The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-10-12
General News

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Senator Hepburn spoke at Pocatellc
Tuesday night to large audience.
The Golden Sunbeam mine at Custer
has taken boom lately and Ravenel
McBeth and other prominent mining
men have bought into it. They have 9
mountain Of ore mile square that yields
$50 to $35 ton SO far as it has been
| tested.
Congressman French is speaking to
crowed houses in southern and western
Idaho.
Senator Hepburn has beed requested
to go to Ohio to help in the campaign
there, but he declined, saying he owed
all his time to Idaho.
The Canyon County Fair at Caldwell
this week was grand success.
A terrible accident with gun hap
pened ut the ranch of Mr.. Anderson
in Gentle Valley Sunday. A boy of
eleven who haa been hunting, came into
the house where Katie Anderson and
Ethel Ames we're eating lunch, and in
play commanded the girls to throw up
their hands. Both barrels of the gun
discharged and blew Miss Anderson's
head off, and mortally wounded the 9th
er girl.
The Sultan of Turkey was shot few
days ago by jealous women who was
no longer favorite. The bullet has
been extracted from the Sultan and he
still furnishes smiles to his favorites.
There's nothing doing in politics over
there.
Cassla County has decided to divide
itself. and the line has been agreed upon.
DR.. Hoover and wife went to Pocatello
Tuesday to hear Seator Hepburn speak.
The doctor says it was grand speech.
Mrs. Harry Workman, nee Miss May
Scott. went up to st. Anthony Wednes-
day on Official business.
A. B. Moss of Payette was here this
week attending meeting Of the Asylum
Board, and says they are harvesting
bumper crops in his section.
The City OF Seattle has started in to
get up "rhe Alaska Youkon Pacific Ex-
position They opened subscriptions
for stock company Of $4,000 and
this amount was subscribed in few
hours. The other fellows who came too
late to get in on the deal, want to have
the plans enlarged to let them in.
Some more hazing at the University
at Moscow calls to mind the outrage of
last winter when the students resolved
to cut it out.
The Idaho State Fair at Boise comes
off next week.
No. Two eastbound passenger train
was derailed on the Uniun Pacific east
If Ogden Tuesday morning but no pas
sengers were seriously injured.
The potato crop in Utah is light and
Idaho is shipping in that direction.
Weber County. Utah, has shipped $50
carloads Of fruit to eastern points thus
season.
The town of Hepburn is to have a
townsite sale on October 2Oth.
The Twin Falls Land and Water Co.
are commencing the work Of reclaming
10000 acres OF Carey Land on the north
side OF Snake River opposite the Twin
Falls tract, and another company takes
a big slice Of territory lying nearer the
town Of Shoshone.
A rich strike Is reported on Custer
Mountain in the Bachelor Group, which
yields 20 ounces Of gold and $50 ounces
VI silver per ton. This makes about
S490 a ton.
The Colorado River is still flowing in
to the Salton Sea in Arizona, and the
combined efforts OF the United States
and Mexico and the Southern Pacific
company may not bring it
under control.
The United States has taken charge Of
affairs in Cuba and the rebels are being
disarmed.