The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-03
IDAHO STATE NEWS
Work commenced last week on Cald.

Long Valley in 1889, died on the 23rd.
An order Of the United Commercial
Travellers of America was instituted in
Boise last week.
Twenty acres of unimproved land
three miles south of Boise sold last
week for $4,000.
TweAty-one carloads of sheep were
shipped from Weiser to eastern points
one gay last week.
THe contract for the erection of the
Nahpa sugar factory has been let to
Ufer & Son, of Cleveland.
i Work is being pushed on the new
capitol building at Boise, the masons
starting to work last week.
There are now seventeen cases OF
typhoid fever at Caldwell, but not a
family using city water has been at
tackled by typhoid.
Rural telephone lines are being in.
stalled in the vicinity of Caldwell, Civ
ing the country people direct commu
nication with town.
Fifteen hundred brands for horses
cattle, sheep, swine and other species
of live stock have so far been filed ir
the Office of the state auditor.
It is announced that Nine. Lillian
Nordica will soon become the bride OF
Capt. Joseph R. De La Mar, the
wealthy owner of the Idaho silver mine
that bears his name.
Word has been received of the sui.
eide at San Diego, Cal, of Hal Stew
ard, formerly postmaster at HALEY and
member of the firm of Steward Bros.
druggists and stationers.
The demand for Idaho pine has be
come so great in the central states
that the manufacturers in this state
are unable to supply the orders thai
are podring in upon them.
n FRANK wolnack,, who shot and kille5
Joseph Matthews at the latter's home
In Salt Lake recently, is an Idaho boy
He was born at Soda Springs in this
state. His father, carpenter, resides
at Weiser.
James fireman, charged with grand
larceny in having stolen horse from
q rancher, o. B. Ferguson, pleaded
guilty in the district court at Weiser
and was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary.
Another rich strike has been made in
the Black Horse mine at Murray. Some
Of the richest lead ore ever shipped
from the Occur d'Alenes was sent to
the smelters last summer from the
Black Horse.
As the result of the collision of two
freight trains near Border station, two
unknown tramps received fatal inju.
ries and Engineer Case and Brakeman
Hazleton, both of Montpelier, were
painfully injured.
The register of the state board OF
land commissioners has, during the
past six months, handled over 100000
of the peoples money. The registers
fees for the quarter which ended June
80 aggregated $14,392.49.
Actual construction work on the
Boise Valley railroad company's line
from Boise to Caldwell began on the
23rd, with the driving of a silver spike
at IL o'clock at the intersection OF
Broadway and Warm Springs avenue,
Boise.
The discovery of the Marylue, the
original location in the Marylue group
of quartz claims on the divide between
More and Elk creeks, was due to the
good judgment and persistence of Mrs.
William Ottenbacker and Mrs. Melvin
Weigle.
Track laying was begun on the ex.
tension of the Pacific & Idaho North.
.srn railway on the 23rd. Eight and
one-half miles of grade is completed
ready for the rails. Steel sufficient to
lay fifteen miles Of track has been
ordered.
A fire at Bellevue burned number
of buildings and entailed loss of SIS,
900. The store of George Arkosh was
destroyed, the saloon of John Seymour,
also two-story building used by Sey.
mour as a residence, McIrvine's hall
and the Palace hoto'
AS result of quarrel over young
|girl at q dance at Preston, J. L. AL
word, aged 16 years, of Ogden, lies at
the point Of death, his throat cut from
ear to ear, while 16-year-old Jesse
Obray, son of Thomas Obray, Of Para
disc, Utah, is in Jail.
Kang Yu Wei, the Chinese reformer,
has interested himself in the case OF
Zee Wee, who has served seven years
IL his sentence of life Imprisonment,