The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-04-19
IDAHO STATE NEWS

A $4,000 hospital building Is 10 Dc
erected at the barracks in Boise.
Mountain Home is planning for an
immense fair to be held in September.
Canyon county can now boast OF the
finest court house in the state OF
Idaho
Idaho Falls Odd Fellows will lay
the cornerstone of new building on
the 26th inst.
Four hundred Nez Perce Indians in
and around Lapueai have formed a
temperance union.
An epidemic of diphtheria is feared
at Cambridge, number OF cases be-
ing under quarantine.
j. c. Johnson, of Pocatello while
manipulating horse shoeing ma
chine, had his hand badly fractured.
Emil Erickson was drowned near
Boise while working on log boom,
Erickson fell between two logs and
was unable to free himself.
d. G. Downing, of Boise, was ia
tally injured by cave-in in trench
which he was digging in Spokane, be-
ing hurt about the back and lower
limbs.
Under a law passed by the recent
legislature Idaho can now levy tax
for the purpose of exterminating
crickets, grasshoppers, rodents and
rabbits
The biggest land sale in the history
of the state is to be held in Fremont
county May 8, when $500 acres OF
good state land will be offered at pub
lie auction.
The acreage of sugar beets at
Nampa and Payette, tributary to the
Western Idaho, Sugar company's fac
tory at Nampa, will this year be more
than double that of last season.
Lee Garrett, on trial at Rathdrum,
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree Garrett killed R. j.
Coombs in the Spokane Bar saloon in
Occur d'Alene City last November.
If the weather is as favorable the
next two months and half as 1t has
been the last two months and a half,
the largest crops ever grown in the
Payette valley will be produced this
year.
In his report for the fiscal year
Manager Cutler, of the Idaho Sugar
company, stated that the factories had
sacked 46,332,500 pounds of sugar and
paid for 1S2,419 tons of beets last
year.
William Christensen, a cook, and
James Collins, bartender, were
drowned in Occur d'tlene lake while
boat riding, the boat capsizing while
the two men were endeavoring to
change places.
In a midnight fire, which practical
ly destroyed the village Jail at Rath.
drum, Emanuel Lee, rancher from
Sucker Lake, a prisoner in the build,
ing, was burned to death before the
fire was discovered.
w. M. Reese, for years secretary OF
the committee on public lands in the
house of representatives in congress
has been assigned as special agent in
charge of the Lewiston land district
and has assumed charge.
The initial steps in what will prob
ably result in the amalgamation OF
the Idaho and Utah Sugar companies
were taken at the recent meetings OF
the stockholders of the Idaho and
Western Idaho Sugar companies.
IN. IA. NUuleFlllS, WHliS CHd9lH6
broncho, had a painful accident The
horse he was riding stepped in post
hole and, as it fell, Mr.. Monteyillf
was thrown to the ground with such
violence that his collar bone was
crushed
Miss Prudie Scott, whose mother
Mrs Sylvester Scott, died at Greer
Creek, and both whom were import
ant witnesses in the murder case
againt o. B. Howard and Ed Wiley
is dead at Grangeyile, after shor
| illness with lung trouble.
Milton Blair the eight-year-old sor
of Albert E. Blair, living near Firth
| was kicked by horse, the accident
! resulting in his death the following
day. The little fellow caught hold o
the animals tail while playing, think
ing the horse was perfectly safe.
Everett Cooper, who for some time
past has been in the employ OF hi!
brother, w. l.. Cooper, in Burley, Il
| lying dangerously i'll in the hospital a
Pocatello from blood poisoning, the re
suit of a needle having became EN-
| boddad in tha f1esh of his left leg