The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-12-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

eAhu tCoCuSI HAS uecH cuSdSc'
Tor the public schools at Star.
The Quaker church, three mile
northwest of Star, is nearing compile
lion.
Worlsmen digging well at Moscow
found a log perfectly sound, apparent
" tamarack, at a depth Of 80 feet.
A plan Is on foot to divide Kootena
county, the northern part to be called
Roosevelt, with Standpoint as thu
county seat.
J. 0. Patton, on trial at Lewiston fol
killing Charles Lewis at Culdesac, was
acquitted, Patton having proven that
the deed was committed in self de
Tense.
Charles B. Jackson. a sheepherder
came to his death near Payette as the
result of drinking a quantity OF
orchard spray fluid, having mistaken
4 for water
At Jul;ette. H. F. Steffer, farmer,
was saved from being gored to death
by a maddened bull by the timely ar,
rival OF neighbor. who aided in sub.
DUNG the animal.
The Boise Blues and Payette foot.
ball teams contested for supremacy on
the Payette gridiron on Thanksgiving
day. the Payette team winning from
the visitors by score of % to 0.
James R. Sovereign, former Master
Workman of the Knights of Labor,
who suffered hemorhage of the brain
at Wallace. is much improved, and the
physicians say that he will recover.
The contract for carrying the mail
from Thunder to Roosevelt has been
awarded to John F. Barnes of Nampa
at $4,000, and from Bear to Black lake
to Peter Kramer of Council for ST..
500.
There is considerable activity in
real estate in Mountain Home. Prop
erty is changing hands rapidly. Most
OF the sales are to outsiders, who have
been fiocking to this section for some
time.
In a race between two horses from
Nee Perez to Lewiston. 60 miles. an
Indian PONY won in four hours and q
minutes. The other horse, standard.
bred. stopped IL miles from the goal
worn cut.
Weiser is rapidly forging to the
front as one of the most important
stock shipping points on the Oregon
Short line railway. During the past
season 5S7 cars of stock were shipped
from that point.
JUICE Beatty has handed down de.
cision at Moscow which is of great
Importance to the legal profession, in
that 1t has the effect of increasing the
statute OF limitations in this state
from six to seven years.
Advices have been received from the
virginia group OF mines in this state,
that the fissure on the GOO.foot level
has widened out into fifteen inches,
and that the lowest assay testifies to
the presence Of $2O5 in gold.
Since the Idaho building at the
Fair has been awarded second
Prize because OF its comfort, beauty
and economy OF construction, the
structure has attracted a great deal
IF attention at the exposition.
Mrs. A. j. Turner. wife of a promi.
,ent cattlenan living near Weiser,
vas seriously injured by the horse she
vas riding stumbling an falling. She
vas thrown clear off the horse, alight-
ng on her shoulder and head. ,
The Oregon Short Line has awarded
o the Utah Construction company the I
tor the construction of the
ranch line to the site of the Barber !
lumber company's dam, about five
niles up the Boise river from the cap.
tal city.
To prove that the Ada county roads
re not so bad as represented, Frank
1cDowell ran his automobile to Me-
ldlan, a distance OF 10 miles, in IS +
,inutes.' Just TO show that it was not ,
fiuke. Mr.. Mcdowell came back in G
ne same time
Hon. B, F. O'Neil of Wallace will g
hortly etaDlish the State Bank of h
lontI eller, with a capital of $50 600. r
[r. O'Neil will be president Of the l.
lst.tution, and will. it is said. hold a. s
la1orty Of the stock, the remainder :.
be t,ken by loca! men. =
A stage line between Meadows and
1e lakes is to be established so that
eople may go back and forth readily.
is only an hours drive, and those
amped at Meadows may 20 over to
he lakes for day without incon-
entence and vica vorco