Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-10-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The next Inter-Mountain State Goot
Roads convention will meet at Poca
tello In 1911.
Hagerman valley shipped to Cincin
natl this year, principally from ont
apiary. 10000 pounds of honey.
Henry P. Moore has been appointed
postmaster at Roseberry, Boise coun
ty, Idaho, vice l. Blankenship, resigned
At the Intermountain fair held a
Boise last fall, Fremont county had OF
display thirty-fve varieties or fruit!
and fifty-five varieties Of vegetables.
The report that Miss Alice Abel, {
chorus glrl who was well known II
Boise, had been married to a China
man in Portland turns out to be 6
canard
Two thousand people were present
at the laying Of the cornerstone Of
the Masonic Temple at Twin Falls
Governor Brady delivering the prin
cipal address.
Dick Adams, a prisoner In the state
penitentiary at Boise, sent there from.
Blackfoot, died at the st. Alphonsus
hospital at Boise last week from ty
phoid-pneumonia
Marshall Crawford a pioneer OF Gus
ter county, Is dead at the age of nearly
80. He had lived in Idaho since 1862
and was one of the best known citizens
OF Custer and Lemhi counties.
A $4,000 school building will adorr
the town of Hagerman before the op
ening of the fall term In 1911. A new
$4,000 hotel is In prospect, and a
new /. O. 0. +. hall, size 5Ox1O0 and
two stories high.
Teachers from the eleven southern
counties are expected tt be present at
the teachers institute at Pocatello be,
ginning October "a, and will be ad-
dressed by noted educators on various
subjects of interest.
A delegation of officials and repre-
sentatives of financial institutions of
southern Idaho left on Thursday of
last week for Los Angeles to attend
the annual convention of tIe American
Bankers association.
The body of man, with the back
of his head blown off, was discovered
In the willows a short distance south
of the Oregon Short Line railroad
bridge at Weiser. He had suicided.
The body has not been identified
New orchards to the amount OF
$500 acres will be planted in the Lew
iston valley this season by two com
panies, while the planting by indivi-
dual owners will probably increase the
new acreage to at least $500 acres.
The fuel market at Lewiston has
opened with fir wood at $3.50 per cord
and coal from $3.50 to 50 per ton. The
prices of wood Is equal to the highest
charged last winter and coal Is within
30 cents of last seasons record price.
Dr. G. E.. Noble, state veterinarian,
has announced the formation of the
Idaho Association of Veterinary Grad
yates, and that this body VIII hold AS
first annual convention in Boise dur
Ing the Intermountain fair, October q
and 10.
Agriculture is the backbone of Ere
mont county. as some 100000 acres of
prime farm lands are under cultIva-
ton. Ten and twelve successive grain
crops have been raised without any
apparent deterioration in the fertility
of the soil.
Mr. Sewell. In charge of the Idaho
Falls Electric Railway, says that the
gAeater part of the right of way for
the road nas been secured and that
the contract for the construction WORK
Is now on his desk. says the Idaho
Falls Register.
Building operations to the extent of
$1,177,750 have been completed with
In the past twelve months or are now
under way in Idaho Falls. The figures
Include public work and business build.
tngs, private residences built and i'm
provements on same.
Approximately 5,224,960 acres OF
land in Idaho have been designated
by the secretary of the interior as be-
Ing open to settlement under the en-.
iarged homestead act. This Is said to
be the first designation in the state OF
Idaho under the terms of the act
John Curren of Hagerman valley
threshed out 800 bushels of alfalfa
seed from thirty acres of alfalfa, an
average of ten bushels per acre. This
was his second cutting, his first having
yielded him two tons Of hay per acre.
This alfalfa seed is worth 50 per bush.
ell, or $50 per acre.
About ten prisoners In the state pen
itentiary who committed crimes be-
fore the indeterminate sentence law
went into effect on May 6, 1909, but
who were convicted and sentenced un
der that law, can take advantage of an
opinion rendered by the supreme court,
which holds that in sucA a case only
the minimum part Of an indetermlnate
sentence must be served.
One of the largest cattle shipments
ever made from the Salmon River
country was made by Henry Elfers,