Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-06-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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Twin Falls has three banks with
total capital of 100000 and deposits
of over $1,500,0 600
The Oregon Short Line branch from
Burley to Oakley is now completed
and train service will be put on June
Is.
Some twenty contractors are at
work on the grading of the Raft River
road out of Burley and the work will
be pushed with all possible speed.
The indications are that the Boise
valley as a whole will produce a
larger crop of fruit than ever before.
Experienced and capable orchardists
are not concerned at all.
The Kingman Towhslue company is
completing its organization work this
week, and the embryo city on the new
railroad will soon make it's bow to the
public, says the Nyssa Journal.
Farmers in the country adjacent to
Nampa are jubilant over prospects in
their lines this season. Every part OF
the farm industry gives exceptional
promise for record productions.
Charles P. Hartley of Emmett,
president of the state horticultural
board, is bear" on the fruit situa.
ton, says the Boise Statesman. He
can see but half crop for Idaho this
year.
Addison T. Smith. private secretary
to United States Senator Hepburn,
has rendered to Chairman Charles L.
Hoffman his resignation of the office
of secretary to the Republican state
committee.
Pocatello is now raising $4,000 to
turnpike a pole line road to Ross
Fork to connect with the macadam-
lied sand road The pole road will
shorten the road to Ross Fork and
will be a splendid automobile drive
way.
Boise will shortly have but one tele-
phone system. A merger of the local
business of the Bell Telephone com
pany and of the Independent com
pany has been practically completed.
lacking only the working out of the
details.
Selecting the dead of night and an
Isolated spot near the homestead
when accompanying his mother, Err
nest S. Hesse, a prominent civil engi
neer of Boise, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
near Moro station.
In an effort to curb vice. Kellogg
and Wardner have joined hands in the
passage of a joint liquor license
which, for mining towns, is almost
revolutionary in character, and places
the closing hour at IL midnight, and
the opening hour at 6 a. m.
A hermit in that vicinity for years,
the body of man named Cunningham
was found at his cabin on a ranch
which he had worked in g small way
about eighteen miles northwest of
Mountain Home, last week. Death
was due to natural causes.
The buildings at Kelly's Hot
Springs, near Boise, were destroyed
Ly fire last week, supposedly of incen.
diary origin, causing a loss to the
owner of about $4,000. L. w. Dor
man was badly burned before he es-
capped from the burning building.
Mrs. Lydia Hester. aged 46, wife OF
p. J. Hester. wealthy retired capt..
alist, was almost instantly killed near
the ferry landing on Snake River
avenue, at Lewiston. She was thrown
from buggy, striking head first on
the macadam roadway. Her skull was
fractured by the fall.
In shooting ARRAY at Jarbidge last
week, w. H. Connors of Twin Falls
was shot in the back and face by a
man named Flynn, who shot Connors
in the back as he passed his (Flynn's)
tent, and in the duel that followed.
shot him in the face. Connors will
recover.
Suit has been brought against the
Oregon Short Line by Jesse Richards
to recover $3.50 for the alleged killing
of two horses at Arimo. January 3,
1910. The company contends that the
animals were trespassers on railroad
property and that 1t Is therefore not
responsible
Enraged, 1t is said, because his
wife refused to leave the home of
William P. Neal. in Boise, Joseph B.
Felthouser, owner of a Boise Mattress
factory, is thought to have attempted
to burn the place down. He was ar
rested and booked on charge of ar.
son.
The famous Dead Ok Flat district,
near Weiser. but across Snake river
in Oregon, will. before very long, be
one of the leaders as fruit producer,
and already over 1000 acres at the
east end of the fat are being planted
to fruit trees of many varieties and
alfalfa.
At special election at Blackfoot to
vote upon bonding the city for the
new high school building the measure
carried by ninety majority. This in
sures a $4,000 high school building.