Paria
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