The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-01-10

There will be an annual conven-
ton of fruit raisers in Salt Lake Jan.
20 and 81.
The Catholics of this country are
much relieved to know the recent
rumors of the severe illness of the
Pope is entirely unfounded. He has
recently given audiences to Arch
bishop Riordan of San Francisco and
Baron Won Rotelan of Prussia.
AS a result of a poker game in
Logan, Utah, J. S. Parkinson veal
thy sheep man has entered suit a
gainst George Gordan to recover
$3.50. 1t was claimed that marked
cards were used in the game.
Bishop Canevin of Pittsburg,
Pen, wants all Catholic parents to
patronize church or sectarian schools
when they are within two miles of
the home. In an explicit letter he
says, parents and guardians are for
hidden under pain of moral sin to
send their children to any nom
Catholic school and confessors are
forbidden to absolve them who do
not obey"
The jury in the Caleb Powers case
have reported for the second time
that they were unable to agree. 1t
will be remembered Caleb Powers
was being tried for completely in the
murder of William Gobel of Ken
lucky several years ago.
Whitney, Idaho, has a 12-year-old
boy who drove four-horse team and
dumped into cars over 35 tons OF
sugar beets in less than nine hours,
the distance for hauling was one
fourth mile, the loading was done
by Japs. This same boy has plowed
35 acres since beet digging. His
name is Delorus Beckstead and the
National Farmer asks, HAS any beet
grower a son who has done better
than this?" Now we want to know
when this boy goes to school and gets
an education.
A. f. Hit of Weiser, former State
Dairy and Horticultural Inspector
and now special field agent of the
bureau of stastics, U. S. department
of agriculture, is getting live stock
statistics and says in regard to dairy
ing in Idaho. 1t is zone of the most
profitable industries for the Idaho
farmer-or would be, if they would
only do it. The old timers will never
do it, however; they would go with
out butter, or the money to buy 1T,
year at a time, rather than be
chambermaid to COW. AS result
Idaho is buying literally train loads
of butter in other states"
Nampa, Idaho, farmers hauled
$4,000 tons of beets to the sugar
factory this year for which they re-
ceived $3.50 per ton.
There will be State Dairy AS
ISOLATION meet at Caldwell, Idaho,
Jan. 8 and 9, which will be followed
by the Canyon County Farmers In
stitute Jan. 10 and II. Reduced
rates will be secured and you are to
consider this an invitation to attend,
by the authority of A. E. GIBSON, Sec.
State Association.
The State of Idaho has discontinue
ed for the present the hiring or
"wolfers," or men to kill off wolves,
COYOTES and other like destroyers OF
sheep and game. You will receive
from the state, however, one dollar
each for coyote scalps according to
the provision of the present law. AS
cutting off the scalps almost ruins
the skins for market, the board has
agreed to pay the bounty if the fore
feet of the animal are left with the
skins, to be cut off when the skin
is inspected by the board. The top
market price is paid for these by the
furriers of Boise, so all the hunter
has to do is express the skins to DR..
Noble the inspector at Boise at the
EXPENSE of the State and direct them
to be sold in the city.
Nampa claims the velocity OF
wind is less in the valley than any
where else on the continent except
Grants Pass, Oregon.
A party of hunters from Nampa,
Idaho, went out on the Blackfoot-
Mackay branch few days since
looking for game and found 1t. They
also found they had to shovel their
horses out of snow drifts twice when
It was twenty-four below zero.
| The officers of the American bat
tleship fleet have been attending gar
den parties in the Ports OF Spain.
i AS a result of the prevalence OF
contagious diseases in the city OF
Salt Lake the board decided to close
the schools and suggests that chur-