Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-21
IDAHO STATE NEWS

e. w. Gun, of the Citizens State
bank of Nampa, has received the APP
,olntment as deputy treasurer under
State Treasurer c. A. Hastings.
The grand jury at Boise is now In
vestigating the collection accounts"
maintained by the state treasurer.
alleged TO be violation of the law.
Another Carey act land opening
will take place at Gooding February
S. at which valuable land in the
Clover creek project viii be offered
for sale
A horticultural association has
been organized at Grand View. Much
enthusiasm has been shown, and the
future OF the association is exceed
ingly promising.
Former Governor Frank r. Gooding
and family have left Boise for their
home in Gooding, where the governor
expects to occupy his time looking
after his business interests.
Wendell has been christened THE
Hub City" being twelve miles from
Gooding, thirteen miles from Hager-
lAAdn anu IWCifC anu -hail ltliiCo
from Jerome. The town is growing
rapidly.
More rigorous requirements along
educational lines before applicants
may be admitted to the bar was ad-
vocated at the meeting of the Idaho
State Bar association held in Boise
last week.
Sheriff Motif has announced his in
tention OF stopping all games of
chance, including slot machines, in
the town of Wallace, and making
Wallace as free from gambling as any
town in the west.
The presidential electors for the
state of Idaho met in Boise on Janu-
airy IL and cast their votes by ballot
for William II. Taft for president and
James S. Sherman for Vice-president
Of the United States.
Horace E. Neal, former cashier of
the Capital State bank, was arraigned
at Boise last week under the eight in
Gictments returned by the grand jury
recently. He entered a plea of not
guilty to each charge.
Beno Salome aged 80, trapper and
miner and probably the first Ian,
aside from Hudson Bay men, to thter
the state of Idaho, committed suicide
in his cabin near Idaho City, shoot
ing himself with a rifle.
The report of the acknowledgement
OF Idaho states that during the past
two years an exceptional increase in
"a t. H.. o,.d
as result of the numerous activities
IN which it has INDUCED.
AS the result of a fouryear-old girl
playing with matches, the home of Dr.
C.. w. Powers, of South Boise, was
destroyed by fire last week, and Mrs
Powers was badly burned in a sue
Il cessful attempt to save the child from
injury.
The Weiser Commercial club has
taken up the proposition of securing,
If possible, the location of the State
Deaf, Dumb and Blind school in that
city Liberal inducements will be
made to the state to secure the loca-
ton, both in land and cash
Heavy snowfall in the mountains
has evidently driven the deer into the
valleys as a fine three-year-old doe
was killed recently within less than
mile of the city limits of Weiser.
The deer was shot by twelve-year'
cid boy who was hunting for rabbits.
]. Verne Nusbaum, owner of the
BOSTON grocery, we'll known Boise
business man, for eight years a trav-
cling salesman throughout the state,
died on January at a Boise hospital
after a brief illness, during which he
! was operated upon for appendicitis.
At Madison, Wis, on January 16
Judge X. M. lands, in deciding the
case of Charles Barber and Sumner
. G. Moon, charged with conspiracy in
land frauds in Idaho, as to whether
they would be compelled to go to
! Idaho for trial. held that they must
, co.
+, NJ Gilbride, a contractor of EN-
nett, received the news recently that
, through the death of relative in Ire
, land he becomes heir to a valuable
estate He is making plans to go in
few months, as soon as he car
close up his business interests in
Idaho.
The league of Southern Idaho Com
mercial clubs is considering plans fol
advertising Idaho to the many eastern
, ers who will pass through the state
next summer en- route to- the Seattle
exposition, and every possible effor'
will be made to get them to settle II
this state.
An Idaho society has been organ
. lied at Seattle, and former residents
of the state now claiming Seattle a.
their homes have started an active
campaign to secure an appropriation
for participation on the part of Idaho
in the Alaska ukon-Pacitic exposi
ton next year.
/, Governor Brady issued his frs
! ,aracla nation january Ih.