The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1907-10-26
GENERAL STATE
NEWS OF IDAHO
items That Arc Likely to Prove d
Interest to Our Readers.


Appeal to -orc~th and D.
vsIopmsnt, Aiming, commsrcia
and Farm.
payette-4The local officials Of til.
Utah Idaho Sugar company have 70
csived 4 letter from General Managsl
Thomas n. Cutler, Of Salt Lake, stat
ing positively thAt factory Is to b.
built here. This definite information
follows the recent visit Of Fl. O. Have.
meyer, the sugar king, 10 this place
II ID thought work will begin this fnlI.
Nearly 5000 acres Of beets vera grown
Ia the Payette district this year. The
yield IN very good, although iess thar
last years. II II estimated that the
growers will receive over 1900, 0O0.
fhe harvesting II now In progress
Beets are being hauled b the Namps
| factory In train loads.
Boise--What IL believed to be- m i'm.
mense quantity Of oil has been struck
at Psyette, near the 0egron- Idaho line.
The drill In the Oregon Gas 4 Oil COM
pMny'a we'll No. ! struck looae sand,
and for hail = hour oil and water
| spouted hundred feet into the air.
Gradually tbs oil sank back into the
| well and now there Ia steady flow,
which II said TO amount TO 500 barrels
Ia day.
| OIL men regard this ~ further indi-
cation Of wonderful oil field, AZ the
| tiow was secured without pumping and
without shooting the we'll. Today a
grand rush Ii being made TO the new
field and claims are being staked of on
government land across Snake river, on
the Oregon side. Great excitement
prevails at Payette and all over South.
western Idaho and Eastern Oregon.
Boise--District Attorney N. M. Ru-
| ick has been left holding the bag In
the Idaho land fraud cases. OF the
array Of prosecutors furnished by the
department Of Justice to represent the
government In these cases, he alone Ia
left, and indications are that he will be
givne no further assistance.
When Special Assistant Attorneys
General Burch and Rush arrived in
Boise they announced they would re-
main until all OF the cases resulting
from the grand jury's work last March
had been disposed Of. They said their
assignment covered all the land fraud
cases. As the Borah case was the first
10 be tried, they devoted all their time
TO 1T, but when the governments case
against Senator Horah failed so utterly
Burch and Rush lost no time in getting
out OF Idaho. Before leaving, however,
they strongly intimated that they
would not DO back.
As result OF the abandoning OF their
assignment by Burch and Rush, Dis
trnt Attorney Rush ID placed In very
embarrassing position Since the
Borah trial he has been subjected to
the severest kind OF criticism. His
sincerity has been questioned, and 1t is
openly asserted by the friends OF SEN
ator Horah that he will lose his office
In short order after Borah takes his
seat In the senate. Under these cir
cumstances MIR. Ruick feels that the
special prosecutors who relieved him at
the direction OF the department OF jus.
tioe should be kept In charge OF the
prosecution, II ii Ia proposed to bring
the other cases to trial.
Lewision--By an action filed with
the county auditor of Nez Perez county
the government, through Miles s. John
son, began suit TO cancel patents TO TO-
900 acres OF valuable white pine tim
Der which was held by Kester, Ketten-
bach, Dryer and Robnett, alleged to
have been obtained through fraud.
This Is the fnal chapter Of the fam
Gus North Idaho land fraud cases, in
which the Lewiston National bank
crowd were found guilty and sentenced,
some of them to the penitentiary and
some 10 Jail. II they had gotten away
with this land they would have been
hundreds OF thousands OF dollars ahead.
In the action filed the defendants are
George III. Kester, William Dryer, C.
W. Robnett and w. +. Kettenbach f.
w. Kettenbach, an uncle Of those found
guilty. and who was made president OF
the Lewiston National bank, was also
made defendant TO this action. The
government believes the reorganization
OF the bank was not In good faith. They
are charged with inducing entrymen to |
take up land for purposes of turning IL
over to the bank crowd.
The entIymen named In the COM
plant whose patents the government
will seek to cancel are: Carrie ID. Har-
ris, William II. Benton, Joel II. Ben
ton, Henderson +. Disney, Harry s
Palmer, George w. Harrington, Robert |
N. Wright Maud N. Wright, Van r
Robertson, John w. Killingser, John |
+. Nelson, Sofen Hanson, John Ii.
Little, Ellsworth N. Harrington, Wren |
Pierce, Benjamin p. Bashar, Amos C. |
Evans, Pearl Washburn, L. f. Bishop.
Joseph b. Clute, Frederick w. New
man. Francis M. Long, John II. Long.
Benjamin f. Long. Charles Dent,
Charles Smith, George Morrison, Ed
ward Nj. Hyde, Rertxel II. Ferris and
George Ray Morrison.
TAFT Reaches Manils.
Manila. Oct 16--Secratarv rafsa