Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-11
IDAHO STATE NEWS

point.
A Van Wyck dispatch announces
that Jasper Withers had his feet bad
" frozen while snowshoeing near Cen
| ter
Orders have been given to push the
| Twin Falls-Salmon river project, sc
that water may be delivered within a
| year.
Land values are still very reason
able in the Vicinity of Shelley, rang
ing from $40 per acre for unimproved
land to 800 for well improved
ranches.
An alfalfa mill, with capacity OF
| from twenty to thirty tons a day, is
to be constructed near Idaho Falls
eastern capitalists having become in.
terested in the project.
A street railway system, new fair
grounds, and a new bridge across the
Clearwater river, are some of the i'm.
provements scheduled for Lewiston as
soon as the balmy spring weather ar
rives.
Mccormack, Fisher and Adkins,
the men who were given a prelimi-
nary hearing in the justice court at
Parma on the charge of burglary,
were all bound over to the district
court.
The Boise Commercial club has
gone on record as favoring county
local option, with the exception of in
corporated towns and cities, which
shall be exempt from the operation OF
the law.
The grain crop harvested in the
neighborhood of Sugar City last fail
is estimated at $4,000 bushels, DO
tatoes about $4,000 bushels, and sugar
beets in the neighborhood of 100000
tons was raised.
The charter of the new American
National bank at Caldwell has been
received and the same men who have
conducted the affairs of the American
State bank will direct the business OF
the new organization.
Louis T. Goodwin was struck by
lering a broken leg and dlslocated
collar bone. It. is claimed that no
one was to blame for the accident
except the injured man.
Rear Admiral r. D. Evans, one OF
the nations greatest heroes, will be In
| Boise some time in March, to deliver
one of his famous lectures, according
to the announcement made by his ad
vertising representative
1t is announced that construction
work on the Neze Perez and Idaho
electric line from Nez Perez to Vol.
mer will be resumed as soon as the
weather will permit, and that the line
will be rushed to completion.
A company is being formed to put
in power plant at Gem Falls, two
miles north of Shelley, it being the
intention to spend in the neighborhooc
of 100000, about 10000 horsepower
to be generated at the beginning.
Arthur Sweet, who escaped from
the county Jail at Weiser on January
1, last week returned and gave him
self up. Sweet declares that when he
made his escape, he walked out di
rectly through the sheriff's office.
Fred w. Walton was shot ant
killed in Denver, on February 8, by
John H. Cradlebaugh. Both mel
were prominent residents of Wallace
and Cradlebaugh claims that Waltor
had alienated his wife's affections
A Washington dispatch, under date
of February 8, says: 1T is probable
that former Attorney General j.
Guheen will be nominated register o.
| the Blackfoot land office in day Oh
two, on recommendation of the Idaho
senators"
While at work on ranch neal
Clear Lake, being engaged in baline
hay, Merle Marchmont had his left
foot caught by the plunger, the bones
being crushed in a frightful manner
He is getting along nicely, however
and the foot will be saved.
The Ada County Bar association
has unanimously adopted a resolution
declaring in favor of the passage OF
the senate bill concerning the quail
fcations of those desiring to be ad
united 10 the par In tnlS state, falS
ing the moral and educational stand
| ard.
| Mrs Julia f. Peck, aged sc, the
widow of Malad's first settler, is dead
| Mrs. Peck was born in Green county
New York, March II, 1928. She mar
Tied Henry Peck, of the same state
and they settled in Malad in 1864
building the first log cabin in the
| town.
T. c. Carr is in Jail at Lewiston OF
| the charge Of numbering George
| Moore. who was shot by Carr last Au
gust while a fugitive from justice
Homer Craig, who was with Carr a
the time of the shooting, is held on
charge of assault with intent to com
| NIT murder.
Sailor Kid" McDermott shot anC