The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

days.
Boise has been selected as the place
for holding the National Irrigation
congress in 1906.
About 40 teachers attended the
Canyon County Teachers Institute
held at Caldwell last week
The contractors announce that they
will start work on the Lewiston &
Southwestern electric road September
15.
The new depot to be erected at
hurley will be 45x95 feet and will be
"a building that will be credit to the
town.
Fifty race horses were shipped
from Portland last week to take part
in the races at the State fair at
Boise.
Rural free delivery route No. has
been established at Troy, Latah coun.
ty It will serve 35 houses and u
people.
William Hodges suicided at Boise,
swallowing half a glass of carbolic
acid. This was the third time he had
attempted to take his life.
A heavy windstorm at Twin Falls
on the Oath did considerable damage,
"a number of houses being unroofed
and considerable loose lumber strewn
about.
Miss Mary Howell, of Boise, daugh-
ter of William Howell the sheep man,
has been appointed assistant secre-
tary of the pure food and horticultural
commission.
1t is announced that the st. Anthony
branch of the Short Line is to be ex-
tended to Yellowstone park, and that
work will commence this fall upon
the extension.
An unoccupied house, one of the
first buildings erected in Weiser, was
destroyed by fire one night last week.
The fire was undoubtedly of incen-
diary origin.
1t Is estimated by Boise paper
that already 1000 Boise people have
visited the Portland fair, and that
they have spent total of 100000 in
making the trip.
A bear recently robbed the powder
house of the Laclede mine at Wallace
of 600 feet of fuse. One of the men
took a shot at bruin and wounded
him, bur he escaped
Joseph Lawrence has made his es-
cape from the state penitentiary, and
has not as yet been recaptured. 1t Is
the general belief that he is being
concealed by friends
The influx of settlers on Camas
prairie still continues. Most of the
people are from the state of Washing
ton. Nearly all of available vacant
land has been appropriated.
A dispatch from Occur d'Alene says
Eli Champaign had both feet and his
Jeff hand cut cut off by being acct
.dentally thrown against the large cir
cular saw in M. d. Wright's mill.
A. J. Green, the Fleader of the
..Weiser band, has been selected as a
member Of the state band to repre-.
sent Idaho at the Lewis and Clark ex-
position on Idaho day, September T.
Natural gas was struck in well |
near Weiser last week and two men
nearly lost their lives. Friends on the |
surface were compelled to assist them |
out, and they are not yet out of dam
ger
Thomas Kirby, who has charge OF
the exhibit from the five northern
counties of Idaho at the Portland fair,
has been in Grangeville recently gath.
ering an exhibit of grains ana grasses
from this part of the country
Deputy State Game Warden Har
bough of Lewiston, is enforcing with
strickness and energy the game law
in the northern part of the state. Dur.
ing the month Mr.. Harbough arrested
Is persons, IA being convicted.
DR.. Robert S. Law died at Boise last
week from apoplexy, at the age of 81.
Dr. Law was widely known in the
mining world, having been a promi.
nent operator at many points, making
and losing number of fortunes.
Willis A. Belknap was bound over
under $1,000 bonds by Judge Feather.
stone at the conclusion of the hearing
at Wallace, charged with assault
with intent to commit murder upon
3. d. H. Mcconnell Mcconnell was
shot In the leg.
A test of the new combined Aar-
1ester and thresher invented Cor.
,elius Ouinnell and Andrew Ar ITson