The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-01-17
IDAHO STATE NE VS.


The annual meeting of the Idaho
Wool Growers association viii be
held in Boise January 10, 10 and 1G.
Boise jobhers have done business
of s4.540.0o0 during the past year.
as compared with $1,000 for the
preceding year,
Chief Justice c. O. StoekslageF was
thrown from buggy as the result
Of his team running away near Bliss,
and was slightly injured.
The entire ise-Payette irrigation
project Is estimated to cost some 81
900 900 and viii add, all told some
$4,000 acres to the cultivated area.
The annual meeting OF the State
horticultural association. held In
PGyette. vas we'll attended and great
interest was shown Ia the proceed.
ings.
There are at present - creameries
and cheese factories In actual opera
ton within the state and 10 that are
not running on account OF lack OF milk
and cream.
The Faik Wholesale store In Boise
was burglarized one night last week,
the cracksmen securing siss In cash
and $500 In checks. which will be OF
no value to them.
Mountain Home has made material
progress during the year just closed.
There has been substantial Increase
In the population. and the influx has
been OF an encouraging nature.
The caucus OF the members OF the
house OF representatives selected J.
Frank Hunt OF Bannock county az
speaker. He served In the same
capacity In the last two sessions.
The Lewiston state normal viii ask
the Legislature for appropriations
reaching siiS.soO OF this sum $685.
600 Ii 10 be In the form OF bond Ii
sue and not by direct appropriation.
Nellie Griffith. the weiser woman
who shot Albert wenrich and then
shot herself In the neck. suffered q
very severe hemmorhage n few days
ago and IL In a serious condition.
As the time draws near for the
converting of the legislature. when an
effort win be made TO cut Nez Perez
county into three commemorative. the
night for and against the proposition
Is growing more bitter,
The year 1906 ecllpsed all other years
IN the history OF Boise no far AN build.
Ing operations are concerned, The
fun cost u buildings finished and
started during the last twelve months
viii foot np over s2.so0ooo,
A conservative estimate Of the
amount Of real estate which has
changed hands In the realty mar
ket OF Boise during the year, and
substantiated by dealers who are In
a position 10 know. gives the hgures
as ti.0co.po0
Wallace and the other Occur d'Alene
towns simply cannot care for all the
business there Ii coming In. Build.
ings are being erected as fast as
possible. but the capacity OF the build.
ers IL not equal to the needs of the
community,
The board Of pardons has set A. J.
Cross a, liberty. lie was sent up from
Lincoln county In 1894 under life
sentence for murder. having killed
two men In tho Hagcrman Valley lilo
had been arrested and shot the depu-
~ sheriff aud another man
In the defense Of Gus swanson.
charged with the murder Of John II.
land at Potiatch. swanson's attor-
n<y sets up insanity and further the
alleged fact that the victim was re-
covering when the physicians per
formed an operation which proved
fatal
The session Of the State Tea.
cheers association held In Boise. viii
be remembered a. one of tho most
successful ever held In the history of
the association. The enrolment show
30 more than ever before on the reg
lister books--the total number reach
Ing 2z5.
A train ON the Dewey road was
wrecked a short distance from En-.
nett. The wreck was caused by the
breaking of q truck wheel Of a coal
car. This threw that car across the
track and several Of the cars following
we're piled Hp In the wreck No one
vas hurt
More than SOC cars OF fruit were
shipped from southwestern Idaho this
season. OF which aboa, 300 were from
Ada county. Pranes supplied about
$50 cars. apples 100. pears and peaches
the remainder. II in estimated that
growers received about s3So.eoo for
the erop
The members Of the legislature
from kootenAi oounty will work
sirenuoasly to have the county dlyid.
ed The oonnty IL ist miles In length
and has about one-tsnsh OF tbs total
area Of Idaho. The CasEIa county
dsisgaiior also asks that the county
be divided
Estimating the population Of Wal.
lace at $500, which Is nearly q thou.
sand more than the gosernmeEt cen.