The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO IDAHO,

The outlook for busy summer Is
the best in the history of the Occur
dAlenes.
An adjourned meeting of the
county attorneys OF Occur dAlens
was held Saturday evening to per-
feet county bar association.
Thomas Barnes, wanted for obtain
ing money under false pretenses at
| Wallace, went back there from Butte
without requisition papers last Satur-
day.
Paul Emanuelson, the timberman
imprisoned In the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mine at Wardner, by the
caving in OF an abandoned stope, was
rescued alive on Friday night
Notices of election for two school
trustees, to serve on the school board
of district No. 5, have been posted
The election will be held in the
schoolhouse at Hope on April 4.
An unknown man committed sui
eide at the ranch owned by e. Il.
Pyles, about 20 miles from the town
of St. Joe, last Saturday, by shooting
himself In the head.
BY unanimous decision of the three
judges Idaho last week won from
Washington in the tri-state univers-
ity debate, supporting the Affirmative
on the question of Japanese exclu-
sion.
One Of the largest single trans
actions in wheat of the 1907 crop
was consummated when B. L. Sutton
of the Rattlesnake region last week
sold $4,000 bushels to the Pacific
Coast Elevator company for $4,000.
Fruit trees In Lewiston valley are
bursting into bloom, although those
whitewashed are much slower In
poisoning, proving the contention
of orchardists that the blossom
period can be delayed by coating the
trees with whitewash.
Charles Austin Merriman, one Of
the most prominent citizens of Idaho
Falls, and thirty-second degree Ma
son, died at Boise hospital Sunday
morning after short illness during
which he suffered with pneumonia.
He was IS years of age.
Wardner screwed the lid down
tight when at special meeting of
the city council H. W. Van Norman,
leader of the closed-town forces, was
unanimously chosen mayor, Fred
Ellis made city clerk and Police mag
i-trate and B. FLAG chosen to take
Van Nordman's place In the council.
Thomas Beall, one of the surviv-
ors Of those who participated In the
famous fight at Steptoe butte. in
1856, has returned from Washing
ton, D. c., where h has been seeking
to get special bill passed granting
him a pension, this being necessary
In his case by reason of his having
acted as scout and not having at
the time beenaan enlisted man.
Joseph Cain of Wallace, charged
with assault with intent to murder,
committed upon his wife, was al
lowed to plead guilty on Saturday to
simple assault and was fined 800
and costs, the costs amounting to
$3.50. Judge Woods informed Cain
he would be lenient this time, but
that repetition of the offense would
meet with harsher punishment.
What might have been serious
accident happened near Occur
d'Alene on Saturday when the fruit
special" ON the electric
railroad struck handcar ON the
sharp curve while running at high
rate of speed. The men on the hand
car escaped without injury, having |
jumped off the car before 1t was
sturck.
1t is reported the Twin Falls Land
and Water company has taken over
the Owyhee high line canal, the |
project which Is to irrigate between
10000 and 10000 acres of land
along the south bank of the Snake
liver in Idaho and Oregon, lying
west of the Bruneau project recently
acquired. 1t is known that negotia-
lions between the owners OF the
water right ON the Owyhee river and
lgents of the Twin Falls company
lave been under way, but no oflcial
has been made of the
of the deal.