Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-08
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

A waterwOrks system Is being put
In at Richfield, and mains are being
laid on the principal streets.
Hattie Grumling. 13-year-old Boise
girl, was run down by bicycle rider
one day last week and painfully in
jured.
Vernon Wadsworth. 12-year-old
boy living near Nampa, was kicked
in the face by horse and seriously
injured.
The city council of Boise has re-
newed saloon licenses to the number
of twenty-nine. one less than granted
last year
At a meeting OF the trustees of the
Albion State Normal school, G. A.
Axline was chosen president of that
institution for another year
As a elimination Of persistent
campaign by local board agents for
over year past, Boise is to enjoy
reduction in fire insurance rates.
The secretary of the interior has
Withdrawn from entry $4,000 acres
of land in Idaho county, with the idea
of adding it to the forest reserve.
Considerable excitement has been
occasioned about Ashton lately over
the arrest of six men, charged with
killing and capturing elk out of sea-
son.
The bill creating the Eighth juaic-
ial district, composed of the counties
of Bonner and Kootenai, is to have
its constitutionality tested in the SUI
preme court of Idaho.
Notice has been filed at the office
of the secretary of state of the pro
posed construction of a branch line OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound railway in north Idaho.
Caldwell business men are the pro
motors of an irrigation enterprise for
the reclamation of $4,000 acres OF
Owyhee county land lying south of
the Snake river near Homedale
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the Womans Missionary society OF
the Boise presbytery was held in
Boise April 1 and 2, for which an ex
tensive program had been prepared
Peter Jacobsen met with a fatal &C
cident while piling lumber at the
Grant mill at Harrison He slipped
and fell into the lake and a heavy
timber fell upon him, breaking his
neck
During re quarter ending March
81, the state of Idaho received as in.
terest on public funds the sum of
S7,02703, the largest amount ever re.
ceived for any quarter in the history
of the commonwealth
There is a possibility that Aoki,
the young Japanese nobleman, who
won the heartfelt Helen Gladys. EN-
cry of California, and his bride may
purchase ranch in Idaho on which
to make their future home.
Sugar beet prospects were never
better in the history of the sugar in
dustry in Idaho than for the present
season, according to the declaration
by Mark Austin of Sugar City, local
manager of the factories in Idaho
Friday, April 2, the new addition
and main portion of Bosses high
school building, now in course of con.
struction, was dedicated with impos.
ing ceremonies The new building is
to cost $4,000, and it will be a beau.
tiful structure.
While sitting by window watch
ing some children at play, the little
6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs:
Joe Atkinson of UsticlS, who is an in
valid, fell through the window glass,
cutting several deep gasnes on her
head and face.
The state of Idaho, through the at.
torney general, will soon take action
against 112 domestic corporations
which have failed to pay their corpor.
alton taxes to the state treasurer. The
amount involved in the suits to be
started is approximately $4,000.
Announcement is made by live
stock sanitary board of the territory
of New Mexico that in future in treat
ing foot rot among sheep, dip of
tobacco and sulphur will be insisted
upon The Idaho board has been re-
curing the use of this solution exclu-
sively
The first child born in Wendell ar
rived March 29 at the home of Mr.
and Mrs Frank Miller. The youngsteI
has been christened Wendell Blair
Major Fred r. Reed on behalf of the
Wendell townsite company, presented
Mr.. aud Mrs. Blair their choice OF
town lots.
Patrick H. McGlone suddenly dis
appeared from his home in Pocateno
on the night of January 10, this year
On March 80 his partially decom.
posed body was found in the Port
neuf river, two miles below town. 1t
is supposed he fell in the river end
was drowned.
A novel method of advertising - to
oe tried in connection with the Big
Lost river project. The promoters
will enlist the services Of an aero
naut-photographer to take pictures OF
the country embracing these enter
prises. from which newspaper cuts
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