The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15
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A 35-acre ranch near Payette wal
bold last week for $4,000.
The carpenters of Boise are on
strike for an eight-hour day and recog
milton of their union.
This has been one of the most sue.
cessful school years for the Weiser
academy since it was founded.
The siNroom residence Of D. X.
Kerns, of Boise, was destroyed by fire
last week, entailing a loss of $500.
Reports from all portions of Boise
valley show that haying will begin
very late this year, owing to the un.
settled weather.
The Elk creek reservoir company
has made surveys for a system that
will irrigate $4,000 acres in the east
lend of Camas valley.
The recent heavy rains in the Pay
ette valley have insured good crop
on the dry farming lands, the wheat
and rye looking very fine.
Plans are being laid for the estab-
pishment of a school for the deaf,
dumb and blind pupils of Idaho, the
school to be located at Boise.
Fire In the county treasurer's Office
lat Idaho City, caused by lamp fall
Ping, destroyed $345 in greenbacks and
scorched the floors and walls slightly.
The weather Of the month of May,
just ended, was characterized by less
than the usual amount of sunshine
and more than the usual amount Of
rain.
The Cow creek company will at once
build another reservoir on Wild Horse
creek. Surveys are now being made
for 1t. This reservoir will cover $4,000
acres
It 10 now understood on good au
Hhority that Payette Is to have beet
sugar factory 1t is probable that
work on the construction of same will
begin this fall.
The Occur d'Alene timber men have
organized for fire protection. It is
the purpose Of the organization to in,
stitute regular patrols throughout the
entire timber district
The beet sugar crop of the Payette
valley 10 showing up in excellent
shape. The field superintendent pre-,
diets big yield and an excellent quail.
ity OF beets for this vicinity.
News has been received in Boise OF
the death at Pueblo, Colo, Of William
Henry Jordan, who was the manager
tor Idaho and eastern Oregon of the
Equitable Life Assurance society.
A heavy acreage Of wheat, oats and
alfalfa has been planted on Camas
prairie, and the fields give evidence OF
large yield, the recent rains having
been OF great benefit and insure good
crop.
Elder Willard H. Saxby of the Ad.
ventist church in Boise announces his
belief that the San Francisco earth.
quake was sign from God for NOR,
tails to prepare for the second coming
of Christ.
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1t is probable that the fourteenth
session of the National irrigation con,
gress, which is to be held in Boise
the week of September 3-S, will be
held at Riverside park, Bosses pleas.
ure resort. !,
Preparations are being made to be.
gin work at Jackson Lake, Wyoming,
on the proposed reservoir there from !
which the flow of the Snake shall be
reinforced during the low water stage
Of the river.
The board of control, which has Just /
started work on its task of raising
'unds for the irrigation congress to be =
held in Boise, has met with encourag- :
ne success SO far, the sum Of $1,000 I
having been pledged by six men. d
A team attached to disc harrow, ?
lriven by rancher, H. T. Brown, liv-
ng about six miles west of Weiser,
an away with him. Brown was
brown from the harrow, receiving in
uries which resulted in his death.
Joe Warner, whose mind has been =
unbalanced for some time, has barri- y
AIDED himself in his cabin, twenty-five {
niles from Orofino, and defies the II
eighbors and officers to enter his u
He has probably by this =
Ime been captured. =
A Landore special says Colorado II
ompany has started to work on the
of the Iron Dyke mine and
ill employ all the men they can get
The general superintendent of the
lutte & San Francisco railroad has y
pened Offices in Caldwell.