Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-08-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The Canning industry in Lewiston
provided employment for $50 persons
Tor the season. with a payroll aggre
eating $4,000 The product this veal
will be approximately ITS carloads.
Claiming that he has perfected 9
passengers at the rate of 100 miles an
hour. R. H. Winter, Standpoint boy
is exhibiting model to his friends
Fire, believed to have been started
by tramps, destroyed the barn of Jas
A. Head at Preston, consuming hay
and wagons to the damage Of about
$500. The barn, valued at 5000, was
insured for 900.
Payette valley fruit growers are ad.
vertising for 1900 men to help taks
care Of this years fruit crop. There Ia
q tremendous crop Of apples, prunes
and pears, and unless help is secured
much Of the crop will be wasted.
The Twin Falls Land & Water
company will completely turn the OPP
Grafton of the canal system over to
the owners of the land, principally
the farmers, on September l.
! Twin Falls products have moved
quite freely during the last two
WEEKS. principal sales being of first
cutting alfalfa, wheat, oats, potatoes
and garden truck, qualities of which
are all declared by experts to be su.
perior to preceding years yields.
Wheat and oats qualities are espec-
Tally perfect,
Nearly one hundred men fought to
save the thriving town of Wardner,
Idaho, toward which the great forest
fires were sweeping last Friday Only
a mile and half of heavily timbered
hill interviewed.
The big irrigation project OF the
Weiser Land & Water company for
watering the Council-Mesa orchard, rs
miles north of Council was completed
Monday, according to c. X. Macy,
general manager Of that concern.
Construction of the new dam on
the North Side, by the Twin Falls
North Side Water company, and
which will aggregate in cost about
$500 900, is expected to afford con
siderable employment this winter 10
settlers on the tract and thus the
project promises to distribute locally
4 great part of the cost among the
people of this section of the state.
e. M. Heigho, president and gener,
II manager of the Pacifis and Idaho
Northern railway has been arrested
on a warrant sworn out by J. w. Bar
lon, assistant cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Weiser, Ida, charging
him with manslaughter. He is charg.
I'd with causing the death OF Mrs.
Sylvia Riegleman, mother.in-law OF
Mr. Braton, who died from heart fail
IRE after witnessing fight between
Heigho and Barton on Barton's porch.
The wool season has practically
clesed in the Boise section and the
buyers are departing for the east. Ac'
cording to the reports of the local
growers, the season has been bad
pne for them and the selling most un'
satisfactory. While last year Idaho
wool sold for from II cents to "a
cents, this year the price has not ad-
vanced above II cents, sometimes go
ing as low as II cents.
An order for immediate action on
the petition of certain settlers In the
Salmon valley for the survey of their
lands has been received in the Boise
land office, and force of surveyors
will be dispatched there at once.
Earl Hawkes., who was thrown be-
tween an engine and separator near
Preston Sunday, died as a result of the
terrible burns which he received from
escaping steam. For hours before
death the young man suffered untold
agonies. He is survived by a wife
and one child.
The increase in the settlement OF
the new lands in Idaho is well shown
In the report of the state engineer OF
the water right permits issued. Dur
ing the seventeen months of the pres
ent administration there have been
8,275 applications for water rights
filed, or more than one-half than were
received during the preceding five
years.
The decision Of the case regarding
the sale of near-beer in dry counties
was rendered Thursday by Judge Ali
SHE of the supreme court and con-
CURED In by Judge Sullivan. This is
a direct blow to the liquor element in
that 1t is ruled that near-beer is un'
lawful in its character and within the
purview of the law. intoxicating.
Receiving encouragement from the
case Of an unfortunate young woman
who was consigned to the county jail
for treatment Of the drug habit a
month ago and who has been dis
harged, having fully recovered her
normal condition, Judge Bower OF
Boise will follow the same tactics in
the future.
The work of sinking prospect well
for Caldwell's water works near the
present reservoir site is progressing
very satisfactorily. The drill struck a
efropy Nou of ortocian water at the