The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-11-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS

hcuring mill ere new industries to be
Installed at Emmett
Since the electric lights were
turned on, Meridian has taken on a
metropolitan appearance.
The members OF the Emmanuel
Methodist church OF Boise have de-
eided to erect a new church building.
1t Is estimated that altogether 5000
cords Of wood have been swept away
by the food in the Clearwater. The
lumber loss may reach 10000.
Half dozen new store buildings
have been erected in Meridian the
p1st season. and work on the new
bank building is wev under way
o. D. Olson, who was stabbed by w.
+. Taylcr in a quarrel at Kimberly. Is
dead. Taylor has been bound over on
a charge of voluntary manslaughter.
People in many of the towns along
the Short Line are In a somewhat des-
perate frame of mind over the coal
shortage. and threaten TO take coal
from cars.
The report comes from squaw Greek
that everything is In good shape there.
The sheep are in fine condition. while
cattle that ranged in the forest re-
serve also are fat
Emmett Burton, brakeman, fell
from freight train near Mountain
Home and was killed. another train,
passing fifteen minutes later. also run
ming over his body
One end Of the sugar house Of the
Western Sugar Company at Namps
was blown out during the windstorm
on the 18th One man was buried, but
was taken out unhurt
For the first time in four years
Washington state college has defeated
Idaho in the annual football game. the
score at the Moscow meet being 10 70
o, in favor of Washington.
Enormous quantities Of grain and
potatoes are being stored on the Twin
Falls tract. About twenty-five carloads
OF potatoes have already been shipped
and many more are being contracted
for.
At the laying OF the corner stone OF
the new St johns cathedral in Boise
fully 1000 people were present, includ..
ing FIVE outside bishops and nine
priests The building wilf-cost about
5000.
A dispatch from Forest says that
two daughters of Rev. Mr.. Starr and
boy named Archie Ladd we're killed
while on their way to school by a fall.
ing tree, and a sister OF the Ladd boy
was injured.
David Laing. on the Payette forest
reserve. has the most unique and
probably the most durable floor in Ida
no. II is made OF blocks about two
feet squsre and foot thick, the
Joints being filled with clay.
An unusually heavy windstorm Wis
tied the Snake River valley In west.
ern Idaho on the 18th. doing some
minor damage at a number of points
II was felt in Boise, a gale of 80 miles
flowing for fifteen minutes
An eastern man has asked the EN-.
NETT council for a franchise for q
street railway, believing that when OPP
erations could be commenced in about
two years to install the railway EN-
melt will be big enough to support II.
P. II, Lannan of Salt Lake City has
sold his ranch near Palmer this state,
to syndicate, The purchase com.
prises approximately 1000 acres OF the
hest fruit land in Idaho. which Is also
excellently adapted for stock pur-
noses
The government is beginning the
erection Of comfortable and commodi.
GUS headquarters houses on all the
forest ranges in Idaho The head
quarters houses, eight OF which have
already been erected. are i6x24 feet,
story and half,
In the oflce of Surveyor General
Ernest @ Eagleson every desk and
table is now occupied by employees
getting out maps, charts and compll
Ing the reports u the surveys made
during the summer ON the Occur
iAlene reservation.
Robert Fidler. 10 years Of age,
resident of Oregon City, Ore, was
drowned in the food waters Of the
Clearwater in Lewiston, while drag
ging cordwood from the river. A com
panion who tried to rescue him was
himself rescued with difhcUlty
At Payette on the 18th there was
high wind, but the only serious dam
age there was occasioned by sudden
rise in the Payette river, resulting
from heavy rain earlier In the day.
II put temporary wagon bridge over
the river ont Of commission.
The secretary Of the Boise CONNER.
.ial club is az work preparing matter
which Is TO make up in part an elab.
crate pamphlet with which TO adver-