The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-10-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

tomotale owners
Egyptian wheat grown on a ranch
t~o miles vest Of Nampa yielded 50
bushels TO the acre
JOAN ". Sullivan IL dead as the re-
sais of an accident near Beatty. when
he fell fscm 3 wagon
TIE fruit shipped from Bolse and
pAycfta valleys brought the growers
a. least hAif a million dollars
MaAy farmers Abou, Emmett ars
nos gathering their beet crop aud
lnading gham toF ths sugar factory
at Aampa
ons q The features 81 the fair at
MoamtaIn iigsns vas the indtaas ShO
gave races daily. stage hoiaapa and
other fFunsAer se@a1a
The Erana sneampusoht OF the { o
O. y, convened IN fogss oa October
-. the Reb~sEs assembly also meet.
las Al the gan. time
The elevators AZ Ashton have been
very busy OF late. and as many men
m can work are trying 10 keep ths
grain ont Of the way they are work
tng Sundays and niEhis
Ivan Jorgens. a Ncz Perez farmer.
recently thr-shed An Eeacre field Of
wheat that yielded 81 bushels TO the
acre. all Of Il graded No and
weighing more than 80 pounds 20 the
bushel
The report comes from Couneil that
A. L. Richards. candidate for county
attorney, vac brutaiiy beaten By
man who had taken exception 10
something Mr., Richards had said at
q political meeting
Growers are now packing apples ~
Payette. Weiser and some parts OF
the Boise valley This crop is greater
than ever before In the history of the
state. aud shipments will amount 10
between 500 and coo cars
II is estimated that the cost Of sur.
veying the Bruneau-Twin Falls lands
IN owyhee and Twin Fails counties.
where approximately 100000 acres of
land are to be opened to settlement.
viii be between $4,000 and $4,000.
John Flemming, sentenced 10 hang
In December for the killing of
neighbor last July near Shoshone.
Lincoln county. has just been
brought 10 the penitentiary. He
was placed in solitary confinement.
DR.. Dwight Arnold. a former Boise
dentist died at Long Beach, CAL
last week The deceased was one Of
the promoters of the first street rail-
way in Boise, and at one time held
large property interests In the CAPT
tai city.
resident of Nampa has demon
strated that fine tobacco may be
grown in that vicinity. He has a few
plants in one of the flower beds that
have grown luxuriently and had
reached the stage of maturity fort
night ago.
c. r. Wheeler, whose fruit ranch
lies half a mile west of Shoshone,
has demonstrated beyond all doubt
that Lincoln county is well adapted
to fruit culture. His prune orchard
has yielded bounteous crop. con
sisting of over forty tons.
Plans are being made for the con
struction OF high electric rover
line from Thompson Falls, Mont, to
the Occur dAlene mines in the Muir
ray district. 1t Is estimated that be-
tween $2.500,00O and 100000 will
be expended in the project.
A dispatch from Washington an.
nounces that the Minidoka irrigation
project looks so good to government
officials that they are making prelim.
mary surveys with view to ma.
fariqllv anIarUfno he ;r.io
on the north side of Snake river.
At the coming general election two
amendments to the state constitution
are to be submitted to the electors
OF Idaho, one to permit county as
SCISSORS to employ necessary assist
ance, and the other being the ques
tion OF abolishing the probate court
George Goodbub, a clerk in the
freight house of the Boise & Inter
urban Railway company in Boise
committed suicide on the 18th. shoot
ing himself with revolver Before
he fired the fatal shot, Goodbub drank
carbolic acid. He had been drinking
heavily.
Sol Newcomer OF Mountain Home
one of the Oldest and best known pio
neers of Idaho. underwent move
and painful operation last week.
when a large portion of his tongue
was removed. because OF a cancerous
growth. He is recovering from the
operation.
DR.. j. X. Dubois, brother of exSen
ator F. It. Dubois. who has practiced
IN Boise for many years. is very III
from cancer of the throat, and Il Is
believed he cannot live long The
senator and his family have gone tc
Boise to remain with the doctor uati
the end comes.
According to a report from Vol
mer. the farmers are delivering an
average of 5000 sacks of grain dali,
TO the warehouses. and despite tbs
fact that the largest warehouses IL
the northwest outside OF a termina
point is located there, all OF tbs
houses will be filed
Hydrated lime will be the new pro
duct OF the Clearwater Lime com
pany after the new equipment ha.
been installed az Lewiston The com
pany will then have daily eapacit,
Of l25 barrels and the new produc
can be stored In the warehouse,
without deterioration