Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-08-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

kda.. has applied to be made a depos
itory of postal savings bank funds.
Letha, new town, will be placed
on the map of Idaho. Monday, Aug
e.. Streets are laid out and a new
stpre building has been erected.
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Pocatello has offered a $4,000 build.
Ing site to the Quaker Dat company
ff"they will erect factory upon 1t.
and negotiations are practically closed
to this end.
Twin Falls building record this veal
Is surprising preceding seasons by fal
In, both respect to amount of capital
invested and class OF structures. The
business area especially has expand.
ID largely.
ilifederaI postoffice inspector has been
Investigating Irregularities at the Pin
gree poetoffice. Special delivery
stamps were illegally sold to an 1tal,
Ian resident who sent them to an east,
ern mail order house.
T3S
Thomas Daley and +. G. Mcdonald,
Great Falls census enumerators, plead
ed guilty to padding census returns In
the federal court at Boise, and were
sentenced to twenty-five hours In Jail
and fine of $1,000 each.
All power sites on the Snake river
not previously filed upon are with
drawn from entry by the department
OF. the interior by the confirmation Of
the power Withdrawals Nos. II and
III.
Report reached Boise this week that
alsurveying crew. presumably belong
Ing to the Oregon Short Line, had
been running line from Dixie to
Boise, via Blacks creek.
u. Mcdonald OF Forney Is under ar.
rest charged with setting forest fires,
The complaint was laid by Forest
Ranger Ross Tobias and the hearing
will take place before United States
Commissioner Johnson at Challis.
2Nampa is to have grand street
carnival beginning Monday, August 20.
and continuing the entire week. The
big event has been arranged under
the auspices OF the chamber of com
MERGE .
While working on the house OF his
sor-in-law, A. Fl. Christianson, at
Kuna, on Tuesday afternoon, Charles
Llliquist fell from the roof, sustain.
Ing injuries which resulted In his
death
Forty ears ago "the first salt works
west OF the Mississippi" according to
the reports of the Hoyden survey,
were established near what is now the
Wyoming -Idaho border, west of Salt
river valley. locally known as Star val
ley. In these days as much as 200.-
900 pounds of salt were boiled every
month.
A gang Of horse thieves are operat-
ing about eighteen miles southwest OF
Blackfoot. in the neighborhood of Pin
gree. A. G. Durand had fight with
thieves Saturday night. They were
running off his horses, but after an ex
change of rifle shots were driven off.
It is thought one of the thieves was
wounded.
The United States land office has
received notice from the state board
of land commissioners OF the segresa
ton of township south, range 80
esat, Boise meridian, in Bingham
county. This project will cover about
$4,000 acres OF the finest land in
Bingham county. ond has an old de-
creed water right.
The big fire which has been raging
In the forest near Placerville for three
weeks Is finally extinguished, the state
forest reserve forces and the en-
ployees of the Barber Lumber com
pany fighting 1t until the arrival OF
Troop l. OF the First cavalry from the
Boise barracks. The fire burned over
I'm area OF seven miles.
An unknown man was found mutt
lated on the Great Northern railroad
tracks at Helena, Mont. His legs were
both cut off and great cash cut In
his head. He Is supposed to have been
riding on the freight train that left
for reat Falls. and his bodx was dis
covered when the passenger pulled
out
Women voters of Wyoming. as rep.
reserted by the Jane Jefferson club
demand that the women be given 2
representation upon the state and
county tickets in proportion to Their
voting strength. This was expressed
In a resolution adopted at the meeting
Of the club.
Sheriff Courdin and County Attor
ney Richards have returned from
Seven Devils, whittier they went t.
Investigate the cause Of the death o
Joseph Brown, a well-known miner o
that section, who disappeared more
than a year ago Browns body was
found, and a bullet hole In, the back
Of the skull indicates foul play.
John Holm, an old pioneer prospect
or of Haley, was buried by cave-ii
at the War Dance group Of mines
some days ago. He had leased the
main dump for the purpose Of sorting
out the zinc ore and was working b,
himself.