Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-15
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

The Idaho delegation to the secono
annual peace conference, to be held in
Chicago, May 3 to 5. has just been
named by Governor Brady u
There are about twelve real estH,~
firms in Nampa whose aggregate safes
have been reported at not less than
$3.50 900 since the new year.
The home OF Bishop Nelson. near
Emmett. was destroyed by fire last
week, defective fue being the cause
great portion of the furniture was
saved.
The Good Roads association of Gus
ter county has been formed at Mac
Kay, it being the intention to secure
every tax payer of the county as a
member.
A branch of the Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution has just been organ
lied at Boise by DIR. Clarkson N
Guyer vfce-president of the national
organization.
The skidding of an automobile on
Main street, Boise, caused the com
pIete demolishment of buggy belong
ing to Attorney d. L. Young, but no
one was hurt
The Idaho state Nurses associa
ton, recently organized in Boise, has
for it's object the promotion of much
needed legislation in behalf of the
nurses of Idaho.
The secretary of the interior has
restored to the public domain 200 900
acres of land withdrawn February II
1909. for power purposes in the
Salmon river country.
AT a meeting of the state medical
board held in Boise last week, TWEEN
ty-six applicants passed the required
examination and were admitted to
practice in the state
At Soma, five miles north OF Nam
pa, a Boise firm has undertaken to
lay out great orchard farm that will
be made the home for a great many
people with small orchards.
A government camp has been To-
Gated at Kuna, to put in the drops on
the iced lateral, also to put in the
tap boxes the several laterals now
nearing completion in this district
The Utah-Idahor Sugar company is
having lare tract cleared at the up
per end of the Deer fat reserv Dir
says Nampa dispatch which will be
planted to beets this year. There will
be 200 acres in the field
Litigation involving the states right
to select indemnity school lands with
in the forest reserve areas will be
carried up to the secretary of the in
terror, according to notice serveA
upon the federal authorities.
Since the turning on Of water at
Wendell on April 1, the settlers have
! taken hold Of their reclamation work
in earnest. and the land around Wen
dell is being cleared as fast as men
and teams can be found to do the
work.
An Idahoan by birth. Claude Mason
of Boise has captured one of the
plums from the tree of state and will
on about May Is, when the new
pure food quarters shall have been
equipped. take the office of state
chemist.
1t is reported that a contract has
been signed for the extension of the
Oregon Short Line from Twin Falls
to Wells, New. 1t is also reported that
the Oregon Short Line has agreed to
construct a line to Salmon river dam
by September, 1909.
Under sentence obe hanged, Fred
Seward, the Latah county prisoner
will not know his fate until ten days
before the date which has been set
for his execution. May z. The state
board of pardOns has extended his re
prieve until that time
r. NJ. Wright the fugitive hay and
grain broker. who is alleged to have
swindled Boise, Ada and Canyon
farmers out of sum aggregating be-
tween 100000 and $4,000 has been
arrested in Washington, ID. c., after a
search of nearly year.
Abe Freeman, a laborer, single, aged
abont 40 years, fell while attempting
to board a train at Nampa, and was
run over by the car. One leg was
taken off just below the knee and the
other foot was terribly mangled so
much SO that he will lose that foot
also
Saturday evening, April 10, Joseph
t. Pence, Democrat, was inaugurated
mayor of Boise, Mayor John M
Haines retiring Councilmen Nc
Auley and Wilker, elected at the re
cent city election, were also sworn in,
the inaugural ceremonies being very
short.
ID. Cavanaugh, of Kuna, has just
completed a full sized placer mining
machine of his own invention. and ex-
poets to have the same working on
the bank OF Indian creek by May a.
Mr. Cavanaugh has tested a small
model of this machine with astonish-
ing results.
The case of the Boise Artesian Hot
Il Cold Water company versus Boise
City, involving the right of that city
TO cOmDpl the wafer cOunnaOv TO nav a