The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

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
ly frozen while snowshoeing near Cen
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 $50 per acre for unimproved
land to 500 for well improved
ranches.
An alfalfa mill, with 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.
Mccormack, Fisher and Adkins,
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 a 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
~ hi c 20,
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 tho
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 8, by
John II. Cradlebaugh. Both men
were prominent residents of Wallace,
and Cradlebaugh claims that Walton
had alienated his wife's affections.
A Washington dispatch, under date
of February 8, says TT is probable
that former Attorney General ]. j.
Guheen will be nominated register of
the Blackfoot land Office in 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.
tications Of those desiring to be ad.
mitted to the bar in this state, rails.
ing the moral and educational stand.
ard.
Mrs. Julia Il. Peck, aged sc, the
widow of Malad's first settler, is dead.
Mrs. Peck was born in Green county,
New York, March H. 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. e. Carr is In jail at Lewiston on
the charge of numbering George
Moore, who was shot by Carr last An.
gust while fugitive from justice.
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