Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-07-16
IN THE GEM STATE


the Payette valley.
Benny Anketel, aged s, was thrown
from pony at Nampa and SO serious
Iy injured that he may die.
Many of the orchards IN Payette
valley have been thinned and then it
will be necessary to prop up the trees.
Marinus Cook and James Urquhart
of idaho have been granted pensions
the former at $12 and the latter at
SIS per month
Mrs Belle Howard has been con-
victed of arson in connection with the
burning of the Howard home at Mead
ows last December.
The town OF Lewiston, in Nez
Perce county, was located in the
spring of 1861. and it was there that
the first territorial legislation met on
December 7. 1868.
A large number of people in Cald
we'll are down with the typhoid. The
disease is fast assuming an epidemic
form The local hospital has all the
patients there is room for.
The Ada county Democratic club
extended banquet to Ex-Governor
Joseph w Folk of Missouri, Saturday
evening at the Owyhee hotel in Boise,
500 Democrats being present
The red blot of Bonner county,
"oldtown as Newport Is known, is a
thing OF the past, says the Boise
Statesman Under Sheriff Wilson or
dered all the undesirable citizens to
seek other climes.
A shipment of $4,000 Pennsylvania
brook trout have been planted in the
tributaries of the Clearwater. Twenty
thousand were deposited in Lole
creek, $4,000 In Whiskey creek and
$4,000 in Fords creek
The first Idaho Chautauqua closed
a successful nine days session at
Boise on July 10. Governor Folk of
Missouri was one of the most distin
guished guests. while Senator Borah
addressed the assembly.
Reports from the farming district
east Of Lewiston indicate serious dam
nge to crops from drought unless rain
falls within the next week Spring
wheat is suffering badly. but fall
wheat is doing fairly WELL
Fifty-three barrels of beer and |
many cases of other kinds OF liquor
have been received at three different |
railroad stations in the "dry" county |
Of Latah The wet goods were de-
livered to individuals at Moscow.
Louie Larson, who was stealing a
ride on train. was attacked near
Standpoint by two hoboes and thrown
off. He fell into gulch sixty feet
below but escaped with broken arm
and few broken ribs and will re-
cover
H. w Galley, a farmer and well-to-
do citizen of Twin Falls county, was
found at his camp four miles south
of Twin Falls, with a bullet hole
through his heart. The position of
the body and other circumstances in
dictate suicide.
A small sized army of shotgun art
lists, with regulations as crack target
shots, is in Ogden, Utah, to participate
in the fifth annual tournament of the
Utah-idaho Sportsmen's association.
Some OF Idahos best marksmen are
taking part in the shoot.
The farmers on the Mnidoka irriga-
zion project are making their first
cutting of clover and alfalfa, and re
port most satisfactory yields. Sew
eral crops of three tons per acre have
been cut. The grain on the project
is also looking very thrifty.
The Northwestern Engineering com
pany has nearly completed the survey.
ing and plating of Letha, the new
town nine miles west OF Emmett, on
the extension of the Payette Valley
railroad The date set for the opening
and disposal of lots and acreage tracts
is August %.
John Preston, Sam Maigray and
Carl OFT, three prisoners at the Bon
ner county jail at Standpoint escaped
by digging hole in the wall of the
cell Some Workmen on nearby
building saw the men scale the high
board fence and reported the escape,
but the men got away.
Papers have been signed assuring
an iron mandatory in Boise, the
Thomas Davis estate leasing the
ground and contracting to erect the
building for M. j. briggs of Denver,
who will conduct the business. Iron
forms used in buildings will be ex-
tensivel} manufactured
The land department of the Hum
ming bird Lumber company will equip
and conduct ten acre tract especial
u tor experimental purposes, 1t will
be located somewhere near Standpoint
and will be operated in connection
with their lands to demonstrate the
possibilities of the country.
Claiming to be the son of Christ
and preaching most of the time when
he was not cursing, an insane man,
about fifty years old, who says his
name Is William Paden and several
other names, was found wandering
about in the swamps near Boise and
will be sent to the asylum.
A Iong-discussed but heretofore un.
organized movement looking to i'm.