The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-08-18
||DAR0 State NEWS

bSsubhO Outub6 Bu6uu&
! Standpoint The stump pulling ma
chine Of the Idaho Land & Develop
ment company, which arrived here las
week from Seattle, was given it, try
out Saturday on tract near the cit,
owned BY L. D. Farmin. The new
OUTFIT Il pulIIng stumps in . satisfac.
tory manner and will be moved to tht
100-acre tract rscently purchased BY
Spokane business men Of Stonestreei
and Whitaker, near Kootenai.
Cooling Monday morning the
Grant Construction company Of this
city left with about rs teams for the
new reservoir site about six miles
northeast from Jerome. They have a
contract with the Twin Falls North
Side Land 4 Water company to con-
struct two large dams forming . stor-
age reservoir. These dams will con-
tain 700. 600 and 500. 900 cubic yards
Of earth each and are to be completed
by the hrst Of December. Headuuar-
ters will be maintsied here for the
present II least
Gooding Through the efforts OF Pro-
lessor Carlyle, Of the Moscow Univer-
sity, there will be a short course in
agriculture given to the farmers of
this section caring to attend, some
time this fall or winter. and it is
talked now Of holding one session at
Wendell and one at Shoshone.
1t is contended that this could be
grestly improved upon by arranging
o hsid ono good session at Gooding as
! Il the most centrally located and
onger and moro thorough course of
Instructions could be given.
Hotel and railroad accommod atoms
ire better here than at either Wen
lell or Shoshone, and a suitable build |
ng can be procured that will give
nipple room for stock and grain judg-
ng, lectures, etc.
Misunderstanding the county com
iissioners to organize county board |
health to cooperate with the state
oard, appearing before the council and
rging similar action there, which met
nth approval, and securing a favorable
nsolution approving his work in closing
very barns and other unsanitary
laccs, State Pure Food Commissioner
ames II. Wallis closed his campaign
Wallace and vicinity and will 20 toll
Iurray.
He closed slaughter house at Null
N and ordered 1t torn down. confs
tied 1870 pounds of misbranded butter
Burke, seized five barrels of Spokane
negar at Burke forbade the sale of 2S
ieeses at Mullan because it was not
landed as the law requires, and de-
royed all cooked meats in the Mullan
otel on account of the unsanitary
ndition in which they were kept. The
ty council here gave him vote of
anks for his efficient service in in.
ection here.
Lewiston-What Is without doubt Che
rest body of forest frefghters in the
nited states today is the one main
ined in the white pine belt in Neg
'rce, Latah and Shoshone Counties.
der the supervision of the Clearwater
objective Association, an organization
men owning timber in the region ly.
& between the Clearwater River and '
Q st. Maries, which contains some of {
g finest white pine on the continent.
The purpose of the protective asso- .
'tion, which was formed several wears
o, IL to guard against the destruction n
the timber by fire, and so we'll do
. AZ men employed by the organiza-
N perform their duties that there has
en- but little loss in the 100000 acres :,
timber land in their charge in the
Z eight years, and while there were
number of fires set by lightning three
eks ago, IL separate fires being re- g,
rted at one time, there was less than a.
acres burned over before the flames -
re subdued. And this protection. ac v,
ding to carefully kept statistics. 70
Is the timber owners but three and ~
-half cents per acre annually. IN
ioscow-Damages to the extent of 81 :"
% allowed to Elmer Doty and Ga in
or farmers along the Occur d'Alene q,
err, who sued some of the big mining "A
panies for $1,223, 900 in the United ~
ties court. The case, which has been m
trlal here for three weeks, ended fe
N Judge Dietrich instructed the iury s;S
return a verdict in favor of the
ntiffs for the nominal sum. 10
is alleged that the tailings from ~ ~
mines had filed the river so as TO
Sc the lands to overflow with poison. t;r
water and debris, making them al
{ worthless; also that much valuable
X had been killed by drinking the
led water coming down the river
n the mines. or
he ease on trial was against the
ker Hill 4 Sullivan mine, wherein ne
Farmers had assigned their interest sh'
damage claims against the mining He
panies to Elmer Doty for collection IN
70 than half the farmers refused TO 10
md as witnesses. Some Of them a.
led statements revoling Doty's au- ~
rity and repudiating their ATTORNEYS. ho
mining companies refused to in. no
luce any evidence and moved for pc
suit The many witnesses the min. ~
companies had in attendance made n
refusal Of the defense TO introduce P'
Ingle witness unexpected.