Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-07-23
in THE GEM STATE

is now coming into the market ano
the growers are finding difficulty In
disposing of luem.
Kootenai county schools have re
ceived their first boost from the boot
leging fines, more than $4,000 being
appo1tioned among them by SuDerin
tendent O. r. Shern.
Though in existence but a fe"
weeks, the Wallace Auto club has Sc.
cured repairs on several county roads
and aroused an interest in road I'M
provement that has proven popular
Clay beds of large extent and of a
quauty that insures the making OF
high grade brick have been found
near Deary and finish brick and
roofing tile plant has been established.
The Seven Devils canning factory
at Payette employs 100 people and is
now handling Is tons of peas daily
Two hundred acres of peas have been
planted to supply the factory for the
season.
The American Falls, Rockland &
Southeastern railway has been incor
porated and capitalized for 81 500 600
The local residents subscribed 800,
900 and get preferred stock for this
amount.
Fred whitehead died at Twin Falls
from fracture of the skull received
when he fell Sunday afternoon from
a transmission pole of the Great Sho-
shone Power company for which he
was working.
Henry Schodde, "A years of age, a
pioneer cattleman of that section died
at Hepburn, July 49, He settled on
Snake river in 1883 and was highly
respected and widely known through
out southern Idaho.
David Weeks, a young man sixteen
years of age, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed while in the hay
field near his home in Swan Valley.
The team which the young man was
driving was xii ed also
About 100 members of the Church
OF the Brethren OF Drunkards attend
ing the conference at Weiser, of the
district of Idaho, Washington and
Oregon Twentyone elders of the
church were present,
The reclamation service has author
lied the construction Of a telephone
line from the Jackson lake dam site
to Ashton, Ida, at cost OF $500 in
order to facilitate the work of con-
struction on the dam.
The small fruit season is about over
at Caldwell, The crop has been good
with the exception of dewberries, the
vines having been injured to some ex-
tent last winter. The strawberry crop
was excellent and brought good
prices.
The business men of Emmett and
surrounding locality have put up
$4,000 to purchase the rfght-of-way
and terminal grounds for the extern
sion of the Payette Valley railroad
that is building to that city from New
Plymouth.
It is said that the board of county
commissioners has refused to grant IL
Atlanta, owing to the number Of incen.
diary fires and disturbances which
have occurred at that place during the
past so days
Farmers at Grangeville are becom.
Ing worried over the labor situation
and several threshing machines that
were to begin operations will be kept
in the sheds unless there is an influx
of iaborers soon. The wages are from
$3.50 to $500 per day
The civil suit of some years stand
legged illegal transactions of the Bar
Der Lumber company and involves the
title to $4,000 acres of timber lands
in the Boise basin, will be filed on APP
peal In the United States circuit court
this week
William Cline was seriously injured
at Deadwood as result of missed
hole" explosion. Mr. Cline was work
ing in tunnel and after firing a
round Of holes, he waited two hours
before returning, when the explosion
occurred, decorating his face and
breaking his jaw bone.
Grain, fruit and root growers in
I.atah Nez Perez, the south half Of
Kootenai and the northwest half of
Idaho counties in Idaho, where mo-
dern tillage is practiced, say in re-
ports to the commissioner of the Dry
Farming congress. there is every rndi
ca ion of large yields this season.
Because of the low water in the
Boise river, a special order decreeing
the amount of water to be taken by
the various irrigation bitches has been
issued by Judge Edward l.. Bryan
This amount has been fixed at six
tenths of that allotted and is to be
in force for the remainder Of the year
The Ridenbaugh island, lying in the
Boise river, just west of the business
district of Boise, which has recently
been purchased by A. r. Smith, a
southern capitalist, will be laid out
into a residence district and made
into an addition to the city.
Idaho's average yield for the past