Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-12-17
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other parts of the state.
A very fine specimen of a stone AK
was discovered by George Plum, at
depth of thirty-five feet, while diggin,
a well. two miles from Leadore.
There is every indication that thu
electric railroad from Idaho Falls t
ST. Anthony will be an established
fact within the next year or SO.
Wolves are destroying scores 0
sheep and cattle in the southern par
OF the state, according to James
Gordon, an Owyhee county rancher.
Idaho, according to the merchants
is gaining an enviable reputation
throughout the country for the excel
lent variety of cider which is made in
this state.
There are under the AZ different
Carey act projects in this state, $780,,
833.43 acres of land which is now be.
ing, or is designed In the near future
to be, supplied with water.
Two farmers living west of Cald.
we'll were brought into the probate
court recently on the charge of not
sending their boys to school Both
boys are under II years of age.
With the opening OF the first post
office sub-station, Boise has taken an
other step forward rs city. The
town has grown so large that mum
Der Of sub-stations have been deemed
necessary.
The estimated cost of construction
of the Carey act projects so far under.
taken In this state aggregates the
enormous total Of STE. 1857, $40, of which
amount $17,562,5S0 have been expend.
I'd to date.
The estimates of the secretary of
the treasury show an increase from
t3,400 to $1,000 recommended for sal
aries at the Boise assay office, but a
reduction in the wages of worhnen
from $500 to $3.50.
1t Is stated that the Gilmore g.
Pittsburg Railroad company has
opened western offices in Portland,
and that the Salmon-Lewiston section
Of the line will be placed under con-
struction in the spring
According to Don Bark, government
Irrigation expert in Boise, there Is
every indication that a pumping sta
ton will be placed on the Snake river
ut Weiser for the purpose of irrigat-
Ing land In that vicinity.
The Idaho Northern is making a
new survey. That railroad now has a
gang of surveyors running new sur
vey between Marsh and Horseshoe
Bend. 1t is the plan to make It twenty
leet higher than the former one.
A stranger went into Caldwell liv.
cry stable one day last week and hired
team, saying that he wanted to
drive to a ranch between Caldwell
and Nampa. Nothing has been heard
from either the man or team since.
Census reports give Fremont coun.
ty population of 24,606, which gives
It third place in the state. St. An.
thony occupies second place in the
county, as regards population, Rex
burg coming first and Rigby third
A party of six has returned to Sal.
mon City from weeks hunting trip
In the mountains east of Leadore, with
twelve fine deer The weather was
most severe, and in some places the
snowdrifts were over thirty feet deep.
Senator Hepburn has introduced
bill providing that mineral entrymen
and claimants who suffered losses in
the forest fires of last summer may
be exempt from performance of the
legal amount of assessment work on
their claims for the year 1910.
Not knowing that the man who
brushed against his wife, knocking
her to the sidewalk, was blind, Boise
resident, painfully injured Walter
Tucker, youth of Is, who habitually
makes his way about Boise without
other aid than his walking stick.
James H. Bell of Austin was operat-
Ing traction engine attached to an
other of its kind while moving
house. A coupling Of the chain con
Meeting the engines broke. The first
engine crashed backward into the
second, catching Bell and crushing
out his life.
immigration Commissioners Fallon,
In his report to the governor, says the
legislature ought to appropriate more
money for the immigration commits
sioner's office to enable that import
ant department to more widely adver
tise the state through such mediums
as newspapers and magazines, car ex
hibits, weekly and monthly bulletins
booklets and circular letters.
Since the bounty was placed on
coyotes, wild cats and other animals
by the state in 1908, following is the
complete number of the animals which
have been killed up to the present
time: Coyotes, 4O,252; cats, 2,792;
lynx, "a; foxes, 25; wolves, SO; max
ing a total of 43,247.
The search for the missing Boise
hanker Corhin who has heen loet in