The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-11-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

SSnoolS - a93.
Rose v. Kunzler has been appointed
postmaster at Bear Lake.
William L. Eames has been com.
missioned postmaster at Almo.
Mountain Home and Boise capital
lists are to open bank at oruneau.
The meeting OF the State Teach
ers association will be held in Boise,
December "a, 20 and 20.
Rural postal service has been es
tabllshed at Preston, Oneida county,
to commence February 1 next
There are rumors that trolley
line between Buriey and Oakley is
among the probabilities OF the near
future.
The coal famine has made It nee
sssary to temporarily suspend school
n Idaho Falls. as the rooms could not
be heated
Coyotes are very numerous on the
more sparsely settled portions Of the
Twin Fall tract and Navy have been
killed recently
Three thousand rainbow trout min.
nows were planted in Lost river last
week. They we're sent by the gov.
eminent FISH commissioner.
The Oregon Short Line has granted
a rate on grain which. when II be
comes effective. should move all the
wheat on the Twin Falls tract.
II. c. Frenner a well-known contrac.
tor and builder of Nsmps. was struck
by q passenger train and received in
iuries from which he died just an hour
later
Members of the st. Anthony council
are seriously considering the question
Of bonding the town for $4,000, TO
assist in erecting fine city and coun.
~ building.
Major Fem, forest supervisor, has
just received Official notice Of the es-
Enlistment of the Salmon river for
eat reserve. II is located largely in
Custer county.
Boise has been chosen as the next
annual meeting place of the League
Of Southern Idaho Commercial clubs,
the selection of the date being left
to the executive board.
In the recent wind storm at Twin
Falls, the old temporary school build
ing, now used as a hre hall. was
blown down. The injury to the fire
apparatus was triing.
The coal mines in Teton basin are
working full force, and the dumps are
piled high with good coal. yet in st.
Anthony, thirty-hve miles away, there
is practically no coal on hand.
Sage brush land on Sucker Creek,
about IS miles from Caldwell, and
which can not get water for some
years. was sold last week by the
state for from $40 to S22 50 per acre
Col. Chas, Irwin, aged "a, died at
Boise on the 22nd lie was widely
known years ago as a railway and
bridge engineer. In the civil war he
served with the Ninth Michigan cav
airy.
A woman named Emma Kjaar com.
mitted suicide at Boise, by shooting
She used a 44-caliber revolver and
reduced her head to a pulp. ,eShe
belonged to a well-known Salt Lake
family
b The onicial count of the counties
comprising the Fourth judicial dis
trict. shows that Edward A. Walters,
the Republican candidate for the Judge
ship. has been elected by a majority
OF 327 votes.
The secretary of state says that dur
ing the past four years more incor
poration papers have been filed in
his once than during all the previous
years from the organization Of the
territory In 1853
Charles z. Bell, OF Thunder City.
is dead from injuries sustained DC.
tober 10. when he was thawing out
some giant powder on a cook store, his
left temple being caved in and
number Of ribs broken.
The coal and wood situation In
weiser is becoming more strenuous
daily. and unless relief comes soon
desperate measures will be taken by
citizens, even to holding up trains
and taking coal from them.
The oficlal county seat vote shows
s,1ss for St. Anthony and 1897 for
Rexburg. As twothirds vote is re-
CURED TO move 1t from St. Anthony.
It will be seen that Rexburg lacked
nearly 1000 votes Of reaching the
goal.
John Mcknight was killed in the
logging camp Of Page q Motifs, on
Daggett creek, by a log rolling over
him. Mcknight was young man
from Virginia who, with brother, has