The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-06-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS
Boise will celebrate the Fourth OF


this metalIurgical building at the Uni
versity of Idaho, at Moscow, this year
The recent rains insure splendi.
grain crop to the farmers of Dead O.
fiat, near Weiser, who have no fri
cation facilities.
The directors of the State Fair tt
be held at Boise have practically de
cided upon list Of premiums thai
will total $1,000.
AT Hepburn townsite the engineers
are completing the laying out Of the
town, and the railway people are stalk
ing out the depot grounds.
So soon as power is available a
pumping plant is to be put in for the
irrigation of 1900 acres of land imme.
diately around the Burley townsite.
The Federal Mining & Smelling
company, operating silver-lead mines
in the Occur d'Alenes, will pay quar-
terly dividends of 100000 June Is.
A masked man entered the Copper
King saloon at Weiser one evening
last week while business was dull, and
held up the bartender, securing $25 in
cash.
Crops are making wonderful pro,
gress in Long Valley this season.
Wheat and barley sown last fall have
made a fine growth and is now head
ing out
There were during the month of
May 10 cases of smallpox in Boise, all
but one in single family, and one
case of scarlet fever, none of these !
ending fatally
There were in the year from June /,
1904, to June 1, 1905, 321 deaths in
Boise. Figuring from this, on basis
of 10000 people, mortality rate Of
16 to each 1000 is secured.
John Cooley, the man who was sus.
pected Of being the man who held up
the Copper King saloon, at Weiser,
had hearing, and the evidence being
he was discharged.
John Weltzheimer is constructing an
telephone line from Mead
ows to Payette Lakes. 1t will prob
ably be extended to Warren. Eleven
miles Of poles have already been set.
According to the Nampa Ledger
Herald, T. G. Cutler, president of the
Idaho Sugar company, has announced
he decision of the company to erect a
oeet sugar plant at Nampa, as close
o the corporate limits as possible.
Governor Gooding and the members
# his staff, after returning from the j.,
'pening Of the Portland exposition, ex. I
'ressed themselves as heartily 6
LEASED with the exposition and the
howing that Idaho is making there.
Charles A. McKasson, who claimed
0 have been sandbagged and robbed Q
ne night on the Wardner streets h
vhile he was on his way to meeting a
} make an accounting of lodge funds !
'hich he held as treasurer, has been !,
rrested upon charges Of embezzle- t
tent. d
The report comes from Nampa that =
le sugar beet campaign has been
ractically concluded and the factory
i'll be built. Men from the sugar -.
,unties in the southeast are in Nam :,
/ to purchase lands, and are seeking :,
get the best there is for beet Gull ~
re- =,
The associated students of the Uni "
,rsity of Idaho decided at a meeting ct
that organization in Moscow to be ~ NJ
presented in the international field -
ntest at the Lewis and Clark centen- til
al that takes place in Portland on in
me 16. CT
A fire at Black Lakes destroyed the
Hiding occupied by Nick Klossner as
saloon, and a store building adjoin-
g belonging to Robert Barbour The N~
loon was well stocked with liquors o.
d many articles of value were 49,
pred in the Barbour building. "a
The Northern Pacific has brought ~
it in the United States court against no
ootenai county asking for an injunc- A''
IN to restrain the county for issuing I'M IN,
x deeds to it's property in this state Ia,
r the taxes of 1903. The company biz
fused to pay special school taxes. tn,
Through misstep while crossing a
idge in the dark, John c. Connervey.
sistant foreman of the o. S. L. con.
'uction gang at Twin Falls, plunged o'
death in the Snake river we
shermen, hearing his cries. made a., i'e
successful attempt to rescue him. Mi
A Moscow dispatch says Stab I'll
nd Commissioner Munson has been Wv
tilted by the land department at WI
Use that his criminal case against of
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