The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-15
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Caldwell asking for the passage OF
Sunday closing ordinance.
Henning Olsen, miner in the Nor
mouth mine at Mace, was Instant
electrocuted by. his head coming II
contact with live wire.
The record was broken for the issu
ance of marriage licenses in Boise dur
ing November, when Twenty-Five pei
mits to wed were granted.
Three men were arrested at Ruper
y last week on the charge of bootleg
ging' whiskey and have been bount
over to the district court
AS the result of blaze in the stree
peanut stand that he was operating il
Boise, Richard G. Butts was quite Sc
verely burned about his arms.
Plans are maturing for the estab
iishment of another flour mill in
Boise which will have a capacity OF
from rs to 100 barrels per day.
Abank has been established at Cot.
tonwood, Idaho county, the incorpora,
tors being prominent merchants and
farmers of that town and of Grange
vile.
A total of 2,194.16 acres of state
land under the Canyon canal in Can!
yon county, were sold last week by
the state board of land commissioners
for 5,756.95.
y It is believed that Tom Fields, the
self-confessed murdered of Fred
Fields, who was shot from ambush at
Freese, this state, last summer, has
become insane.
Two more gold medals and five di.
plomas of honorable mention have
been awarded Idaho exhibitors at the
Lewis and Clark questionable time
On the fine arts department.
Charles Monteith, a rancher living
\ near Weiser, lost thirty valuable cows
Hast week by overlooking on alfalfa
hay and too easy access to water, OF
which they drank too freely
One commission company of Boise
shipped during the past season to the
eastern markets 1862 carloads of fruit,
which brought $351,OOO. OF this all
but 70 carloads were products of Idaho
orchards.
Eight two-story buildings of stone,
cement blocks, or brick, and one three
story building of cement blocks, are III
course of construction in Twin Falls,
while a great many frame buildings
are going up.
It is announced that there is a scar
city of laborers in the vicinity of Wei
ser, and that hundreds of men can Sc
cure employment on the Dead Ok Flat
canal and the Pacific & Idaho North
ern extension.
Ella Lowe, student at the Cald-
well high school, was struck in the
eye by SNOWFALL, her glasses broken
and pieces of the glass are thought
to have penetrated her eye. She ma.
lose the sight of one eye.
Vice-President and General Manager
w. H. Bancroft has denied the accu-
racy of report from Boise to the ef-
feet that the Oregon Short Line had
secured right-of-way for it's main
line which would pass through that
city.
Representative French will intro
duce bill opening the Occur d'Alene
reservation after allotting lands in
severalty to the Indians. About 800,
900 acres of available land will be
opened to settlement if this law
passes.
The branding of Student Jay Jellick
of Idaho Falls with nitrate of silver at
the state university at Moscow short
time ago, has created a furore at Ida
no Falls, the home of the freshman
who was the victim of the upper class.
men.
John S. Burns, sophomore of Lew
iston, Ida, won first place in the ora
torical contest at Hanover college, at
Hanover, Ind. His subject was "Aspi-
rations and Ideals" Burns will rep
resent Hanover at the state oratorical
contest.
The patent issued by the United
States government to the state of Ida
ho on November 10, to 41,560 acres Of
land in the Twin Falls tract, reclaim
ed under the Carey act. was the first
patent of it's kind in the history of
America.
The pension committee of the Ore
gon Short Line at meeting in Salt
Lake last week granted life pension
to Franklin w. Coolidge, the old-time
engineer on the Wood River branch.
He has been an employee of the sys-