The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-29

Idaho Falls is at present putting in

Steve D0Well, OF Van Wyck, this
year raised 60 bushels of oats to the
acre.
The new town or Rupert is to have
a bank, which will start with a capt..
al of $4,000.
Excavation work for the new -four
ing mill Payette is to have in the near
future was begun last week.
Between ninety and a hundred car.
loads of fruit were shipped out Of
Idaho during the past week.
Track-laying has begun on the Lew
iston-Riparia line. About 1000 men
are employed, and the force is being
increased daily.
Joseph A. Clark. who for three
terms has filed the Office of mayor OF
Idaho Falls, and we'll known through.
put the state, is dead.
During the present season the su.
gar factories at Idaho Falls and SUI
gar City will distribute among the
farmers about $500, 900.
A municipal waterworks system is
to be put in at Rexburg at once at a
cost of 100000, the bonds having
already been negotiated.
Canyon county has voted an issue
of 100000 of bonds for the erection of
a court house at Caldwell. The vote
stood 655 for the bonds to 1872 against
There now appears to be no doubt
but that the Crane Creek reservoir
will be built, tests recently made by
the engineers having proved satisfac'
tory.
The Kitty Burton mill and cyanide
plant at Ulysses has been destroyed
by fire, entailing a loss of $45, 900,
and throwing a number of men out
Of employment.
c. s. Branning, a former Salt Laker,
was drowned in the Snake river al
!. Twin Falls while on a fishing trip
] Branning lost his footing and pitched
headisaong into the rapids.
Nampa isA., considerably worked W.
over a series Sf hold-ups and burg
;aries during theN past week. One man
lost $500 and wash shot at, the bullet
passing through his coat sleeve.
The average yiSld of oats in the
vicinity of st. Anthony this season
will be 50 bushels; to the acre. Thirty
to 40 bushels Of grain have been
this year on dry farms.
j.. W. ThompsoR. tried at Pocatello
tor the murder ofJJ Hall on an Ore.
gon Short Line dining car while en-
ployed as chef. Fiall being a waiter,
was sentenced tb ten years at hard
labor.
There have been in the neighbor.
hood of so stgam threshers in opera.
ton in the/ Snake river valley this
season in addition to the horse power
machinesi and the yield has been enor-
NOUS
,IMacadam pavement is to be put
down at once the entire length OF
Broadway, the principal street of Ida.
no Falls, and on part of Park and
Capital avenues. The estimated cost
is $4,000.
Five men who were quarantined at
Richardson's logging camp at Council,
where a child died with d%iphtheria, es-
capped from there and came to Weiser,
where they were arrested and placed
in the city Jail.
A jury in the United State district
court at Boise acquitted John Gun.
bingham of the charge of starting
forest fires. The case has attracted
much attention as the first effort here
to convict a mar of that offense.
There are seventeen boys and five
girls in the Industrial school at st.
Anthony at present. The boys are
taught farming and various trades,
the girls sewing, housekeeping and
other branches of domestic science.
A mar named Joe Dockman, an Aus.
TRAN, was killed at Payette lakes by
the limb of a tree which he was cut.
ting striking him on the head. He
was knocked sensless and never re.
gained consciousness, dying the next
day.
In the history of the Snake river
valley there has never been such
crops as have been grown this season.
Oats yielding IS to so bushels to the
acre, wheat so and alfalfa three to SIX
tons, tells a story that would cause
the average eastern farmer to turn
green with envy.
The town of Sugar City, this sta =,
was born a little over a year al ].