The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-08-30
IDAHO STATE NEWS

ate at star. IL viii have capitM OF
$4,000.
Monster dolngs win characterize
this years Labor day in Boise on Sep
tember o.
Complaints come from Lewiston
that wood as fuel In that section Is
rapidly becoming scarce and that the
price IS rapidly advancing
rhe Commercial club of Boise will
soon be established in its new quar-
ters having spent about $4,000 in fur
nishing its new club rooms.
The melcn season is on in full swing
the Payette valley. Both canta-
loupes and vatermelons are being
shipped out of Payette by the car
loads.
Rev H. H. Russell of New York
City, the founder of the anti-saloon
league, is to visit Idaho. and will
speak at Montpelier Pooatellc, Boise,
Moscow and Lewiston.
The report comes from Council that
young man in that vicinity while
intoxicated, fell over preciplce near
ly a hundred feet, sustaining no in
juries other than a scalp wound
The ladies Of the w. c. T. U. have
offered a prize for the best decorated
residence in Boise no competing home
to cost more than $4,000 during the
session of the Irrigation congress.
John Henshaw, liveryman of Pay.
cite. lost a valuable horse last week
as the result Of Iockjaw. The animal
had stepped on nail and got into
such condition that he had to be
shot
Everyone in the vicinity of Twin
Falls is waging a vigorous campaign
against the Russian thistle. The trac,
will be gone over and the pest burned
80 that there will be no danger In
future.
An effort is being made to get a
committee to go from Standpoint TO
Rathdrum to meet committee from
Occur d'Alene which has been selected
to draw the division lines for the new
county.
The delegates to the Irrigation con.
gress will be permitted the novelty
for this time of year, of eating fresh
Boise valley strawberries. The second
crop has matured and is now on this
market.
Approximately 1900 linear feet OF
lumber sidewalk in Wallace have been
condemned by the authorities, ane
are TO be replaced by walks of con
crete at a cost of twenty cents
square foot.
Lincoln county Is the only county in
Idaho where cordwood and bees are
assessed In the county cordwood is
assessed at $2,10o and bees at 1925
lumber is assessed at $4,000 and We
hicles at $1s.1so.
Many complaints are being made Of
he wholesale killing Of cattle which
invade wheat fields in the vicinity OF
Moscow At least twenty-five cows
have been shot in the past two weeks
by owners OF wheat fields.
Captain James Graham of the First
Idaho vosNetee died last week at hi
nome at Occur dAlene. Death fol
lowed an illness Of four years. which
had its beginning In the PHILIPPINES,
developing into locomotor ataxia
While on a camping trip under the
auspices of the Baptist church, Harry
Willems OF Idaho Falls was shot in the
back with a shotgun by Roy Heller
and instantly killed, The tragedy wa
purely accidental and no blame is
charged,
Delbert Wheeler, a bar tender and
saloon man, committed suicide at
Henry, eighteen miles north OF Soda
Springs, or the 21st, by putting hole
through his temple with a thirty-two
calibre revolver. Nothing is known o.
his relatives.
AS the time for the meeting OF the
Irrigation congress draws near the
fruit growers and raneners of the Pay
ette valley are putting their best foot
forward in collecting a fruit and hort
cultural exhibit that II is expected will
surpass all competition.
Word has been received from Colo
RADIO Springs, Colo, that Mrs. J. w
Sawyer who left Shoshone for that
place some time ago, had disappeared
from there and no trace of her can be
found She had between $4,000 and
81, 900 with her, and foul play Ia
feared
The committee having in charge
the raising OF the bonus for the San
Francisco, Idaho D. Montana railroad
made their report at the Caldwell
opera house one night last week
Their report showed $4,000 raised,
aud were confident that all could be