Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

pointed regirer OF the land office at
Occur d'Alene.
A state baseball league is being or
ganized. the towns TO be represented
being Pocatello, Blackfoot, Idaho
Falls. st. Anthony and Rexburg
The contract for the erection of the
Idaho building at the Seattle EXPOSE
ton has been let to Boise firm, and
when completed will cost the state
about $4,000.
K H. Dickson, city editor OF the
Boise Statesman, has been appointed
chief clerk to the governor, new
office created at the last session OF
the legislature.
The material for the construction
of the new 10000 bushel capacity ele-
vator for the Idaho Falls Milling COM
pany is being placed on the ground
on the west side of the river at Idaho
Falls
state land sale for Owyhee
county will take place at Mountain
Home May 20, when about 1900 acres
will be offered The appraised value
of the lands ranges from $40 to $40
per acre.
Professor II. T. French, for many
years director of the Idaho Agricul-
tural Experiment station at Moscow
and connected with the agricultural
college of the university. has handed
in his resignation.
The date for the meeting of the
state Sunday school convention which
embraces all the Protestant Sunday
schools in Idaho, has been set for
May IS, 10 and 20, the session to be
held at Caldwell.
Plans are now being made by bust
ness men and others of Boise to start
public amusement, recreation and
athletic park, and there is every rea,
son to believe that the movement
will be successful
1t is said that when improvements
that are contemplated at the Albion
normal are completed that institution
will have one of the finest plants IL
state. The campus and athletic fields
will be especially fine.
A dispatch from Juliaette announces
that Robert c. Brant has been ar
rested on suspicion of having muir
dered Henry Steffens. Steffens was
killed with 1870 rifle, same bore as
the rifle owned by Brandt.
Work to secure exhibits for the Sc
attic exposition have already begun.
and people in every section of the
state will come to the assistance of
the Idaho commission in the way of
furnishing things for this purpose
An unknown man, supposedly a
tramp, was run down and instantly
killed by a passenger train at Nc
Cannon. The man was seen to run
in front of the train, and his body
was terribly mangled when picked up.
Articles of incorporation of the
Bank of Buhl and the Kootenai Coun-
ty State bank of St. Maries have been
filed. The Twin Falls institution will
have capital stock of $4,000, while
the st. Maries bank will have cap
ital Of $4,000.
Appointments of George H. Black,
president of the Lewiston normal,
and Walter R. Siders, superintendent
of the Pocatello public schools, as
members of the state school code
, commissions have been announced by
Governor Brady.
A large number of communicates of
st. Alphonsus church have decided
not to attend mass at the church in
| Wallace pending a settlement of the
trouble over the priest, whose re-
moval large influential body of the
members is seeking.
1t is claimed that Tue nrhest lead
silver belt in the state of Idaho is to
be found within sight of Bellevue.
While the deposits are not so large
as are found in the Occur d'Alene
district they are richer in value, all
being high grade ores
The state land board has fixed
June 3 as the date for the opening Of
the Dietrich segregation of the Idaho
Irrigation company's project, under
the Carey act. The tract includes So
000 acres of land situated short dis
lance east of the town of Shoshone.
The statement is made that over
c,VVOsVVO AbIl0 no4cS Will D6 ulStIlDul-
ed by the state department for the
propagation of fish and game the com
ing summer-a greater number than
the aggregate of all trout planted in
Idaho waters in the history of the
| state
| Adolph Young, an old prospector,
was found dead in his cabin on Boyle
mountain, one day last week, by a fell
low workman who had not seen
Young for several days and became
alarmed. Young had been sick fol-
some time and death was due to nat
ural causes
All plans for the big meeting OF
the Oregon-Idaho Development con
gress, to be held in Weiser, April &c
to May 2 have been about completed
and the delegation from southern
Idaho will be a big one, particularly
from Boise. Boise boosters will have
a special car.
1t is stated by those in position