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tence or imprisonment ginally passed upon them, Dong Sing and Lo Ming, convicted Chinese murderers, have been committed to the state prison by District Judge Givens for the murder of Bok Sing, rival tongman. March 31, 1917. The Chinese will begin immediately serving their sentences. Boise.-Alleging gross mismanagement on the part of the directors of the Bannock National bank of Pocatello, which suspended business on May 13, 1921, R. L. Curtis, as receiver of the bank. has filed suit in the United States district court seeking to recover from the directors more than $3,000,000 in liabilities. New Meadows.-Pine forests over a large area surrounding New Meadows are being ravaged by the "pine butterfly," the caterpillar of which eats the needles of the tree, F. S. Baker, in charge of public relations for the Fourth district of the United States forest service announces. From New Meadows the pest has spread as far as warren and Council, and now cov. ers roughly & circle extending 50 miles in all directions from New Meadows. Boise.-During July Boise police arrested 250 persons. Four autos were reported stolen. Boise.-July saw the extermination of one gray wolf, 94 coyotes and two bobcats, according to the monthly report of Luther J. Goldman, predatory animal inspector for Idaho. Nampa.-A compressor weighing eight tons is being installed in a local fruit factory. Weiser.-Five Weiser girls, Alice, Margaret, Gertrude and Helen Neeley and Muriel Klotz, camped in the Weiser national forest, came to the ranger's relief when five fires broke out in his domain almost simultaneously and the nearest male assist. ance was seven miles distant. Nampa.-Twenty car loads of potatoes have been shipped this season. Harvesting is being rushed. Idaho Falls.-Miss Ethel Nichols, living on a ranch 10 miles east of town, committed suicide by taking a dose of potassium cyanide. Coeur d'Alene.-Fumes from a picric acid explosive used by Fred Beneke and Nels Johnson in blasting a well on the Beneke ranch, 14 miles north of here, caused the death of the two men and the asphyxiation of Fred Cisco ,a neighbor, who attempted to rescue them. Boise.-Frank Eldridge, for three years a guard at the state penitentiary is in a critical condition at St. A1phonsus hospital as a result of an alleged murderous assault made on him by McKinley Tipton, a prisoner serving from one to fourteen years for grand larceny committed in Twin Falls. Pocatello.-The American Legion post of this city is planning upon the erection in the near future of a suitable soldier memorial, plans suggested being for a log building upon a site in one of the city parks. The building would be constructed so that it would be suitable for community meetings of all kinds. Hajley.-S. B. Locke, assistant havIng charge of the fish and game interests of the district forest office, with headquarters at Ogden, arrived here a few days ago and left for the Sawtooth region, to confer with the state game warden for the continuance of the fish stocking program initiated last year. Hailey-An abstract of the assessment roll in Blaine county for 1922 shows a total valuation of $4,456,935, as compared with $4,487,214 for the previous year. Among the principal Items of valuation are irrigated land, $1,962,703: grazing land, $681,642; dry land. $176,389; improvements on mines. $104,450; improvements in outside cities, business and residence lots, $752,100: merchandise, $149,660, and common cattle, $79,060. Pocatello.-J. A. Camphell, Short Line operator of the McCammon station. received a telegram from Sulphur Springs. Mo., notifying him of the death of his wife, son. Sam, 9 years of age and daughter, Mary, 7 years of age, the serious injury of another daughter 3 years of age, and that a baby 6 months of age, was not expected to live, as a result of a
