Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-15
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

an from the state prison.
Idaho will send marksmen to par
ticipate in the national rife team
match to be held at Camp Perry.
Ohio, commencing Monday, August g.
The contract has been let for the
building of the new gymnasium and
armory at the Albion state normal
school. authorized by the last legisla.
ture
Judge w. G. Dunbar. formerly prin-
cipal of the Boise high school, viii
probably succeed Harry Leonard, who
resigned as probate judge of Ada
county.
Accidentally stepping into the open
ing of the rock chute of the Last
Chance mine a Wardner Robert Bots.
miner aged &c years, fell Sky feet
to his death.
The local option question is an ex-
ceedingly live one in eastern Idaho
these days, it being freely predicted
that in some of the counties the saloon
will be tabooed in the near future
The assessor Of Canyon county an
nounces that there has been this year
an increase Of 300 names on the tax
roll. He estimates that the assessment
for the county for this year will reach
$1O0OO,OOO.
Judge Harry Leonard, probate judge
of Ada county, has rendered his resig-
nation to the board of commissioners.
having been offered a position which
he regards as superior to that Of pro
bate judge.
The new grain elevator being built
at Caldwell which will have a capac-
ity Of 125,OO0 bushels, will be ready
to receive grain about August 1. The
building is six stories with the base
ment
The number Of saloons in Boise has
been reduced from twenty nine to
twentyseven, as the result of two
proprietors failing to apply for re-
newal of licenses. The city revenue
from the saloons is about $4,000 a
year.
The Blackfoot diamond jubilee.
marking the seventy-ffth anniversary
of the raising at Fort Hall of the first
American flag to be foated west of
the Rockies, proved to be a greater
success than its promoters had antic-
ipated.
The six-year-old son Of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Peter Dillinger, living near
Standpoint, was shot and killed by
his eleven-year-old brother while the
two children were playing with a %
calibre rife, the shooting being acct
dental.
The Boise Commercial club intends
to send a band of twenty pieces and
marching club of forty members to
the seventeenth session Of the Ma
tional Irrigation congress, which will
be held in Spokane the week Of Au-
gust 9.
Surveyors are in the field running
out the line for a new railroad through
Long valley. This is presumed to be
an extension of the Dewey line, now
running from Murphy in Owyhee
county, to Emmett, in Canyon county,
through Nampa
One of the largest delegations from
an outside state to the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition will be that from
the great Occur d'Alene district in
Idaho on August "a, according to E. M.
Chilcote, secretary of the Occur
dAlene Mining association.
William Mathews, alias F. NJ Mar
vim, was held for trial at Omaha by
Judge Dietrich in the federal court at
Boiss. Mathews was arrested at Twin
Falls on suspicion of being connected
with a train robbery near Omaha in
May He WIS placed under a $4,000
bond
Pleas Of guilty were entered in the
federal court at Portland last week
by Edward Stoffer and William
Manner, both of Lowrie, and J. M.
Neal Of Boise, TO a charge of main
tanning illegal Enclosures Of govern
ment land. The men were fined $500
each.
Announcement that the Northern
Pacific railroad has begun construc-
tion Of the Lolo cut-off from Missoula,
Mont, to Lewiston, explains the re-
cent activity by that railroad in the
upper Clearwater county, where it
now has three surveying crews at
work.
The death of Henry c. Riggs.
which occurred at the hospital at the
Soldiers Home on July 3, removes
one of the Oldest and most prominent
pioneers of the state. Mr. Riggs
came to Idaho in 1868 and was the
first man to locate Boise City, just 46
years ago.
A continuance is expected in the
cases Of the government against the
Barber Lumber company in the fed
eral court, in which the former seeks
to recover from the defendant corpor
alton a cancellation of its titles to
some thirty-five thousand acres of
Boise county timber land.
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