The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-12-28
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

banks OF Caldwell amount, in round
numbers to $1,500,00O.
Representative French has been
called from Washington to his home
In Moscow by the illness Of his wife
Charles A. Let's had both legs brok,
On as the result Of falling from the
second story window of building in
Boise.
Arthur Grub, of May, had his left
leg broken above the ankle on the
18th inst, by being thrown from a
y horse.
The new telephone line is now COM
pleted from Gilmore to Salmon and
poles are set twenty miles southeast
OF Gilmore.
The establishment in Pocatello Of
an immense plant for the manufac.
ture of Portland cement is almost an
assurance for the coming year.
Work on the Wharton dam, on the
south fork of the Payette, is progress.
ing in a satisfactory manner, and 1t
Is expected the dam will be finished
In February.
Joseph P. Gill was last week re-
leased from the penitentiary, having
finished ten-year sentence for kill.
ing a man on the Short Line railway
In Boise in 1896.
The Boise Commercial club has elic-
tied the aid of the Salt Lake club to
assist in inducing the Postal Tele-
graph company to extend their line
from Salt Lake to Boise.
The Oregon Short Line has begun
hauling wood from the country around
Marysville to Rexburg at a very low
rate, and the fuel famine in that city
Ia being greatly relieved.
The case of William T. West, re-
Gently convicted for the third time Of
horse stealing, has been in the courts
for three years, and has cost Gilmore
county more than $4,000.
The quarantine placed upon EN-
NETT because of several cases of
smallpox has been lifted and the
schools, churches, entertainments and
lodges will be allowed to open.
Work has commenced on the iron
portion of the new bridge at Idaho
Falls. The bridge will be steel struc-
iture Of handsome design, and one o.
the most substantial in the state.
The annual convention of the Ida
Iho State Sunday school convention
for 1907 will be held at Nampa, June
us, 10 and co. This was decided at
a meeting held in Boise last week.
There is move on foot to get
mail service from Challis to Singiser
This is an open route, winter and sum.
mer, over good road, and the short
est route to that section Of the coun.
try.
Luther Bearskin, the Bannock In.
dian who killed Frank Ramsey and
Mrs. Charles Ingatam, both Indians,
twenty miles west of Pocatello, was
captured at Malad by Town Marshal
Evans. .,}
Hon. Frank G. Mandell, a promi-
nent mining engineer of HALEY, died
at his home Dec. IA of pneumonia.
He was i'll but four days, and his sud.
den death was great shock to the
community.
The recent heavy storms seriously
interfered with the work of putting in
Of the machinery for the Monarch mill
at Atlanta. There is four feet of snow
on the summit between Atlanta and
Rocky Bar.
Jack Veach, employed as engineer
at the Tiger mine at Burke, was cleo
trocuted, 1000 volts of electricity
passing through his body. Veach was
AZ years of age and we'll known in
the district
Peterson, the young man charged
with larceny Of money from the Por.
ter hotel, who has been in jail at
Blackfoot, met a severe accident while
chopping wood in the Jail yard, cutting
his foot nearly off.
Iver Carlson, a rancher living near
Kendrick, killed an animal, the spe.
cies OF which is puzzling. The curl.
GUS specimen looks as though it might
be half raccoon and half cat, and
weighs about twenty pounds.
Unrequited love for q Spokane wo-
man, whose name at present Is un'
known, caused Erick Anderson,
wealthy farmer residing near Nez
Perez, to commit suicide by cutting
his throat with pocket knife.
The Pacific & Idaho Northern Rail
road company has purchased 900
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