The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-01-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Surveyors are said to be at wucl
near Junction on the contemplated
line to Gilmore.
Wood is now selling at from SO Il
$40 cord at Culdesac, and is hard tt
get at that price
Twenty degrees below zero Is tn,
coolest weather that has been ex
perienced in Challis this year.
There is now no smallpox in HALEY
The detention hospital has been fumi
gated, the attendants discharged, ant
the place closed.
Frank DeChene, lineman, fell 8
distance of 30 feet from pole In
Boise, and escaped with slight bruises
and broken ankle.
Glen Thompson, 11-year-old boy
was thrown from a milkwagon as the
result of runaway in Boise and sus
\tained broken leg.
Price Nelson was brought into
Idaho Falls from the sheep range re.
Gently with his feet so badly frozen
that he may lose them.
Fifteen men are now employed on
the new power site at Shoshone falls
The foundation Is now being laid and
work is progressing rapidly,
The Caldwell Baseball club, cham
pions of 1906, for southern Idaho, is
figuring on new plans for ball park
to be erected at some point on the
Caldwell Interurban.
During the present year the Short
Line will construct line from Arm
sted on the Utah Northern to the Gill
more section In Lemhi county, dis
lance of about 70 miles.
At the joint session of the Idaho
legislature on the 10th, w. e. Borah
was elected United States senator
from Idaho for term of six years,
beginning March 4, 1907.
The z. G. M. l. Is contemplating
the abandonment of Its retail bust
ness in Idaho Falls and devoting all
its energies in the local branch to its
growing wholesale business.
The old band quarters at old Fort
Sherman have been destroyed by fire.
The structure was one of the oldest
in the city, being erected 25 years ago.
Total loss is estimated at $500.
Friends of j. c. Ulery, the Bitter
Root Mountain hunter and trapper,
better known as Beaver Jack" who
has mysteriously disappeared, believe
he has been killed by wild animals.
About 800 representative sheep men
of the state were present at the open
ing session of the Idaho Wool grow
ers' association in Boise last week,
the roll call showing every officer pre-
sent.
There is considerable building and
improving going on at Star and real
estate of all kinds is going higher
and many sales are being made. vii
lage lots that sold year ago for $50,
command 5000 and $500 each
Addison 7. Smith has been nomin-
ated for register of the Boise land
office. Smith is secretary to Sena-
tor Hepburn and previous to his pre-.
sent employment was secretary to the
late Senator Shoup for ten years.
Fred j. Moore, formerly manager of
the electric light company at Noun
tain Home, and who is charged with
embezzling funds of the company, has
been located in Portland and will be
brought back to Mountain Home for
trial.
The Payette Commercial club has
gone on record as opposed to the crea-
ton of state railway commission
and ordered a resolution drafted to
that effect and transmitted to the Can
yon county representatives in the leg
islature.
James Campbell the school trustee
shot by William Graham, near Carey,
about three weeks ago, having died,
the latter has been charged with MUIR
der and committed without bail to
await trial in the district court at
HALEY.
A petition signed by 400 residents
and taxpayers of the precinct, pray
ing the county commissioners not to
grant any saloon license for the viii
lage of Star, has been presented, the
citizens declaring they want the lid
kept on tight
Chas. S. Simpson, graduate of
the State university OF Moscow, is
dead at Pretoria, South Africa. He
was one of the universitys bright
est young men and had been employed
at $4,000 a year by the British gov
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