The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-09-13
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

Nearly 1000 men aud women march.
ed in the Labor Gay parade at Boise.
Welser's public schools opened last
week with the largest attendance in
the history OF the schools
The Prosbyterians are building a
$4,000 manse on their lots at the rear
Of the Presbyterian church in Caldwell
Az the Irrigation congress held in
Boise last week. LIPS delegates pre-
scented their credentials and register.
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The Short line has three routes sur
veyed for new short line" north and
west from Salt Lake into southern
Idaho
Ada county secured the silver cup
for vegetables, in which she made a
marvellous showing, at the irrigation
congress.
Payette valley won first prize for in
dividual exhibits OF apples, prunes,
pears and peaches at the Irrigation
congress.
The fruit packing season at Payette
has opened. and there is scarcity of
labor. Help from adjoining states
will be asked for.
c. r. Reeves, who headed the Ne
vada delegation to the Irrigation con
gross, decided to remain in Idaho. and
will locate in Weiser.
Under the management of DR. Wat
son the state school for the deaf, dumb
and blind pupils Of Idaho was opened
in Boise on September 10.
Taylor Bliven. aged so years, for
some time living In tent, and Ill for
a few days, was found dead in his tent
in Boise one morning last week.
The ranchers around Boise are send
ing huge shipments of Sweetwater and
Delaware grapes into town, receiving
10 cents a pound Tor their shipments.
Four thousand cantaloupes we're
sent to Boise by the Payette growers
on the 4th and presented to the Wis
itors and delegates TO the Irrigation
congress.
Benito Arego, a fiveyear-old Span
ish lad, who lives in Boise, shot him
self in the breast while playing with
revolver While badly injured, the
lad will recover
The new tariff schedule now in
course of preparation by the Oregon
Short Line will place the Twin Falls
branch on a par with the main line in
the matter of freight rates
The board of directors of the State
Federation OF women's clubs held
meeting in Boise last week. at which
the time for the annual meeting was
set for October 25 and 26.
The Payette Valley Building & Loan
assoclauca, new business associa-
tion backed entirely by local people.
has been launched at Payette, the as
ISOLATION being Incorporated for $780,
600.
The big Weyerhauser lumber syndi-
cate has purchased from the Canyon
Canal company 200 acres of sagebrush
land northeast of Emmett, which looks
as though they intended to erect their
sawmills there at once.
Mrs. Lydia Adams-Williams, the only
woman delegate to the Fourteenth
National Irrigation congress, repre-
senting the International League OF
Press clubs, delivered an interesting
address before the congress,
Fifteen cars we're derailed and burn
ed as the result of freight wreck on
the Short Line at High Bridge, sixty
miles north of Idaho Falls. No one
was hurt. The cars destroyed were
loaded with merchandise and lumber.
e. F. Atwater, who won the cup of
fered by the irrigation congress for
the best display of apiary products,
will make an exhibit at the state fair
surprising the one just made. Mr..
Atwater has marketed $4,000 pounds
of honey this year from 500 stands of
bees.
The magnificent silver loving cup,
given by the Great Western Sugar
company of Denver for the best gen
eral exhibit OF sugar beets, was award
ed to C. Nofsinger of Nampa his beets
showing a purity of IS 7.1O and a sugar
content OF 16 $40.
Crazed with jealousy, for which he
admits there is no foundation, w. 7.
Fem attacked Robert Klein in the
brlckyard at Nampa, where the two
men we're employed. with a shovel and
beat his victim to death. Fem sur
rendered to the authorities
A man known as A. L. Redfeld, who
has been employed as cook in a hotel
at Nez Perez, disappeared last week,
after being recognized as John Bear
Of Enterprise, Or John Bear shot and
killed Brick" Johnson at Enterprise