The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Payette expects to have a sugar
factory by next year.
A number of valuable dogs are be-
ing poisoned in Boise by some despic-
able dog p%oisoner.
The village board of Mountain
Home has decided upon the laying OF
four blocks of cement sidewalks.
During the past year about IT'S
cars OF sheep and cattle were shipped
from Bellevue and some $50 cars OF
ore.
Probably between 5000 and 5000
acres of land in the Payette valley
will be planted in sugar beets this
year.
There are over 100 students at the
Albion State Normal school at pres
ent, Is of whom will graduate this
spring.
Gooding is no longer a whistlsng
station on the Oregon Short Line. 1t
is now a full-iedged station with a
depot and an agent.
Considerable building operations are
planned in Cambridge for the coming
season and ranchers whereabouts are
expecting a good season.
Nampa is to have a daily newspa-
per, the publishers of the Leader
Herald announcing that they will be-
gin the publication Of a daily about
April /.
The increased number of smallpox
cases in Boise has brought out the
fact that the quarantine regulations
of the city are not quite what they
should be.
HALEY claims the Oldest commercial
club in the state of Idaho, its club hav'
ing been organized more than twenty
years ago and has been in active oper.
alton ever since.
The report comes from Custer coun
ty that many deer are being killed by
cougars. A resident Of Robinson mo-
ticed four dead deer along the road.
side one day last week.
George E. Atwater, real estate deal
er of Meridian, states that he expects
from North Dakota the last of this
month twenty-five farmers whom 1t is
expected will locate near Meridian.
The prosperity of Middleton is fur
Their shown in the deposits in the
bank, which has been doing business
only a short time and has only a
$4,000 capital, with deposits Of
$4,000.
One of the most significant features
of Hailey's rapid growth in wealth is
the fact that within the past eighteen
months two new banks have been
started that now have combined de-
posits of about $3.50, 000.
Acreage in the vicinity of Middleton
that could have been bought fourteen
months ago for $40 now sells for 500
and lots ON Main street are going like
hot cakes at $3.50 each, which was the
price Of a whole acre not long ago.
All board insurance companies rep
resented in Idaho will hereafter write
insurance at the old rate which was in
Effect before the raise of 25 per cent
O business rates was added last July
is the result OF the California disas-
er.
A jury at Lewiston has decided that
lucy Allen. the Nez Perez Indian wo-
ian, was not guilty of the murder of
larry Carssow, a fellow tribesman.
he defense was that the cutting was
one by George Alsmith, another In.
ian, who has left the country.
The capital stock of the Snake
liver Implement company, whose
cad office is in Burley, has been in
teased from $4,000 to $4,000. The
Dmpany has just been r~eorganized,
nd it's business will be extended over
larger territory in southern Idaho.
A valuable horse belonging to Tom
Eestlake of Weiser, was killed about
20 miles below the city by an Ore
bn Short Line train. The animal
Id escaped from his stable in the
ty and was going to the ranch from
hich he had been brought to the
ty.
During the past season there were
ipped from HALEY over 100 carloads
sheep and lambs, and the wool
ipments aggregated over 1,O00,0 600
unds, which brought from 10 to 20
nts. There were also more than
D cars Of cattle shipped from this
int last year.