The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-04-12
idaho STATE NEWS

state.
The p. |. N. railroad has been re
opened as far as Glendale.
Idaho, with population of 2O5,704
has total of $S2,721,O94 worth o
property.
A man arrested at Hot Lake, &C
cused of Illegally killing beaver. wal
fined $35.
Mark Oppenheimer was found deat
in his room in Lewiston, having dice
during the night.
The wholesalers and jobbers Of
Boise have organized the Boise Job
bers association.
Wood is ceiling at $12 per cord at
Mohler, bad roads preventing farmers
from hauling fuel,
The new brick factory to be start
ed at Nampa will have capacity of
10000 bricks daily.
The new Nampa club will partici-
pate In the intermountain shoot at
Ogden to be held in May.
Mountain Home is being improved
by the laying of cement sidewalks in
different parts of the city.
That Nampa is to have wine and
cider factory is now an assured fact.
lBoist capitalists are behind the pro.
ject.
D. e. Root, injured at the Hercules
mine at Wallace, becoming tangled up
in cable, has succumbed to his in
juries.
The activity In real estate at Sweet
indicates that there Is plenty of con-
fidence in the future of this section
of Boise county.
The warmest April of record in Ida
no was in 1906, with an average of
80 degrees. The coolest was in 1901,
average AZ degrees.
A modern opera house building has
been planned for Oakley. The struc-
ture will be of brick 5Ox100 feet and
have seating capity of GOO.
BY an act of the last session Of the
legislature all old soldiers are ex.
empt from taxes on $1,000, providing
that their property does not exceed
$4,000.
Settlers are pouring into southern
Idaho by droves, most of them being
from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and
the Dakotas, and all being practical
farmers with means.
( United States Senator w. B. Hey.
burn, of Idaho, was taken Ill in Phila-
delphia on the 9Th, and is under the
care of two physicians and nurse
at the Bellevue Stratford hotel.
March was quite prosperous month
for the land hunters In the Boise land
district. Homestead applications to
the number of 106 were filed, rang
ing from 40 acres up to 160 acres.
The First Baptist church of Boise
is to have a city missionary who will
also be an assistant to the pastor,
Rev. p. Munroe Smock. The city
missionary Is new idea in Boise.
Steven Driscoll, 14year-old Mos
COW lad, struck marble with ham,
mer, In order to break 1t, when one
of the pieces struck him in the right |
eye, destroying the sight of the eye.
The recent session OF the Idaho
legislature created textbook COM
mission, whose mission will be to
pick out and establish uniform ed
vocational system for all the schools
in the state.
Walter Martin, resident of Nez
Perez, is in "a critical condition at |
the home of his brother, Fred Mar
tin, four miles south of Nez Perez,
the result of exposure from lying out
in the cold all night in a fainting
spell.
During the first week in May the
nth annual conference of the sew
snth department Of the Episcopal
churches of the United States will be
held in Boise, and prominent Episco-
palians from all over the country will
be present.
Idaho will hold Summer School
of Agriculture" arrangements for
which have just been completed. This
summer school will be held in the
University of Idaho in Moscow for
six weeks, from June Is to July ~
of this year.
Ex-State Senator John Knkaid,
against whom the Federal grand jury
recently returned an indictment in
connection with the timber fraud
cases, and who was arrested a few
days ago In Nevada, has given bonds
in the sum of $4,000.
Pillow deep while sluggards sleep