The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-10-21
IDAHO STATE NEWS


ness man OF Pocatello, died October
IL. being victim of cancer.
All the banks of Boise closed at
noon each day during the state fair.
The townsite company at Meadows
Is making preparations to grade all of
the streets.
A large force OF workmen is at pres
= double track between McCammon
and Pocatello
James Burns, arrested at Boise
while in the act OF robbing a drug
store, has been held to appear before
the district court for trial.
The Idaho board of health has done
. commendable thing in barring out
trains in that state and at municipal
fountains
Joseph McManus, a Boise boy, sus-
tanned fractured leg and was Sc
verely bruised when he was thrown
from scenic railway at the White
City in Boise.
John Brull has been committed to
the custody OF the sheriff Of Boise to
await trial before the district court on
the charge of robbing the conductor
Of a Boise street car
The best turnout OF alfalfa seed in
the Middletown valley this fall so far
was at ]. l.. Phillips, where 145 bush
els were threshed from II acres. This
seed Will bring $40 per bushel by next
spring.
Chief OF Police John Nevins, Of
Weiser. is confined to his bed as the
result of q runaway accident. Mr..
Nevins WAS thrown from buggy and
while he suffered no broken bones he
Is severely bruised and shaken.
The second annual meeting OF the
synod Of Idaho OF the Presbyterian
church is being held in Boise. There
are over forty churches In the state.
all OF which are represented by their
pastors and many by lay delegates
also.
Five young people were more or
less seriously injured when the team
pie. were driving through the Idaho
City road canyon, became frightened
and swerved from the road, overturn-
ing the wagon, says the Boise States
man.
Four thousand acres of turkey red
wheat. running IL to rs bushels to the
acre, was produced this year by dry
farming methods on n desert across
the river from American Falls, Idaho,
by W. H. Philbrick. who ia an execu.
tive committeeman OF the dry farming
congress.
At q recent meeting of the Pocatello
Commercial club, strong set of res
olutions we're adopted against the
proposition of railroad commission
in Idaho, and the delegates to the con-
vention of Southeastern Idaho Com
mercial clubs were instructed along
the above lines.
The meeting Of Idaho millers called
by State Dairy, Food and Sanitary
Commissioner James II. Wallis TO be
held October IA to consider the
bleached flour question, has been post
Wallis has been unavoidably detained
IN northern ldano.
Evidence that the people of Idaho
are coming to appreciate more and
more the advantages to be derived
from careful breeding OF high-class
poultry is contained in the splendid
showing made in this class at the In
termountain fair. The exhibit is twice
as large as that of last year.
John TERMS, prominent cattle
man of Owyhee county, was drowned
In the Snake river while taking a
herd of cattle to Nampa. Mr.. TERMS
entered the river on his horse in an
endeavor to straighten out the cattle,
which had commenced milling in the
water, and is supposed to have been
taken with cramp.
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.
Had the people of Idaho tried they
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, ac-
cooling to Idahoans present
George II. Rogers, whose model farm
al 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
he sold to the reclamation service at
a good price.
This year, according to the most
careful estimates, the country between
Minidoka and Bull will produce more
than 100000 tons of hay alone. be-
sides potatoes in large quantities. as
well as wheat. oats. barley and fruits
of Variouc kinds