Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-12-10

Governor James II. Brady has &C
repted the resignation of State Bank
Commissioner William G. Cruise,
The people at the last election voted
to give the legislature the authority
to issue bonds to complete the capitol
building
Boise club women, after four years
effort, have finally succeeded in hav'
ing installed woman probation Of
ficer in Boise.
The famous Bierstadt painting OF
Shoshone falls is to be returned to
the state and be permanently placed
in the Idaho capital.
Infantile paralysis is making its ap-
pearance in the country districts near
Nampa, according to advices from
physicians in that section.
William Elder, an oldtime resident
OF Custer county, residing at Challis,
committed suicide by shooting him
self through the base OF the brain.
Work is to be started at once In
enlarging and repairing the canals
of the King Hill Irrigation & Power
company, and the King Hill Extension
Irrigation company.
While assisting in unloading a
large box of plate glass at Boise,
Charles ]. Rounds, aged 10, was SO
seriously Injured that death resulted,
his back being broken.
Fred Gamble, a printer of Boise,
was attacked by AL Armstrong, the
latter using a knife, almost severing
CANDLES nose from his face, 1t being
feared that the member can not be
saved.
In the territory embraced in the
Salubria valley and adjacent foothills
there is now only sparse population
of something like 1900 to 1900 people,
including the town of Cambridge with
about 500
Arrangements have been made for
one weeks instruction in agriculture
for Twin Falls by the University OF
Idaho faculty. The school will be held
the latter patr of January or the first
Of February
Deputy Warden Dan W. Ackley has
fighting chance to recover from the
abdominal wound sustained from a
bullet fired from his own revolver by
the desperate Indian, Arthur Fisher
at Burns, Ore.
James McReynolds of Bonner coun.
ty. serving a fifteen-year sentence for
forgery, has been granted a dondi
tional pardon. He Is never to touch !
another drop of Intoxicating liquor as
long as he lives. Eea
Eugene H. Grub Of Carbonate,
Colo, the potato expert, will spend a
week in Idaho during the Institutes |
which are to be held in Weiser, Me-
ridian, Wendell and Idaho Falls, from
December 18th to oath, inclusive.
After serving seven years in the
penitentiary, Arthur Good. who muir.
dered Emma Audrey, his consort, at
Wallace has been paroled. Good was
convicted of murder in the first de-
gree and sentenced to life imprison.
ment.
John Fleming, convicted of the muir
der of Frank Langford, in Lincoln
county, will probably neevr be execut-
ed, the prison board having become
convinced that Fleming is insane, but
definite action in his case has been
postponed.
The contention that special city
charter cannot be amended by such
a general law as the local option law
and can only be amended by special
act of the legislature, has been wiped
out by decision of the supreme court
in the Lewiston case.
That Elijah Wharton, well-known
horse dealer of Boise, may have been
murdered or has met with foul play
and been robbed of large sum, is
the efar OF his wife. Mr.. Wharton
was last seen in Meridian, where he
took car for Boise.
Sheriff Frank Breshears has left
Caldwell for Chicago with requisition
papers on Governor Deneen of Illinois
for Eugene Stewart The crime for
which Stewart is to be brought back
to Idaho and tried for IN that of dis
posing of land not his own.
If the efforts of the state game war
den prove successful, 1t is probable
that the operators OF at least one of
the cyanide mills on Crockett river
will be prosecuted on charge of hav-
ing polluted the stream to such an ex-
tent that thousands of fish have been
killed
The state of Idaho loses on its con-
tention that it has the right to lease
land In unsurveyed section 16 and SO
to lumber companies, by the ruling
of Judge Frank S. Dietrich, sitting
in the United States district court
This means, according to the Boise
Statesman, that the state will lose
over $11,000,000.
Surrounding the Salubria valley are
from $4,000 to 100000 acres of foot.
hill bench lands, and the settlers al
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