Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-04-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS

widely known citizens and early set
tiers of Idaho, died at his residence
in McCammon April 8.
The district known as southern
Idaho alone is larger than the state
of Indiana and contains more irriga-
BILE land than any other state in the |
country.
The record at the Boise baggage Of |
fee of the o. S. l.. shows an increase !
of 1904 pieces of baggage handled |
during the month of March, 1911, over |
that of March, 1910.
Two cars loaded with fruit trees |
from Utah were received in Payette |
last week. There were more than
100000 trees, mostly apple and
prunes, in the shipment.
In the most holly contested election
in the history of Preston. in which
the largest number of votes ever
polled were cast the entire Republi-
can ticket was elected, in the majority
of cases by but narrow margin.
Earl Dateman, a resident of Boise.
was stabbed in the side and wrist by
William Austin. after Austin had been
elected from Dateman's home, which
he entered while in an intoxicated
condition Dateman is in a serious
condition.
B. Wakefield is in a precarious con-
dition from the effects of having been
knocked out in the sixth round of his
fight at HALEY by Carl Aune of Phila-
delphia. He was unconscious for two
hours and little hope is entertained
for his recovery.
New maps of the state, showing the
newly created counties. towns, rivers,
railroads and proposed railroads and
irrigation canals of the tsate, are be-
ing prepared by State immigration
Commissioner Rich. They will be in
the form of folders.
The office of the register and re-
ceiver of the federal land office at
Boise are busy places these days with
land applicants and it is said that
never before in the history of the Of
fee has there been such rush for
land as there is at the present time.
Had the Whitcomb temperance bill
become a law half of Idaho, now
wet" would Immediately have be-
come "dry," for the measure provided
that liquor or intoxicating beverages
of any kind could not be sold outside
of incorporated towns, villages and
cities.
AS rapidly as possible the Idaho
Northern railroad is completing plans
for the construction of the extension
up the river, says an Emmett CORE
Eva Will ~
struction is comparatively easy. The
remaining six miles to Marsh is more
difficult.
. If the advice of the state game war
den is followed out 10 a conclusion
there win be various committees o.
sportsmen organized about the state
for the purpose of informing the de
partment whenever there is a short
age of fish or an intraction of the
game laws.
Manuel Silva, a ranchman, stock
man and owner of butcher shop a
Shoshone, was found guilty Of boot
logging" in the district court of Lin
coin county after a trial consuming
three days. He was sentenced to fiv
months in the county Jail and to pa
fine of $500.
The surveys for the propose
Owinza cutoff have been made an
sent east, and it is now up to tn
eastern officials of the Hartman sy!
tenn to say when construction on th
cutoff shall comemnce. according
E. C. Manson, the general superb
tendent of the Short Line.
The conditions for successful irr
CATION in southern Idaho on larg
scale are such that the United State
reclamation service is developing
the Boise Nampa-Payette project, or
of the largest systems of reclamatio
ever undertaken. This project whe
completed is to cost some 100000
The Shawhan annexation bill, whiC
would have permitted the improv
ment of property near city, but he
for speculation, was vetoed by Il
governor on the grounds that in Il
opinion of the governor it was
measure designed to benefit a fe
cities and work an injury on the man
Anjel Uruchua, a Basque shee
herder, brought to a Boise hospit
from near Vale, Ore, suffering fro
numerous cuts and bruises about t
head. is dead. 1t is believed the m
was beaten by an enemy. his head
ing a mass of wounds.
The Aberdeen-Springfield irrigati
tract, formerly known as the Anne
can Falls tract, is to have a state {
pertinent farm and station. Fol-
acres of land adjoining the towns
has been donated for that purpose
a public-spirited citizen.
George M. Payne, pioneer reside
of Mountain Home and a newspaI
man known all over the west, is dc
at the age of n. Mr.. Payne journ
ed from Virgiania to California
1852, and began publishing a ne
naner in Mountain Home In 1851