The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-02-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS

ed at Oakley. The town has been
quarantined.
R. A. Leehorn was killed in the
Morning mine, near Wallace, a large
slab of rock falling on him.
Upon the application of a majority
of its taxpayers, the town Of Soldier
has been incorporated as a village.
Chief of Police Lillard of Nampa
has been given instructions to see
that all gambling being carried OF in
that city must close.
Pocatello's Commercial Club has tax.
Ell a strong stand against the appoint
ment of a railroad commission, a bill
for the creation of which is now pend.
Ing in the state legislature.
To manufacture and sell lime, build
ing stone, cement, cement blocks, etc.
is the object of a company formed O,
Pocatello and Blackfoot men, the
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The senate has confirmed the follow
ing Idaho ~postmasters: OrOville ].
Butler, Harrison; William D. Hard.
wick, Nez Perez; Miller r. Long
fellow, Mountain Home, and Olof o.
son, Troy.
Two steam plows have been ordered
for Camas prairie, and contracts for
blowing 2,400 acres at the rate Of 40
acres per day have already been let
to the owner of one of the plows, in
advance of its arrival.
Approximately four hundred thou.
sand acres of the newly created Carl
bou forest reserve in eastern Idaho
and western Wyoming lie in Bannock
and Bear Lake counties, and a like
area lies in Bingham.
Sheep men who bring 1ocks to
Boise for shipment will be pleased to
learn that within the past two weeks
a party of hunters has succeeded in
killing fourteen coyotes in the hills to
the northwest of the town.
Gustav Wolf, an old prospector, and
who had a famous fight with a bear at
the head of the Salmon about eighteen
years ago, was found dead in the face
of the tunnel on his quartz claim, e
HALEY. a premature blast causing his
death.
The newly opened coal mines in the
Teton basin have been working all
winter and people have been hauling
an average of from forty to fifty loads
away from the mines every day. The
quality of the coal is of the best and
1t car be purchased cheaply.
Two of the irrigation projects OF
Camas prairie are about completed.
They are those of Cow creek and
Twin lakes. Work will begin upon
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storage reservoir on Cow creek and
at the Twin lakes are now half full
of water.
The Boren coal mine on Trapper
creek south of Oakley is developing
every day into a better mine. AT this
time the crew of men who are devel-
oping the property are working in a
four and one-half foot vein of coal.
The coal is reported to be of an excel
lent quality.
The State University of Idaho at
Moscow has 2S6,0S0 acres of public
lands. The normal schools at Lewis
ton and Albion have 1000 acres each.
The Academy of Idaho at Pocatello
has 10000 and the industrial school at
st. Anthony 10000 acres. These are
special grants.
There are in Idaho 1000, 600 acres
of agricultural lands, 10000, 900 acres
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timber, and 5000, 600 of mineral lands
The classification of grazing and agri
cultural lands was made before the
provision of national aid to irrigation
Mystery surrounds the sudden death
Of George Stein, a hunchback news
agent on the Short Line, whose body
was found in a private treatment room
at DR.. j. A. Aulguire's sanitarium in
Pocatello. STEMS body would indi.
cate that he had been beaten to death.
At a public meeting in Orofino it was
voted to boycott the merchants Of
Lewiston if that city and its interests
continue to oppose the efforts of Orc
6no, and that portion of old Shoshone
county which was attached to Nez
Perez county two years ago, to secure
Q county division.
Charles M. Robinson, a mining man,
was killed by a blast in the Eaton
mine on Kinney creek last week. The
accident happened in the bottom of a
twenty-fve-foot shaft, when he picked
into a missed hole. He was still alive
when brought up from the shaft, but
expired soop after.