The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS


Home this season aggregated 100000
pounds.
A new postofiice in Gilmore count
has been named Taft, in honor of Sc,
rotary Taft.
In Bear Lake county the sprin
wheat has been slightly damaged b
heavy frosts.,
The fruit crop of the Boise vale
will be very good this year, and tn
fruit growers are rejoicing
Crop conditions in Salubria vale,
are fine, the grain fields giving a goot
yield on both dry and irrigated land.
The new $1,000 court house clocl
donated to Canyon county by thu
business men of Caldwell has been in
stalled
G. F. Wheeler, who owns 1000
acre orchard near Mountain Home
has recently bought 10000 fruit trees
and will set them out.
John Blakeley, a painter by trade
while working on the schoolhouse at
Caldwell fell from lO-foot scaffold
and broke both ankles.
Nettie Rogers, aged IA, of Boise,
fell from raft while On pleasure
trip In the Payette river, near Horse
shoe Bend, and was drowned.
Up to the present time there has
been registered as pharmacists to
practice within the state 493 persons;
as assistant pharmacists six.
AS the result of collision in the
railroad yards at Weiser, James Duse,
a fireman, was badly injured, his legs
and ankles being badly crushed.
1t is announced that B,ise capitalists
are to build in the capital city one of
the finest hotels in the northwest, the
building to cost at least $25O,O0O.
At the sale of state lands in Wash
ington county recently 900 of the
1000 acres were sold al an average
of 500 per acre, or little more than
the appraisement
1t is estimated from the school CEN
sus now being taken, that there are
$500 children of school age in Cassia
county. This would be gain of about
600 over last year.
The Commercial club of Mountain
Home is considering plans for provid-
ing water works for the town The
matter of putting in a sewer system
under consideration.
H. S. Hopper, who has in cultivation
30 acres of land near Emmett, devoted
to berries, cantaloupes, melons and
peaches, has net product therefrom
this season of $1,000.
The town of Star is planning many |
municipal improvements, the first |
step having already been taken in the |
awarding of contracts for the building
of three blocks of cement sidewalks.
The postoffice department will es-
tablish free city delivery at Occur d.
Alene City in the near future. 1t is
expected that two letter carriers will
be able to make the deliveries at first.
Twenty-seven young Indians from
WV t>SH CIV dSchSy VIII dItelu tHe
school at Carlisle, Pa, this year, the
party consisting of Is boys and 10
girls; all but five being over 70 years
old.
The fruit crop of the Emmett dis
trict is good. The prune crop is per-
haps the most important, amounting
to about 80 carloads The peach crop
was not up to the normal, as a late
frost last spring cut down the yield.
The city council of Meridian has
passed an ordinance prohibiting sa-
looms within the city limits to take
effect October |. An anti-saloon fight
has been in progress there for some
time and this is the elimination of it.
Edward VAIL, the young farmer
who disappeared from his home near
Genesee on August 10, and who was
supposed to have been drowned has
been found in his own barn, suffering
rom typhoid fever and in delirious
Report comes to the effect that Mrs.
-hdi iSo r. ottNeuS, WHO III company |
With her husband moved from Boise
o Atlanta about a month ago, was &C.
,identally shot and killed by pistol
n the hands of James Newton while
It target practice.
The electric power company, which t
WINS the Payette river plant, the Ok /
Bow and other projects has purchased r
he Emmett light plant, with the in h
ention of connecting it with it's gigan. G
ic power system on the Boise, Payette q
nd Snake rivers. !
J. E. Meek, resident of Caldwell, y
yas selling strawberries last week a
hat were grown from plants set in
lay. Mr.. Meek thinks this proves that
may be in the market
rom the surrounding farms at any !,
me in the summer.
S. J. Holland proprietor of the Wash o
igton Liquor company, one of the p
rgest wholesale liquor houses in Spo- G,
ane, was Instantly killed at Standpoint IL
Y being struck by the pilot of the -
ngine of incoming passenger train a
o. 3 as it was pulling into the Sand. a,