The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-02-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

formally opened last week.
Steps have been taken to organize
commercial club in Albion.
A farmers institute has been or
ganized in Ada county, the second te
be started in the state.
The Bellevue public schools have
been reopened after being closed fol
two weeks on account of smallpox.
Harry Miller, aged II, is in a Boise
hospital suffering from fractured
skull, the result of being kicked by
horse.
Minnard is the name of the new
town on Camas prairie, a few miles
south of Soldier. 1t will soon have 8
postoffice.
John Johnson was killed at log
ging camp on Dagget creek, in Boise
county, log striking him, horribly
crushing his body.
An old man named Williams slipped
on the icy sidewalk in Boise and
FELL the back of his head striking the
walk, death resulting from the fall.
Miss Jennie Rust, who suffered a
badly mangled hand in an accident re
Gently at the Pocatello Steam laun,
dry, had to have two OF the fingers
amputated.
Brennan & Davis of Montpelier pur.
chased 700 tons of hay around Nc
Cannon last fall and have shipped
several carloads from there to eastern
points recently.
A protest from the patrons of the
Qostoffice at Cherrer, Idaho, has been
sent to Senator Dubois, to be filed
with the postofice department,
against the proposed appointment of
ID. r. Langlois as postmaster.
During the past year the sum of
$1,OO7, 399.04 In two precious metals,
gold and silver, passed through the
Boise office. OF this, 1911 ,S39.74 was
in gold, the rest being silver amount.
Ing to $35,5GS21.
The Miles livery stable at st. An.
thony was destroyed by fire, forty head
Of horses being burned, and men who
were sleeping in the upper story bare.
ly escaped with their lives. The loss
is fully $4,000.
George Moxmox, a noted Nez Perez
Indian, was burned to death at his
home near Juliaette, while intoxicated.
Moxmox was well known, being a
graduate of Carlisle school and having
served in the army.
State Treasurer Hastings thinks
that the assessment of property in
Idaho is ridiculously low. He says
that the idea of the empire" of which
we boast having an assessed valuation
of $S0,OO0,O0O is absurd.
W. j. Turner C Co., of Mountain
Home, have arranged to reclaim sew.
eral thousand acres of desert land
situated on the river bottoms near
Medbury siding and about eighteen
miles from Mountain Home
Andrew Zayiciz, miner in the
Tiger-Poorman mine at Burke, is in
The Wallace hospital suffering from
severe conclusion of the brain
caused by large icicle falling point T
downward, on top of his head.
At Grangeville, o. R. Howard and
Edward Wiley were bound over to
answer to the charge of ambuscading :,
and killing swan Knudson, august
II, 1901, as he was coming out of Il
the Salmon river country along the C
Florence road II
That the skin of a white man graft '
ed upon the body of negro will turn 3
black has been demonstrated at the c.
city hospital in Seattle. The discov Il
cry was made in the case of Isaac
Spears, a colored boy who was badly
burned about three months ago.
7. w. Thomas of Idaho is in Wash. .
ington to expedite the action of the :
interior department upon the applica. :,
ton for the segregation of 10000 Il
acres of land near Arco, Idaho, under L
the Carey land act. Water for irri re
cation and reclaiming the lands in e,
question is to be taken from the Big I'll
Lost river. m
Twenty men of American Falls who a. ~
believe in dry farming have each ei
located 160-acre homestead, and will
Join together in the purchase of ma
,hinery and tools necessary to put the
entire tract of 5000 acres into wheat :,
The residence of Alvin Moon, three in
niles west of St. Anthony, was com. d.
letely destroyed, burning with it the AT
R-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. eli
loon. Another child nine months ole pc
'as also terribly burned and small as
ope for its recovery is entertained. vo
lr. Moon was terribly burned in at an
,mDtinp to save tho ch{ldrop Bt(