Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-10-15
In THE GEM STATE

said to have been the most success
full in the history Of the county.
Charles w. Handley has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Colhurn, Bon
ner county. Idaho, succeeding A. C.
Jones, resigned.
The record rainfall for years has
been made at Wallace. From o'clock
October l until o'clock October S,
l.61 inches Of rain fell
The Lewiston Charleston fair this
year will undoubtedly be great sue
cess, judging from the preparations
which are being made.
Frank Price. who had been mining
and prospecting in the Salmon river
district for forty years, died last week
ct Brough Hot Springs.
Great possibilities for Idaho lie in
the recent discovery of large per
oentage of uranium and tantalum In
huge deposits Of ore in Custer county.
Lester Johnson, the 14-year-old son
Of Joseph Johnson Of Preston awoke
on October from a sixty-hour sleep.
The boy was injured by falling from
. horse.
Tho suggestion made by the state
board Of health that the coming legis-
lature be asked to make an appropria-
ton for meteorological laboratory
Il heartily Endorsed by the State Medi.
cal association.
For the past three weeks the steam
or Northern has been dragging bot
tom for quarter of mile In max
lng the landing at Standpoint dock.
owing to the extreme lowness of the
water this fall
r. B. Mathews and his family came
near losing their lives when their
store In Boise was destroyed by fire.
They lived in the back of the store
building, and barely escaped after they
discovered the building was in flames.
George H. Rogers, whose model farm
at Onwiller Is the admiration of every
one, reports that he secured 5000
pounds of the new russell potatoes
From one-fourth of an acre, and these
ne sold to the reclamation service at
. good price.
J This year, according to the most
careful estimates, the country between
Minidoka and Buhl will produce more
than 100000 tons of hay alone, be-
sides potatoes in large quantities. as
we'll as wheat. oats. barley and fruits
OF various kinds.
The Kootenai postoffice and store
of De Bolt & Mitchell was broken into
and robbed for the second time in the
mast few months, last week. Suspi-
eion rests on number of strangers
who had been hanging around Koote'
mai previous to the robbery.
All efforts to establish the identity
of the young man killed by falling
from a train near King Hill. have
been without result The man is de-
scribed as having been about 10 to 20
years of age, height five feet ten inca
es; light complexion and light hair.
A passenger train on the Oregon
Short Line ran into an open switch at
Payette and struck freight train,
which had taken the siding to allow
the passenger to pass. The engineer
of the passenger train was badly in
jured None of the passengers were
injured.
The Odd Fellows of Idaho have ac'
quired nineteen acres of land, located
on beautiful Canyon HILL within six
blocks of Canyon county court house,
where will be built the state Odd Eel.
lows home for the aged and helpless
members, their wives, widows and or
phan children.
The police department Of Boise Is
making every effort to locate William
s. Allen, who was last heard of when
in that vicinity two or three weeks
ago, in order that they may notify him
Of a bequest which has been made In
his favor by his father, who died re.
Gently in Minnesota.
Had the people of Idaho tried tney
could easily have won the magnificent
silver cup offered by William Randolph
Hearst, the newspaper publisher, for
the finest agricultural exhibit from ir-
rigated lands in the United States
shown at the recent National Irriga-
ton congress held In Pueblo, Colo, &C
coding to Idahoans present.
A Tacoma dispatch says; Miss Alice
True. a South Tacoma girl, left this
city for Idaho, where, with bulldog
and a saddle horse, she will live on
lonely claim near DIETRICH for 30 days
She purposes to prove up" on the
land.
Crop conditions in the upper Snake
river valley are more than satisfac
tory. Especially does this apply to the
potato crop. While the acreage II
not SO large as last year, the yield
quality and prices obtained more thar
offset the difference.
Attorney Edwin Snow, on behalf o
Secretary Of State Robert Lansdon
has fled a petition in the suprem
court for writ Of review agains
thu state canvassing board aSkin,