Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-29
IN THE GEM STATE

Cast. near Charleston, was totally de
stroyed by a timber fire last week.
Walter Meldron. a messenger boy
of Boise. has been arrested for shoot
ing at a Chinaman after a heated
quarrel with the Celestial.
The body of Warner, the electrician
who was swept over the falls about
three weeks ago. has been found TWEEN
ty miles below American Falls.
A crew Of surveyors is at work In
Soldier valley, believed to be in the
employ of parties who intend to build
an electric line from Gooding to Sol
der.
Work is to commence at once on
the new $4,000 school house at Sho-
shone, and it is expected the building
will be enclosed before cold weather
sets in.
William Mallory. special agent for
the Western Loan & Savings com
pany, of Salt Lake, is in Emmett,
making an effort to organize local
branch there. He is meeting with good
success among the business men.
A new railroad is to be built in
southern Idaho, from Rupert to Bliss,
according to reports from southern
Idaho This road was authorized two
years ago by stockholders Of the Mini
doAa a SoutI western, and Will be
seventy miles long.
Six weary land seekers, sleeping in
a box car, were held up by five men
near Standpoint and relieved of about
$40. The men had been in Missoula,
and the hold-up occurred as they were
returning from that town. There is
no clue to the robbers.
The city council OF Caldwell has
called a bond election for September
8, at which time the question of bond
ing the city for $26,059.7S, to be used
in defraying the expense of paving the
intersections of streets and alley
crossings. will be settled.
A number of Chinese pheasants
were turned loose by the state on the
Mumford ranch about seven miles
west of Caldwell If they escape the
pot hunters, it will be but few years
until there will be plenty Of these
game birds in Boise valley.
Jerry Goodsell. aged rs, a pioneer
OF Emmett, while hauling a load of
lumber, was trying to re-fasten his
load, when the chain broke, striking
him and knocking him from the
wagon. His spine was injured, and
it is feared he will not recover.
The state fish and game department
has received authority from the post
Office department to post a synopsis
of the fish and game laws in Idaho
postoflces. Notices similar to those
distributed in railway stations and the
national forests will be used.
The board of directors of the High
school district No. 1 at Roseburg has
decided to call an election to vote
bonds to build a four-room brick build
ing at a cost of $4,000 There has been
SLIPS donated, the balance to be
raised by voting bonds to run for
twenty years.
1t has been given out that the
Malad branch in Idaho, which is to be
extendEd to Rupert, making a cutoff
between Salt axe City aou l. iss is
to be run down the Raft River valley,
where the Kuhn syndicate, prominent
in big irrigation enterprises, is pre-
pairing to rec.am 5JUUO acres
The small hand grip taken from
Harry Orchard the night of his ar
rest at Caldwell with us conJen1s.
has, through some contributor. found
its way into the relic and curio room
Of the state historical society. 1t con-
tains various chemicals and an equip
ment which Orchard evidently used
in manufacturing his bombs
Rex Osborne, in an article in the
Boise Statesman, declares that if local
option elections were held in every
county in Idaho this fall the present
indications are that only eight of them
would vote "wet''-Bannock. Bonner
Custer, Elmore, Kootenai. Lemhi. Nez
Perez Gin part) and Owyhee. The re-
naming counties, fifteen in number
are all placed in the dry" column.
The reclamation service has turned
over $4,000 in water scrip to the
state of Idaho as payment for work OF
convicts on the penitentiary ditch. a
part of the Payette-Boise project. This
will. it is stated, practically pay for
the states water right under the pro
ject.
Many important changes are in con-
temptation in the administration Of
the affairs of the Nez Perez Indians,
according to Superintendent o. H.
Lips. AS rapidly as possible the In.
dams, the able-Etdied tribesmen at
least, win be thrown on their own re-
sources.
State Pure Food Commissioner Jas.
H. Wallis has recently secured convic-
tons of three different parties for
selling short weight butter; selling
lard branded absolutely pure" but
misbranded; and selling oleomargar-
inc without conspicuous notice being
published.