The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS

trees.
B. +. Clay OF Caldwell was last week
ined $3.50 for striking H. NJ Hedges
With an ak. Hedges was not badly in.
tured.
A raid was made on the saloons of
Bonners' Ferry last week and five slot
machines and a roulette table were
eonfiscated.
Gambling has been stopped in Nam.
pa, the officers making raid last
week and closing all the games of
chance in the town.
F. A. Coe, lessee OF the big orchard
Of the Weiser Fruit and Land com.
pany, at Weiser, expects to have about
30 carloads of fruit to ship this season.
Nearly all of the fruit in the Payette
valley is larger and better this year as
the frost thinned the trees so that the
remaining fruit made a good growth.
Herbert Messecar, a Boise valley
man, had the misfortune to have a
load Of wood tip over on him, breaking
three ribs and otherwise bruising
him
The natural gas strike on Dead OK
fat, near Weiser, is creating consider
able excitement, and steps will be
taken to thoroughly investigate 1t by
further sinking.
The total assessed valuation of the
state this year is $74,401 ,8846l, an in
crease of $6,927, 1881 over 1904 and
of $8,427,176.52 over 1903. The in
crease in 1904 over 1903 was 49,
178.41.
A scheme is on foot to provide
Weiser with electric lights and power
from Swan Falls, distance of 85
miles, the plant to be completed with
in four months at cost of about
100000.
It is reported that H. F. Samuels
has sold his 1-64 interest in the cele.
brated Hercules mine at Burke, Ida.,
to other owners in the property for
b62,5O0. This is upon a basis of 49,
100000 for the mine
Charles Il. Bloom, accused of the
murder of John Strom, near Junction,
the crime having been committed on
the night of July II last, has been
paptured and will be taken back to
Lemhi county for trial.
1t is believed the output of grain
from Nez Perez and Idaho counties
will be equal to that of last year,
while in the Snake river and Asotin
bections the yield is considerably
heavier than for several years.
The state has selected and filed on
100000 acres Of land in Fremont coun-
~ that Is to be leased to sheep men.
The leading sheep men OF that section
hawe agreed to lease this land for a
period of five years at IN cents an
we're.
The returning delegates from the
National Irrigation congress at Port
hand report having had hard time
landing the coveted prize of next |
PEARS session in Boise, and are con-
neQuently all the more proud Of their
Victory.
William West, who shot and killed |
+. Lefonte at Roosevelt last month,
and who was liberated by a coroner's
Jury, is again under arrest on an in |
formation fled by the prosecuting at
torney of Idaho county, charging him
with murder.
Fire broke out in the planning mill
nj the White Pine Lumber company at
Priest River, destroying the entire
plant with eight million feet Of lum.
her, II box cars on the Great North
srn tracks, together with about TWEEN.
ky-fve residences.
Tom Grible, while riding horse
very fast as he was coming home from
Meridian, recently, ran into team
and wagon. The horses leg hit the
hub of the wagon and was broken.
Tom was knocked senseless and the
horse had to be killed.
There is every prospect that before
the arrival of the date set for the
Antermountain fair, there will be an
hnti-confetti ordinance on the statute
books Of Boise. Mayor Pinney having
declared himself in favor of the abeli-
ton of this nuisance.
Lewiston grain dealers estimate the
wheat crop in the Clearwater country
10 be at least 10 per cent larger than
last year. This estimate is based
upon the acreage and yields already 6
reported, which have been received
from all of the grain sections. (
A contract has been closed between .
the Western Idaho Sugar company I
and w. F. Sherwood of Payette,
the latter is to furnish the =
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