The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

spring.
The question of providing a system
of parks for the city is being agitated
by Boiseites.
The oldest people in Meridian are
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Joplin. Mr.. Joplin
is SO and his wife 70.
Men are at work grading for the
sugar factory at Nampa and for the
side track leading to It,
An experimental farm is to be estab'
lished in the south part of the state by
the University of Idaho.
Jack Kirk dropped dead on the
streets of Boise one day last week,
death being due to heart disease
The sale of state school lands in Ne7
Perez county last week brought the
sum of 1850 to the state treasury.
Emmett led in the shipment OF
prunes the past season, 26,S59 crates
of the luscious fruit being sent out
from that town.
The mines in the Resort district
never looked so good as at the present
time, and work will be vigorously pros
ecuted this winter.
The Independent Telephone com.
pany has just extended their Meridian
line to Kuna and established toll
station at the postoffice.
Weiser dirt is in demand At no
times for many months past has there
been such demand for real estate
as at present, new deals being report
ed daily.
E. X. Hayes of Emmett was the lar,
gest producer of prunes this year, his
sales amounting to over ten car loads
He received for the fruit $9736 gross
per acre.
Thomas C. Beck, ex-chief of police
of Wallace, was fatally injured in the
Standard mine at Mace. A timber
struck him fairly in the small of the
back, breaking his spine.
Twin Falls suffered it's first fire last
week, when the Peoples Cash grocery
was completely destroyed. Nothing
was saved from the stock and the
building is complete loss.
Articles of incorporation of the Far
mers' State bank of New Plymouth
were filed with the secretary Of state
last week. The capital stock is $1O,-
900, with shares at 500 each.
Among the cloud of railway rumors
is one which credits the Short Line
with a purpose of extending it's Mac
kay branch to the Salmon and down
that stream and the Snake to Lewis
ton.
Track laying on the P. & I. N. rail-
way has been suspended until spring.
The weather has been so cold at Coun'
Gil that it was impossible to handle
the heavy rails without great danger
to live and limb.
Charles Ostner, the sculptor of the
equestrian statue of George Washing
ton in the state capitol grounds, has
completed the work of renovating the
statue after supervising it's replacing
on a new pedestal.
The prize Christmas beef sold IN
Boise last week brought $1S6. The
animal was an Aberdeen Angus steer
weighing 1900 pounds. This is the
highest price ever received for beef
steer in this country.
The owner of the South Africa mine
at Idaho City, which is regarded by
many as the greatest gold mine in the
state, will install, early next season,
an Elpass mill with a capacity of fifty
tons in twenty-four hours.
kSince the office of state bank ex-
pGr was created by the last leg
ture, the bank examiner has au'
|rzed twenty-five new banks to do
siness in Idaho, the combined cap
of these institutions being $685.
Davis, who served as mem.
q lower house of the legisla'
lmore county in 1899, Is an
N;te penitentiary hav'
of forgery. Davis
Hhild born in At
is pro-
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or his
tor Hey
brought
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