The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-02-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Ipany.
Coal has been selling for $40 to-
in Pearl, and many people are with
out fuel.
Couer d'Alene City last week sui
fered $4,000 loss by fire in the bes
portion Of the city.
Salmon City is to have new loca
telephone line, to be financed by bust
ness men of that city.
A special train was run from Nampl
to Emmett on the occasion of the Com
fhercial club banquet last week.
A Grand Forks. N. D., company pro
pose starting large wooden mill IL
Boise. The company will employ 1O(
persons.
The capacity of the Boise vitrifieG
brick plant has been doubled and i,
has now capacity of 100000 brick
per month.
There are now 125 substantial
buildings In Burley, and large num-
bers are going up and many others
being planned.
The famous Boise river water case
recently decided by Judge Stewart OF
the district court will be appealed tc
the supreme court.
Some one has been poisoning dogs
at st. Anthony of late by the whole
sale. An investigation is being made
and arrests may follow.
Robert Pastor, newsboy, last two
fingers in the Boise Statesman press.
they being SO badly crushed that am,
putation was necessary.
The news came from Lardo that the
snow is A inches deep on the level,
which insures plenty of water next
season for placer mining and irriga
ton.
The price of land in the vicinity OF
Emmett is increasing rapidly. Bud
Bigelow, who owns 40 acres adjoining
town, last week refused an offer OF
1920 per acre.
Everyone seems well pleased with
the work accomplished at the ten
days session of the State Horticultural
society and the Farmers Normal In
Istitute at Caldwell.
About 10000 head of sheep are be
Ding fed this winter on Governor Good
dng's ranch at Gooding, besides abous
10000 head more which are on his
ranches in Blaine county
It. has been definitely decided II |
erect large brewery at Nampa, as
was contemplated. No company has
been incorporated for the purpose, but
that will be done little later.
AT a meeting of the Boise w. c. T
U. the army canteen was the subject
Of a lively discussion. The meeting
voted to vigorously oppose any effort
to abolish the anti.canteen law.
J. P. Perrin, foreman of Governor
Gooding's sheep ranches at Gooding
and in Blaine county was shoeing
horse, when piece of steel struck
him in the eye, as a result of which he
may lose his eyesight.
A great many people are arriving
In Mountain Home daily from North
Dakota and Minnesota, and 1t is con.
fidently expected that the population
of Mountainhome will increase al
least 1000 before the first of next year
Shoshone county is estimated to
have the largest population in the
state, 26,315. Fremont with 25,252
Nez Perez with 24,136, Latah with 81,
476 and Ada with $1,000 population
follow in the order named, while fol-
lowing are Kootenai, Bingham, Ban
mock, Canyon and Oneida.
Theodore Brackenbury, aged "a
lost his life during blizzard while
journeying from Oakley toward Almo.
The unfortunate young man, when
lound, was lying face downward, the
arms folded as if to keep the hands
warm.
3 Colonel Allen Miller, state commits.
,ioners Of immigration, labor and
statistics, gave out last week for pub.
ication table of the estimated popu.
alton Of the state of Idaho on June /,
I905, in which he makes the total
$50, 900.
Mrs. Alice Durant, one WIN lived in
he under world, committed suicide in
Boise by taking about two-thirds of
he contents of an ounce bottle filled
With carbolic acid. She was 40 years
Il age and had been in Boise but
ew months.
A fire broke out in the Bunker Hill
md Sullivan mine at Wardner and
much damage was done. About sew.