Arrests, thefts and swindles, prohibition stills, posses and manhunts, and the courts.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
Two men were killed at an Arbon Valley trailer park in May 1986, and years later Sheriff Jim Jeffries told how a wanted poster he printed in Spanish and English turned up the witness who closed a labor camp killing.
In May 1978 a Bannock Creek rancher and a young Shoshone-Bannock stockman from the same creek each told a federal judge he might have to sell cattle if the forest grazing case went against his side.
After years of break-ins at ranch homes left empty over the winter, Arbon Valley ranchers in 1962 formed a protective association under Sod Williams, offered a $250 reward and planned to log every car that came in.
In March 1958 a farmer named Bradley helped a mired car out of the mud near Arbon, saw that its plates had been smeared over and called the sheriff, and two boys in a stolen Ford were stopped at Downey 40 minutes later.
In 1954 a pickup taken at Lava Hot Springs and then a missing Pocatello man's body turned up in Arbon Valley, and by fall twenty ranchers had organized to patrol the valley through the winter.
A man hired to help bring in the 1953 harvest on Joseph G. Arbon's ranch was caught trying to sell his employer's goods to a neighbor and pleaded guilty to grand larceny.
In June 1951 Arbon Valley ranchers joined a Power County posse hunting a Michigan couple and their small daughter, who fled a theft on Bannock Creek and walked more than 30 miles over the mountains to Inkom.
In the fall of 1938 a land salesman from Washington state told two Arbon farmers they had won a mattress, a tract of land and $35 a month for life, and each paid him $88.50 to collect.
In May 1937 two sheriffs hunting a red-haired man in a Downey disappearance drove out to Pauline to see a young drifter two farmers had found, and turned back when he proved too young.
In January 1935 thieves emptied a garage Crystal farmers shared for bad-weather parking, three men were soon under arrest, and a jury at American Falls convicted one of them of burglary that March.
Fifteen years after the Argonne, Park Lusk of Arbon Valley sued the United States over a war risk claim and walked a Pocatello jury through the advance of September 1918.
In February 1933 federal agents went by sled to a ranch on Rattlesnake Creek near Crystal, seized a 50-gallon still and charged five men under the prohibition law.
In July 1932 prohibition officers arrested George N. Judkins, an Arbon farmer, for selling iced beer from his car at Saturday night dances near the Arbon school.
In October 1925 the woman who had kept the Arbon post office was arraigned at Pocatello over $419.06 in missing funds, and the man who had carried the valley's mail was fined $100 for turning mail sacks into grain bags and saddle blankets.
Days before the 1922 Roundup, a lantern led two Power County officers to a copper still hidden at Sunbeam, where a young Kentuckian was caught at work and charged with his uncle, a Pauline farmer.
On St. Patrick's Day 1921 W. H. Ball shot a neighbor on the road near Pauline and a deputy sheriff at his cabin, and before the year was out two Power County juries had let him go.
In the spring of 1920 Arbon's farmers incorporated a range association to keep the migrating sheep bands off their canyons and hills, and by midsummer a deputy was riding the ranges and sheepmen were standing trial at Pauline.
In November 1917 a Pauline wheat buyer followed a stolen load by lantern, and Deputy Sheriff Hy Secrist waited for the thieves behind a telephone pole.
Jailed at Malad in 1915 on a forgery charge, L. E. Howell of South Arbon was suspected of an old West Virginia killing until two officers from that state came west and said he looked nothing like their man.
In June 1913 John Ryan, a hand on the Evans and Daniels ranch on Bannock Creek, sold a load of hogs in Pocatello, left his team in a shed and dropped out of sight.