The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-11
IDAHO STATE NEWS.
LEFT Over From Last Week,


A $4,000 water works system is
being completed at Bull, covering
practically the entire town.
The first annual meeting of the
Idaho state grange will be held at
Parma, January 10, 20. 81, 1909.
Downey will soon have have fine
system of waterworks, the supply be-
ing piped from springs in the noun
tains.
The Independence party rolled
about 210 votes in the state at the
recent election, of which 106 were
cast in Cassia county.
Large orchards aer being planted
in the vicinity Of Filler, some Of as
high as 40 and 80 acres, the majority
ranging from five to ten.
Four churches are now under
course of construction at Buhl, they
being the Baptist, Presbyterian.
Methodist and Congregational. !.
A cooperative creamery was built
near Montpelier this summer and is
doing flourishing business, drawing
trade for radius of forty miles.
Free mail delivery for Caldwell is
now assured and all that remains to
be done to secure this convenience is
for the citizens to number their
houses.
In but four counties of the state
did the Prohibition vote exceed 200,
at the late election, as follows: Ada,
255; Canyon, 1923; Latah, 324 and
Nez Perez, 236.
The leading mercantile firm of
Standpoint is having a building erect
ed which will cost $4,000, the most
modern as well as the most costly
business building in the town.
A drawbar dropping from a freight
car of train caused wreck at Par
ma, eight cars leaving the track. No
one was injured and the damage to
the track was soon repaired.
The Nampa Chamber of Commerce
has arranged to give series of en-
tertainments the coming winter, the
purpose being to raise money to get
out of debt and to help advertise
Nampa.
The plumbers of Twin Falls have
formed a local organization for their
mutual benefit and for the purpose
of improving the grade of work by
making it conform to the high as
ISOLATION standard
A very successful convention of the
school superintendent of the state
was held at Lewiston last week. The
superintendent were royalty enter
tanned by the people of Lewiston
during the convention.
Warehouse men estimate that 80
per cent of the grain has been deliv
cred and that the receipts will aggre
gate 100000 sacks, or trifle more
than was delivered in 1907, says
dispatch from Kendrick.
Two prisoners confined in the
Washington county Jail made good
their escape on Thanksgiving day by
saving the lock off the rear door of
the Jail while the jailer was enjoying
his Thanksgiving dinner.
E. d. Dewey is said to have dis
posed of all his holdings at Nampa,
consisting of the Idaho Northern rail
way, Boise, Nampa & Owyhee rail-
road and the Dewey hotel, to Spokane
capitalists for $2,500,000.
There are several candidates in the
field for speaker of the house of rep
resentatives at the next session of the.
state legislature, G. A. Parsons, from
Idaho county, being the latest to an
nounce his candidacy.
1t Is announced that Spokane CAPT
tai is behind project to establish a
paper mill in Occur d'Alene the COM
ing year that will employ from 400 to
500 men and add about 1900 people
to the population of that city.
A car of Canyon county grains and
grasses was shipped recently to Oma-
ha to be placed on exhibition at the
National Corn Exposition. The car
consisted of wheat, oats, rye and bar
ley, while clover, timothy and alfalfa
were the variety of grasses included.
Daniel Gardener, millionaire and
one Of the owners of the Hercules
smine at Burke, announces he has
purchased and will operate under
modern methods mines in the vicinity
of Barcelona, Spain, from which it is
believed the Romans deriver their
lead supplies.
The first farming in Arbon valley
was begun about seven years ago.
There has never been crop failure,
and this year $4,000 bushels of wheat