Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-09-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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schools this year is 2S7 as agains
236 last term.
The first rural high school to be es
tablished on the Nesperce prairie wa!
opened at Reubins last week.
On July there were 2.479 citizens
of Idaho drawing pensions from tht
government to the amount of $421,14l
annually.
Packing of fruit ;4oM the famous
!. 3. Perrine Blue Lakes orchard Ii
in progress. A number of hands are
employed and many boxes of prunes
are receiving their immediate atten
ton.
The presence of CHAMBERS among the
horses in Genessee country has occa
stoned considerable alarm among the
horse owners of the Lewiston-C Clark
country. One farmer has lost horses
valued at $4,000.
Word has been received in Poca-
tello of the capture of William H.
Cartwright in Spokane, who was
wanted for the dynamting of the
United States post office at Shelly.
several months ago.
Forty-five head OF cattle, mostly
mich cows, have been condemned
and killed as result of tuberculin
test made by State Veterinarian Fl.
Nj. Sandburn who recently inspected
daires surrounding Wallace.
A shipment of Is 600 pounds of
hides, valued at $1,000. was made by.
Grangeyille junk dealers. The ship.
ment has been purchased from Camas
prairie farmers and local butchers
during the past six months.
A box of apples was recently pick
ed from an orcharl on Bud Gigelow's
place, near Emmett, which for size
and quality will equal chose of any To-
cality. Forty-two apples filled the
box They were of the Alexander va
riety.
The state game warden has sent
100000 brook and mountain trout fry
to be planted in the waters of Lemhi
county. The salt water salmon have
been unusually plentiful this season,
some having caught close to sixty
pounds.
After holding up three men at
Avery, securing their money and val,
tables, being arrested and escaping
through the three-foot brick wall OF
the Saltese jail, Thomas Southerton
has been lodged in the Shoshone
county jail
The report Games from Morgan that
fisherman of that town last week
caught trout that was 81 inches |
In length and measured 16 inches !
around the body, and weighed 1871
pounds. After being dressed the
weight was IN pounds.
Jess Plants, the young man from
Middleton who was thought to have |
lost his life fighting the forest fires,
surprised his many friends by coming
home last week. He had previously
sent message that he was safe, but
It had never been delivered
Mrs. J M. Martin of Emmett re-
ports that one tree of Elbertas yield
ed 500 pounds, which at the present
market price would bring $25. Many
of the peaches measured from 10 to
II inches in circumference, and some
of them weighed one pound,
A bridge is to be built which will
span the Potlatch river at Juliaetta
and will be constructed jointly by
Nez Perez and I.atah counties. An
other bridge will span Lawyers Can
yon creek and will be built by Nez
Perez and Idaho counties
The sworn personal expense ac-
count of Governor James II. Brady in
his campaign for denomination has
been filed with the secre ary of state,
and shows that the governor eXpend-
ed a total of $616.25, or that he is ON
the safe side by margin Of $t3375.
A freight wreck on the Oregon
Short Line railroad few miles west
of Lava Hot Springs. in which seven.
teen cars were ditched, delayed all
trains for fifteen hours The cars
were loaded with coal. which was
scattered along the track for many
hundred feet.
DR.. A. P Albee of Rock Creek
ran be well named the bee king of
that section with his many hives and
his immense crop this year. Dr. Al
bee says that the total crop from his
bees will run over 10000 pounds and
Of that amount about eighteen ton
has been marketed.
Claude Smith years old, was {
killed In cavern of a sand pile at ;
Pocatello. He was buried under five
feet Of sand and when extricated was
past relief. Two playmates escaped,
one with serious injuries.
The executive board of the league
Of Southern Idaho Commercial Clubs
has selected Monday and Tuesday,
October II and IS, as the dates for
the sixth annual convention which
will probably be held at Gooding,
Six hundred dollars per acre was
realized this summer by Payette val.
ey watermelon growers.
Harvest will be finished on Nez [
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