The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-08-04
IDAHO NEWS.


IDAHO NEWS.
The log cut around St. Maries will |
be large this summer. Contracts are
under consideration for about 50,000,- |
900 feet.
Andrew Carnegie has donated $1,000
to be applied toward the purchase OF
a pipe organ for the Presbyterian
church at Boise.
The badly decomposed body OF
Frank G. Marin was found recently
in a cattle shed at the fairgrounds at
Blackfoot. He had been missing for
five weeks.
The 32d annual session of the Co.
lumbia River conference Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church will convene
in Moscow August %.
Tom Wheeler carries the record as
champion sheep shearer in Idaho. He
is now at his ranch near Hayburn. Mr..
Wheeler also won round trip ticket
to the Portland exposition for the
rapidity and neatness of his work.
Governor Gooding has requested the
cooperation of the different towns OF
the state in the organization of state
band, which will make a trip to the
Portland exhibition and participate In
the observances on Idaho day, Sep
TENDER 4.
Miles s. Johnson of Lewiston, for
four years prosecuting attorney of
Nez Perez county, has been appointed
assistant United States attorney for
North Idaho and assumed the position
on August 1. Lewiston has been desig-
mated as his official residence.
After being a fugitive from justice
for over eight years, Theodore Foust,
who was indicted for robbery by the
grand jury of Shoshone county early
in 1898, was arrested by Sheriff Suth-
erland and officer Quinn, who found
him walking the streets Of Wallace.
Information has reached Boise of a
fatal dynamite explosion which occur
red few days ago at Meadows. A
man named Barnum was killed and
three other men were injured. A box
of dynamite at Carl Browns camp on
Big creek caught fire while number
of people were sitting near it, and ex-
ploded before they could get away.
| A contracting firm Of San Francisco
has been awarded the contract for
constructing the o. R. & N.-Northern
Pacific connection between Riparia
and Lewiston. The line will be start.
ed Immediately and according to the
terms of the contract is to be in shape
for operation April 1, 1906. The esti
mated cost is between $1,700,0OO and
100000.
Professor H. T. French, in charge
of the agricultural college and expert
ment station, is planning for the mos,
Extensive series of farmers institutes
throughout the state this fall thai
have ever been held in Idaho. In al
there will be Is or 20 institutes, ex
tending from the panhandle to the
southern extremity of the state. Coco
roads will be a leading subject OF thu
programs.
All of the churches of Weiser will
hold union services in the open al
Sunday evenings during the summer.
!, Mrs. Caddie M. Shupe was convicted
at Paris of the crime of voluntar.
manslaughter, in the murder of Arthu
Douglas. The crime was COMMITTEES
, at Montpelier July 1. Douglas ha'
, been living with the woman for tw
!, years, but determined to leave her. H
visited her and gave a final answer t
, her pleadings that he do not forsak
her, declaring he would not yield. Sh
, then shot him.
There will be launched at tn
: Cramps shipbuilding yards in Phils
a delphia next fall battleship whic
. will be one of the most effective in tn
\ world. The battleship will be tn
a Idaho, and belongs to what is know
q as the Mississippi class. The 1dah
will be ship of $4,000 tons, with
= waterline of 375 feet, II feet wide, an
!. have a coal bunker capacity of lie
" tons and II knots speed. Her mea
q gross draft will be q feet. When con
4 pleted she will have cost nearly st
=. 100000.
a There is absolutely no truth in an
:. shape and form in tile report that tt
!. Morning mine has been sold to tn
r. smelter trust or anyone else," say
Thomas l.. Greenough. ut is tt
Il widest kind of rumor. A rumor
this effect was current at Wallace II
week, but there is nothing in 1t
all. We have not even been in