The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-10-09
IDAHO STATE. NEWS.

There Is considerable building gt
} Ing on in Weiser for this time of til
year.
During the fiscal year ending Jun
80, 1908, there were ,11,212 publ
land entries made in Idaho, embrat
ing 1,0S7,4O2 acres.
/ At Spirit Lake the women hav
raised $50 toward equipping tn
/ boys gymnasium which will be in
stalled in the church, soon to b
erected.
| In an endeavor to rid that tow
of an undesirable element, the Wei
ser police have recently been arrest
ing all hoboes and putting them a
work on the streets.
Members of the Pocatello Italiar
colony are interesting themselves II
national movement to make Octo
ber II, Christopher Columbus day
a national holiday.
| Owing to the overcrowded condi.
tion of the schools of Emmett, the
school board has decided to secure
two additional teachers and are now
looking for suitable rooms to do the
work in.
While engaged in repairing a roof
in Boise, Thomas Garrett, aged "a
and unmarried, slipped and fell to
the pavement below, being SO badly
injured that death resulted four
hours later.
A watermelon weighing rs pounds
and being 16 inches in diameter,
raised by N. Ray on his farm near
the Barber mill, is to be one of the
exhibits of the state fair to be held
at Boise.
j. w. Pittinger of Nampa has just
returned from trip into Wyoming,
where he disposed of his crop of ap-
pies, contracting them at price that
will net him about $4,000 for the
crop from his twelve acres of or
chard.
George Fulton, a 13-year-old Boise
boy, while hunting ducks, accident
ally shot away the aeshy part of his
right hand. The shot whizzed past
the boys head, leaving a few powder
marks on the right side of his face.
1t is estimated that the cost of sur
veying the BruneauTwin Falls
lands in Owyhee, and Twin Falls
counties, where approximately 500,-
900 acres of land are to be opened to
settlement, will be between $4,000
md $4,000.
Growers are now packing apples at
'ayette, Weiser and some parts of
he Boise valley. This crop is great
IF than ever before in the history of |
he state, and shipments will amount
o between 500 and 600 cars.
During the fiscal year ended June
o, 1908, the total receipts from
ublic land sales in Idaho reached
539,167 and practically half MILL
n dollars will, in consequence, be
lrned into the reclamation fund to
1aho's credit.
The state land board will file q
EN- selection upon 10000 acres of
md in the Boise national forest, for
lerly part of the Sawtooth national
,rest reserve. This selection is In
ldemnity of losses Of homestead en- .
les and preemptions. !
Weiser is enjoying building boom
this time. A number Of substan-
al residences are being built, be-
des an elegant brick church. Real
tate men report business good In 3
Ieir line, many deals being made
II city and ranch property. 4
Charles Verheyn has sold $500
ates of peaches this season, and
hat makes the item more interest ]
g is that he sold them to the con- I
mers living In and near Nampa, !
VS. the Nampa Record. More than I
600 crates were sold in one day. \
The supreme court decided in fa- :
r OF the anti-Dubois faction in the :
ntest between the two factions of i
e Democratic party known as the I
lbois and anti-Dubois factions. !.
lis means that the anti-Dubois tick J.
will be placed on the regular bal Z
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A committee from Emmett, repre- :
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