Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-05
In THE GEM STATE

Word is received that work on the
Pittsburg & Gilmore road is being
rapidly pushed.
Work has been resumed on the !
White Knob mine at Mackay with
thirty men engaged.
Free grain sacks are to be distribut-
ed among the farmers OF the Twin
rails tract by a local elevator com
pany which is an innovation in farm
ing in Idaho.
The county commissioners have de-
cided to build an addition to the jail
at Caldwell at a cost of about $4,000.
Cells will be installed at an expense
Of about $4,000
Lincoln county is the banner coun-
ty in the state for percentage Of in
crease in assessed valuation as shown
by the six abstracts now on file with
the state auditor.
Two men. a woman and a boy sus-
tanned painful injuries at Twin Falls
as the result of a runaway caused
by team of horses becoming fright
ened at the animals in circus.
There is little or no agitation as
to the local option question in Custer
county There has been no petition
circulated and probably will be none,
unless it is done by someone on the
outside.
Victor Klein, wanted in San Fran
cisco for embezzlement,, has been ar
rested in Caldwell Klein has been
posing as a detective and is equipped
with papers and had also supply of
handouts.
Surveys are being made from the
main line of the railroad at Caldwell
to make connection with the Home
dale branch. 1t is rumored that the
line is to be built from Caldwell to
Roswell this fall.
Water is again flowing in the Rid
enbaugh ditch after being dry for
about ten days. The farmers have
suffered a great deal because of the
break and the damage to the crops is
estimated at about 100000
If you have taken a homestead I'M
der one of the government reclama-
ton projects. no matter whether it
was forty acres or the limit, that
cancels your homestead right, accord
ing to a recent ruling Of Secretary
Ballinger
Fire destroyed four stacks Of grain,
aggregating 10000 bushels, at the
John Walker farm, north of Weiser.
The fire started from the engine of
a threshing outfit which was just pull
ing by the Walker field to begin
threshing.
The financial condition of the Ida
no Industrial institute. located near
Weiser has been greatly strengthen
ed by a fortune of s47.534.9O. a draft
for which was received few days
ago by e. A. Paddock, founder of the
institution
AS shown by the report of the coun-
ty auditor the valuation of Shoshone
county for 1909 is S6,75S. 514.96. or
this sum S3,010,854.9S is personal
including net profits OF mines. ana
s3,747460 is real, which includes other
mining valuations
Superintendent 0. P. Christian OF
the Idaho Children's Home Finding
Aid society announces that $4,000 of
the $4,000 necessary to secure the
appropriation Of a similar amount
from the state, making a $4,000 home
building possible, has been sub
scribed.
A man convicted ,of begging in
Boise surprised the court by writing
check on the Shoshone bank in
payment of his fine When asked why
he begged when he had money in the
bank, he replied that he did not have
any cash and did not want to write
a check
Through the efforts of the chairman
OF the committee on ARRANGEMENTS
for the excursion to Spokane to the
National Irrigation congress. arrange
ments have been made whereby the
return limit on tickets viii be ex-
tended until September 3, giving am
pie time for side trips.
A statue Of the late Senator shoup.
a pioneer of Idaho. last territorial
governor, first governor after the
state was admitted, and also one OF
the first two United States senators,
mas just reached the national capital
from Rome, in charge Of the sculptor.
The statue win be placed in the han
of the capitol
The surveyor general, the deputy
United States surveyors and other
federal state and county officers are
TO organize a state geological society,
an association having as its object
provision of names for the geographi-
cal features of the state, where names
are repeated in different sections or
counties and for the purpose Of pro-
curing corrections in the various maps
Of Idaho.
j. H. Wallis, state pure food com
missioner and sanitary incroctor hos