Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

formed an organization, elected Of
ficers and will have regular meetings
In the future.
During the past two years Boise
has constructed about fifty miles of
cement sidewalks at an approximate
cost of $150,000.
Plans have been approved for
new passenger depot at Pocatello, it
being understood work on which will
soon commence.
Owing to it's increasing business,
The First National bank of Weiser has
found 1T necessary to increase its
capital from $4,000 to $4,000.
The owners of gambling houses in
Wallace will resist the order OF the
sheriff closing their places of bus
mess and carry their case TO the high
est courts.
A party of eastern capitalists were
in Boise last week for the purpose
of investigating the Boise-Butte rail
road proposition with view to taxi
ing hold of It.
Thomas Williams, coiored, was ar
rested at Weiser last week, charged
with forging the name of e. S.
Frice of Midvale to a check for the
amount of $40.
George N. lift of Pocatello, consul
at Warsaw, has been nominated as
consul at Nuremberg, Bavaria, more
desirable post. The salary at each
consulate is $4,000.
The Lewiston Commercial club,
through its governing board, has def
initely launched move to encourage
the construction of bridge over the
Clearwater at that point
Very little damage was done by
the recent high waters in Weiser, al
though for a time it looked as though
a number of buildings on the low
ground would be damaged.
The town of Standpoint is to
have a street railway A franchise
has been granted and will run for so
years and permits of the operation of
cars on any street in the city for 10
years to come.
The proposed railroad between
Boise and Butte is arousing more
discussion and speculation now than
it has at any time in the past, and
the movement gains strength with
each passing day
AS the result of high waters Lewis
ton was without power or light for
more than twenty-four hours, and the
newspapers were unable to appear
as usual, while there was no outside
mail for thirty-six hours.
J. D. Wood, who met such a tragic
death in Salt Lake City, being ground
10 death under the wheels of an en-
CINE, was one of the pioneers of
Idaho, and had contributed greatly to-
ward the upbuilding of the state.
Work is to begin at once on the
big substation Of the Idaho-Oregon
Light and Power company. which has
a franchise to furnish Weiser with
light and power. The company owns
several of the largest power plants
in the west.
A. M, Filkins, who owned a home
stead ON the Deer Flat section, near
Nampa, died suddenly last week
While unloading some lumber, he sud
denly complained of a pain in his
side, fell backward and expired in
few moments.
The Ada county court house is con-
demned by the report of the grand
jury The building is declared to be
unsafe and the Jail unfit for occu-
pancy. The erection of new build
ing commensurate with the needs OF
the county is advocated.
The assessors of the state, in con
vention at Boise, decided to make 40
per cent of the actual value of the
property in Idaho the basis for as
sessment purposes. This was only
agreed to after a prolonged and heat
ed discussion of the matter.
A quartette of clever swindlers last
week succeeded in buncoing a num-
Der of Weiser people out of small
sums. The men claimed to be en-
gagged in organizing a new secret So
cjety, collected initiation fees from
their victims, and departed for parts
unknown.
Idaho now has $40 insane wards
confined in the asylums at Orofno
and Blackfoot, according to the re-
PORTS of those institutions to Gov
ernor Brady, of this number 230 be-
ing confined in the Bingham county
institution. During the past year 1859
patients were admitted.
The series of lectures along relig-
ious and civic lines that had been in
progress for the past two weeks in
Boise, and which had been attended
by thousands of people not only from
Roise hut from the surrounding towns
and country, closed on Sunday with
a great mass meeting.
]. II. Scheloske of Weiser and Ross
Krigbaum of Meadows have purchas-
ed four automobiles, which they will
operate on the line from Evergreen,
terminus of the p. & l. N railway, TO