Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-11
IDAHO STATE NEWS

A $4,000 lodge room Is to be built
by the Knights of Pythias of Sand
point.
A Van Wyck dispatch announces
that Jasper Withers had his feet bad
| Iy frozen while snowshoeing near Gen.
| ter.
Orders have been given to push the
Twin Falls-Salmon river project, so
that water may be delivered within a
year.
Land values are still very reason.
able in the vicinity of Shelley. rang.
ing from $40 per acre for unimproved
land to 800 for well improved
ranches.
An alfalfa mill, with a capacity OF
from twenty to thirty tons day. is
to be constructed near Idaho Falls
eastern capitalists having become IN
terested in the project
A street railway system, new fair
grounds, and new bridge across the
Clearwater river, are some of the i'm.
provements scheduled for Lewiston as
soon as the balmy spring weather ar
rives.
the men who were given a prelimi-
nary hearing in the justice court at
Parma on the charge of burglary.
were all bound over to the district
court.
The Boise Commercial club has
gone on record as favoring county
local option, with the exception OF in
corporated towns and cities, which
shall be exempt from the operation of
the law.
The grain crop harvested in the
neighborhood of Sugar City last fall
is estimated at $4,000 bushels, po-
tatoes about $4,000 bushels, and sugar
beets in the neighborhood of 100000
tons was raised
The charter of the new American
National bank at Caldwell has been
received and the same men who have
conducted the affairs of the American
State bank will direct the business of
the new organization.
Louis T. Goodwin was struck by
a passenger train at Twin Falls, suf-
fering broken leg and dislocated
collar bone. 1t is claimed that no
one was to blame for the accident
except the injured man
Rear Admiral r. D. Evans, one of
the nations greatest heroes, will be In
Boise some time in March, to deliver
one of his famous lectures, according
to the announcement made by his ad,
vertising representative.
1t is announced that construction
work on the Neze Perez and Idaho
electric line from Nez Perez to Voll-
mer will be resumed as soon as the
weather will permit, and that the line
will be rushed to completion.
A company is being formed to put
in power plant at Gem Falls, two
miles north of Shelley, it being the
intention to spend in the neighborhood
of 100000. about 10000 horsepower
to be generated at the beginning.
Arthur Sweet, who escaped from
the county jail at Weiser on January
l, last week returned and gave him
self up. Sweet declares that when he
made his escape, he walked out di-
rectly through the sheriff's Office.
Fred w. Walton was shot and
killed in Denver, on February 3, by
John H. Cradlebaugh Both men
were prominent residents of Wallace
and Cradlebaugh claims that Walton
had alienated his wifes affections
A Washington dispatch, under date
of February 3, says: 1T is probable
that former Attorney General ]. j.
Guheen will be nominated register of
the BlacSfoot land office in a day or
two, ON recommendation of the Idaho
senator's"
While at work on a ranch near
Clear Lake, being engaged in baling
hay, Merle Marchmont had his left
foot caught by the plunger, the bones
being crushed in a frightful manner
He is getting along nicely however.
and the foot will be saved
The Ada County Bar association
has unanimously adopted a resolution
declaring in favor of the passage of
the senate bill concerning the quail
ications Of those desiring to be adj
mitted to the bar in this state, rails
ing the moral and educational stand
ard.
Mrs. Julia E. Peck, aged Sc, the
widow OF Malad's first settler, is dead
Mrs Peck was born in Green county,
New York. March II, 1923. She mar.
ried Henry Peck. of the same state,
and they settled in Malad in 1864,
building the first log cabin in the
town
t. c. Carr is In jail at Lewiston on
the charge of numbering George
Moore, who was shot by Carr last Au-
gust while fugitive from justice
Homer Craig, who was with Carr at
the time of the shooting. is held on
charge of assault with intent to conn
NIT murder