The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-02-12
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Nez Perez county Will vote on the
prohibition question on March o.
Washington county has organized
fair association and will hold fair
next fall.
Gently sold a hog that weighed 700
pounds, and which brought $54.75.
Going to the bedroom to feed her
baby, Mrs. f. F. Wyatt of Burke dis
covered that the infant had been
smothered to death.
Last year Utah and Idaho produced
100000 tons of sugar beets, which,
when refined, made approximately
194,000,000 pounds of sugar.
The 10.year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Rock OF Weiser was pain.
fully wounded in his right foot while
playing with a loaded revolver.
The two-year.old son of e. Man
ring, living near Harpster, swallowed
a quantity Of carbolc acid which he
found, and died in terrible agony.
Canyon county is intending to fund
the 100000 debt created through the
prosecution of the murderers of form.
er Governor Steunenberg, at per
cent
Two 7-year-old boys residing at
Standpoint have confessed to robbing
the postofiice at that place, taking
mail belonging to the Humbird Lum-
Der company.
An ice jam, which had formed
above the bridge across the Boise
river at Parma, was blown out with
dynamite, eliminating all danger to
the bridge from the ice,
While digging a well on the farm
of James Bennett near Parma, oil was
struck at eighty feet. That locality
issaid to have always been considered
as oil territory by experts
The potato and orchard heating
Especial, run for the last two weeks
over the Oregon Short Line in Idaho,
was q success. Over $4,000 came to
listen to the lectures given by the
experts.
The King Hill Fruit Growers asso-
citation has filed articles of incorpora-
ton with the secretary of state. The
association starts out with a good
membership and every prospect of
success.
Daniel Kenney, ST., pioneer resi-
dent of Pocatello, died on January 30.
The cause of Mr.. Kenney's death was
somewhat peculiar. AS a result of a
contraction of the esophagus he
choked to death.
Cunning for jack rabbits and en-
countering wildcat instead was the
experience of four OF Bosses MIN
rods, one morning recently, one of
the party, w. d. Cole, receiving some
serious scratches as a result.
If congress authorizes the issuance
Nof reclamation certificates of indebt-
Ndness or bonds to the extent of $780,
1000, all government irrigation pro-
now under way can be COM
ID according to approved plans in
bit two years.
Probably not less than 500 acres of
E04htaloupes and 300 acres of water
melons will be planted on the King
Hill segregation the coming season. 1t
was demonstrated last year that no
better melons can be grown anywhere
than In that section.
The postmaster general has made
a uIling to the effect that rural car.
riers after February l shall not col.
lect loose coins placed in mail boxes
for postage. Patrons will be required
to place such coins in an envelope or
wrap them securely in paper.
More sheep are being fed in the
neighborhood OF Kimberly this win
ter than at any previous time since
the settlement of the project and as
consequence the farmers are receiv-
ing top prices for hay and other feed
oDs ucts they have to dispose of.
pms are now on foot TO construct
IF the biggest dams in the state
e Snake river at American
One million dollars will be
ed and reclaim 100000 acres
1t is proposed to raise the
vel of Snake river at Ameri-
thirty-four feet.
rstate. commerce commits
n>af the League