The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-09

Work has begun on the brewery at
Nampa.

hanged on April Goth.
Mrs. Jane Mcmahon, a pioneer re.
tdent of Silver City, is dead. Sh
came to Silver City in 1866.
A rich strike is reported at Bull
whacker mine on Deer creek, operate
by the Alturas mining company.
Active construction work ON the BIZ
Deer Flat reservoir on the Boise-Pay
cite reclamation project has begun.
Lewiston is developing in phenom
email manner, new buildings going vi
on all sides and new settlers comins
In every day.
Work has been resumed, on the new
State Capitol building. Construction
work had ceased on account of non
arrival of material.
James Brannin, while driving cattle
near Meridian, was thrown from his
horse, sustaining broken leg, and
q cash being cut in his forehead.
A number of men are securing posi-.
lions on the reclamation works a,
Caldwell. The wages are 20 cents per
hour for men and 40 cents for man and
team
An attempt was made by the pris
oners in the county jail at Caldwell
to escape last week, they having
sawed some of the bars before their
action was discovered.
Peter ]. Pefley, formerly mayor of
Boise and thirty-five years resi-.
dent of that city, died at Lewiston on
the>24th Mr.. Pefey was one of the
originators of the public school sys
TEN.
Miss May L. Scott, state superinten.
dent of public construction, has return.
ed from weeks visit to northern
Idaho, and reports that section of the
state as very prosperous in a school
sense.
Representatives of the Cripple Creek
Mine Owners association positively
deny the statement that Harry Or
chard ever was employed by the asso
citation or its agents as a detective OF
q spy.
The indications now are that the
fourteenth annual meeting of the Ma.
tional Irrigation congress to be held
IN Boise September 3 to 8, will be the
largest and most profitable gathering
of the kind ever held.
The Ostner equestrian statue Of
Washington, on the capitol grounds
at Boise, was unveiled last week,
without ceremonies. The statue Is
carved from solid wood, the only tools
used being a jack knife and an axe.
George Guthrie, who attempted to
murder his wife at Chester, and then
shot himself in the breast with intent
to commit suicide, is dead His wife,
who was shot in the hip, was seriously
but not dangerously wounded and will
recover.
The ten-year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs.
&. Cambridge, living near Nampa, was !
kicked by a vicious horse and badly in
jured. The animal had just been
sharp shod, and one of the calks pene s
trated the skull, letting out a portion
of the brain.
Sentence was passed by the district t
court at Mountain Home on James v. S
of one year in the state peni. I
Mundell pleaded guilty O, =
county funds while he held n
he Office of assessor and tax collector O
n Gilmore county. il
The winter, says Van Wyck COR
so far has been severe,
Stock is looking we'll, with plenty OF
lay and grain to see them through. -
The snow is very heavy on all the wa. y
er sheds of the Payette, with about e
hree feet in the valley
Edgar B. Tage, one of the pioneers "
Idaho, Is dead He first came to =
'oise over thirty years ago, serving :.
Dr. many years in the early days a
s express agent. He was chief of the -
oise fire department under Mayor 49,
[awley's administration. -, -
Preliminary surveys are being made ju
Y the Oregon Short Line for it's pro.
osed line through the south fork
lnyon along the Snake river in Idaho
to the Jackson Hole country, Sever Ss
gangs of surveyors are at work at 81
lrious points in the canyon. en-
The Brethren" or "Dunkards," are Tn
Getting a commodious house of wor. Gu
Up on the corner of the Hollenburs on
nch, near Meridian. A basement Oh
by 80 feet has been excavated and nc
veral carpenters are now making bv
good showing on the building. rot
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