Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-08
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

Heber u. HAZE, FORMER ass Stanf
comm. ssioner of immigration and la
Dor, has been appointed chief clerk
in the state land Office.
Advocates OF the local option move-
ment circulated a petition in Emmetai
and vicinity for local option and our
of S03 voters seen, 66l signed the
petition.
M. j. Shields. prom nent business
man of Moscow, is dead from a com.
plication of diseases. He was 81 years
of age and had been in business in
Moscow since 1878.
Oscar Anderson, cripple. was
burned to death when the Western
hotel at Wallace was destroyed by
fire last week. 1t is believed the fire
was of incendiary origin.
The franchise for. the street railway
has been granted by the Idaho Falls
city council, and indications are that
it will be only a short time until that
city has a street car system.
The Shoshone Journal declares war
is to be waged on bootleggers in Lin
coin county by the prosecuting attoi'-
ney and sheriff The plan is to en-
gage the services of an ex-saloon man
as detective.
According to the annual report of
the state board of health, during the
year 1908 there were 5,476 births in
the state, with 200 more boys than
girls. There were 1882 deaths and
1,741 marriages.
The Boise summer normal school.
which has proved so advantageous in
the past in enabling teachers to take
post graduate course, is again in
session, there being large attend
ance of teachers.
The thirteen-year-old daughter OF
Mrs. Thomas Haskell was thrown
from a wagon near Cambridge, as
the result of runaway, the wheels
passing over her chest, crushing her
life out instantly
"A Boise woman discovered some
thing new In the way of double eggs
last week She broke a small sized
egg and to her surprise found an
other hard shelled egg on the inside
of the first she'll
The supplement to the United
States postal guide for the month of
June shows that 81 new postof1ices
have been established in Idaho with
In the year, names of five having been
changed, and 20 discontinued.
William Renk of Renk brothers.
Boise and Sun Prairie, Wis. have
sailed from London with 220 head of
registered sheep. One-half o. is
consignment will go to Sun Prairie
and the balance will be brought
west.
Governor James H. Brady and SEN
ator Hepburn are announced in the
program of the National Irrigation
congress to be held in Spokane August
to ii as speakers at the sessions to
be held on August IS, Governors
Day"
WORK mas been commenced on the
city water works and dreinage sys-
TENS at Parma, an Improvement that
has long been needed and one that
VIII give to the entire town better
service for both domestic use and for
fire purposes.
Among the new enterprises which
are prospective for Shoshone. but not
definitely decided on, are machinery
and grain storage warehouses. q mod
ern steam laundry and dry cleaning
establishment, new newspaper and
flour mill.
u. w. Marvin, arrested at Buhl and
held under $4,000 bond to await trial
Tor alleged completely in the Omaha
train robbery, is believed to be the
notorious desperate, Bill Mathews.
well known to the authorities in the
state of Washington.
V. s. McVey met with an accident
at Caldwell recently that came near
causing his death. While working on
tne frame OF the new Touring mill.
he slipped and fell from the floor OF
the second story to the first. break
Ing two ribs, and fracturing his skull.
Some of the eastern papers are de-
claring that Harry Orchard has been
released from the Idaho penitentiary.
which causes the warden to issue the
statement that Orchard is engaged in
the shoe department, and can be seen
at any time by those visiting the peni-
Tertiary.
w. d. Clayton, prosperous farmer
living three miles northeast of Mid
vale, committed suicide on June 29.
Dy shooting himself in the right
temple. The cause of the act is sup
posed to have been dependency over
family troubles regarding division of
property.
A. X Lee, a Camas prairie rancher.
mas been arrested on the charge OF
assault with intent to kill, it being
charged that he shot a young man
named Hazard, the bullet going
through the leg, after which he beat
tne young fellow over the head with a
six-shooter.
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