Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-22
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

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coed s1S.000.o0c
A through daily stage line is now
in daily operation from Evergreen,
the terminal of the P 81 N. road.
to Payette lakes, Idaho's famous sum-
nier resort.
Hughs Mehaffey and Pies Farmer,
the two boys who burglarized the q
son & Kane store at Eagle, ABOUT q
month ago. have been sent to the re-
form school. +
Mrs. F. d. Angel. who was burned
by the explosion OF an alcohol stove
at the reclamation camp of her hps-
band near Caldwell died as a result
of the terrible burns
Officials of the big mining com.
panies Of Wallace have made public
figures showing that the total amount
paid in dividends for the half year
ending June So is s1,40O,000
While working about the Morning
mine at Wallace. d. T. Fears, a miner,
fell fifty feet down a shaft. breaking
his back and sustaining injuries that
caused his death almost instantly.
The Payette-Boise government irri-
cation project Of 100000 acres. com
pleted at a cost Of $4,000 900. is the
largest single tract under irrigation
on the continent at the present time.
Nampa citizens are undaunted by
the recent terrible conhagration, and
new buildings are being erected on
the site Of the ones destroyed as a
result of the terrible Fourth of July
accident
The Oregon Short Line reports an
immense live stock business from
Idaho One thousand carloads Of
sheep and 900 carloads of cattle we're
shipped out of Idaho to the eastern
markets during June
At a meeting held in Caldwell OF the
trustees and building committee of
the College of Idaho the firm Of Mes.
bitt and Paradice were awarded the
contract for furnishing the plans for
the new buildings of the college.
The Oregon Short Line Ra1lroad
company and subsidiary companies
are now operating 97741 miles of
main lines and 216.18 miles of sidings
In southern Idaho. as shown by re
turn to the state board of equaliza,
ton.
Bungling safe-crackers caused
frightful explosion in James Mer
ritt's store at Middleton. when the
burglars loaded the safe too heavily.
totally wrecldng it. They fled after
the explosion, without securing any
of the safes contents.
Jack Young. who owns hay ranch
near Emmett, has As acres of alfalfa
and timothy. The first cutting. Just
completed. yielded him IS tons. He
estimates his entire crop this year at
215 tons. Hay is selling in the field
at $40 per ton this year.
W. R. Marvin. alias BILL" Mat.
thews, arrested some time ago in
Idaho, charged with being a member
of the quintette of men who held I'D
the Overland Limited on the Union
Pacific near Omaha, has been safely
landed in the Omaha Jail.
Marie Lowery, divorced wife of
John Lowery, well known Nez Perez
Indian, has been arraigned at Lewis
ton on charge of poisoning her sis.
ter-in-law, Julia Moore Lowery. who
died from strychnine poisoning In
candy at Fort Lapwai, July T.
The state department for the pro.
pagation Of fish and game has con-
tracted with a Corvallis. Wash, firm
to supply 1000 English and China
pheasants with which to restock the
state farm near Boise The birds will
be delivered in September
John H. Cradelbaugh, the slayer OF
Frederick w. Walton in Denver last
February, is reported dying in his
home in Wallace, with his two young
sons as his sole companions. Graded
baugh, gaunt aged and careworn, is
Dedridden with rheumatism.
The state land board has voted
100000 to purchase deferred payment
securities on capital building land.
and it is believed funds have now
been secured sufficient to advance the
structure far enough to protect the
building from climatic conditions.
The citizens of Wallace last week
entertained the officers and delegates
Of the grand lodge Of the improved
Order Of Redmen of Idaho which
held a weeks session in that town
A monster parade on Tuesday Was
one Of the features Of the session.
Every county in the state will be
represented by an exhibit at the
Idaho building. Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition, August /, If the present
plans Of the exposition commission
which met at the office Of Governor
Brady one day last week, are success.
full
Montpelier has a young hero by the
name Of Hugh Mcintosh who jumped
into the Bear river at a very swift
point and rescued a companion who
was drowning. The boys had been in
swimming and one of them. after
partially dressing, fell into the river