The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-04-04
idaho STATE NEWS

Albert r. Church, Of Boise. stands
twelfth on lis; OF midshipmen gradual
ing from Annapolis naval academy this
year.
The Commercial club of Boise is ar.
ranging to send AN Idaho exhibit 10
the National Irrigation congress TO be
held in Sacramento
State Treasurer Hastings has ad'
yertised for sale state bonds to the
amount OF s27s. 900. authorized by the
Ninth session OF the Legislature.
The Western Idaho Sugar company
Is making arrangements for the con
strnction OF large reservoir Mt Nam
pa to cover about so acres OF ground.
The president has appointed Frank
s. Dietrich. OF Pocatello, Ms United
states district judge for the district
OF Idaho. vice James II. Beatty. re-
signed.
The citizens OF Nampa at a bond
election held last week voted bonds
to the amount OF $4,000, the money
TO be used In Improvements to the
school buildings
The census ONCE has announced Its
estimate Of the population OF Idaho In
1905 to be 2o5.7o4 The last regular
census In 1900 gave the states popula.
ition nj iei.772.
There Is considerable talk OF put
ting an independent ticket In the held
sat Nampa in opposition 60 both citi
iaens and taxpayers. but nothing as
yet has materiaitxed.
Annie Gain.y, about forty years Of
aga. was found dead In her room In
Boise. The coroner found that she
had died from an overindaIgenee oi
alcoholic stimnlants
The merchants OF Caldwell have de
icided to organize an association for
1.-THE purpose OF getting together and
collecting unpaid claims. This !, !
necessitated by the large accumulation
Of bad debts.
a brutal murder at Rockford Land |
ling has been just discovered. Mrs !
Louis Baxell Ia thought To have been
killed by three Indians while In .
drunken reyei and her body thrown
into the lake.
The Golden Sunbeam mine. at Gus
Ter. Idaho. during the last summer
run produced $4,000 from an ors
body which from present develop
menik IL conseryativeiy estimated te
Be worth many Millions
Patrick Sheridan. one OF the early |
settlers Of Boise basin. IL dead a,
Piaccrviiie Il the age Of 70. blood
poisoning causing his death. He had
spent q lifetime In mining. being one
Of the nrst prospectors In the basin.
II IL the expectation Of Adjutani
General vickers OF the Idaho National
guard that the Idaho troops viii this
summer be armed with the new
Springfield rife. the regular service |
weapon Of the United States regular
troops.
George Caldwell met terrible |
death In the Lincoln mine at Pearl. |
and Charles Larsen suffered broken
leg and had miraculous escape from
death al the same time. Caldwell
fell distance Of 500 feet and landed |
un Larsen.
The two alleged safe blowers. Burke |
and Mnrphy. were held In bonds Of
ti.e0o each 10 the district court Al
Moscow after preliminary hearing,
They are In jail there charged with |
blowing several safes at kendrlck |
last week.
Charles kiced. an empioye of the !
Utah FSreproofing company on the
government dam in the Boise river. |
az Boise, was drowned last week. "A
foot bridge was washed away while |
he and three others were crossing. |
The others escaped.
There 10 = project on foot 10 buy |
mp few choice pieces Of land near
Caldwell. subdivide them into ioaero
tracts. and offer them 10 the newoom.
~rs who believe more In careful |
cultivation Of q few acres than In III. |
tending large farm.
Placer miners are pleased with the /
prospect OF an early opening OF the |
minlng season. but tn. unusual high |
water nj this time IL not TO their lik |
fnE. as they say II will. II continued. |
run on all the watsr before they gct |
much more than fairly started
Frank Roberts. OF Grang-yiiIe. who
VAS assaulted and left for dead by |
Dominic Robbins, al insane man who |
escaped from the Oroano asylum. has /
good chance 90 recover Roberts |
WAS struck In the back Of the head ,
With an are and also stabbed several
times.
A new railroad will soon be con |
structed IN Lemhi county by a mum
Der Of eastern capitalists who hail
principally from Pittsburg. PA. The
road IL TO be built betNeep the town
Of Armstead In Montana On the Ore
gon short Line. and Gilmore. Lemhi
county.
Reclamation Engineer ID. w Ross.
IN charge Of government irrigation
proteefs. has tclegraphed a demand