The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-01-11
IDAHO STATE NEWS

>"o eIo ~ ColuCHb pro IGIlIjOIt.
The annual meeting of the Idaho
Wool Growers association will be
held in Boise January IA, IS and 1G
Boise jobbers have done a business
of $4,540,00O during the past year
as compared with 100000 for the
preceding year
Chief Justice C. o. Stockslager was
thrown from buggy as the result
of his team running away near Bliss,
and was slightly injured
The entire Boise Payette irrigation
project is estimated to cost some ST.
100000 and will add, all told, some
100000 acres to the cultivated area.
The annual meeting of the State
Horticultural association, held in
Payette, was well attended and great
interest was shown in the proceed
ings
There are at present "a creameries
and cheese factories in actual opera
ton within the state and 10 that are
not running on account of lack of milk
and cream.
! The Falk wholesale store In Boise
was burglarized one night last week,
the cracksmen securing 1886 in cash
and 5000 In checks, which will be of
no value to them.
Mountain Home has made material
progress during the year just closed
There has been a substantial increase
In the population, and the influx has
been of an encouraging nature.
The caucus of the members of the
house of representatives selected J.
Frank Hunt of Bannock county as
speaker. He served in the same
capacity in the last two sessions.
The Lewiston state normal will ask
the legislature for appropriations
reaching $1lS,500. Of this sum $685.
600 is to be in the form of a bond is
sue and not by direct appropriation.
Nellie Griffith, the Weiser woman
who shot Albert Wenrich and then
shot herself in the neck, suffered a
very severe hemmorhage a few days
ago and is in a serious condition.
AS the time draws near for the
converting of the Legislature, when an
effort will be made to cut Nez Perez
county into three commonwealth, the |
is growing more bitter.
The year 1906 eclipsed all other years
in the history of Boise so far as build
ing operations are concerned. The
full cost of buildings finished and
started during the last twelve months
will foot up over $2,S0O,OO0
A conservative estimate of the
amount of real estate which has
changed hands in the realty mar
ket of Boise during the year, and
by dealers who are in
a position to know, gives the figures
as $1,0O00OO.
Wallace and the other Occur d'Alene
towns simply cannot care for all the
business there is coming in Build
ings are being erected as fast as
possible, but the capacity of the build
ers is not equal to the needs of the
The board of pardons has set A. J.
Cross at liberty. He was sent up from
Lincoln county in 1894 under life
sentence for murder, having killed
,wo men in the Hagerman Valley. He
lad been arrested and shot the depu-
y sheriff and another man.
In the defense of Gus Swanson, =,
charged with the murder of John Is
and at Potlatch, SWansOn's attOr
ley sets up insanity and further the
llleged fact that the victim was re-
covering when the physicians per 1
ormed an operation which proved ,
atal. s
The session of the State Tea
hers association held in Boise, will
re remembered as one of the most
ucessful ever held in the history Of Z
he association. The enrolment show ,
0 more than ever before on the reg
ster books-the total number reach [
ng 225. Z
A train on the Dewey road was G
'recked a short distance from EN- G
lett The wreck was caused by the {
reaking of truck wheel of a coal S
ar. This threw that car across the a
'ack and several of the cars following d
ere piled up in the wreck. No one S
as hurt. t
More than 500 cars of fruit We're
tipped from southwestern Idaho this
ason, of which about 200 were from
la county. Prunes supplied about P
0 cars, apples ZOO pears and peaches 8
e remainder. 1t is estimated that
overs received about $4,000 for "
e crop. Ii