The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-12-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS

J, tween Wendell and Hagerman
company has been organized a
Blackfoot which will engage in tn,
growth OF mushrooms for the market
W. A. Stark, until a few weeks ago
principal of the Roosevelt school IN
Occur d'Alene, is dead from heart
trouble.
A fire visited Elk City recently, de-
stroying something like $4,000 worth
Of property, which carried about ST.
900 insurance.
The $4,000 school house addition at
Mullan has been finished and is oc-
cupied. 1t was formally opened by a
special program Friday evening.
Idaho bear the proud distinc-
ton of having the greatest per cent OF
Increase In population within the last
ten years OF any state so far reported.
That Boise now has the lowest
death rate on record In proportion to
Its population, that OF SIS per cent per
1000 inhabitants, Is the report of the
city health officer
The number of teachers employed
In the schools of Idaho in 1909 was
H.104; In 1910. 2,238 were employed,
the average salaries paid for male
teachers being $S6.7S, and for female
teachers. $65.O4.
james Routes, Greek laborer from
Pocatello, Is at Salt Lake hospital
In a serious condition, from stab
wound under the. heart. Routes was
hurt in a fight in the O. s. L. yards
at Pocatello.
Earl Maupin, bartender in a Boise
saloon. narrowly escaped death or SER
ious injury one night recently, when
woman, supposed to be his wife,
nred a shot at him. The bullet
whistled by close to Maupin's head.
Senator Borah has introduced bills
authorizing new public building at
Nampa, to cost, including site, not ex-
ceeding $4,000; also bill authoriz.
Ing a new public building for Twin
Falls, to cost not exceeding 5000 ,000
Rupert is soon to have splendid
electric lighting system. The wires
will be placed underground. The work
Is not completed, but the necessary
material is on hand and the installa.
ton will be finished before the ground
freezes.
That the gigantic dam of the Boise
project will probably be located about
Arrow Rock, eighteen miles above
Barberton, is the statement of Arthur
r. Davis, chief engineer of the recla
nation service in an interview In
Boise
The search for the missing Boise
banker, Corbin. who has been lost In
the mountain wilds OF Fremont county
near the line of the Yellowstone Park,
has been abandoned by his friends
and the guides and soldiers have been
called off.
In answer to statements being cir
,ulated that Harry Orchard is to be
pardoned, Governor Brady is quoted |
by the Boise Statesman as saying: |
Harry Orchard is in the Idaho pent
Tertiary and should, in my judg. |
nent, will remain there the rest of his |
ife."
II General l.. v. Patch's efforts are
Payette Heights may be- |
'ome the home of extensive grape cul |
ure In the next few years. On his
welve-acre farm which overlooks the
lily from the east he has started a
mall vineyard of the luscious Tokay
,rapes.
Sarah White, negress and cook at
he Academy of Idaho dormitory, at
'ocatello, was shot and instantly
TILED by her jealous and drug-crazed
over, Tom Haines, train porter run
ing out of Pocatello. Haines then
hot himself, but it is believed he will
ecover.
Since the bounty was placed on
oyotes, wild cats and other animals
y the state in 1908, following is the
omplete number of the animals which
ave been killed up to the present
me; Coyotes, 40,252; cats, 2,792;
INK, "a; foxes, rs; wolves, SO; max
lg total of 43,247.
Showing a substantial growth in
ne school population and a provision .
I state funds to meet the advance /,
eeds of the schools of the state, are
which have been compiled :
State Superintendent S. Belle
chamberlain from the reports which
ave been received from the county
lperintendents about the state.
James McReynolds of Bonner coun. D
:, serving fifteen-year sentence for !,
rgery, has been granted a condi. n
onal pardon. He is never to touch
lother drop of intoxicating liquor as c
ng as he lives.
Eugene II. Grub of Carbondale.
DO, the potato expert, will spend a
eek in Idaho during the institutes {
hich are to be held in Weiser, Me ;
1ian, Wendell and Idaho Falls, from 2
ecember 18th to gath, inclusive
After serving seven years in the
Arthur Good, who mur.
red Emma Audrey, bis consort, at
allace has been paroled. Good was Il
of