The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-10-28
IDAHO STATE NEWS

largest IdilIodu pdyIoii III tue oldtcl
outside of Pocatello.
The Idaho Falls Commercial club has
gone on record as being opposed 10 the
establishment of state railroad com.
mission
A new cooperative creamery is un.
der construction at Kimberly that will
be completed and in operation about
the first Of the year.
At meeting of the Payette Com
mercial club resolution was unapi
mously adopted against the railway
commission proposal.
That Boise will experience a coal
shortage which may be very serious
is the opinion of the majority Of coal
dealers in the city.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
seventy tons of hay and granary be-
longing to e. e. Stoessel, who lives
near Montgomery's ferry.
Surveys are in progress for the dou.
ble-tracking Of the main line of the
Idaho division of the Oregon Short
Line from Pocatello to Minidoka.
A Touring mill with a capacity of
100 barrels per day and an electric
power and lighting plant are two new
industries that Van Wyck will soon
have.
Work will soon be begun on a
bridge across the Snake river at
Downards ferry, Lincoln county. The
work Is to be completed by Decem-
Der /.
Lincoln county has one of the great.
est areas of irrigated lands of any
county In the state, the total approx.
mating in the neighborhood of 10000,
acres.
1t is learned that the total receipts
from all sources for the Intermountain
State fair at Boise was $17,041.55
which was $3,234.95 greater than the
receipts in 1909.
The much talked of railroad com.
mission resolution of the League OF
Southern Idaho Commercial clubs was
effectually sidetracked for another
year at the Gooding meeting.
There is on exhibition In Idaho Falls
a specie of lizard which is said to have
been discovered in lump of coal
The animal is of dull pasty gray and
SO far as can be noticed is without
eyes.
Over one million dollars worth of ia
nous Idaho prunes were shipped east
this season. Ten hundred and nifty.
three cars of prunes were shipped cast
from the Payette territory, from Aug
ust 10 to October 2.
With 100 delegates. representing
twelve of the commercial bodies of
southern Idaho present, the League
Of Southern Idaho Commercial clubs
held its annual convention at Good
Ing, the opening session occurring on
Monday
4 Unless the owners of the dozen or
more old shacks in Boise which the
council condemned and ordered torn
down, commence operations this
week, the city will tear the buildings
down and charge the expense against
the property.
William A Simmons, alias VIII II.
Stone, for four years bookkeeper at
the Idanha hotel in Boise, has been
arrested by tho United States mar
shall at the request of federal authori-
ties in Louisiana on the charge of
embezzloment.
Work on the sixteen-mile extension
Of the Pacific & Idaho Northern rail
way from Evergreen to Meadows is
progressing rapidly. The grading is
about finished, the fourteen bridges
on the extension are completed and
ready for the rails.
Two thousand carloads OF fruit have
been shipped this year from the terri
tory comprising Ada, Canyon and
Washington counties in Idaho, and a
small portion OF eastern Malheur coun-
ty in Oregon. This same territory in
1908 sent out 1900 carloads.
So incensed have the people of
Boise become over the report sent out
from Washington, to the effect that
frauds were committed in the census
count in that city, that the city coun-
Gil has passed a resolution asking that
a complete recount be made at once.
The state land board has passed a
resolution that it is the sense of the
board that the North Side Twin Falls
Land & Water company shall collect
no second payment nor interest from
entrymen on that tract until water
has been available for one whole ir-
rigation season.
The Catholics are making rapid
strides in church building in Idaho.
The $4,000 church at Occur d'Alene
Is nearly completed and work has
been commenced on the Gooding
church and the church at Salmon.
Plans are about ready for new
churches at Jerome, Mackay, St Joe
and St Maries.
F. e. Fileo, one Of the owners OF
the Twin Falls News, committed sui
eide on October ~, using a carving
knife with which he inflicted the IA
tai wounds. The act is supposed to
have been the result of worry oveT
business affairs.
Dennis McInerney WHO shot Peeler