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

The annual meeting of the Count.
Attorneys association of Idaho will b.
held at Boise, February 8 and 9.
The Nampa Odd Fellows are consid
ering the advisability of erecting !,
building to be used for lodge purposes
Lieutenant Governor B. l.. Sleeve.
has announced his candidacy for con
gress, to succeed Congressman
French.
At least thirty new business build
ings are being erected at Twin Falls
and at the present time the population
lis 1000.
Mrs. Jacob Plowhead of Middleton
stepping out of her home, slipped and
fell, causing compound fracture OF
the leg just above the ankle.
The First National bank of Payette
is to build a new home, two-story
building, 30x80 feet, to be constructed
of granite, brick and cut stone.
Ice % inches thick is being cut on
Snake river near Miner. Snake river
is frozen over from Miner to Burley,
a distance of about twelve miles.
A coal mine is being developed with
I'm four miles of Salmon City, the coal
being sold at SIS per ton, and it is
claimed the mine is now on a paying
basis.
On the recommendation of Senator
Dubois, Dr. William E. Shea of Poca.
tello has been appointed assistant sur
geon of the marine hospital service al
Port Huron, Mich.
The Big Lost River irrigation pro.
bect will reclaim 100000 acres of bar
ren land in Blaine county. 1t is ex
pected that actual work on the pro
ject will begin in May.
Olive Powell, who was shot by
Henry Neuebaumer at Boise, is dead
1T is believed that Lafayette Gray will
recover, while Mrs. Gray and Lillian
Gray are rapidly improving.
Emmett is suffering, as are many
other Idaho towns, from fuel fam
inc, coal being impossible to get, but
wood has been shipped in, which will
relieve the present needy ones.
Bank Commissioner Loveland last
week authorized two new banks to be.
gin business. One of these is the
Owyhee bank of Silver City. The
other is the First bank of Council.
D. G. Martin, supervising engineer
of the north and south side main
canals, visited Rupert and Hepburn
recently for the purpose of agitating
the organization of water users as.
sociation.
Ed Smith OF Silver City was badly
frozen while going from town to the
mountain. Both hands and both feet
were frozen and the unfortunate mar
lis in such a condition that he may
not recover.
Plans are now being drawn for
1000 church to be built by the
Methodists at Emmett The church
building will have seating capacity
of $50 and $2,4OO pipe organ will |
be installed.
Payette and New Plymouth are in
hearty accord in working for the pro
jected railroad that is to link the two
towns together and surveying parties
will be in the field just as soon as the
weather settles.
Henry Neuebaumer, the principal in
the terrible tragedy at Boise last
week, left Caldwell in 1897, going tc
the Klondike, where he amassed for
tune variously estimated at from
100000 to 100000.
w. P. Greene was instantly killed
near Colburn, this state, last week.
A tree he had cut down struck an
other tree in falling, bending it over.
the second tree struck the
man, killing him instantly.
Charles Barber has been indicted
Tor the murder of Charles Marcomb at
Midvale on December %, when he
stabbed Marcomb. At the time of the
'tabbing Macomb, who was large,
powerful man, was beating Barber,
Who is quite young.
Word now comes to the effect that
Al Hennessy, who was reported to
ave lost his life in a snowslide while
oming out from Thunder mountain.
s alive at Roosevelt. While his
lorses were killed in the snowslide
e escaped uninjured.
A dispatch from Rigby says
'harles B. Counts, an Oregon Short
line surveyor, has been killed in a
nowslide on the south fork of the
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