The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-07-12
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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A state summer normal school is
to be held at Boise from July Is to
August %.
Lewiston citizens are jubilant over
the fact that the Milwaukee road Is
bound for that city
The striking telephone girls at Po-
ing a settlement with the company.
The premium list for the Canyon
county fair is out. The list Is good
one and is the largest that has ever
came out.
At Miner new brick building is
being erected for a bank and lodge
hall. The Miner State bank will be
established at once.
The strike of the telephone opera.
tors at HALEY has been settled, both
the company and the striking girls
making concessions.
The body of Sermin Austabe, one OF
the Speniards drowned on the Barber
log drive, has been found about
mile below the government dam on
Boise river.
Ed. Fuller, aged %, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed while
herding sheep on Fish Creek, while a
man standing within three feet of him
escaped uninjured.
A 100000 company has been or
ganized in Salt Lake for the purpose
of establishing cement factory at
Pocatello, to work the large deposits
of raw material on the edge of town.
Harry l.. Hayes, of Moscow, who &C.
cepted a position in the Boise post.
Office January l, has just received no
tice that he has been appointed a
clerk in the dead letter Office at Wash
ington.
Father Dempsey, the Nampa Catho.
lie priest who was found unconscious
in his church at that place and taken
to Boise hospital few days ago,
never fully regained consciousness
and died.
The 7-year-old son of Andrew
Glenn, of Emmett, had the misfortune
to be run over by hay wagon, break
ing his collar bone and bruising the
child quite badly, but it is believed
not seriously
Henry M. Hedges, who sent A. S.
Whiteway to the hospital with 32-
caliber revolver, ha7 been released
from the county Jail on $4,000 bond,
his bondsmen being some of his Cald-
well neighbors.
A terrific rain, wind and hailstorm
swept over Camas Prairie, near Lew
iston on the Ord, and destroyed thou
sands of dollars worth of growing
wheat, wrecked many small buildings
and blew down many telephone poles.
James McIlpine, mining man of
the Occur d'Alene district, declares
that Harry Orchard lost his interest in
the Hercules mine in poker game at
Burke, Idaho, a year before the Ia
Dor riots occurred in the Occur d.
Alenes.
Frank M. Wyman has been appoint
ed as cadet from Idaho to West Point
and John M. Danskin alternate. wy
man and Danskin are among the
brightest boys in Boise, both having
graduated from the local high school
with honors.
The sum of $11S,343 II belonging to
the common school fund Is now avail
able for distribution to the common
schools of the state. This is the
largest amount that has ever accu-
INFLATED in the common school fund
for distribution.
The board of village trustees of
HALEY have passed an ordnance or
dering cement sidewalks to be laid
on certain streets, but this action has
called forth such storm of protest
from some of the citizens that the
matter has been postponed.
s. G. Trout, who has just COM
pleted the tax assessment on improve
ments and homesteads on the south
side Minidoka prospect, reports that
he finds over 1000 acres of land I'M
der cultivation. Most of these crops
were put in as a dry farming expert.
ment
Over 1000 acres are in growing
crops within four miles of Burnley and
they certainly look well. The wheat
Is headed out, much of it, and gives
promise of yield of 20 to 80 bushels
per acre; potatoes have attained a
good growth and the yield will be
good.
Fire at Caldwell on Sunday Destroy
ed a restaurant and laundry, 1t
was only by prompt and vigorous
work on the part of the fire depart
ment that the Pioneer irrigation dis
trict Office the Caldwell News office
and the Lavering building were not
destroyed.
Fire at Lewiston destroyed three
buildings, and for a time 1t was
thought the entire town was doomed,
as the high wind made it difficult for
the firemen to check the flames, but
by heroic work of the department and
citizens, including women, the city
was saved.
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