The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-09
IDAHO STATE NE WIS

had his leg broken.
Middleton is taking steps to incor
porate, the purpose being to take II
territory about ~ miles square
The Ministerial association O
Boise is discussing the feasibility o
organizing permanent Chautauqus
at the capital CITY,
The building activity at Middleton
that has prevailed during the last two
months still continues, both as to bust
ness houses and residences.
The two-year-old daughter, of Rondy
Thorne, of Shelly, is dead as the result
of drinking carbolc acid which the lit
tie one got hold of while at play
The postoffice at Nafnpa has been
moved into its new quarters, and
Nampa now has one of the best
best equipped postoffices in the state.
The third escape from the peniten-
tiary in the past three months oc-
Cured last week, when H. F. MaIlon.
serving term for burglary, made his
escape
A $4,000 company has been organ
lied at Pocatello for the purpose of
establishing plant for the manufac-
ture Of brick, thing, piping and hol
low ware.
Samuel Taylor has been appointed
postmaster at Leslie, Blaine county,
and Mabel R. Fuller will take charge
of the postoffice at Remington, Sho-
shone county.
Though now 81 years old, George
Popham, a pioneer in the mining
camps OF Montana and Idaho, left
Lewiston last week on a prospecting
trip into the Elk City district
Reuben Lam, of Meridian, met with
an accident last week which came
near proving serious. He stopped to
fix singletree and the horse in kick
ing at the flies gave him kick on
the head.
In almost every fruit section in the
country, except southern Idaho, where 4
apple crops are unusually large, the
supply 10 lhuSll ILLS year,
while in Idaho there will be about
the usual crop.
Eleven slot machines, seized by the
officers two years ago, were burned by
Sheriff Hodgin at Boise last week,
thus ending the long drawn contro.
versy over the disposal of the con-
fiscated machines.
An effort is to be made to obtain |
artesian water for irrigation purposes |
on the large tracts of desert lands |
Few miles southwest OF Burley. Wells |
Will be put down 1000 feet If neces
sary to go that far.
Ranchers in the neighborhood of
Bellevue are complaining that no help
can be secured to assist in putting up
their immense harvests of hay The
same difficulty Is evidenced in all
lines of work at Bellevue.
While repairing telephone line at
Emmett, John Gribble, an employee
of the Bell Telephone company, fell
thirty feet or more from telephone
pole and received serious injuries, the
outcome of which is uncertain.
That Lewiston will have one of the
finest male choruses in the northwest
before the holidays Is the promise OF
Professor Baumgaertel, formerly of
San Francisco, who is organizing a
German singing society for Lew.
iston.
Five boys arrested at Boise confess
sed that they had banded together for
burglary and murder, having planned
to Kill man who had angered one
OF the gang. One of the band was
sent to the reform school and the
other four paroed.
For taking shot at Mr.. and Mrs
Herman j. Rossi and J. Mclean, while :
they were out driving between Wal. :
ace and Osborn, Fred Wagner, an EN-.
)loyee of the forest reserve at Wal. f,
ace, has been placed in the county
all. No one was hurt
One of the worst hail storms that =
'ver occurred in Idaho swept over the :
lorthern wheat belt of the state on ),
he End. and did great damage. About :,
me hundred thousand bushels of wheat !,
we're destroyed. The storm struck
heaviest on Dumac prairie. :,
DIR. l. l.. Magee, of Wallace, charged a
With perjury in the Haywood case y
vas bound over to the district court =
" Probate Judge Leonard, of Boise n
efore whom the doctor was given q
Is second hearing. He was allowed !,
90 on his own recognizance.
h. w. Hannah, rancher living /,
ear Caldwell, was killed by falling n
ay derrick on his father.in.laws n
anch near Notus The tackle broke,
nd piece of the derrick, weighing "
YER hundred pounds, fell and struck
i'm on the head. literally crushing
i'm. n,
The second battalion of the Idaho d;
ational Guard, consisting of the m
,mpanies from Blackfoot, Idaho III
alls, Rexburg and ST. Anthony, will m
Did an encampment at Mesa Siding m
| the st. Anthony branch of tie CT
lort Line, from August 10 to % in. re
usive. fr
ri
wha,, fba unrct cnmps tn the | -.