Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS

DOdIu III HtuitdA tAohhihNfN
Ada county will be one of the first
TO arrange for an exhibit at the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition.
The annual state shoot Of the Idaho
State Sportsmen's association is to be
held in Boise, May II, IL and IL.
The Gooding Commercial club has
taken up the matter of the establish
ment of a sugar factory at that point
w. f. Pierce, president of the Boise
and Interurban railway, and formerly
mayor of Boise, is critically Ill at Hot
Lake, Oregon, where he went for
treatment and an operation.
John Giden. convicted at Moscow
in 1905 of robbing the mails and jeop-
ardizing the life of the carrier, being
sentenced to life Imprisonment has
made application for pardon.
Mr.. Mallinger, rancher, who has
been suffering from concussion OF
the brain as the result of a runaway
accident near Boise. has recovered
sufficiently to leave the hospital.
The price of arc lights at Emmett
has been reduced voluntarily by the
Electric Light company and the city
council, taking advantage of it, will
install ten more lights, making twenty
in all
The bank clearings of Boise for the
past week aggregate s692,03S.61,
against $279, 73058 for the correspond
ing week year ago, which is Ger.
tainly splendid showing for the cap
ital city.
Selecting Shoshone as the best 10.
cation for a distributing point. the
Continental Oil company has com.
menced work on their buildings under
a contract which calls for speedy con.
struction.
Greeks were put to work on the
paving of the streets Of Nampa last
week, causing such a storm of indig-
nation that the contractors deemed it
wise to discharge the foreigners and
employ home talent.
District Judge Steele OF Lewiston
has gone on record as being opposed
to the ce-while-you-wait plan, de-
claring that he does not propose that
his court shall be made a clearing
house for divorce suits.
A. D. McKinlay, secretary of the
Idaho commission to the Seattle fair.
and the states architect, j. A. Fen
nell, have gone to Seattle to let the
contract for the Idaho building, which
will probably cost about $4,000.
The Interstate Telegraph company,
incorporated under the laws of the
state of Utah, has filed certified arti-
Giles of Incorporation with the secre-
tary of state and is regularly author
of Idaho.
The Boise $4,000 club is planning
to install a permanent exhibit of the
products of that section of the state
building is to be fitted up at once
for this purpose, and efforts will be
made to have all of Bosses visitors
see the exhibit
1t is said that Boise is liable to lose
the state school for the deaf, dumb
and blind with the prospect of it's be
ing located in Weiser. The people OF
that city are doing everything in theiI
power to have the school moved ano
they may be successful.
John W. Shook of Lemhi county
has been appointed warden Of the
state penitentiary; David P. Rich OF
Fremont county, deputy warden;
Thomas Jolly of Oneida county, turn
key, and I. H. Pence of Washington
county, captain of guards.
A Dillon (Mont) special to the
Butte Miner states that party of
surveyors has begun work near Pc
laris, Mont, surveying for an electric
line through the Big Hole Basin in
connection with the proposed electric
railway from Boise to Butte.
There are number Of Carey act
entrymen near Gooding who have
commenced the improvement Of their
claims, preliminary to putting in crops
and proving up this year. Most of
those who are figuring on doing this
expect to put in some grain crop.
The governor has appointed Her
bert N. Dunn, register of the Occur
d'Alene land office, judge of the
eighth judicial district court, which
was created at the last session of the
legislature. The district is composed
of the counties of Bonner and Koote-
mai.
Lake Occur d'Alene is held to be a
public highway over which the public
has a right to travel and to carry on
commerce, and every person is en-.
titled to enjoy that right of common
with every other person, by the SUI
preme court in case recently de-
cided.
report circulated to the effect
that hundreds of trout were dying in
the upper portions of the Boise river
from the poisoning of the water by
the tailings from mill near Atlanta
is said by officials of the state game
warden's Office to be very greatly ex
aggerated.
There is a rumor current to the eff
feet that the Short Line is planning
10 build a connecting branch line from