Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-12-31
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taking carbolic acid.
It cost $1,814,50632 to pay the main
tenance account of the government OF
the state of Idaho, from the period
extending from October l, 1908, to
October l, 1910.
On the Twin Falls tract alone 1t Is
said that there are over 100000 tons
of alfalfa-more than the branch
railroad, working to its capacity, could
move in six months.
Great stacks of hay dot the Mini
doka project in every direction, and
the price has slumped from SIS ton
last year at this time to 80 and "
q ton in the stack at the present
Anne
Bingham county is greatly agitatedl
politically, over the proposed division
Of the county There is a strong SEN
timent in favor of the division II a
satisfactory basis for action can be
REACHED.
The State Dairy association Is called
to meet at Twin Falls, January % and
"a. This meeting promises to be one
of great importance to the dairy In
terests of the state and will be largely
attended.
The station at Rexburg received the
gold medal this year for the excellent
shape in which 1t has been kept. This
station was recognized by the judges
rs being the best kept on the Short
Line system.
Emmett will have $4,000 BUSH
ness block in the spring. Local bust
ness men have joined hands and
formed stock company to put up the
structure and all the stock has been
subscribed.
There is every indication that the
coal deposits in the Teaon Basin will
prove a solution of the fuel problem
which has been causing much anxiety
to the settlers in the Upper Snake
River valley.
With raw meat and icicles his only
food, Patrick Keegan, nero OF the
Occur d'Alene forest fires, was found
lying critically i'll in his cabin On
Nine-Mile creek, near Wallace. Kee'
gan was suffering from erysipelas,
While a blind man with whom he
lived in cabin on the shore OF HAY
den lake stood helpless. listening to
his cries for help, Andrew Moran
was carried into the water with the
shifting cargo Of wood barge he was
unloading and drowned.
The present population of Bingham
county is over $4,000, and the as
sessed valuation $5,6S4,000. The coun'
ty division suggested by many OF the
citizens would give each county over
S2,500,000 assessed valuation and be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 population.
George Harris, arrested at st
Anthony on suspicion of having broken
into the St. Anthony post office and
also of robbing the |. P. t. Co.'s Of
fee of money, has been released, nc
evidence having been found of SUM-
cient importance to longer hold him
A Christmas ball given at the town
of Eagle had fatal ending when,
following quarrel over domestic al
fairs, William Crowder attacked Law
renee Vaughan, his wifes cousin, and
stabbed him five times. Vaughan died
twenty minutes later.
The "Burley special is the name OF
an agricultural educational train
which will leave Logan, Utah, January
g. on a tour of Utah and Idaho. me
train will carry number OF PROBES
sors from the Idaho and Utah agrl-
cultural colleges, and in the course OF
Its tour will visit large territory.
Governor-eect Hawley has an
bounced his appointees to seven state
offices. as follows: Chief clerk IN
governors office, Fred Floed OF Ada
county; state engineer, Aubrey +
Robinson of wallace; chief clerk in
state engineers office, Herbert M
Wing of Boise; state veterinarian
DR.. ]. II. Weber of Weiser; insurance
commissioner, /. c. Hattabaugh o.
Grangeville, deputy insurance com
missioner, T. l.. Quarles of Standpoint
water commissioner for third district
John w. Cage.
December has so far proved ban
ner month at the state penitentiary
In the receipt of prisoners, more new
arrivals being registered than To-
some time past. In all 16 prisoner
have been received this month.
Warden Shook OF the state peniten
tiary will ask the next legislature t
pass a law making escape from TIL
penitentiary a felony. The suprem
court declared a similar law, whicl
doubled the sentence, unconstitutional
Mark Coffin and Il. B. Berg have OF
ganized the High Line Pumping CON
pany for the purpose of supplyin
water for 1000 acres of land too hig
to irrigate from the high line cana
The land is on the original Twi
Falls segregation.
To provide tax levy of not to e1
reed one mill on the dollar. to be use
as a fund for advertising the resour'
es and exhibiting the products Of tn
several counties of the state, Is tn