The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-09-20
IDAHO STATE NE WIS

'''-Ne'N "s'0AoAHANhN ih AttNoA VI Us NANhi-
tors
Jacob Taylor has been appointed
postmaster at Ahsohka, Nez Perce
county.
The next session of the grand
lodse OF Odd Fellows of Idaho will be
held in Occur d'Alene, October ~
Twin Falls is to have the largest an i
most modern Touring mill in the
ta.e. to be completed by March I,
iext.
'NAt the coming fall election the vot
RS OF tho state of Idaho will be called
Mp n to vote on six questions relative
20 constitutional amendments.
In few weeks enc Of the new gas.
oline motor cars will be put into SER
vice on the Idaho Northern railroad
and Emmett given two train day
At the closing of three days SEES.
sion OF the Grand lodge OF Masons. in
Boise. last week. William NJ. Smith,
of Mountain Home, was chosen grand
master.
NJ. Gibbons, aged 60, who lives thlr.
teen miles from Boise, is in the hos.
pltal in a precarlous condition as the
result of being kicked in the head by
a horse.
Grant Goodlove Of Cambridge raised,
without irrigation, this year. water
melons that weighed over % pounds.
From six vines he harvested thirty Of
these melons.
The board Of county commissioners
OF Ada county have fixed the county
tax levy for 1906 at S1.95 on every
800 of assessed valuation, as against
s205 for 1905.
The public schools Of Boise opened
last week with larger attendance
than ever before in their history, the
total number enrolling on the FIRST
day being 2,13l, as against 2,025 last
year.
II is estimated that by the close Of
the present year, the shipments OF
lumber to the east from the Lewiston
country, the territory embracing the
Troy section, will reach fully 10000
600 feet
The county commissioners Of Can
yon county have made their tax levy
for the fiscal year 1906, fixing the rate
at cents on every dollar of the as
sessed valuation. This is the same
as last year.
Occur dAlene now has population
approaching G,OO0. and has practically
doubled in two years. Although the
rainfall in that section is more than
normal irrigation Is being introduced
as a safeguard,
Pat Murray. an employee OF Conway
& Wilheit's camp which is located
about four miles from Nampa, was the
victim OF a dynamite explosion last
week, being severely burned about the
head and hands.
The Nampa city council has granted
a franchise to W. e. Pierce and his
associates for the construction Of
tracks, poles and other fixtures of the
Boise & Interurban railway through
the four principal streets Of the city.
Among the features of the Elmore
/ county fair, which will be held October
3 to 6 inclusive, will be a delegation
Of so Indians from the Duck Valley
reservation, who will be oamped on
the fair grounds. and numerous foot
and horse races will be arranged for
them.
Grangerville is said to be the larg-
est city In the United states without a
railroad, but that distinction will soon
be a thing Of the past. as by this time
next year the Culdesac branch of the
Norths0n Pacific will be extended to
/ that town.
John Campbell, OF Weiser, has mys'
teriously disappeared from his home.
He left his home to go about his regu'
lar work and has not since been seen.
He ia a sober and industrious man and
his friends are at loss TO account for
his actions.
Cassia county has approximately 40
miles Of the Minidoka & Southwestern
and its assessment roll viii be swe'led
about s2s0,OOO from this source. with
telephone and telegraph assessments
added Cassla countys total will reach
nearly $3,5Oo,OoO
A dispatch from sites says that
sparks from a threshing machine, the
property of John Nelson, started a
fire near there, causing a loss of ST.,
$50, The machine was running when
the fire started. The flames spread
to the barley fields.
Two years ago there we're two farm
houses on the Twin Falls tract and the
entire population of the tract exclu
sive of the engineers and workmeI
engaged in canal construction, did MOI