The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-10-11
IDAHO STATE; NE VS.

cost $4,000.
Placeryille is without physician
the field having been abandoned las
week by the sole remaining doctor
The alfalfa meal plant at Nampa Il
turning out twenty tons Of meal daily
for which a ready market is secured.
Three Of the business blocks under
construction in Emmett will be com
pleted this week. ready for occupancy
One day last week Ga carloais oI
mutton sheep were shipped from
Ketchum, most of which went to Chi
caeo.
Many carloads Of livestock are be
ing shipped from Mackay. HALEY
Ketchum AMI other points in that re
eion
Charles johnson has been convicted
Of stealing $50 from a drunken man IN
weiser, and sentenced to two years
imprisonment
Rural free delivery route No. 2 has
been ordered established November 16
at Shelley Bingham county, serving
400 people and 96 families.
The twentieth annual convention oi
the w. G. T. U. of southern Idaho was
held in Emmett last week, about forty
delegates being in attendance
r. p. Murray, while driving span
of mules at Caldwell, had the mlsfor.
tune of being thrown from the wagon,
which passed over him, breaking hfs
leg.
Oscar Ketchum, a young man aged
about IL years, was killed at Wilkes
sawmill, near Council. by a log rolling
on him from wagon which he was
unloading.
Boise may be represented by team
in big roller polo league this winter,
the towns represented in the league
being Salt Lake. Ogden. Provo. Butte
and Boise.
John Peters, the Council merchant
charged with attempting to burn the
store Of Lowe q Jones at Council was
acquitted by a Jury. The trial lasted
three days.
Thomas Ayers was drowned in the
Snake river below the upper Salmon
Falls, while crossing in boat. As
he was alone, II is not known how the
accident occurred.
c. Hansen, a mason employed on a
building at Emmett, fell from the sec
ond story, distance Of Is feet. Aside
from being severely bruised, he re.
ceived no serious injuries
The first annual county fair ever
held in Elmore county was opened on
Wednesday, October 3, at o'clock a.
M. and proved TO he an unqualified
success in every particular.
City Marshal w. 3. Banks was shot
and painfully wounded at Emmett by
young man named George Grow.
who mistook the marshal for some
young hoodlums who had been annoy.
ing him.
A. NJ. Caldwell and family. who have
been living in a tent at Meadows for
the past year In the deepest poverty,
lett for Salt Lake last week to close
the sale of mine that will net the
family $4,000.
The statue Of George Washington
on the state house grounds in Boise
presented to the state by Charles Ost.
ner being carved by him out Of native
wood, was badly damaged by some
vandal one night last week.
Having taken advantage of the
many natural reservoir sites in the
hills about Camas prairie, the farmers
of that vicinity will soon. at compare
lively small expense. have storage wa
ter sufficient TO irrigate about $4,000
acres.
The Academy of Idaho, at Pocatello,
bStdh lAS ulth year oh lho itNh WIN
an attendance OF las, a gain OF is per
cent over that OF last year, Using past
experience as a basis of estimating,
the attendance this year should go be.
yond 200.
Robert orm, who stabbed Charles
Spencer, a Chicago dentist. in the alb
domen with a large pocket knife, dur
ing saloon brawl at Weiser, has
been sentenced to seven years imprls.
onment Spencer has not yet entirely
recovered from his injuries.
Sugar beet growers in the Payette
district, which embraces Payette, Ply.
mouth, Ontario and Nyssa, the sreap,
ing a rich reward. The beet crop, II
Is said, viii average 20 tons to the
acre. At $3.50 per ton this makes a
gross revenue Of 500 per-acre.
The farmers in the vicinity OF EN-.
nett are buslIy engaged in delivering
their crop of sugar beets, Most o.
those who have raised beets here are
well satisfied with the result. as the
tonnage is good considering that this
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