The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-08-23
IDAHO STATE, NE WIS

heavy.
The farmers along the Snake have
finished putting up the second crop
OF hay.
Teachers examination for bingham
county will be held at Blackfoot on
August 90, % and %
A trainload Of sheep Is being loaded
at HALEY nearly every day. bound
for the eastern markets.
The tomato crop in the vicinity Of
Moscow is practically ruined. being
blighted and badly burned
Arrangements for the county fair to
be held at Mountain Home ON Octo-
Der to are progressing fayorably.
An electrical storm of unusual Sc
verify passed over Lewiston last
week, doing almost $4,000 damage
The Blaine county assessment roll
for 1906 shows an increase in valua.
ton of s10s,539 over that of last year.
Bees at the older ranches along the
Snake river are said to have thrlved
well this year and the hives are load
ed with honey.
Some OF the merchants Of Boise
have declared war on the green trad.
ing stamps. They have signed an
agreement not to continue their use
The short Line has just about I'm
ished ballasting the road from Silver
Bow to Pocatello, making II up to the
standard for strength and freer from
dust than before.
The state board OF equalization at
its meeting in Boise determined there
should be an increase made in the
railway assessment this year, but no
figure was agreed upon.
The boiler OF Joe Kent's sawmill
thirty-hve miles from Boise, near
Smiths Prairie, exploded. killing this
sawyer, named Jeltner. Henry Coz
fee was seriously injured.
Stanley Newman was severely bit
ten by a rabid dog at Lewiston while
he was trying to capture the raviae
canine. The excessive heat of the
day had driven the animal mad.
A s-year-old son of Charles Holman
Of New Sweden got his finger in the
bearings of washing machine one
day recently and got II so badly
mashed that It had to be amputated
Nampa people are jubilant over the
fact that the new sawmlll company
have secured the timber they bid on
in the Sawtooth reserve, and that as
sures the building of the big sawmill
at Nampa
Bob Devine, who came to Idaho
thirty-hve years ago. was found dead
on trail in the Big Creek district
death being, due TO heart failure. TIE
body when found was in badly de
composed condition.
A Twin Falls firm last week shipped
the first carload of potatoes grown
on the Twin Falls tract. The spUds
we're marketed by farmers in the vi
cinity of Twin Falls and they were
shipped to Butte. The tubers were OF
excellent quality.
Notwithstanding the extreme late
spring, which made 1t impossible to
get crops in early, the conditions on
the Lost river ranches are far in ad
vance OF many past seasons, due
chiefly to the fine hot weather of the
past few weeks.
Joe Dlpiallto, an Italian concrete
worker, who has been laboring on the
railway bridge at Twin Falls. was
shot and fatally wounded by Joe Pa
tire, one of his fellow workers. The
shooting was the result OF drunken
row after the men had been paid ON
Agents OF the state horticultural
board are now busy in every county
Of the state preparing Utahs exhibit
for the national irrigation congress
and securing the country for fruits
and products OF the field and farm
There is on exhibition in a real
estate Office in St Anthony sample
OF the wheat crop on Judge Donald.
sons ranch near Teton City. The
judge has twenty acres OF winter
wheat that will probably produce fifty
bushels per acre, and II is all on dry
| land"
It has been determined by the
Boise Commercial club to issue visit
ing cards, good for two weeks, and
| completely covering their stay in that
city, to each of the regularly accred.
| Tied delegates to the coming session
Of the National Irrigation congress in
Boise.
Several thousand acres Of land have
recently been taken up under home.
stead and desert entries in the vicln-
lty Of Warm creek and Goat springs,
which has been named the "artesian
belt" because of the recent strike
there OF a strong artesian flow OF
water.
J, Il. Miller OF Idaho Falls has 100
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