Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-01-21
IN THE GEM STATE

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organized at Payette, with 200 mem
bers.
Residents of the town of Winches.
ter, which is but little over a year
DID, are asking that the town be incor'
porated.
The school census for the Caldwell
school district shows that there are
1881 adults under 81 years Of age.
There are enrolled S25 pupils.
The Idaho State Grange now has
1000 members in the state, the great
est number being In Ada, Canyon and
Washington counties.
The homesteaders of Sand Hollow,
Canyon county, have built a school
house, hired teacher and the school
is now running with 20 pupils
A Lewiston dispatch says 80 per
cent dividend has been declared by
the Lewiston National bank and a
large sum added to the undivided pro
fits besides.
James Campbell, rancher living
west Of Weiser recently trapped
Canadian lynx weighing "a pounds.
which, for some time, had been killing
his chickens.
Clearwater county will undoubtedly
be created and organized, according to
information learned from members OF
both the house and senate, says the
Boise Statesman.
Judge F. s. Dietrich OF the federal
district court has made ruling on
the question Of Indian heirship which
places the matter In the hands Of the
interior department.
The report OF the secretary Of the
Caldwell Commercial club shows that
the club is entirely out Of debt and
has small surplus in the bank. There
are 276 members OF the club.
At Leadore, the new town on the
Gilmore & Pittsburg railroad, midway
between Salmon City and Armstead, a
commercial club has been formally or
ganized with thirty-fve charter men,
bers.
A company of 140 Germans arrived
at Sugar City last week and will Sc.
cure work in the sugar factory and in
the beet fields adjacent to Sugar
City The new population is from
Kansas.
coroner's jury has decided that the
death of III. 8. Chester, who was killed
by a train near Weiser, was purely
accidental, and not due to careless
ness or negligence on the part of the
trainmen.
It appears that the grippe and the
measles have formed a combination
In Caldwell, with the result that there
are more grown people and children
sick than ever before in the history
of the city.
AS result of the explosion OF a
rifle which he had shot for the past
five years, II. G. Thompson. of Boise,
suffered injuries to his right hand
which may necessitate the amputa-
ton of that member
Lawrence Hansen OF Rock Creek,
president OF the Albion state normal
school. is direct descendant of Mar
tin Luther, his mother being the
twelfth in direct descent from the
great apostle of religion.
A mammoth paper pulp mill is as.
sured for Occur d'Alene, according to
present plans Of leaders of the COM
mercial club, who have been working
for months trying to perfect an organ
ization and secure site.
While attempting to pass between
two freight cars at Idaho Falls, the
train starting suddenly, Fred Bybee,
aged 8, fell underneath the wheels,
his right leg being crushed so that
amputation was necessary.
With about three hundred represen-
tative hardware men in attendance,
the seventh annual convention of the
Idaho Retail Hardware and Imple-
ment Dealers association was called
to order in Boise on Saturday.
L. A. Snyder of Twin Falls has been
awarded the $500 offered by the Short
Line for the best one-acre crop Of
marketable potatoes raised in Idaho,
while w. B. Gilmore of Payette car
ried of second honors, receiving $3.50.
The objection to applications for
saloon licenses in the Zig creek sec
ton Of Shoshone county will probably
outweigh the arguments of applicants
and the decision of the commission.
ers will be against issuing the Ii.
censes.
A petition is being generally signed
by residents of the Lapwai valley
asking the government to set aside
six acres of the Indian school reserve
for cemetery. There Is no GENE
terry in this vicinity for the use OF
white people.
The reclamation of 4,500 acres of the
Kootenai valley, by the building OF
dykes and bitches, is apparently as
sured, the majority of property own
ers whose lands would be benefited
by such project having signifled
their willingness Of carrying out those
plans.
A Wallace dispatch saws. The sher.