Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-06
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

week were over the $4,000 mark.
The thriving little town of Richfield
now has newspaper, the Richfield
Record
The Commercial club and the
Eagles of HALEY may erect Joint
club house.
Joseph Wood has been appointed
postmaster at Medley. vice Sarah BY
ington, removed
HALEY is to have a steam laundry.
the machinery having arrived and will
be put in place at once.
The Commercial club of Payette
has decided to spend $500 or more In
advertising Payette at the Seattle ex-
position.
Dan Hopkins of Cottonwood, con-
victed of passing a worthless check
for 500, has been fined s95 and SEN
fenced to thirty days in Jail.
1t is announced from the weather
bureau at Boise that this has been
the driest April seen in that section
in twenty-four years.
Vern Wilcox, a young pugilist of
Lyman. died in a Salt Lake hospital
on April 81, from injuries susta ned
in a boxing match several months
ago.
An Independent telephone company
which proposes to string 5000 miles
of wire in and around Pocatello is be-
ing incorporated with capital of
one million dollars.
North Idaho towns and cities are to
have league of commercial clubs
so effectively advertised the southern
section of the state.
Gus Travers, colored, dining car
waiter, whose home is in Ogden, was
shot and almost instantly killed at
Pocatello by Policeman Tom Dickson
while resisting arrest.
Senator Borah has introduced a bill
for protection of railway employees and
travellers, making strict provisions re-
garding running of trains and provid-
ing penalty of $1,000 for violation of
the law
A movement has been inaugurated
to secure a silver service for the bat
tleship Idaho, and the matter has been
turned over to Governor Brady, who is
expected to take immediate action rel
ative to the matter.
The Idaho state board of education
visited Weiser last week, to inspect
the sites offered by the city of Weiser
for the location of the State Deaf and
Dumb school. The party were royalty
entertained while in Weiser
Clarence Trubody, the soldier who
on November 20, 1904, sandbagged an
Owyhee county rancher and robbed
him of $40, the proceeds of the ranch
ers sales of honey, was last week re-
leased from the state prison.
William ]. Woodland of Raw1ins,
Wyo., shot and dangerously wounded
Grace Agnes Rooney at Pocatello, and
then killed himself Miss Rooney
may recover. The shooting was un-
doubtedly the result of lovers
quarrel
A dispatch from Silver City says
that George Nichols was found dead
on Trout creek on his ranch near that
place on April 2S 1t was at first
thought it was a case of suicide. but
investigation proved that he had been
murdered.
The state land board has ordered
sales of state land as follows: Koote-
mai county, Couer d'Alene, May 81;
Bonner county. Standpoint, June /;
Latah county, Moscow, June 2; Nez
Perez county, Lewiston, June 8; Idaho
Grangeville, June s.
! he second trial of H. e. Neal of
the defunct Capital State bank, on the
charge of forging the name of. A. j.
Swain to note for $4,000, was called
in the district court at Boise, April 30,
and the selection of a jury from list
of fifty talesmen begun.
Reports from various sections of
the Boise and Payette valleys are to
the effect that the fruit crop has not
been materially damaged by the frost,
with the exception of peaches, pears
and cherries, they being in some parts
almost entirely destroyed.
Lincoln and Twin Falls counties
plan to construct a miniature irriga-
ton system, patterned after the great
Twin Falls projects, just outside the
fair grounds at the Alaska Yukon-Se-
attic exposition for the purpose of ad.
yertising southern Idaho.
Farmers living in the vicinity of
Ten Mile creek have formed an or.
ganization for the purpose of secur-
ing enforcement of the two-mile limit
law. The new organization in future
will bear the expense of all prosecu-
tons arising in that vicinity.
The Idaho Sportsmens association
will hold its third annual tournament
In Boise, May II, II and 49, An ex-
cellent programme is being arranged
for the occasion, and one of the best
meetings in the history of the asso-
citation will no doubt be held
Negotiations are in progress for the
installing of a big electric light and
power plant on Deep creek, in the
Seven Devils district Thirty-thous.
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