Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS

trict. near Cambridge, has caused con-
siderable excitement in that section of
the state.
The thirteenth annual state conven-
tion of the Idaho Sunday School asso-
citation will be held at Caldwell, May
IS. 19 and 20.
President Taft last week informed
Senator Borah that If he made trip
west this fall he would visit Idaho en-
route to Seattle.
Ross McLain of Nampa was thrown
ftom wagon during a runaway at
Nampa, landing under the horses
feet. being seriously injured.
The 1S-months-old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. g. w. Ferris, living two miles
west of Twin Falls fell into an irri-
eating ditch and was drowned.
DR.. d. X. Pearsons, of Chicago, has
donated $4,000 to the College Of Idaho
at Caldwell This : continsent upon
that institution raising $4,000 addi-
tional.
The senior class which will grad
uate from the University at Moscow
this year numbers SO, larger than
has ever before graduated from the
Institution.
In the municipal primary election at
Lewiston, approximately 800 votes
were cast out of a total of 1900 and
registration of 500. Mayor Henry
Heitfeld was renominated.
William Layton has been convicted
in Lemhi county of murder in the sec
ond degree Layton killed William
Verges, known as wild Bill" in the
Salmon country last winter.
Governor Brady, it is announced,
will at once take steps to organize and
carry out plan for presenting to the
battleship Idaho an appropriate silver
service on behalf of the state.
All depositors of the defunct Capital
State bank, of Boise, will receive dol
lar for dollar within three months if
the present plans to discharge the la
| bilities of the institution are carried
out
The saloon men of Harrison are en-
deavoring to upset the plans of the
prohibitionists of that town and con-
tinue selling liquor. A Occur d'Alene
attorney has been employed to try to
nullify the village charter
H. Herbert Anderson. late presi-
dent of the Panhandle Smelling COM
pany at Ponderny, near Sand Point,
Idaho, was acquitted on a preliminary
hearing at Spokane of the charge of
embezzling s1,75O of the company.
An application for the segregation
of 10000 acres in Owyhee county
known as the Chow creek project, has
been filed at the United States land
office. The tract also embraces a
small area of state and private lands.
The information has been received
from fruit raisers in and around Brig
ham City that 80 per cent of the
peach crop had survived the heavy
frosts The apple crop was little dam
aged in the territory, but p.tted fruit
suffered seriously.
The Idaho Northern is making prep
arations to survey for an extension to
Horseshoe Bend Oficials admit that
the survey is to be made, but claim 1t
is in order to hold the right of way
! to that point while some claim 1t
means more than that
The secretary of the interior has va
Gated an order of withdrawal for irri-
, cation purposes for use in connection
with the Minidoka project, Blackfoot,
Idaho, land district approximately
!. 120,320 acres of land, and restored 1t
to the public domain.
D A. c. Biggerstaff, charged with the
f murder of Samuel Moores, an aged
;. man, was acquitted in the district
t court at Weiser. The evidence was OF
$ circumstantial nature. Biggerstafi
r and Moores had trouble a short time
before the mans death.
i Judge o. e. McCutcheon, regent OF
a the state university. has announced
S the appointment of the professor who
will be president of the new law de
partment of the university. John f
MacLane, assistant attorney general
has been given the chair.
Because of the strenuous life Wal
lace pastors follow while doing duties
r among the miners and congregations
r there are now only two ministers o
J. the gospel in Wallace, the Episcopal
IS Congregational and Baptist churche
f. being without pastors at present.
n Over 800 people from Boise, Cald
'e well and Nampa attended the auction
n sale of lots at Kuna on May 4, an
- fully 30 per cent of them invested i
lots, some purchasing several. IN
sales aggregated 144 lots at an aYel
age price of 500 each, or $14 400.
Mrs. Tim Wilson. who resides nea
T. Grangeyille was attacked and badi
- beaten by an unknown thug on wv
different occasions last week, the a
!, tacks occurring at night, when ne
= husband was away from home. n
a cause for the attacks are known |
ly exist.
~ Structural steel for the tire
in bridges to be erected by the Rap
or Transit company at points along II