Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

contract has been let to James F.
Murray. of Pocatello. for an extension
To the girls dormitory at the Academy
of Idaho. 1t will cost $24,158.
From Weiser it is suggested Hill
road NAV be built westward extend
ing to the coast and opening up a
vast area of undevloped territory.
Hundreds of acres of sagebrush
land east Of the Deer Flat reservoir
and under the Kuna High Line canal
are being put under cultivation this
spring
w II. Berry is preparing to plant
900 acres to orchard, principally
commercial varieties of apples, on
tract of land situated three miles from
Wendell.
c. F. Wendt, a painter, suffered a
broken arm as the result of the col
lapse of a scaffold on which he was
working in Boise. A companion es-
capped without injury.
Len Shields. an old-time actor and
theatrical press agent, well known 10
the profession in his day, was found
dead in his room in Boise, death being
due to heart disease.
Placerville is to have new school
house this summer. The matter OF
voting the special tax therefor was
submitted to the electors and carried
at the recent school election.
The water company has obtained
judgment against the city Of Pocatello
in the famous case of the water com
pany versus the city, and the latter
will have to pay $4,000 and costs.
Distribution of 1,2OO, 900 small trout
Will be made from the Warm River
fish hatchery within the next two or
three weeks, according to a state
ment made by Game Warden Stevens.
DR. Howard Ricketts,, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, is in Pocatello collect
ing specimens of the Rocky Mountain
wood tick, which he hopes to extermi-
nate He will study conditions there
for some time
Next to the exhibit of the products
of irrigated lands and the mineral re-
sources of the state at the Seattle
exposition, the most important display
cational exhibit.
Milton Bush, assistant cashier of
the State bank of Boise, died May
as the result of being hit by pitched
ball in an amateur game in which he
played the previous day, the ball being
thrown by friend
The latest projected plan of the
/ int &c 70 Do
cific & Idaho Northern road, and by
including it in the Northern Pacific
system, invade the Hartman teri
tory from the north.
Extensive improvements are to be
made at the state penitentiary, the re-
suit of showing by Wardn Shook be-
fore the prison board. Work which
has been done at the institution, it
was stated, is inferior.
Work has begun on the excavation
for the $4,000 building to be erected
by the Haas Hardware company, in
Weiser. The building will be four
stories in height, built of brick with
basement full size of the building
The city water commissioner of
Nampa is at present engaged in re-
placing the old wood pipe of the sys-
TEN that is to be under the paving
with cast iron pipe. Inc work is af-
fording labor for a large number of
men,
Wendell will soon be we'll supplied
with brick from two plants. One is
now in operation. The other is to be
started as soon as tests that are now
being made to determine the quality
Of the clay in their deposit is com
pleted.
The Commercial club of Weiser has
started campaign for raising a pub
licity fund. 1t is planned to spend
thousand or more dollars in setting
before the public the wonderful re-
sources of Washington county and
Weiser valley.
The state sanitary board reports the
destruction of 81 21 predatory ami
mails since January /, 1908. the date
on which the bounty plan was adopt
ed Between March 81 and May /,
1922 coyotes, 339 cats, five lynx and
ten wolves were killed
The Idaho Southern railway has
iiled certification of an increase of
its capital stock from 100000 20
s3,oOO,O0O' the first step toward hnan-
cling the extension of the Gooding-
Miner road to Twin Falls and Oak
ley, Cassia county. Oakley will be
the center of the proposed Goose
Creek project of $4,000 acres.
The wholesale poisoning of dogs in
Boise may lead to the passage of an
ordinance forbidding the sale of pois-
onous drugs, such as strychnine. by
dro-cyanic acid, etc. to al persons ex-
cepting practicing physicians or those
presenting bona fide physicians pre-
scIiptions.
1t is announced that absolutely no
overtures have been made to the
farmers in the matter of their suits