The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-04-07
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

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| been called to Kansas City to fill
< pulpit in that city.
A number of sportsmen of Parm:
have organized gun club. Member
ship will be limited to so, and 80 ap
plications have already been received
The Boise directory for 1906, just
issued, contains 6,255 names, an in
crease of 808 over the last number
14,O74.
| A pension of $50 monthly has been
allowed Thomas H. Davis of Pocatel.
10, with 5000 back pension. Davis
was a soldier in the Idaho regiment in
the Philippines.
! H. A. Buchanan of st. Anthony has
been appointed turnkey at the peni-
Tertiary. He succeeds James M.
Smith, who was appointed by Tenn
porary Warden Ackley.
A De Lamar, Owyhee county, CORE.
spondent says the snowfall this sea.
son is far below the average, and that
the ranchers in the valley are already
complaining of the shortage of water.
The estimated cost of the Idaho
building at the Portland exposition is
$4,000. The building is to be SO feet
deep and will have frontage of 100
feet. The artistic entrance, f1anked
by vestibule, will be IL feet wide.
The supreme court has, in divid-
ed opinion, annulled the act creating
Lewis and Clark counties out of Koo-
tenai. The opinion was by Justice
Ailshie, Justice Sullivan concurring.
Chief Justice Stockslager dissented.
Gerhart Bernes, pioneer placer
miner, has disappeared from Secesh
Meadows, near Warren, and it is be-
lieved he has fallen over a cliff and
met death, his body being covered by
fall of snow which came the day he
disappeared.
The acreage for the Sugar City
sugar factory this year will be very
nearly if not quite double that of last |
season. Then between 1900 and 5000
acres were raised, and the company
has contracts, for 5000 acres to be put
in this spring.
The K. of P. lodge of De Lamar has
just completed one of the finest and
most unique lodge buildings in the
The lodge hall which is fit
ted exclusively for the K. of P. lodge,
the second floor, the amuse-
nent and dance hall the first floor.
The repeal of the river franchise
aw by the last legislature has already
resulted disastrously to Moscow, &C.
,ording to the Star of that place. That
PAPER declares that railroads and saw
Mills have been driven away from that
Joint to Palouse, Wash, rival town.
The problem as to whether Occur
l'Alene is village or city of the sec,
md class is unsettled Since the re.
'ealing of the ordinance for city
here has been a writ of mandamus
erved on the trustees compelling
hem to continue as city and ward
visions. ...
In the debate at Moscow between
he Spokane high school and the Idaho
preparatory department the decision
the judges was given to Idaho by
ote of two to one. This is the eighth
ictory for the preparatory depart
lent in the eight debates they have
cid.
Judge Joseph w. Huston died Sun I
ay in Boise, aged 70 years. |
e served in the war as a
ajor in the Fourth Michigan cavalry.
| 1869 he was appointed United :
tates district attorney for the terri ;
ry of Idaho, and held the Office nine f
ears. He was a supreme court Ilem- t.
,r for ten years. c
The report comes from Blaine and y
ncoln counties that the condition of "
e range is better than usual, due e
the recent rains which came at
ne when the condition of the O
ound was such the moisture was re- 81
med and the greatest possible start d
ven the grass. a.
Mrs. J. H. Spauldirg, wife of Repre-. :"
NATIVE Spaulding of Occur d'Alene o,
1T week kidnapped her four-year-old W
n from a sister of Mr.. Spaulding, c.
10 had been keeping the child since p]
:. and Mrs. Spaulding separated, and II
trace has since been found of either a,
3 woman or child. =.
At meeting of the executive board &C
the Idaho Sunday school associa- W
p held in Boise the annual conven- h;
n of the association was slated for fir
,untain Home, June 10, IA and Is. in
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