The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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cars.
A farmer near Parma this seaso
harvested wheat that averaged 7;
bushels to the acre.
The city council of Emmett has or
dered the closing of all saloons be-
tween midnight and 6 a. m.
A team belonging to Lee Robinson,
of Nampa, ran away last week, shak'
ing Mr.. Robinson up and bruising him
considerably.
John Leonard Chaffin, who was
frightfully mutilated in the sugar fac.
tory at Idaho Falls, died in a hospital
in Salt Lake City.
The forest fires on Little Wolf creek
have been %extinguished by a heavy
rainstorm, after considerable dam
age had been done.
r. D. McDougall, a mining carpen-
ter, aged 48, is dead as he result OF
injuries sustained by falling from a
hotel porch at Pearl.
It is said that $4,000 or mor
acres of grain will be sown pext year
on Camas prairie, being the greatest
acreage of grain ever planted there.
Marshal Dan Kerfoot, of Ontario,
claims the honor Of capturing the gold
bullion stolen in the Meadows-W Warren
stage hold up and buried at Ontario.
The Summit hotel at Monida, a stop
ping place for tourists who visited
Yellowstone Park, has been destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at SIS 5000.
Work is being vigorously prosecuted
on the Minidoka canal, seven grading
camps being at work, each camp hav-
ing 10 to 30 men and from rs to ~
horses.
1t is announced that a syndicate COM
posed of wealthy citizens of st. Louis
will finance the Bruneau Land Il
Irrigating company project in Bru'
neau valley.
Mrs. Maud Ellen Stone, of Boise,
who was seriously burned while
cleaning a stove with a mixture of tur'
pentine and gasoline, has succumbed
to her injuries.
In Idaho in 1890 the number of chill |
dren under five years of age were 700
to every 1000 females 10 to As years
of age. In 1900 the proportion had
been decreased to 600,
It is said as soon as the projected
bridge across Rock creek, a short dis
lance west of Twin Falls, is built,
the Oregon Short Line will extend its
line to Bull without delay.
At the Rankin mill, on Rapid river, |
Harvey Harris, of Weiser, last week
shot and killed a large bear that was
prowling around the cabins for food.
His paws measured over nine inches
across.
On a Twin Falls farm a crop of
sweet potatoes has just been har-
vested which is considered a banner
yield Of this region. The luscious
sweet 'spuds' averaged more than
eight inches in diameter.
The next annual session of the
Idaho State Medical Society will be
held in Lewiston. At the thirteenth
annual meeting in Boise last week,
DR.. J. B. Morris, of Lewiston, was
chosen as president of the society.
The balloon ascension at Caldwell
on the opening day of the fair nearly
resulted in a tragedy. When the bal
loon was up about 800 feet it burst
assunder, but fortunately the para
chute opened and the aeronaut safely
landed.
Robert McNeeley, while working in
the shaft of his mine on Cat Creek,
about IS miles north of Mountain
Home, struck a missed hole, and as a
Of the explosion which followed,
was severely injured about the face
and eyes.
J. v. Mundell, ex-assessor and ex-
recorder of Gilmore county, who was
arrested, charged with embezzling
county money, was arranged last
week before Probate Judge Stimson
and placed under $500 bond, which he
furnished.
Pat Riley, who was confined in the
Haley Jail awaiting trial for burg
larry, made a saw from a case knife,
cut the hasp of the paddock on the
IGOR between the corridor of the Jail
and what is called the hospital cell,
and made his escape.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application Of Charles
M. Hemphill, of Shoshone, F. Mill
saps, e. A. Walters, Frank Know and
f. E. Wilmington to organize the