The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-11
IDAHO STATE NEWS
Money is being raised to send the
Caldwell band to the fair.

MoHcy rs DelHS raised 10 SEND IN
Caldwell band to the fair.
Great preparations are being mad
for Idaho day at the Portland expos
ton, September Z.
The new telegraph line of the Ore
gon Short Line railway from Minidok
to Twin Falls has been completed.
Forest fires along the st. Joe rive
between the towns of st. Marys an,
st. Joe did considerable damage t,
timber.
Edwin Miller, a Caldwell boy, wa
shot in the foot by Roy Harmon while
the two boys were playing with tar
get gun.
The thirty-third annual session O.
the Columbia river conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church will con
vene in Moscow August 20.
The farmers on the strip adjacent
to Pocatello on the north are com
planning Of the devastation of theil
crops this year by the rabbits.
News has reached Boise of the
drowning in Goose creek of Francis
e. Tozeau aged rs. He was seized
with cramps while swimming.
The state land department has re.
ceived twenty-five applications for
final proof on land in the Twin Falls
section, representing over 1900 acres.
Already plans have been drawn for
the big new depot at Twin Falls,
which in every sense of the word will
be building that is up to date and a
credit to a much larger town.
There seems to be excellent pros
poets for the establishment in Boise at
an early date of flour milling and
grain warehouse business, by an ex-
pert in these lines from the east.
Robert Haley, with dozen other
aliases, an alleged horsethief for
whom the officers of Idaho and Ore
gon have been searching some time,
was captured last week at Meadows.
Thomas Conklin, pioneer Occur
d. Alene school teacher, was instantly
killed by falling thirty feet from his
building in Mullan which had been
damaged by fire and which he was re-
pairing.
John Gideon, the miner charged
with having held up the Warren
Meadows stage on the morning of July
and having robbed the mail, has
been bound over to the district court
for trial.
Frank T. Mulligan, Philippine vet
eran, committed suicide by taking
morphine in the presence of his wife
in Pocatello He left note stating
that his wife's dissolute habits caused
the deed.
On November 4 next all the lands
in township 10 south, range q east,
which were withdrawn under the Min |
idoka project, will be restored to en-
try. They are found unsuitable for
The dwelling house of Con Quinlan,
near Tahoe. was destroyed by fire and
an infant child burned to death. The
mother and father were out after
COWS, and left two young children to
take care of the baby.
The report comes from Wallace that
the Morning mine has been sold to tbs
Federal Mining company, which is
controlled by the American Smelling
C Refining company. The considera-
ion is said to have been $4,0OO,000.
Harry Fisher of Garden Valley lost
lis life accidentally on the road be-
ween Peace Valley and Deadwood. He .
vas going up the Deadwood carrying
rifle, when the weapon was acct
entally discharged with the above re-
ult.
Andrew Stewart of Nampa, aged II
ears, was drowned in Lake Ethel last
week. He was bathing in the lake in
company with brother and another
10y, and got beyond his depth. The
,ody was recovered about an hour
ater.
Mrs. Caddie Shupe, on trial at Paris
or killing Arthur Douglas at her
lome in Montpelier, was found guilty ,
# voluntary manslaughter and sen.
enced to six years Imprisonment
,he will not appeal the case, but will
erve the sentence.
County Attorney Watkins says the
valuation of Canyon county
viii exceed $4,OOO,O0O this year, not in
luding railroads, telegraph and tele-
hone lines, against $3,500,0OO last
ear including these. The great in
rease is in improvements. 7
Byron Blanchard and man named {
Iolbrook, farmers living near ST.