Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1907-01-24
COUNTY AND STATE NEWS,
What's Doing at Other Points
In Idaho.

! COUNTY AND STATE NEWS
What's Doing at Other Point'
In Idaho.
Within the next few week
Samsria will have electric lights
Arrangements have been made will
an expert electrician from Sal
Lake City to put in the necessar,
machinery, wire the houses etc.
On account Of . couple Of case
Of diptheris at st. John, Mayo
Owens issued . proclamation las
week preventing public or privat'
gatherings for period Of one weel
in Malad.
There are at present "a cream
cries and cheese factories in actua
operation within the state and 1C
that are not running on account oil
lack Of milk and cream.
Boise jobbers have done bust
ness Of "a, $40, 900 during the past
year, as compared with 50, 100, 600
for the preceding year.
The entire Boise Payette irriga.
ton project is estimated to cost
some 1000, 600 and will add, al
told, some $50, 900 acres to the
cultivated area.
The annual meeting Of the state
Horticulture association, held in
Payette, was we'll attended and
great interest was shown in the
proceedings.
The board Of pardons has set
A. J. Gross at liberty. He was
sent up from Lincoln County in
1894 under life sentence for MUIR
der, having killed two men In the
Hagerman valley. He had been
arrested and shot the deputy sheriff
and another man.
August Wilson, q miner at the
Standard mine at Wallace, was Sc
verely injured last week by Q large
boulder falling which struck him
on the head, cutting it slightly,
but more severely cutting his hand.
He is resting AZ easy as can be ex-
pected.
Chas. 8. Simpson, Q graduate Of
the state university at Moscow,
died in Pretoria, South Africa.
He was one of the university's
brightest young men and had been
employed at $40, 900 a year by the
British government as entomolo-
gist. Typhoid fever was the cause
Of his death.
Last week VIM. e. Borah was
elected U. 8. senator for idaho.
The houses voted separately and
Borah received the vote OF every
Republican in each house. The
Democrats voted for Dubois.
The total number OF men en-
ployed in and about the mines in
the Occur d'Alene district is care.
fully estimated to be about 5O85 a.
against about 5000 q year ago.
Taking So. so as the average wage
per day, which is very low, the
aggregate pay roll in the district
amounts to SIT, 1860 per day and
for a year it reaches the enormous
sum of S., 400, OS7.5O. The men
WORK only 8 hours day.
A very complete premium list
has been arranged for the Latah
County Poultry association meeting
which will be held at Moscow, Feb
ruary 6, 7, 8 and 8. The MANAGE
ment gives the following reasons
why fanciers should be among ex-
hibitors: The entry fees are low.
1t will be . score card show.
Whether q bird wins or not you
will know how good it is. You
will get square and honest treat
ment. There will be no charge
for cooping or feeding. Visitors to
the show will be admitted free of
charge, thus insuring q large at
tendance OF spectators.
During the past week q large
amount Of ice has been harvested
by the Genesee users. The quality
varies. That portion taken from Cow
creek for use in refrigerators is
very ordinary. Others who have
cut ice in ponds formed by springs
have secured very good article.
Some OF the ice put up the fore
part Of this week measured eleven
inches in thickness.-Genesee
News.
A Moscow paper says: The big
sawmill, says q news item from
Potlatch, has been running day and
night and Sunday. The manage
ment fears to close the mill down
for Sunday or nights because of the
extreme cold weather which would
soon freeze the pipes and the mill
pond. The exhaust steam is car.
ried into a pond at the mill, which
is called the shot pond" in which
the logs, which are frozen almost
solid when they come from the
woods, are thrown and in IL hours
they are thawed out and ready for