American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1911-07-06
IDAHO STATE NEWS

- D0WeI system 10 cost XZ60, O82. B.
has been planned for Nampa.
The people OF oBise last week vote,
$4,000 bonds for new school build
ings.
Actual work h to be started thi.
year on the home for feeble minded
to be built ut Nampa.
The summer normal opened a,
Boise last week with q good attend
ancs. ninety-nine enrolling.
IT. Ia announced that the telephone
rates at Boise are to be Increased,
since the consolidation OF the twa
companies.
The Oregon Short Line contem-
plates building a fine new passenger
station at Pocatello next year. The
depot Will cost a million dollars.
The Denver. Laramie & Northwest.
ern railroad. now nifty miles out of
Denver, ID pushing westward and will.
II is said. reach Boise next year.
The $4,000 viaduct at P~ocatello,
spanning all the tracks that cross the
main street OF the town. Is about com.
pleted. II Is a third of a mile long.
Peter Fails committed suicide at
Acequia by taking poison. He had
been respondent for a number OF
years because Of poor health. He
leaves a wife and four children.
Tho Cambridge Brick company has
Just opened the first kiln. There are
10000 brick In this kiln, and they are
pronounced of a very superior quality
by all brick men who have inspected
them.
The Lincoln county fair will be held
at Wendell some time during the lat
ter part OF September, 1911. The bust.
neM men are at work arranging the
premium list and getting stock sub
scriptions.
Edward Magtll OF Hamer. who was
shot In the abdomen by Hugh Whit.
ney in his flight from posses, and who
II being treated In a Salt Lake hos.
pital. Is believed now to have a chance
for recovery.
The Oregon Short Line has com
menced TO rush construction Of its
line between Caldwell and Winnemuc-
ca. Two hundred men are at work
and rails are being laid at the rate
of q mile q day.
The output OF canteloupes from
Payette will be the largest IN the his
tory of the industry. The district
has planted over $50 acres. The ship
of canteloupe will aggregate
1876 cars for the season.
A. r. Adams. one of the pioneers of
Cam&s Prairie. died last week of hem
morrhage OF the brain. Mr.. Adams
was one Of the first of the permanent
on the prairie and was well
known throughout that section.
Standpoint will have u safe and sane
Fourth II the orders Of Mayor Moody
IRE carried out to the letter. The
mayer issued orders to the chief Of
rolice stating that the use Of fire.
firecrackers, etc. will be posi-
lively prohibited.
The south branch OF the Oregon
Llu0 IuitiV0u iiOuu INuICit "
Bliss is nearing completion. III ten
remain to be built between
Wendell! and Jerome before the branch
will be finished. The line altogether
will be seventy-three miles long.
During q quarrel because one re
to drink with the other. Ben
Higgs. a rancher at Soldier. shot and
killed Joe Jones. a camp tender. A
bullet passing through n window OF
saloon inflicted a painful flesh
wound upon James Campbell. aged 4.
The road from Willow Greek to
Bellevue was formally TUNED over
the county and the buslness men
u Bellevue last week. after $70O which
vas raised to repair 1t had been ex
All crossings have been
and the road is in excellent
A quick job was done by the Boise
'olice department last week In ar
esting and bringing to trial Albert
. Law. a peddler. charged with issu.
ng a fictitious check. 1t took less
han half a day from the time tho af-
air was reported TO the authorities to
and Law behind the bars.
This Will be a banner year In the
district. The apple trees are
'eavily laden and tho orchardlsts are
low beginning to thin for the fall
.rop. A large acreage OF young or.
'hards is coming into bearing this
ear and the output from Payette will
'e larger than ever before.
The final formalities In the turning
yer to the Oregon Short Line railway
4 several subsidiary companies in
IDAHO have been completed. District
Judge Alfred Bulge of Pocatello has
cquiesced in the dissolution OF the
corporation which formerly controlled
hese little roads as Independent lines.
Railroad traffic has been seriously
npeded lately between Tendoy and
l.