The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS

JODQ f1aVlllCGch OI VIII rains HAS
cleared $512 off of a half acre Of
strawberries during the past two sea
sons.
The Couer d'Alene Boat club Is ma
turing its plans for regatta to be
held on Lake Occur d'Alene in the
near future.
The Clearwater country will this
year ship practically 25,000,o00 feet Of
lumber into the eastern and middle
west markets.
During a severe thunder and hail
storm lightning struck the barn OF
Sheriff U. S. Justus, near HALEY, bad
ly wrecking the roof.
Two new threshing machines were
brought into Long valley last week
This makes seven machines to take
care Of the grain crop.
G. j. Iaall, big cattleman of Lu.
cile, delivered 80 head of choice stock
to Grangerville buyers last week that
brought him better than $4,000.
Five electric derricks and hoists are
at work in the rock cut on the big
canal near Miner, and the work is
being carried forward night and day
The eleventh annual session of the
Washington county teachers institute
will be held in Weiser, commencing
Monday, August &c, and continuing
five days.
The outlook for fine beet crop and
a big output of sugar at Nampa this
season Is fine. The crop itself will
be better than last year and the acre
age much larger.
1t now appears that the Lewiston
valleys. crop of peaches this year will
be record-breaker, and that the en-
tire fruit crop will exceed, by Is per
cent, any crop ever produced.
The total wool sales at Caldwell
thus far this season aggregate 1,481'
3O7 pounds and the average price
paid was 10 cents per pound. Andrew
Little, the largest grower, sold 275,.
444 pounds.
The starting of the water system
marks a new era for Boomers Ferry
This town now has water works,
splendid lighting system, with tele
phone connections and three railway
transportation lines
The state auditor says that accord
ing to the reports received by him
from the various counties of the state
Idahos assessed valuation Is now
$92,000,000, an increase of $10,000,000
over that of last year
Preparations for the Labor day cele'
bration at Boise are going on rapidly
and the prospects are good for
monster event 1t is hoped to secure
the Mountain Home, Caldwell and
Nampa bands for the occasion.
Boise is to have an automobile club
and the plans of the promoters in
clude suitable club house reason
able distance from Boise. 1t Is estl
mated that club of fifty OF sixty
members could easily be organized.
The town of Roosevelt was visited
by a wild man recently, who
dressed in deerskin and announced
that he was the true son of David
He disappeared after being around
the town two days. 1t is supposed
the man is insane.
A Moscow man was on board the
Inflated Columbia, made the plunge
into the ocean in the darkness of the
night, was rescued, and arrived home
safe and sound. His name is Peter
Johnson, a Norwegian by birth. and he
lives about half mile north of Mos
cow
A little child of r. B. Thorne of
Shelley found a bottle of carbolic acid
In the yard and before any one was
aware of what the bottle contained
the little one swallowed the contents
and Immediately was seized with con
vulsions, death resulting an hour
later.
Farmers are complaining of the new
Sunday rest law, which has put stor
to harvest operations in the Lewiston
country on the Sabbath day. The new
law Is particularly Objectionable this
season on account of the scarcity OF
labor and the large harvest in that
section.
Troop X of the Fourteenth cavalry |
has left the Boise barracks and ia |
now on a march overland to Marys |
Vile, on the st. Anthony branch OF
the Oregon Short Line. where they
will go into camp with the Second |
battalion of the Idaho Nationa |
guard.
1t is announced that movement Is
on feet among the forest service of
ficials to have a telephone service |
in the Sawtooth reserve
Several of the mining companies oper |
ating in that section are ready to CO
operate with the forest officials in
the matter.
The first trip with an electric car
between Boise and Caldwell on the
Boise & Interurban railway was made
on the It'll by a party OF friends OF
w. e. Pierce, promoter and manager |
of the road. An enthusiastic crowd |
CT people greeted the arrival of the
car at Caldwell