Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-05-14
in THE GEM STATE
MOUNTAIN HOME


Former residents of Ohio are to
form an Ohio association at Boise.
The total receipts of the United
States land office in HALEY for April
were $97,53362.
During the month of April near $780,
900 worth of building permits were Is
sued to citizens of Nampa
That electric cars will be in opera
ton between Burley and Albion in the
near future now seems to be assured.
Blackfoot is preparing for a big
celebration to be given during fair
week in that city, which Is to be Sep
TENDER 49, ID, Is and 16.
Five hundred Indians on the Nez
Perez reservation are said by parties
engaged in the organization work to
belong to the Christian Endeayor So
ciety
Emerson High, two years old, son
of Mrs. High of Chicago, who is visit
ing near Payette with her parents, fell
into an irrigation ditch and was
drowned.
The Law and Order league is get
ting busy at Caldwell, 1t being the in
tention to make it so warm for boot
leggers" that they will give that city
wide berth
The decision OF the Idaho supreme
court to the effect that riparian
owner when granted patent obtains
title to the thread of the stream will
be appealed to the United States SUI
preme court.
A favorable report has been made
on Congressman Hamers bill, author
izing the states to change their school
sections In the forest reserves for
compact bodies of land in the forest
reserves of like quality and value.
The people of HALEY are talking
about installing a sewer system. An
engineer has submitted plans and es-
Inmates which will be taken up by the
city council shortly. The total cost Of
the proposed system will be $4O,SS9O 90.
George Schwitzer, president of the
Boise Butcher company and alleged
head of the Boise beef trust, has been
sentenced by Judge Fremont Wood to
pay fine of $3.50 for the sale of lard
in tins which contained false
weight
Lewis, the little son Of Mr.. and Mrs,
w l.. Egbert, who live about eight
miles north Of Payette, fell into the
lower Payette ditch and was drowned
while trying to find his father to dis
play himself dressed in his first pair
of trousers.
The Idaho Falls Register says it
has been stated on good authority
that since Pocatello went dry that
the council of that city has made
plans to pave the streets with dough
nuts and to change the name to The
Holey City
Arrangements have been made be-
tween the Payette Valley railroad and
the Idaho Northern whereby they Will
enter Emmett over the same tracks,
which will mean union depot, thus
obviating much OF the trouble in Sc
curing terminals.
Idaho Falls has the opportunity OF
holding the most notable celebration
in the interemountain country. Next
wear will be the one hundredth ami
versary of the first visit of white
man on the ground now occupied by
the city of Idaho Falls.
A committee representing the
Commercial club of Emmett has been
busy recently circulating a petition
for a fair in that city In the fall. The
business men are doing all they can to
push the project forward. The sue
cess of it Is now assured.
A large force of men are at work
in the Oregon Short Line yards at
Nampa changing the switches 50 that
the block signal system that Is now
complete east of town can be put into
operation. The system has been in
operation towards the west for long
time.
Ray Thompson of Blackfoot met
with serious accident recently while
trying to board through freight
train at Downey. He was thrown I'M
der the train, his right leg being com
pletely severed and his left foot so
badly crushed that amputation was
necessary.
Onofre Alberdi, Spanard, charged
with the murder of Tony Cachuea, an
Italian, was acquitted at HALEY. The
crime was committed at Moore last
October in the course of race riot
The slayer owes his freedom to the
insufficiency of the evidence of the
prosecution
The Union Pacific and Oregon
Short Line have fled notification with
the interstate commerce commission
of their intention on June | to ad-
vance the rates on deciduous fruits
from s1.44 to $l50 per hundred
pounds shipped from Boise, Twin
Falls and other southern Idaho points
to Quebec, Canada
Twenty million dollars Is the i'm
mense sum which will be devoted to
the 100000 acres in southeastern
Idaho known as the Bruno project
near Twin Falls. The financing will
be done by the Bull and other
wealthy interests of Pittsburg.
A uardict which Is considered a vic