Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-06-22
IDAHO STATE NE WIS

10 urn ior aItesldn Wdlcr IN Ndupd
Nampa now has a vaudeville thea.
tire which is being literally patron
lied.
Nampa has raised over 81 900 for a
Fourth OF July celebration, and a fine
programme Is TO be arranged.
The Soldier Touring mill is being
overhauled to have # ready TO go
into commission at harvest time.
The annual encampment OF the @
A. II. and w. II. C. for the state Will
be held at Payette on June &c. q and
28.
Rural route No. 2 has been ordered
established August Is at Rigby. Ere
mont county. serving 535 people and
1874 houses.
Elmer Rose. an employee at the
sugar factory at Nampa, fell from the
second floor OF the works and received
a broken arm and leg.
At the recent school election Chal
lis voted In favor OF establishing a
high school. II is hoped to have the
school running this fall.
Vice President Fairbanks has noti-
Ned Chairman Gwinn that he will at
tend the National Irrigation congress
10 be held in Boise September g.
The state penitentiary now has the
greatest number OF prisoners since
the prison was first established.
There are at present 235 enrolled
Charles s. Mcdonnell has been dis
missed from his position as register OF
the state land board and NJ. l. Church
Of Caldwell named to fill the vacancy.
Last week was Pythian week In
Boise, the grand lodge Knights of |
Pythias and the Rathbone Sisters
holding their annual sessions In tho
capitol city.
A prominent cattleman OF Grange
vile declares that Nez Perez cattle
men are already feeling a slump in
the livestock market as result OF
the packing house exposures.
Through the generosity OF Mr.. and
Mrs. M. A. Kurtz Nampa is to have
4 fine park. They have decided TO
donate to the city four blocks In the
Kurtz addition to be used for that pur-
pose.
A party of ten settlers from Adams
county, Washington went to the Cam
as Prairie country few days ago on a
tour OF inspection. They must have
been satisfied. for they bought 3.125
acres of land.
A fourteen-year-old son OF George
Ferrall was drowned In the Snake
river at Howell's ferry six miles
south OF Minidoka. He fell from the
ferry boat and at last accounts the
body had not been recovered. '
Plans are maturing for the en-
campment OF the Idaho regiment with
Oregon and Washington state troop
,rs at American Lake. near Tacoma,
Wash. in August. II is estimated
hat the cost will be about $4,000
Owing to the inclement weather ex-
'erienced by the contractors on the =
work OF the Minidoka project during i,
he past winter. the secretary OF the =
Interior has granted an extension OF ;,
hirty days for the completion of the /,
FORK. Il
The Portland Chamber OF Com ;.
lerce and the Oregon Development
,ague are coming to the National Ir.
cation congress in Boise In Septem.
err with a special train. the delega- Ia
on being headed by Governor Cham q,
erlain -,
Warden Whitney says that all of d,
le steel has now arrived for the new s,
III rooms at the state penitentiary al
nd most OF Il has been placed in O,
,sition Eighty new cells are being n
stalled. making in all $50 cells for "a
e Institution. .n
The unidentified body OF a man was VI
und in an irrigation canal at Par
". AS no resident OF this entire
entity is missing. II is presumed to
the body 81 some transient person. co
lere were no marks or bruises to In he
cate foul play. M,
Reports from the Minidoka dam are Ju
the effect that the stream has not ba
en- rising lately. The gates are Go