The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-07-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

business and starts out with very
bright prospects.
Rye is being harvested in various
parts of the Twin Falls tract and
shows a fine average yield.
Culdesao farmers are responsible for
the statement that their grain yields
this summer will be record breakers.
The Twin Falls fair, which will be
held on September 5, and 4
will, without a doubt, be great sue.
cess
A fall carnival or fair is the latest
project for Idaho Falls. The exact ma.
.ure Of the fiesta has not been decided
upon.
Idaho Falls is enjoying a building
boom and there is not an idle carpen-
ter in the town, while all other la.
borers are busy.
Engineers are now engaged in sur.
veying the Hansen townsite and laying
Il eff into lots. The total townsite
COW covers leo acres
During the recent hot spell the max
mum temperature at Placerville has
averaged 80, which is considered re-
marksble for the basin.
Miss Gertrude Marcus, whose home
s at Idaho City, has returned from
san Juan, Porto Rico, where she was
engaged in teaching school
The Salmon stage and mail now
goes through to Salmon City in one
lay leaving Challis at a. m, and ar.
living fiom Salmon the following day
At 6 p. m.
William H. Thomas. who shot
Charles Doran in the arm at Atlanta q
'ew weeks ago. escaped from the Of
icers at that place, but has been re-
captured at Boise.
Bumper crops will be harvested In
Nez Perez county this year. Farmers
n the vicinity of Arrow report that
he wheat yield will run higher than
,orty bushels to the acre
The 1,Os5,1O5 acres Of uncultivated
and. with available water. in Idaho,
ghen divided into forty.acre farms,
viii provide homes for an additional
population of 100000 people
Edward p. Houston, plumber
burned to death in his seridence at
Boise, during the absence of his wife
ana son at Pine. Oregon. He was a
iormer resident of Albany, Ore.
Hugh Crutcher, a teacher in the EN-
nett schools, was drowned in the Pay,
cite lake while on his annual outing
Mr.. Crutcher was 30 years OF age, a
single man and was highly respected
The town of Hope sustained $50,
300 FIRE last week. the buildings de
stroyed oeing the Hope hotel, the Pres.
,ott house four saloons, the pest of
ice. eleven residences and three emp.
~ store buildings.
Bingham and Fremont counties will
have to contend with the cricket pest
This year, but II Is believed they will
De destroyed. through the efforts of the
county commissioners. before much
iamage is dcre.
In a runaway near the Payette
axes. Mrs. Taylor, wife Of the Episco-
pal minister of Weiser, had both an
arm and ankle broken, and Miss Ley
master. also of weiser, was injured
about the head.
A number Of men have been in
Weiser lately trying to get hands to
assist in the hay fields. Help is very
scarce in the upper country and
around Meadows it is said SO per day
and board is being offered
Captain William Yates, troop A,
Fourteenth cavalry; ranking captain
at Boise barracks. was fatally hurt
by being thrown from his horse on
the drilling ground while engaged in
drilling a bunch of raw recruits,
Walter Helfrich, whose mother CON
ducts a dressmsldng establishment in
Nampa, was thrown from buggy
near Boise. and sustained a fracture
OF the skull He Is in a dangerous
condition. The lad is years old.
John Kinian died in the hospital al
Boise on Thursday Of last week as a
result of an accident in the Jellison
stone Quarries a few miles from the
city. Late in the afternoon he fred a
blast and ran for safety When the
blast went of a piece OF rock struck
him in the head, fracturing the skull.
George Wheeler was taking the
saddle from horse at Mountain
Home, when a pistol dropped from the
holster and was discharged The
ball struck him in the groin. The
surgeons find his intestines perforated
badly and his condition is critical.
John F. Nugent. one of the after
neys for the defense in the Meyer.
Haywood Pettibone case, has resigned