Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-11-26
In THE GEM STATE


cutoff is an assured fact for Idaho in
1911, is the statement of the Salt Lake
Tribune.
An enormous squash, weighing AZ
pounds. is on exhibition in Weiser.
1t was grown on Bowers ranch, SIX
miles from town.
A Wallace dispatch says: AS an
aftermath of the election, city author
ities of Wallace have issued orders
putting the lid down tight.
Despite the increased influx OF hunt
ers in Idaho every year. the game is
on the increase and this state Is now
looked upon as the hunters paradise.
Through new arrangement with
the telephone company, the farmers
on the Twin Falls tract around Bull
will be supplied with rural phone SER
vice.
The first grand jury in Nez Perez
county in Is years ana the third to be
called since Idaho was admitted to
statehood convened at Lewiston on
November II.
Arthur Cline, aged 50 years, was
found dead in the road near Knox.
Heart disease was the cause of death
Deceased had lived alone on his min
ing claim not far from Knox.
The wife of Walter e. Groves, who
was electrocuted on September 3,
1909, while working as lineman in
Boise, has sued the company which
employed Groves for $4,000 damages.
The carload of Boise valley apples
exhibited at the National Horticultur-
al congress at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
last week, by the Boise Commercial
club. has been awarded the $500 low
ing cup
The hearing on appeal of the Bar
Der Lumber company timber fraud
cases will come, on before the United
States circuit court of appeals in San
Francisco in the first week of Febru-
airy, 1911.
An immense box of literature de-
scriptive of Idaho has been shipped
by the state immigration department
to the United States Land and lrrlga-
tion company's exhibit at the Coliseum
building at Chicago.
January and 3. 1911, will be the
dates for the next annual meeting OF
the Idaho State Wool Growers asso-
citation, to be held In Boise, this deci-
sion have been reached by the execu-
tive committee Of that organization.
Under the prevailing system OF
public land sales it will take the state
of Idaho just 176 years to get rid OF
the available land in this state, ac-
cording to calculations made by Regis
trar N. Jenness of the Idaho land bur
eau.
James X. Bell of Genesee, the only
Republican member of the legislature
elected from Latah county, mas an
nounced his candidacy for speaker OF
the house of representatives at the
next session. says the Boise States
man.
Mrs. Hattie Burns, of Placerville,
has demonstrated that 1t pays to raise
hens. She recently brought to Boise
large number for sale, receiving a
high price for them. She now has 3o0
hens all laying, having started with
40 few years ago.
The officers of the Emmett lrriga'
ton district have selected December
chase the Canyon canal and make the
3 as the date for holding the election
for the bond issue of $l,100,0OO to pur-
necessary Improvements. Ihere
seems to be but little opposition TO
the bond issue.
Thousands of dollars in paper mon
ey was unearthed recently by w. >
Galbraith in the basement OF bulid
ing in Idaho City, but the bills were
worthless, never having been in cir
culation by the First National Bank
of Idaho, in whose name the blll'
were made out.
II is said that the women of Boise
are aroused over the proposed ordi
nance which would curtail the Length
of hat pins to eight or ten inches
They insist that pins foot and
half in length would not be in th'
least too long, when it is considered
that the hats demand them.
John Schultz, who lived on a trac
of land known as "Old Genesee' an
was known as the Mayor of the O!'
Town. died at Genesee from the ei
fects of a fall from buggy while tn
team was running away.
plans are 'on foot in Boise for tn
erection of a Y. M. G, A. hotel. Tn
idea of the movement Is to provid
rooms for young men who are Worf
Ing for a salary and for those looi
ing for employment in a new town
Alleging that her divorced husban
has kidnapped her 2-year-old daugl
fer and that he left Omaha, Neb
In company with her unmarried 81
fer. Mrs. Annie Wallace Is iii DOS
and will make an effort to have tn
local authorities take up the scare
for her husband.
Sarah Marie Gillespie, the pret'
f7-year-old daughter of j. W. Gillespi
who disappeared from her home
Boise under mysterious circumstance