The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-07-05
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nSn naCcneTy.
Ex-senator Dubois has announc
that he will start weekly magazi
at Boise early next fall.
The telephone girls of HALEY we
on strike on the 10th, asking for
raise of $40 per month each.
A brick kiln is about ready to b
burned at the new town of Alberta
and lumber yard is being installed
The Commercial club of Caldwell
has Just closed deal securing the 10
cation of large foundry and machine
SHOP.
Nanny Mills, an old timer in HALEY,
where his family still reside, was ac-
cidentally shot and instantly killed at
Vernon. Nevada.
One thousand Bannock Shoshone,
Snake and Lemhi Indians engaged in
their annual war dance ten miles from
Pocatello last week.
! Two men found guilty at Lewiston
of befouling stream by lumping
sawdust from their mills into the wa
terway, were fined 500 and costs.
Herman Lovelace, the twelve-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. S. Lovelace
of Boise, was drowned in the Snake
river, near Nyssa, while boat-riding.
The cold storage and ice plant of
the L. e. Freight Transfer company
at Nampa, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss on building and contents, $4,000.
At recent meeting Of the fair d.
rectors the premium list of Canyon
county's fair was approved. The list
will be larger than ever before by
$1,000.
Eight letter carriers in Boise, two
in Moscow, two in Pocatello, three in
Lewiston and one In Wallace will have
their salaries increased July / from
$3.50 to 5000 year.
The letter carrier force at Wallace
will be areduced from two to one on
July /, on account of the postmastefs
inability to secure substitute to fill
a vacancy caused by the resignation
of a carrier
Two hundred patrons of the Bell
Telephone service at Pocatello have
signed orders for the removal of their
telephones because the company has
failed to secure settlement with the
striking telephone girls.
The Butterfield Livestock company
last week shipped from Weiser $4,000
head of sheep to Tennessee Pass,
Colo where they will be turned on
the range until fall when they will be
shipped to eastern markets.
Telephone operators in Wallace
have all gone on strike for more
pay. The present rate is Is cents per
hour and the girls want 20 cents. The
strike involves six girls, comprising
the complete operating staff.
An Idaho Falls company has plans
for clearing 5000 acres to prepare it
for wheat raising, without irrigation.
Some who have experimental with
growing wheat on dry land are said
to have raised IS bushels per acre
OGN6IdI sSCllOHb VI idIu WuSh "TiS
withdrawn temporarily for forestry
purposes adjoining the Sawtooth and
Weiser national forests will be sub
ject to settlement September 30, 1907,
and be subject to entry October 80,
1907.
Miss Lola Waters, of Watson, Ore
gon, was thrown to the ground as she
was stepping from street car In
Boise, falling on the back of her neck,
injuring her spine. 1t is feared her
mind may be affected as a result Of the
accident
At the encampment of the G. A. X.
and w. r. c.. at Rathdrum, resolu'
lions were adopted extending thanks
to the last legislature for laws bene.
fetal to property rights of soldiers and
sailors. Boise was chosen as the next
meeting place.
Ashton, the new town Is miles
northeast of st. Anthony, is prosper
ing. 1t has an attractive townsite,
with a number of business houses, in
Guiding good hotel that cost $4,000,
the Ashton State bank, and number
of comfortable homes.
George Goode, the Cottonwood at
torney, has been declared insane.
His case was peculiar one, as he
was adjudged insane about one year
ago, and was sent to the asylum. He
was released after few weeks and
has been at large ever since.
The disappearance from Stanley
Basin of M. Benner, has given rise to
the suspicion that he has been muir
dered and that his brother-in-law, a
Mr.. Meacham, who was found dead
from a shotgun wound year ago,
had also met with foul play.
A statement as to the shipment of
finished and raw products from Idaho
Falls for 1906, shows that 1910 cars
of products were sent out, as follows:
174 cars of sugar, so cars OF livestock,
247 cars of potatoes, 376 cars of wheat.
3S9 cars of other grain, hay and -four,
80 cars of wool 1872 cars of miscel-
laneous products.
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