Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-04
IDAHO STATE NE VS.


| his season.
In eighteen days during the month
of February 100000 worth OF town
lots were sold in the town of Je-
rome.
The Peoples bank of Cambridge has
been sold by e. NJ. Shelley to A. w.
Gipson, G.. D. Smell and DR., A. Ishan
of Caldwell.
Building has been In progress at
Twin Falls all winter and at least
fifty residences are now in course of
construction.
A number of the mine owners of
northern Idaho have gone to Boise
to fight Senator Kern's employers liza
tility bill, now pending.
Within the last eighteen months
100000 has been expended by the
various church organizations of Twin
Falls for houses of worship.
The Weiser city election will take
place Tuesday, April 6. The election
promises to be warm one, as liquor
end anti-liquor questions will enter
strongly into the contest.
Talk of putting Wallace on ,ne,
main line of the Northern Pacific by
making the Missoula- Wallace branch
Spokane is again revived.
Excavation is under way for the big
pumping plant that has been pur-
chased by the city of Weiser, and Will
lie installed in place of the old one.
1t will be operated by electricity.
The upper Snake river valley is
fast becoming one of the great po-
tato growing sections of the United
States. Potatoes are shipped from
this point to all parts OF the country
During the grazing season of 1909
the forest service will permit upon
the grazing acres within forest re-
serves nearly two million head of
rorses and cattle, and upward of sew
en- million sheep and goats.
Mary Clay. young woman of
Meadows, who had retired at night
apparently In the best of health, was
found dead the next morning when
her mother went to her sleeping
apartments. Death was due to heart
failure.
The present bonded indebtedness
of the state is 81 1864, 900, and the to-
tai possible bond issue under the con
stitution, on the 1908 equalization, is
81 ,735, 200-leaving a possible constitu
tional issue at the present time OF
1911 200.
State Treasurer Hastings has re
ceived from Nez Perez county $67,-
523.3l on account of state taxes for
1903 This is the largest single
payment so far received and places
Nez Perez in the lead for percentage
paid up.
The mining outlook for the entire
Wood river district is more promis-
ing at the present time than ever
before i'll the history of the various
camps. More properties are being
worked, with better showings, than
at any previous time.
e. T. Johnston of McLeuth, Kan, is
6guring on installing a creamery in
Weiser. Mr.. Johnston visited Weiser
recently and was very much inter-
ested with it as point for a cream
cry. The matter will probably be
taken up by tho Commercial club.
David B. Coble, jr., formerly
newspaper man of Idaho, attempted
suicide by taking chloroform at a
hotel in Portland. Detecting the
Ddor, hotel employees broke into toe
room through rear window, the
door being locked, and saved Coble's
life.
John La Ford, former resident of
Spencer, suicided in a hotel in Salt
Lake City. hanging himself with a
sheet He was SO years old, had
been employed by the Woods Live
stock company. He had been drinking
before his suicide and had no money
left.
AT meeting of the fruit growers
of Ada county, held in Boise, it
was decided to form an Incorporated
association Much interest and ell
thusiasm was manifest throughout
the meeting and it is expected that
The organization will meet with much
success.
A Lewiston dispatch announces
that because of the risks which fol-
low peach growing through the an
nual frost damage, White Bros &
Crum, the largest orchardists of the
Snake river valley. will graft prune
buds on a 35-acre peach orchard at
Alpowa
A new bank Is to be opened in
Twin Falls within the next sixty
days The new institution will open
with a paid up capital stock OF $780,
900. M. II Cazier a Chicago capt.
talist, will be president, while the
directorate will be made up of local
capitalists.
Frank Walsh. Jesse Coates and Oh
lie Tennell are in Jail at Twin rails.
| he men are accused of having stol-