Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-06-03
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

100000 department store Is 20 |
be established at Nampa. capitalists |
of Boise and Nampa being behind the
project.
The First Methodist church of Twin x
Falls. a handsome structure of brick. |
built at accost of $4,000. was dedi-
Gated on May 20
According 20 the records at the To-
cal Office OF the weather bureau
Boise is experiencing the most back
ward spring in more than ten years
The national guard of Idaho VIII
participate this year in the national
rifle team match to be held at Camp
Perry Ohio. commencing August H.
Twin Falls will build an addition to
its main sewer this year at cost OF
about $4,000 With this addition tho
entire city will be provided with sew
erage.
Idaho's intermediate sentence law
is now in effect 1t is believed its
operation in the state win work re-
form and benefits from the penal
system will be more satisfactory.
The town of Nampa has offered
prize of $500, with $3.50 of it to the
second man, for a single-handed rock
drilling contest, open to miners OF the
northwest The contest will be held
July 5.
! A Spokane dispatch announces that
Twohey Bros, of Spokane, have Sc
cured the contract to construct the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation cutoff
from Lockport. Wash, to the west
shore of Lake Occur d'Alene.
| The large auditorium at the Seattle
exposition grounds, with a seating ca
pacity of 1000. has been reserved for
| the Idaho delegation for Idaho Day.
on September 16. 1t is expected that
a large delegation from Idaho win be
| present
AS a, means of raising fund.- to de-
fray the expenses of revival services
at Lewiston, 500 shares in Gods bust
| ness have been issued at a par value
of 81 each Subscribers will be given
neat stock certificates in lieu of re
ceipts.
One of the largest fruit tree nurser-
les in the United States is to be es-
tablished on the King Hill tract dur
irg the coming summer by August
Won Holderbeke, Belgian, and hor
ticulturist of thirty-seven years ex-
perience.
The Goose Creek irrigation project
to the south of Oakley, has been held
up. il is announced, on account OF the
water measurements not having beer
completed 1t Is believed that these
tests will have been completed b,
June %.
Wung run Kah, the Chinaman who
II is alleged, has been causing So
much trouble among the celestials II
Boise. was ordered to leave the city
1t is said Wung will not leave withou
making a fight and that he has EN-
ployed an attorney.
Home for Mothers and Childre
is to be erected near Ustick. nv
acres of land having been set as'd
for the buildin one-half of whicl
was given by the town of Ustick- Fiv
| hundred dollars has already been sui
scribed for the building.
II. f. Samuels of Wallace has bee
appointed by the governor as superb
tendent of Idaho's miaeral exhibit
the Alaska YulSon-Pacific exposition
3 The total weight of the mineral e.
hibit at the exposition is estimated g
from 10000 to $4,000 pounds
9 Raymond Luther, of Nampa, a so
:, of Bishop Luther, met with an acc
: dent last week which destroyed tn
q sight of his left eye. He was struc
Y | with a pick in the hands of a lahore
9 who did not know that the little fe
low was standing directly benin
him.
Mrs Stephen Shields accidental
/ shot and killed her little brothe
J. Johnny Sullivan, at Boomers Ferr
I She was shooting at a target and ju
y as she pulled the trigger the boy IVA
!, in front of the target, the bullet Tod
I ing in his breast, killing him 1
:. stantly
According to a report of State Au
: itor Taylor, the saloons and dispe
saries of Idaho pay an annual liqu'
tax of s415.75O. One-tenth of III
sun goes to the state of Idaho, al
the remainder is apportioned for e
ucationaI purposes by counties whe
collect ed.
The 36O-acre ranch belonging
state Senator Davis of Gilmore cou
ty. located along the Snake river al
especially adapted to fruit cultuE
has recently been purchased by Mo
tana capitalists for $4,000. The pr
chasers will plant 100 acres to fri
trees at once.
Prisoners in the state penitentia
upon whom the law providing for
tempted escape has been invoke
are making concerted effort TO ha
the statute declared unconstitution
on the ground that under it's prov
ions they are not afforded equal pl
lection of the laws.
The state of Idaho will unite wi
the federal government in the err
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