The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-01-24
IDAHO STATE NEWS


sier have organized the Soldier Creek
Mutual Telephone company.
A net profit OF s5e.?2i.s7 has &C.
rrued to The state in the past Two
YEARS. through the state insurance
commission.
siias $. Gray, an old pioneer of Ada
county, died at bis ranch three miles
EAST OF Star at the age OF 65 years |
He came to Idaho in 1867
Representative Charles G. Miles oil |
Ses Perez county says that he VIII
nrge the establishing of a state jnte
plan, a, the pcnitentiary.
cellars saloon at Frutland, SIX
miles from Payette. has been destroyed
nv Ares II il believed the FIRE was
the resul, OF incendiarism.
Under the present state brand law
n hundred men may use the same
brand. provided they can ind diner
ent place on the animal to put H.
Oneida county win ask for some
assistance from the state In killing
uff the coyotes aud jack rabbits thai
travel over the county In regular
herds.
During the past two years the land
board has sold a5.s7s.3o acres OF land
the sale price being s764.sos--oi
which there is stu unpaid s6sI,
ss7i2
Senator Hepburn has INTRODUCED
bel authorizing the grant OF an add
,ional 81, 900 acres OF public lands TOT
use of construction on the capitol
building at Boise.
A number OF farmers Of Idaho par
ticulariy interested in dry farrang
win attend the Trans Mississippi DRY
rarming Congress to be held In Den
yer, January 2425.
Senator L. r. Walter Of Pearl Boise
county. Is the oldest man In this SEES
sion Of the legislature. He Is ~
years OF age. and has lived in Idaho
for NEARLY ~ years
The secretary OF the treasury has
selected a site for the public building
nj Moscow, on the corner OF WISH
lngton and Second streets, the prop
erty costing si2,5oo,
Fremont county has what are be
lieyed 10 be as rich coal Acids as
there are In the whole Rocky noun
tain region. They are In the Teton
valley. at the base OF the great Teton
range.
Peter swan, an old man about 10
years q age. was terribly burned
about the hands. legs. back and face
nj his home In Boise. as the result oil
trying to start ere with can oil
kerosene.
state Bank Examiner Loyeland re
ports the opening OF the Mecammor
State bank In Esannock county. with
capital stock of $4,000. This Is the
second new bank In the state so fal
this year,
Senator Arthur Pence OF Owyhe'
county says that the measures mos
desired by his county win be n coyote
bonniy, and some changes In tn
measures for the protection OF sheel
against seab.
A musical boom In Boise has cul
minated In the organization OF al
oratorio society which win be unde
the auspices OF the musical section o
the Columbian club. Thirty member
have already joined.
A local wire Is being stretched be
tween HALEY and Boise by the Rock
Mountain Bell Telephone eompan,
the business between the two poin,
having grown TO such dimensions a
TO require special wire.
The Great Western Beet Sags
company is working along ON the bi
reservoir near Mountain Home whic
win add largely 20 the storage caps
city for the conservation OF the waters
and will provide for the irrigation {
a large area.
One OF the great sources OF Fevenu
20 the land department has been fro'
the sale OF timber. During the pa
two years the timber ON l5,&6o.s
Acres a common school land was sol
for ,222 27i.sT. IN average price
sls.s7 per acre.
Joseph X McCs-amon. lawyer. u
thor and scientist. died suddenly at b
residence In Washington. ID. G..
January J. Mr.. MeCammon was
the Indian service in the eishti'
and the town Of AeCamsscn W
named after him.
The records OF the state land depa
ment show that there has been
ceIsed from the sale OF state land d.
ing the IG years aimee the departms
vas organized. 2.o7l.tse37. and Il
the interest paid on deferred p'
meDis was sto3. 1902.
r. y. Couch. principal Of the Lew
vile district schools. sho, and XII
Miss Irene Miller OF Mil Creek.