Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-24
IDAHO STATE NEWS


Grangeville.
David Jeffreys OF Meridian, Idaho,
drew third prize for popcorn at the
corn exposition at Omaha.
new hotel is to be built at Boise
ty stock company, at cost of $780,
900. A farm for the raising of the stock
Of meat, vegetables, ETC., used by the
hotel is to be purchased by the COM
pany.
Governorelect Brady has announced
that he will endeavor to secure the
passage of publice utilities law
which will tend toward the better
ment of the railroad situation in the
state.
The town of Wallace will begin i'm
mediately the construction of sys-
of sewers, provided for by the recent
sale of $4,000 worth of sewer bonds
for which the money has been re-
ceived.
Heavy shipments of livestock will
be made from Grangeville, about the
first Of January. when the local stock
men will begin shipping the cattle fed
there during the fall and winter
months.
The Idaho Hardware & Implement
Dealers association will ask the next
legislature to pass an act to encourage
the use Of wider tires on wagons as
one means of providing better roads
in Idaho.
Henry Flood, a prominent mining
man of Mullan, was found dead in his
bed, the cause of his death being
Bright's disease. He was so years
old and was part owner of the Mid
night mine.
1t has been demonstrated that the
country surrounding Cambridge is
splendidly adapted for fruit raising.
Apples. peaches. prunes, plums and
all small fruits thrive and are OF the
finest flavor.
In the arrest at Emmett of George
. Shapely, it is believed a good start has
been made in breaking up a gang
of horse thieves which has operated
for some time in the Snake river val
1t is announced that Atlanta is to
have a new mail service, distribution
to be by star route running out of
Boise and over the new wagon road to
the mining camp, instead of from
Mountain Home by way of Rocky Bar.
Great excitement has been caused
al Silver City over the recent discov-
cry by and old prospector of rich Gin
nibar ore on Sinker Creek, twenty
miles from Silver City. The ore is
said to contain 1872 per cent quick
silver.
Ernest WATSON, confined in the Ada
county Jail awaiting trial as to his
sanity, attempted suicide, cutting his
throat with a. wire from the springs
In his bed, but while the cut was dan.
eerously near the jugular vein, he will
recover.
Reports to the Trans Missouri Dry
Farming congress indicate that there
are 100000 acres of now almost
worthless land in southern Idaho, most
of which can be made productive
through the use of dry farming"
methods
The Tenth legislature is to be ask
ed to appropriate 100000 for the pur-.
chase of a site and the erection of
building suitable for the maintenance
G; home for the states orphan child
rem and of a school for the deaf, dumb
and blind.
The beet sugar factories of Idaho
and Utah will hereafter be able to
compete in Oklahoma with the output
of the big factories of the east and
south. This is made possible by "a
rate reduction announced by the Rock
Island system.
The people of Payette have been
considerably stirred up as the result
of the death of child from diph.
iberia. 1t being charged that the par
ents failed to call in a physician, de
pending upon faith cure for the re
storation of the little one to health.
A Nampa dispatch says the people
Of Nampa are deeply interested over
the discussion of the division of Can
yon county, making Nampa the county
seat of the new county and naming
ii after the town. The proposed new
county would contain 440 square miles
About ten miles from Cambridge
three strong flowing artesian wells
have been struck within the last two
or three weeks and in all probability
artesian water can be struck in any
other part OF this new country in SUI
ficient quantity to irrigate the same II
desired.
A case has been fled at Lewiston
to test the validity OF the constitu
tional amendments recently carried
by popular vote of the people which
provide change in the state judiciary
from district Judge to county Judge
who will also have charge of probate
matters.
1t is announced that Secretary Gar
field has received reports on a promo