The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-10
IDAHO STATE NEWS

lcuu at illS uOulC III lOlpC liOm PhOu-
monia.
The Idaho State Sunday School as.
ISOLATION convention is to be held at
Nampa on June 1920.
Stephen Kinder, commonly known as
dad" Kinder, an old and well known
resident of Shelly is dead.
Over 100000 head of sheep and Ia,
$50 head of cattle will be grazed or
the Sawtooth forest reserve this. sum
mer.
David Markham, pioneer of Idaho,
died in Eden, Ariz., after brief i'll
ness, aged 81 years. He came to
Idaho in 1852.
The new general hospital at Poca.
tello has been formally opened to the
public. The institution is one of the
finest in the country
The directors of the state fair as
scciation have announced that the
fsir this year will be held AT Boise
the week beginning October q.
A committee of forty of Payette's
representative people has been ap
pointed for the purpose of raising $751;
900 for Y. NJ G. A. building.
OF the $4,000 acres Of irrigable land
on the north side of the Minidoka pro
ject, between 10000 and $4,000 acres
will be under cultivation this season
The third pair of twins has been
born 10 Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Hymas, Of
Liberty. They have been married
eighteen years and have fifteen chill
dren.
There are 81 families in one Ger
tain locality along the Salmon river
There have been IS births from these
81 families in the past year. No race
suicide here.
: The fruit crop around Nampa has
been considerably damaged by frosts
Ice has been frozen on several occa
sions, and it is feared that but small
per cent of the blossoms escaped.
A. 7. Brisbin, ensign on the United
States steamer Tacoma, who was at
tackled by Cuban police at Santiago
along with number Of sailors, and
seriously injured, is native of Idaho
A movement is now on foot among
the druggists of Idaho to form state
organization. A meeting has been
called to be held in Boise May 20 tc
organize Pharmaceutical associa
ton.
There are 1870 companies doing an
insurance business in the state, and
these companies have more than
$3.50 resident agents, for each of
which state certificate has to be
secured.
The second days session of the
fifth annual conference of the sew
-enth missionary department of the
Episcopal church at Boise, was de
voted to church matters behind closed
doors.
About rs families have recently
made desert filings on a large tract
of land lying above the Minidoka
dam, and will irrigate it by means OF
pumps, power for which will be sup
piled from American Falls.
Governor Gooding has announced
the appointment of w. S. CLANCY, OF
Pocatello, as state bank examiner tc
succeed G. S. Loveland. The latter
has resigned to accept the position OF
national bank examiner for Idaho.
Luther Bearskin, the Shoshone In
dian convicted of the murder of Mrs
Charles Ingateur and Carl Ramsey |
two other Indians, on the Fort Hall
reservation last December, has been
sentenced to life Imprisonment at |
hard labor.
AS a result of the fine stage of |
water that has prevailed in the Snake |
river during the past winter and pres
ent spring the moving of the grain |
crop of 1906 from the river ware
houses will be entirely completed by |
June /.
A bond for 100000 was filed last
week, with the state land board, by
the Big Lost River Land & Irrigation
company as guarantee for the re.
clamation within the next 5 years of
$4,000 acres of Carey act land in Gus
ter county.
In the vicinity of Payette people
are already cultivating peas, large
crop of which have been planted for
cannery at that place. Sugar beets
are also looking fine and there are
three times as many of them planted
as last year.
Thomas @. Seabrooke was pank
teller