Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-01
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month In the Hagerman valley than
any twelve months previous.
A stock company has been formed
at Twin Falls, with capital OF $685.
900, for the purpose Of establishing
canning factory.
Mayor Haines, of Boise, has for the
first time exercised his veto power.
disappearing OF the ordinance increas,
ing the salary OF mayor from 81 800 to
$4,000 a year.
d. e. Burnley, general passenger
agent OF the Oregon Short Line, an
nounces that the Bull extension will
depend upon the development of the
Bruneau project
The sheriffs OF the northwest, in
convention at Boise, selected c. w.
Dyer, of Twin Falls, as president, and
decided to hold the next convention
in Salt Lake City.
The United States district court for
Idaho will convene at Pocatello, Non
day, April IL. The business for the
tribunal is apparently light.
James NJ. Shoup, brother OF the late
Senator Shoup. of Idaho, has resigned
his Office as United States marshal at
Juneau, Alaska, and will be succeeded
by Dan A Sutherland, of that place.
New Plymouth resident recently
refused $4,000 cash for a 20-acre or
chard, giving his reason for not sell
ing at this price that the place was
paying at the rate of 20 per cent per
annum on that amount
The school board OF Emmett has
called an election for April 3, to vote
on a proposition to bond the city for
5000 to defray expenses and erect
an addition to the high school build
ing at an estimated cost of $4,000
At a meeting of the official board of
the Methodist church of Boise the
stand taken by the Rev. c. B. Dalton
in his fight on the evils of the NUM-
cipality and the controversy with the
city administration was unanimously
indorsed
A report is current in Boise to the
effect that Hartman is about to build
country to connect with the Gilmore
& Pittsburg, railroad project that
the big transportation man is said to
be back of.
1t is expected that President Taft
will visit the Occur d'Alene district
during the summer, an invitation hav-
ing been sent him by Wallace citizens,
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very much desires to visit the cele-
brated mining section
Governor Brady has issued call for
a special election to choose a judge
for the Eighth judicial district created
at the last session Of the legislature.
The district is composed of the coun-
ties of Bonner and Kootenai The
election will be held April o.
Mrs. Alex Enos, wife OF a saloon
keeper of Westmond, who was shot
through the arm by her husband, dur
ing quarrel, refuses to prosecute,
declaring her husband was justified,
she having threatened to shoot him,
when he fired in self-defense.
Another effort will be made by
Senator Hepburn to have the gov
eminent purchase land in Washing
ton, south of Pennsylvania avenue,
as a site for government buildings
He has introduced a bill appropriate
ing sl0,00O,000 for that purpose.
Express rates in and out of Boise
and from other Idaho points will be
investigated by the Interstate Com
merce Commission which will meet in
Salt Lake, Saturday, April 8. The in
vestigation has been ordered as the
result of complaints made by Idaho
people
The Boise Booster club is to be
reorganized and put upon a more
substantial basis. This is the club
that is determined to make Boise
city of $4,000 before the close of 1919.
The organization now has several
hundred members and it is growing
rapidly.
No clue has been discovered as to
the murderers of August Paetow, the
aged German of Payette, who was
robbed and tied to post in slough,
where he remained all night, dying
from the exposure. The robbers Sc
cured $3.50 in cash and notes aggre-
eating $4,000
Reports come from Denver that
Mrs. John Cradlebaugh took the stand
in an endeayor to save her husband
from punishment for the killing OF
Fred F. Walton, who is charged With
breaking up the Cradlebaugh home.
All of the parties were formerly resi-
dents of Wallace.
convention Of sheriffs of the
northwest opened at Boise, March 20,
with sixteen officers present. An ad-
dress of welcome was delivered by
Governor Brady. The meeting is held
for the purpose of discussing the
work of sheriffs and laws with which
they have to do
The Citizens party of Moscow has
placed a complete city ticket in the
field. The platform pledges for a con