Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-12-03
IN THE GEM STATE

-four daily.
1t is probable that the next legisla-
ture will be asked to make an addi
ton to the present state board of ed
ucation.
Forest reserve officials authorize
the statement that flrewood from
burned over forests can be had for the
asking.
F. Franzi and wife were arrested on
the charge of selling liquor in Mos,
cow without a license. They were re-
leased on $500 bonds.
Charels Huggerth, an Oregon Short
Line railway passenger conductor.
whose home was in Pocatello, died In
Salt Lake hospital on Sunday.
The total vote cast for governor at
the late election was S6,159, including
the Socialist vote. as against 96,413 on
the same office in 1908, or falling Off
Of 10.254.
Farmers about Idaho are reporting
that the turkey crop this year is plen'
tiful in numbers, but that the birds
are much lighter in weight than In
any previous year.
While engaged in thawing out dyna
mite at the Mud Creek construction
camp on the P & !. N. railroad, Joe
Dreamer was instantly killed and an.
other man was seriously injured.
The new depot at HALEY was
thrown open on Thanksgiving day.
The new structure is about one-third
larger than the former depot and will
serve the purposes of growing town.
Chas. d. Saxton. who for the past
twenty years, has been resident OF
Boise and vicinity, has completed and
put into operation an invention OF an
automatic house water supply system.
While engaged in his work, William
H. Dunlop, brakeman on the Oregon
Short Line, was killed near Glenn's
Ferry, by being thrown from the top
Of car and falling between the NOV
Ing cars.
Following siege of typhoid fever,
DR.. Granville Harry Todd, aged 30
years, practitioner of Rockland, died
In Salt Lake hospital Saturday
night. The disease was contracted by
Dr. Todd six weeks ago
The state board has completed It's
canvass Of the returns from the re-
cent election. The official figures give
James H. Hawley, the Democratic
candidate for governor, plurality Of
ss6 over Governor Brady.
A decision has been rendered by the
supreme court which. in effect. de.
clares that a corporation can not con-
lscate q poor mans property, the case
Ia question being test case involving
condemnation of land by railroads.
Deputy Forest Supervisor Benedict,
Who has been overseeing the planting
Of thousands Of trees In the Boise ma
tional forest reserve, has returned to
Boise and reports that the recent work
In this line is the most extensive
which has ever been attempted in this
state.
The grand jury at Roswell, N. NJ,
has indicted ]. B. Eldridge Of Boise on
charge of subornation of perjury In
connection with the alleged tampering
with witness in the trial Of w. T.
Wells, capitalist, for murder, during
which Eldridge was one of Wells at.
torneys.
1t is reported that B. e. Corbin
cashier Of the Union Savings and Trust
sompany of Boise, has been lost and
has probably persisted In the wilds to
the north of st. Anthony, in the Vel.
owstone Park country, while hunting
His friends are still hoping he will be
found alive.
At the meeting of the county super
htendents of schools in Boise, Miss S
Belle Chamberlain, the state superin
tendent of public instruction, was pre-
scented with beautiful pearl brooch
set with twenty pearls. representing
the twenty counties represented at the
convention.
Walter Rising, charged with tho
murder of Ida Mae Todd, the 11-year
old blind girl, who was we'll known in
Boise, and Jerome wild Horse) Nc
Gahen, on July % last, near Rhymer
Colo, was found guilty of first degree
murder before the district court In
Greeley, Colo.
Sing Lee, the Vollmer laundryman
charged with taking liquor to the Nez
Perez Indian reservation, was acquit-
ted. He admitted he had secured
some medicine from Chinese herb
doctor, which was made by using GER
tain herbs and berries in a liquid mix
ture containing alcohol.
Wild wheat grown in the arid re.
gions of Palestine has been received
by F. D. Farrell, director in charge OF
the southern Idaho agricultural extern
sion, and will De planted in Idaho. This
wheat grows in Palestine with an
average moisture of five inches OF
water, which Is less than the arid re
gions of Idaho receive.
1t is reported around CoeGr iAlene
that the Occur d'Alene Lumber com.
pany, the Oldest mill in that city, hav.