The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

There are fourteen graduates from
the Weiser schools this year, eleven
girls and three boys.
A Federated Trades and Labor
Council, with large membership,
has been organized at Nampa.
At meeting of the Electrica!
Workers union of Boise 1t was decd
ed not to join the Salt Lake union In
a sympathetic strike.
Thirty-two newspaper men and wo
men attended the second annual
meeting of the Eastern Idaho Press
club at ST. Anthony.
The report of the secretary OF
the Meadows-W arnerRo Tele.
phone company shows a dividend OF
IL per cent for the year.
The brick yard at Middleton will
turn out approximately 100000 brick
this season to supply the demand for
which contracts are made
The May term of the district
court at Pocatello opened with AZ
cases on the civil calendar and six
cases on the criminal docket
1t Is planned to have band tourn-
ament at the state fair to be held at
Boise this fall, in which at least ten
bands will contest for prizes.
1t is authoritatively stated that
work on the extension of the P. & l.
N. to Meadows and beyond, will be.
gin within less than thirty days.
While searchers have been out
since his escape from the peniten
tiary, no trace has been found of An.
drew Gilbert, the life-term convict
The Nampa-Meridian irrigation dis
trict maintains so miles of canal and
10 miles of laterals having carry
ing capacity of $4,000 inches of water
The 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs
DlIu bdSyS vi Gil wynn wac
drowned in Big creek. The child was
playing along the bank of the stream
and fell in.
In all probability the Commercial
club of Boise will run business
mems excursion to Weiser and from
there on the P. & |. N. to Council
within a short time.
Wheat in the Lewiston country is
now commanding a higher price than
1t has for the past two years, the
quotations being So cents on club and
20 cents on bluestem.
Owen ]. Williams, the veteran
Boise street sprinkler driver, Yves
knocked from his wagon as the result
of collision with an engine and Is
dead from his injuries.
The big campaign that has been on
In Payette to raise $4,000 for the
purpose of erecting and equipping
Y. M. c. A. building was successfully
terminated last week.
Sergeant William d. Hammond has
Just been acquitted at the Boise bar
racks court-martial trial on charge
Of neglect of duty and disrespect to
the commanding officer.
The contract has been awarded
for the construction of new railroad
Y. NJ C. A. building in Pocatello, for
$33,751, Work will begin at once
and be completed by Oct. l.
Middleton Is in need of boarding
house very badly and one would do
a rushing business here, as it taxes
the capacity of all the private fam.
lilies in town to feed the hungry.
A large black bear was killed on
the Idaho side of the Snake river,
only about seven miles above Pay
cite by Roy Hardy, young ranch
man of that vicinity, what shot the
bear with pistol
The strike of the operators of the |
independent Telephone company at
Boise is at an end. All the former |
employees of the company who went |
out are to return to their former pc |
sitions at an advance OF from SIS tc
SO per month.
The representatives of Socialist
newspapers reporting the Haywood
trial declined to join the newspaper
reporters excursion to Twin Falls
last Sunday because, they say. they
cannot accept favors from the rail
road companies
The peach and prune orchards IL
the vicinity of Emmett will be FRO
life this season. The older peach
trees especially, look favorable for
heavy crop. There are so to 40 acre
of peach orchards in bearing IN hVe
and ten-acre tracts.
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Most people are more than satisfied
With their misfortunes, but not with