The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-04-16
By II. e. FROST
IDAHO STATE NEWS

for the season In ST. Anthony IN an
opera house TO cost at least 1000
Real estate dealers Of Boise and
other business men report more ac.
uvity In the several lines of busi.
ness Than there has been for some
time.
Albert Earle. aged Is, whose home
fs in Salt Lake City, was struck by
passenger train at Pocatelio. his
skull being fractured. and his Jaw
broken.
A crusade Is on against the viola.
tors OF the anti-gambing law In
Boise. and every effort win be made
10 suppress gambling In every form
In the capital city.
At meeting OF the state land
board held last week, the board au-
thorized the leasing OF 1900 acres of
land In the vicinity OF American Falls
for dry farming purposes.
Work is To be commenced at once
TN the $4,000 school house, the gift
of Mr. Bull to the town OF Bull, and
the structure will be completed In
time for the fall term OF school.
Joe Shannon. aged II. fell from
trestle at Idaho city. striking on
rock twenty feet below, fracturing
his skull. The lad In In Boise hos
pital In a precarious condition.
About one hundred men are work.
Ing on the government dam on the
Boise river above Boise. and II IL ex
pected that the entire structure will
be completed by the FIRST OF May.
Senator Borah has secured the pas,
sage through the senate OF his bill |
giving To Boise a small parcel OF |
ground In the military reservation |
for boulevard and park purposes
The board OF directors OF the Cald. |
well public school has decided to APP |
propriaie $50 per year for the pnr.
pose OF supplying the school with |
magazines and newspaper periodi-
Gals
A force Of eighteen men In charge |
OF A. l.. Ostner has left Boise for |
hog Bar TO commence working ON the
lBoiae.Atianta wagon road. The work |
win now be rapidly pushed till the
road IL completed
Jim Daley. who In charged with |
having stolen horse from ranch |
about three miles from Caldwell. was
captured at Vale. Oregon. and /
brought back to Caldwell Tor trial |
The horse was recovered
The father OF George Daily. tho i6-
yearold boy who was caught In the
tnrn-table OF tho Northern Pacific
railroad ut Wallace. on December II.
and crushed To death. has sued tho
company for $4,000 damages
The large canal which IN being con.
structed NJ Mountain Home under
the direction OF J. II. Garrett IL about
completed. and Il will be- ready to de-
liver water 10 the people there who
may want water this season.
Sixty thousand fruit trees. the iarg.
est single shipment OF the kind over
received In the state OF Idaho, ar.
rived In Mountain Home recently. con
signed TO the Idaho Fruit Land com.
pany. The shipment consisted most.
iy Of apple trees
The mystery concerning the disap.
pearance OF Sam Patton. the i7.year.
cid Weiscr boy who myateriously dis.
appeared In 1898. has been AT last
cleared up. The boy committed sui
eide In 1905. while an Inmate OF tho
Oregon state insane asylum.
At meeti r. OF the Idaho State
Livestock Sanitary board held In
Boise. II was decided that there shall
be more rigid enforcement OF the
statute requiring the inspection of
livestock. particularly horses. before
driving them from the state. y
caidweli's market day. held ON tho
hrst Monday OF each month. Is de-
seioping into big sales day The
object of the Commercial club. who
conducted the sales. 10 to establish a
regular sales day devoted exclusively '
10 livestock and farm products y
The state land board has ordered !.
that applications be made To the In.
ierior department for patents for all !
The acreage ON the Twin Falls tract. \
south side. that has not been pre- \
siously asked for. or The remainder 4
u the segregation Of $4,000 acres.
Captain 8 Meek OF Elwood. Ind
Mas been elected superintendent of
he Boise public schools by the board r
u directors TO take the place Of Su. @
Williamson. resigned 4
rhe change sill take pace at the be. !
ginning OF the next school year !.
March vas one OF the busiess :
nonihs in the history 81 the United |,
States land ofice at Boise. During n
he month 1877 homestead entrtes n
~ere maze, a. against " for the $
same month last year. IS desert en- n
ries were made. as against II for [
asi year, u
May homeSeekerp from Iowa and
Kansas have arrived al Barley dur.
ag tbs past six weeks Most of the
b Seomers are fiing on desert land I,
asaf HaWkeye. the rev iowa recent | $
, established south 81 Burnley. About =
Ie.oeo acres have been aled ON since o.
ast October !,
4 strike is 90 among the telephone 81
operators al lewiston A dispatch 5,
fom that city says that when Man i
lser Reynolds Of the system brought -
= Girls from Spokane TO take tbs b
7laoes az strikers h. was met al the n
sspoi by tee Lewiston girls and It
'onghly handled d
Democrats Of Caldwell are plan