The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-05-27
Around the State


The Portland fair will open June 7.
Governor Gooding with a full uniformed
staff, will be in attendance.
Mccormick & Co., the well known
Salt Lake bankers, have started
branch bank at Twin Falls.
Manager l.. A. Coate OF the 0Sbow
tunnel project, states that the gr- Il te-
low the dam runs ~ cents to tn ahoyei.
The Twin Falls saloon men lafe Or
ganized and will contest the village orr
dinancc requiring Il $1,000 annual license.
John McNisl, OF Emmett, has started
a log drive Of over S,OO0,o0o feet from
Smiths ferry on the Payette, ior his
Emmett mill
The capitol building commission is in
the east inspecting the buildings Of dii-
ferent states before accepting plans i,r
the Idah, capitol.
l.. c. Cornwall, OF Moscow, has been
appointed midshipman at the naval
academy at Annapolis hy Congressman.
French.
It is stated on good authority that the
Northern Pacific will extend its line to
Grangeville this sum:aer, and that work
ON the extension will begin within 30
days.
Geo. N. lift, editor Of the Pocatello
Tribune, has qualified as American
consul at Chatham, Canada, and will
enter upon his duties September J.,
Lyman c. Hill, representative Of an
Ontario, Ore, stove concern, was arrest
cd in Boise Tuesday for peddling with
out license. He was fined $50 and
costs, and the case was appealed.
Mayor Madden o; Caldwell has closed
up all the slot machines in that bury,
and ordered all the houses in the rel
light district closed by June l, and lhc
inmates to leave town by that date.
Five Greek section men were ARE ted
at Orchard Sunday, charged with hold
ing up the section boss. Upon exami-
nation at Boise Monday, two Of them
were fined $25 and costs, and the other
three discharged.
5 Con Connors who for many years has
been roadmaster of the Oregon Short
e Line, with headquarters at Nampa, has
: rendered his resignation to take place
= June /. Recently Mr.. Connors was Sc
r verely injured at Reverse.
f. II. Dewey proposes to construct an
electric railway from Eagle Island to-
Middleton. rousing meeting to con-
{ slider the proposition was held at Star
. Tuesday, and measures taken to insure
the road.
!, Ex-sheriff Peter A. Steers, Of Black
a foot Bingham county, has been convict
ed OF embezzlement of public funds, and
, sentenced to two and half years in the
> state penitentiary. He is opt on bal
J. pending an appeal to the supreme
n court.
it The T. s. government has purchased
Or from Peter Soma OF Boise, the waite
id works system supplying the post at tina
place, paying therefor $4,000 Th
- work Of rebuilding the barracks will be
n gin at once 1t is estimated that ap
Mt proximately 100000 will be spent il
d. this work.
" The state wagon road commission ha
~ agreed to appropriate $4,000 for wag
u on road from Boise 10 Atlanta, and $40,
''s 600 for II road from Warrcns to IA
'u Thunder Mountain section. In each in
er stance the people along the propose
at roads must donate an equal amoun
'' with the state.
49, Fred Dolan, proprietor OF a fish ma
-, ket in Boise was arrested saturda
-. charged with violating the game law
The laws as doctored by the last legisli
ture are conflicting IN the extreme, an
>, the fish dealers decided to make tei
ease to straighfen matters cut. Dir %
Ian was selected as the scapesoat, an
he promptly invited tie game warde
into his shop and offered to sell hi
some nice trout. He was arrested an
fined $1,000 in the justice court II Boil
Monday. The case has been appeale'
of
at.
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