Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-08-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

itory of postal savings bank funds.
l.. H. Tyrrell was fatally crushed
under the wheels of his own thresh
ing engine, ten miles southwest o
Moscow, Idaho, last Saturday.
The Weiser Valley Land & Watel
company has removed its business OF
fee from Chicago to Boise, maintain
Ing a selling office in Chicago and
branch office at Council.
Report reached Boise this week thai
surveying crew, presumably belong
Ing to the Oregon Short Line, had
been running line from Dixie te
Boise via Blacks creek.
A hotel and natatorium are to be
constructed near the hot wells at Ar
tesian City. Building for the hos
telry are to be erected at once, and
later on the same block the natator'
ium.
Eight-year-old an Stephens, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. C. Stephens, residing
two miles south of Filler, was crushed
fatally last Saturday when five hun
dred pounds of hay fell upon him.
While in the garden last Saturday
the 3-yearoid son of Mr.. and Mrs. M,
J. Macaw of Twin Fails swallowed a
number of peas and in some manner
got some of the peas into its lung pas
sages, causing it to choke to death be.
fore help could be obtained.
The newspaper field of Idaho Falls
and Bingham county will be invaded
by new publication, Democratic
newspaper, to be called the Weekly
Tribune. The new paper will be ed
tied by Arthur A. Allen.
Assays made of the samples brought
In this week from the great strike at
the Treasure Box mine, on Kirtley
creek, sixteen miles from Salmon
bear out the statements that this is
one of the richest strikes ever made
in the west,
John Doyle, the miner found dead in
the cave-n of his mine, was buried
close to his claim near Salmon City.
Owing to the state of the body when
found and to the fact that there are
no wagon roads in that neighborhood
this course was rendered necessary.
All peach buds were not lily affect.
ed by the cold weather last winter on
the Twin Falls tract, and the 1910
yield of this luscious fruit, in spots
which escaped the severe FROST is
bountiful beyond the contemplation OF
the most optimistic horticultural en-
thusiast.
Ralph Vale living near Snake river
caught sturgeon weighing 40C
pounds. 1t was 10 feet, 6 inches in
length and weighed when dressed 200
pounds The fish was brought to the
lndeDendent meat market and dis
posed Of The purchasers got SO
worth Of oil out Of the head
Frand Hard, working with thresh,
qng machine gang Of Weiser, was
seriously injured by being caught be
tween the traction engine and the
tender when the former came to q
stop. A number of ribs are broken
and it is feared that part of these
may have pierced his lungs.
The state land board, at its session
Saturday morning, fixed the date OF
the opening of the Owyhee Irrigation
company on October 5, and named
Mountain Home as the place of the
drawing. TIE lands included in this
drawing are located in the contra
part of Owyhee county.
Reports from Lewiston state that
farmers in the Lewiston country de
clare that never in the history Of this
section has the harvest on grain been
carried on 50 rapidly and uninter.
ruptedly as it has been this year, and
as result more than GO per cent OF
the grain in the district known as the
Tammany and Waha prairies has been
harvested and is now being hauled to
the warehouses at Lewiston, Waha
Landing and Sweetwater,
The increase In the settlement OF
the new lands in Idaho is well shown
in the report of the state engineer OF
the water right permits issued. Dur
ing the seventeen months of the pres
ent administration there have been
1926 applications for water rights
filed, or more than one-half than were
received during the preceding five
years.
During the past twelve months the
Albion State Normal School has added !
to its facilities three large science lab
ratories a lecture room, three large |
rooms in the manual training deport
ment, $4,000 worth Of science equip |
ment, 81 900 worth Of manual training
equipment.
All Moy, a young Chinese girl, was
arrested Monday evening by Sheriff |
Bennett of Boise, upon warrant !
sworn out by United States Inspector
Thomas II. Topping on charge Of !
being in this country without proper
certificate.
The body of an unknown man was
found about a mile north of Cornish,
Preston, Idaho, on the Oregon Short |
line tracks, at 9 o'clock this morning |
and a cnroner's innuest held later