Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-31
IDAHO STATE NEWS.


A windstorm at Nyssa blew down
/ number Of trees and awnings and seN-
(; eral Windmills.
/ The South Idaho Medical associa-
ton held very successful midsum-
mer session at Caldwell.
The farmers of Bear Lake county ar
expecting to thresh about 40 bushels
of wheat to the acre this year.
Mr.. c. f. Warner of Boise drank a
cup of bichloride of mercury, thnkns
1t was water, and had a narrow escape
from death, but has fully recovered.
Peter Soma, mayor of Boise in 1899
As, substantial and progressive bus
mess man of that city, died at his
home in Boise on the goth from
stroke of apoplexy.
Hoboes started a fire in a barn in
Mountain Home which destroyed the
barn, five head of horses, 500 worth
of hay and the hal illnesses and saddles,
causing loss of $4,000.
President Pierce of the Boise and
Of steel rails for the extension of the
line, which it is probable will be built
through the Payette valley.
Frank Whitsen, % years old, was
drowned in the Bruneau canal, 25 miles
from Mountain Home. He was hiding
after cows and in some manner got
into the canal.
The business district of Bellevue will
soon have cement walks. A committee
appointed by the city council to inter
view the property owners reported
favorably and work will be commence
ed soon.
Nose Christensen, manager of the
Riverside park in Boise, has been ar
rested for permitting Sunday night
performances of a theatrical company
1t is proposed thus to test the consti-
tutionality of the Sunday rest" law.
A meeting of the Western Retail
Lumber association, composed of lum-
Der dealers in eastern Oregon and
western Idaho, will be held at Nampa
on the goth inst. Several prominent
lumbermen from the East will attend
the meeting.
State Veterinarian DR.. G. E. Noble
has just returned from Fremont coun-
ty, where he found and destroyed 10
glandered horses. He says there are
a large number of glandered horses
just across the line in Wyoming and
that they occasionally get over into
Idaho.
In accordance with a law passed at
the last session of the legislature, the
justices of the supreme court of Ida
no 'have appointed Attorney John F.
McLane of Caldwell, code commits
i sioner The appnintee has been res
ident of Caldwell for the past two
years and came from Missouri
The city council of Boise, having |
raised the salaries of members of the |
police department, has granted the re-
quest of the management of the Mer-
chants patrol that officers, in addition |
to their salaries coming through Boise |
merchants, be paid for services render |
ed fort the city.
|
coed half a crop in the counties of
Oneida, Bear Lake and Bannock, ow-
| ing to the long continued and exceed
ingly wet spring. The winter wheat, |
however, is above the average and on
dry farms looks especially well.
George M. Snowden, negro about |
30 years of age, committed suicide at |
Montpelier by cutting his throat from
ear to ear with a razor He was well |
dressed, but had no money. The only |
motive that could be assigned for the |
suicide Is the possibility that he was a |
fugitive from justice.
BY the explosion of a blk of 60-pound |
pressure giant dynamite caps, which |
were being used to celebrate the |
Fourth Of July at Kingston, Henry |
Boehn of that town was killed and
Omar Dellaire had his throat cut from
ear to ear and his body badly bruised.
his injuries being probably fatal.
Surveyor General Eagleson has COM
| pleted tracings of Canyon county and /
tn adjacent territory in Oregon. These
maps have been made for and will be
used during the next session of con-