The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-28
IDAHO STATE NEWS


well to have reached 1900
The Idaho Inter-Mountain Fair as
sociation has completed it's annual
premium list, and it calls for $2SOC
in cash.
c. H. Neusus, proprietor of the
Croy Gulch shearing plant, near Hal.
ley, has just finished shearing 100000
head of sheep there
The Boise city council has decided
to add four miles or about forty
eight blocks of paved streets to the
city, to cost over quarter of a mil
lion dollars.
The state land board and the Fire
Protective association in the northern
part of the state are going to unite
in their efforts for saving the timber
from forest fires
Where sugar beets are grown the
crop is nearly two weeks later than
1t was a year ago. The beets are
just beginning to come up so they
may be cultivated
Boise is now experiencing pro-
nounced coal shortage. There is not
enough being received for domestic
purposes, and many are obliged to
use wood and gas.
Application has recently been made
for free postal delivery in Caldwell
The percentage of increase in the
postoffice receipts has been greater
in Caldwell than in any other Idaho
town.
Word has been received from Cald.
well to the effect that work on the
San Francisco, Idaho & Montana rail-
road, to be constructed from that
place to Winnemucca, will commence
July /.
Forest Supervisor J, B. Lafferty of
the Weiser National forest reports
that he has issued permits to the
owners Of about $4,000 sheep, who
will Craze them on the ranges there
this season
Clarence Walker a negro, has been
sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary for horse stealing. Walker
stole two horses in Boise and took
them to Payette, where he sold one
before being captured
Three summer normals will be held
in Idaho this summer, one at Boise,
one at Pocatello and one at Occur
d'Alene. They will open July Is with
a very strong corps of instructors in
charge of each school,
Jap Griffith escaped from the Wei. |
ser jail last week and has not been |
Iecaptured. 1t Is understood the Of
ficials are not anxious to capture
Griffith, preferring that he never
:, zones back to the city
Bob Medium, the detective from
Colorado who is employed in Boise by |
the prosecution in the Haywood case,
and who was arrested for striking
Thomas Fry, witness for the state
was fined 500 and costs.
George Glover who conducted an
undertaking business in Boise for sew
eral years, suddenly disappeared and
friends in that city are at a loss to
know what has become of him, fear.
ing he has been murdered.
Charles Wing, an important witness
for the defense in the trial of w. d.
Haywood at Boise. died from neural.
gia of the heart at Canon City, Colo,
last week. about an hour before the
arrival of telegram summoning him
to Boise.
DR.. Mcpherson, of ST Anthony, is
dead, presumably by his own hand.
His death was caused by bullet
from target rifle, and rife was
found in his buggy, the jury deciding
that he had fired the shot with sui
cidal intent
1t rs reported that Andrew Gilbert.
who escaped from the penitentiaIy re-
Gently, and for whom penitentiary
guards have since been securing the
country, is in hiding in the vicinity
of Grangeville, the place from which
he was sent to prison.
Judge Fremont Wood announced
last week that he would hold the Sun
day rest law valid. The announce
,ment was in connection with his de-
cision on the demurrer filed by the
defendant in the test case of tho
state against w. F. Dolan.
Thomas R. Cutler, general manager
of the Utah Sugar company the
Idaho Sugar company and the West
ern Idaho Sugar company, announces
that the eastern stockholders in the
three corporations have approved the
plans for their consolidation.