The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-04-06
IDAHO STATE NEWS

A Japanese section hand was struck
iby a passenger train near Montpelier
and instantly killed.
The terms of all local land officers
in Idaho. with two exceptions, will ex.
pire some time this year.
Work will start this week on the
new Emmett bank building, which will
be a neat two-story structure.
There is now more snow at Leigh
than there has been for nine years,
and hay is getting scarce in that
vicinity.
Work on the Caldwell interurban
railroad, which had been postponed on
account of the bad weather, has been
resumed.
The reclamation work has put hay
way up to Sis per ton at Caldwell and
lots of hay is moving from near that
town on the works.
Material for the Caldwell interurban
railroad is beginning to arrive. A
large force of men has been put on
in order to push the work faster.
s. J. Merrill and twenty-one others
of Leigh bought a $1,000 Percheon
stallion and the horse died three days
after the salesman left with their
notes.
At Lewiston work has been com
menced on an electric line from Lew
iston to Grangeville, the power for
which will be generated on Salmon
river, near Whitebird.
The state insane asylum at Orofino
is rapidly nearing completion and will
be ready for occupancy in about two
weeks. 1t is well located and the eli
mate is very healthful.
The Council Commercial club has
determined to undertake a system of
advertising for that section of the
state in a number of the leading pa
pers of the middle west.
James Campbell sustained serious
internal injuries as the result of the
breaking of a mammoth belt at the
power house in Weiser, the belt strik-
ing the unfortunate man.
Sam Sherwood is in the hospital at
,Walla Walla, suffering from badly
frozen feet as the result of becoming
lost in the mountains in northern
IDAHO while on a prospecting trip.
Edwin Miller, while working for
Picard & Roberts, at Caldwell, had the
of having his right leg
broken between his knee and ankle
and also his shoulder thrown out of
place.
The South Idaho conference OF
Christian churches, including all the
churches between Twin Falls and
Huntington, will meet at the Christian
tabernacle at Boise on June Is, 10, 20
and 21.
The Boise Commercial club has
agreed to give 500 toward construct
ing the piece of road or the Boise
Atlanta road near Twin Springs, which
has been so washed out that it is i'm
passable.
The Weiser irrigation district has
brought an action in the district court
to adjudicate the water rights of the
entire Weiser valley, the same as has
recently been done in other portions
of the state.
Colonel N. J. Sharp, register of the
land Office at HALEY, has received a
dispatch from Senator Hepburn say
ing that no charges of any character
have been filed in the interior depart.
ment against him.
The Merchants Carnival" given by
the Caldwell public school was the
greatest amateur success ever given in
that city, and netted $238.15. The
money goes toward paying off the debt
on the school piano.
Paul Foster of Weiser, who was ap.
candidate to the naval acad-
envy by Senator Dubois, left last week
for Annapolis, where he will enter a
preparatory school to study for the en-
try examinations to be given in June.
The Occur d'Alene electric line,
which has done so much to develop
hat part of the country, has been
merged with the Inland Electric line.
This line will build from Spokane
Town into the Palouse country, tap
ling Garfield and Colfax, in Washing
on, and Moscow.
The depot site at Council has beer
definitely located at the foot of Moser
venue, on the east side of the track
t is the intention of the company to
1ake a park ADJ lining the depot, the
own to furnish the water to keep
up.