The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-02-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS
The county attorneys of Idaho held
heir annual meeting in Boise last

commercial club has been organ
tied at Boise, there being los charte
members.
A recent canvas of Mountain Home
shows that there are 1900 people ii
that town
M. Moore of Pearl fell down a fligh
of stairs at his home and was
seriously injured about the head ani
shoulders.
Albert Barber, who was charged
with the murder of Charles Macomt
at Midvale, has been convicted Of
manslaughter.
The young son of Mr. and Mrs
Henry Dorman of Pearl had his Shout.
der bone broken by running into a
telephone pole while coasting.
Mrs. Samuel Moudy, who died at
Middleton recently at the age of rs,
came to Idaho in 1864 and has since
been resident of Boise valley.
Residents Of Weiser are claiming a
population Of $500, basing their es,
Inmates on the number of votes cast
at the recent municipal election
The mail carriers into Roosevelt are
not able to use their teams, owing tc
the snow, and are carrying the mail
on their backs, using snowshoes.
w. P. Green, aged 81, was killed
by the rebound of a tree while en-.
gagged in clearing the right of way
for the Corbin railroad near Colburn
Work is being prosecuted on the
$4,000 court house at Caldwell, and
as soon as warmer weather comes the
building will be rushed to compile
ton.
Cougars are getting rather bold in
the vicinity of Granite, one making
an attempt to get away with a fat
hog belonging to G.. G. McMath last
week.
M. Mecham, of the firm of Benner
& Mechan, OF Stanley Basin, and well
known in the Wood river country, sui.
cided by blowing his brains out with a
shotgun.
The proposed railway to New Ply
mouth Is regarded now as a sure 60,
The building Of the line will insure the
planting of a large acreage of sugar
beets this season.
After having been closed down for
some months that it might be over
hauled and improved, the great mill at
De Lamar will be ready to start up
again early in the spring.
The Gem state is to have another
thriving town, through the agency of |
the Twin Falls Land & Water com.
pany, to be known as Bull. Bull is IA
miles west of Twin Falls.
September 10 to Is, from Monday
until Saturday, is the date that has
been set for the coming session Of
the National Irrigation congress,
which meets in Boise this year.
Never in the history of Caldwell
has the building outlook been better.
Over half a million dollars of i'm.
provements are in contemplation and
in every stage OF development
1t is said that the new postoffice to
be established at the Barber Lumber
company's plant, five miles above
Boise, will be called LaFollette, in
honor of the distinguished junior sen,
ator from Wisconsin.
A freighter on his way to Jordan
Valley was held up just south of Cald.
well and relieved of $40. The party
described as doing it was young fel.
low wearing a cadets uniform and
riding sorrel or bay horse.
A basket factory is soon to be estab.d I
ished in Boise by J. ]. Olsen, who has
basket factories in Salt Lake and Og.
Zen. It is proposed to manufacture
III kinds of chip and willow baskets.
Ind about forty persons will be EN-. =
,loyed.
G.. w. Thompson and F. ]. Randolph y
ave returned to Lewiston from 9
,amas Prairie and report that I
100000 has been raised with ),
,hich to start work on the builda a
ng of the Lewiston-G rangeville elect a
riot line. Il
John Judge, 10 years of age, was
in over and killed in the Clark's
ork yards of the Northern Pacific
abroad last week. He was play X
lg around train which was being n
vitched. His head and both hands a.
ere cut Off !.
D. M. Edmonds, an employee Of the "
ederal Mining and Smelling COM n
my, lost his life In the wreck OF an 4,
e train running from the Morning q,
inc to the mill at Mullan. James to
alloy, the engineer Of the train, fa