The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-12-23
IDAHO STATE NEWS.
Farmers OF Parma are selling hay
ct $500 per toa.

Canyon county paid the greatest
sum for schoo. teachers in 1904, the
amount being $44,9SG15.
The Moscow Business Mems asso.
citation has started crusade for a fed
eral building for Moscow.
Kootenai county employs the most
school teachers, having % male and
113 female pedagogues on the payrolls
There is prospect that the Check
mate mine at Pearl will be started up
again soon after the first of the year.
Several carloads of baled alfalfa hay
have been shipped from Parma to
Portland in the last week and more
will be shipped soon.
| The Baptist people of Mountain
Home are building parsonage for
fhel1 new minister, Rev. C. r. Wayte,
who comes the first of the year from
Iberia. Mo.
Fire destroyed four buildings in
Grangeville on the End. At one time
the entire town was threatened. The
loss probably reached $4,000. The
Grangeville News plant was destroyed
by water.
The telephone line from Dixie to
Pine is now ready for business. 1t is
the intention to push the line towards
Rocky Bar this winter, but it is not
likely it can be completed to that point
until spring.
The total number of children Of
school age in the state on August 81,
1904, was G8,537, of which 54,480 were
enrolled. The number of pupils on the
same day in 1903 was G2,812 and the
enrolment 48,1S1.
There Is quite an epidemic of ty.
phoid fever raging in Bruneau valley |
at the present time, some deaths hav.
Ing occurred. The sickness was
caused by impure water taken from
She Buckaroo ditch.
Mountain Home is growing rapidly.
Settlers of the better class are com.
ing IN on every train. Thirty families
arrived from Dakota few days ago.
"A number of houses are being erected,
also q business block.
w. ]. Petrie, who confessed that he
placed distractions on the Short Line
track in the vicinity of Notus with the
object of derailing train, is still con-
tned in jail at CALDWELL He will not
have his trial at this term of court.
Frank Cleghorn. who owns a ranch,
stage station and saloon at the mouth
of Pahsamaroi river. was found dead {
in the waiting room of the depot at {
Red fCck, Mont. He had been on
protracted spree for several months.
The school exhibits from Idaho at
she worlds fair attracted the favorable
attention of educators from many for. |
eign countries and as result inquir- t
les ere coming in for information re, b
yardlng the school system OF the state. T
The Idaho Sugar company's factory q
1t Idaho Falls has finished it's run and G
closed its plant after steady run of g
two months. Ihirty-five thousand tons tt
Of beets were cut and something over :.
seventy thousand bags of sugar made 9
An association of farmers has N
bought the controlling interest of DR..
A. +. lsham and c. w. Cooper in the
Caldwell creamery. 1t is their pur. Ii,
pose to work up all of the cream of tie
,he sure undlng country at actual cost. al
The application of D. w. Ackley for H
writ of mandate compelling Warden II
'errln of the penitentiary to vacate -.
'ffice in Ackley's favor and turn over ia
he keys and property of the prison, 30
vas granted last week by the supreme wi
curt tn
cr
MOSCOW attorneys do not believe an
sslstant United States district attor-
ley will be appointed for Idaho before
ext july owing to the appropriation DO
ven to the United States attorney an
eneral for such purposes being too PHI
wv. nv,
Edwin Hyde, whose sister, Miss Rose
iyce CT London, England, recently &c
'rote to Governor Morrison, incur. IN
11g as to her brCther's whereabouts. e e.,
as been located in Boise. He has been in
familiar figure in the capital city for of
lany years. EN-
The bod ,es of Percy Harris and Ken. r"
eth Willis were found under TIE logs Fa
Lake Occur d'Alene at Cameron's ,
cry on the 9TH. The boys, who were NV
bout 8 years old, were last seen tn,
bout p. m. the previous day. They sts
ad been playing about the logs. sic
Because they had been selling l n'
leat in Boise at about two-thirds of Mr.
ne price charged by the butcher shops w,
the city, two farmers living near IN,
leridian have been placed under ar. ~,
est for violation of the anti-naddEru .n'