The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-11-01
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

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The colored people Of Boise are try
ing to raise money to build church.
The Odd Fellows grand lodge
Of Idaho win meet at Caldwell next
year.
The first annual meeting Of the Ida
no Congress Of Mothers was held IN
Boise last week
A rough estimate Of the eonsump-
ton Of coal In Boise places the amount
at 200 tens daily
NJ. A. Kurtz. aged 60, who moved to
Nampa in 1888, died suddenly on the
23rd from heart failure
Tons upon tons Of sugar beets are
beng hauled every day to the beet
dumps in the Payette valley
Boise is suffering from a coal fam
inc, The dealers have very little coal
on hand, and are doing It out by the
sack.
Fire which started from defective
iue destroyed the home OF Dr. w. M.
Lemoines at Nampa. the loss being
estimated at $500.
Austin Bechtel. the Had who was
drawn into the spur cog gear in the
shavings room at the Barber mill, has
succumbed to his injuries
Ralph Bumgardner. aged 13, was
probably fatally hurt at Boise by a
horse which he was riding falling upon
him. the animal slipped on smooth
cement walk.
w. Stewart Houtz. Boise boy, was
so badly burned as the result OF the
explosion of an oil stove at Everett,
Wash. that death resulted seven hours
after the accident
The wheat raised on the Twin Falls
tract this year averages from forty TO
seventy bushels to the acre and the
oats from forty to 106 The corn crop
is also very good.
j. N. Steenma, a prosperous farmer
on Big Potlatch ridge. has 90 acres in
corn this season and has lately bought
more than sixty head OF hogs and a
number Of steers which he win fatten.
Mel Eaton is in jail at weiser,
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses Eaton claimed to be
in the government secret service and
obtained money from saloons and res
taurants.
Isaac Bloch, a former we'll known
business man of Boise, was found dead
in his room. in San Francisco from
heart disease. He was, from 1891 to
1898 member of the Falk-Bloch Mer-
camille company Of Boise.
Baxter Lightfoot was fatally shot
and Kirk Jackson wounded at HALEY
by Jack Mulligan, who had been put
out of the saloon by Jackson, the
bartender. Llghtfoot was bys,and.
or and was shot by accident.
A citizen OF Mountain Home was re.
Gently fined IS for taking coal from
Short Line cars. There Is such a
shortage of coal at that place that
many people are forced to adopt this
method In order to secure fuel
From ia acres of sugar beets in the
Payette valley that have been har.
vested the average tonnage has been
eighteen tons to the acre. and Field
Superintendent Fourot estimates that
the entire acreage viii average fifteen
tons.
"A complete report from the lot
sales on October 20. al Hepburn, by
Senator Day of Cassla county shows
lots to the value of 1892 were sold
and that 81 .223 caeh was taken The
remainder is to be paid in three an
nual payments.
Calvin r. Stamper. a Boise photog
iapher. disposed OF all his property
and decamped for parts unknown dur
ing the absence OF his wife as dele
gate to the grand lodge meeting of the
Rebekahs. Stamper took his two
children with him.
Lawrence TraynoT Short Line
switchman. was terribly crushed in the
yards at PocNtelSo He. lei between
a moving mail car aud the sand house
and suffered the fracture of three ribs,
the right arm. collar bone, pelvis and
bone in the right wrist.
Supervisor of the forest reserves.
Major Frank A. Fem, announces the
sale OF 100000 feet of timber on the
south fork of the Payette river to
Norman Gratz of Centerville, who is
constructing a dam and power plant
to furnish power to mining plants.
Under the new joint freight tariff
published by western railroads. Poca.
tello is granted a large reduction in
rates from Chicago and Mississippi
and Missouri river points. The new
tariff goes into effect November "a,
and extends to southwestern Idaho.
George Allen. a sheepherder, stepped