The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Payette is to have a builulns ant
loan association.
Nampa now has brass band OF
twenty-seven pieces.
The Christian Scientists are build
ing a neat edifice in Caldwell.
That Nampa will soon have a new
Touring mill is now reasonably Ger.
tain.
Superintendent Mcpherson has been
guaranteed 5000 for the Twin Falls
fair.
Crops never looked better in the
vicinity of HALEY than at the present
time.
William Riggs, living near Meadows.
was kicked by horse and probably
fatally injured
The town of Shelley is to have cleo
trio lights, a company having been
organized with a capital stock of
$4,000.
The reorganization of Company I is
now complete with an enrolment Of
so, including some of the best men in
Payette.
The Independence mine near
Ketchum has been sold to eastern cap
ltalists for 100000. Active operations
will soon be commenced.
The people of Twin Falls are work
Ing for a division of the county, so
that Twin Falls may be made the coun-
ty seat of the new county
It is announced that over 100000 Of
the insurance money on the admins
tration building of the State Univer-
sity at Moscow has been paid.
Pocatello is in line for a wooden
mill A Eureka, Cal, man has written
to the Commercial club of that city,
asking it to submit proposition.
The board of village trustees has,
passed an ordinance providing for the
construction of cement sidewalks on
the principal blocks on Main street at
Haley
About eleven inches of rain have
fallen in Pocatello since the first OF
January, 1906. 1t is the heaviest pre-
cipitation ever recorded in the same
period of time.
The annual meeting of the Boise
missionary district of the Episcopal
church, which embraces all of south.
eastern Idaho and part of Wyoming,
was held in Boise last week.
Word comes from Lewiston that ar
rangements have been completed in
New York for the financing of tbs
electric road, and that the. financial
difficulties have come to an end.
Jacob Lockman of the Crescent
Brewing company, which is building
a $4,000 brewery in Nampa, has re-
turned from Chicago, where he pur.
chased the machinery for the plant
Harry Steiner, a carpenter EN-.
ployed by the o. S. l.. railroad, met
with serious injury in the railroad
yard at Nampa recently, as result
of which he may lose his right foot.
There are 230 convicts now in the
Idaho State penitentiary. This is the
greatest number of prisoners ever
confined there at one time, the highest
number ever before reached being 22S.
Work on the Paye{te Valley railroad
is progressing steadily. Material is
arriving every day and the graders
are making good Roadway, the wealth
er being very favorable to rapid work.
Jerry G. Henry, formerly Of Lewis
ton, was found dead in the bath room
at the Alturas lodging house, in Boise,
having expired from heart failure
when attempting to enter that room
from his bed room, which adjoined.
Contractors on the P. & I. N. ex-
tension report a great scarcity of men
on the road to do all kinds of work.
From different parts of the upper
country there comes a demand for
men to work on ranches and in the
sawmills.
A year ago the jackrabbits were
very numerous on the Twin Falls
tract. Last spring they devoured
everything green they could reach.
The settlers have waged unrelenting
war on them and now scarcely rab-
bit is left.
The plan evolved by Governor Good.
ing for some sort of an organized ef-
fort on the part of the state officials
and the owners of large timber tracts
in Idaho to protect the forests from
fires is being favorably received by
the timber men.