The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-11-23
IN THE GEM STATE

of Boise about month ago. has been
discharged from the hospital.
An entertainment course OF i've
numbers has been arranged for EN-
nett this winter by committee
backed by the business men of the
city.
Idaho's senators are among the first
arrivals in Washington
this fall. Senator Hepburn and Sen
ator Borah both reached Washington
last week.
Charged with making threats
against his wife and attempting 70
kill her, r. R. Kuss, a blacksmith liv-
ing in Boise, has been placed in the
county jail
The first Offering of Carey act land
to be irrigated by electrically pumped
water under the Kuhn system will be
made at Jerome on December IL. The
tract contains $4,000 acres.
After having eluded the authorities
of cities all over the west for nearly
three months, Clarence Siler, wanted
in Boise on a charge Of forgery, was
captured last week at Nampa.
The Van Wyck Light & Power COM
pany, which was at standstill for
the past year, has been Incorporated
with a capital stock of 100000, and :
active construction will be renewed.
Probate Judge Thomas M. Jeffrey,
one of the best known and highly
esteemed citizens of Weiser and
n.
vember 8, after brief illness from
pneumonia.
Evidence tending to show that pa
dronesm is being practiced by en-
ployers of Italian labor in Idaho has
caused Justice Bower of Boise to rec
ommend that an investigation be
made by the state authorities
Caught and buried by several tons
of earth that fell on him, c. A. Lee,
laborer employed in the excavation
work for a new building in Boise, had
a narrow escape from death. Fellow
workmen dug him out just in the nick
of time.
Wallace's arson case, which reached
a climax when man was detected
in the act of firing downtown cor
ner, took a sensational turn last week
when w. E. Stache, prominent So
cialist politician, was charged with
the crime.
With the state penite ntiary already
so overcrowded that the prisoners
have to be doubled up in the cells,
while Warden Shook wonders how he
can remedy the congested conditions,
five new prisoners were brought to
that institution last week.
, Fixing the value of the life of a
bright, active boy Of years of age at
$4,000, and that of his sister, who was
a few years older, at $4,535, the SUI
s preme court has placed the value, as
near as courts can determine, of a
o human life as expressed in common
I coin.
:. A new ditch company has been
g formed by several farmers who are
q living west of Emmett, in the Payette
s valley near Falk The capital stock
g is $4,000, divided into 1000 shares al
8 SIS per share. 1t will put under cult
walton a fine tract of land near thai
place.
An agreement in the Kings Hill ir
u rigation controversy has been reached
g Financial interests agree to furnish
= money to put the ditch in condition
u to deliver water along the whole trac
le for next seasons crops and will b.
~ reimbursed in cash with interest, o
- by district bonds.
81 Gooding had house cleaning las
70 week, when the deputy dairy, foo
u. and sanitary inspector visited tina
IN town. The inspector found the tow
r.. in a fairly good condition, a dairy
restaurant, slaughter house and room
ing house proprietor being the onl
ones to draw fines.
k. For Minidoka and four other irr
ny cation projects public notices are b.
is ing prepared providing for graduate
he payments and extensions of time an
is. pending issuance of such notices Il
ed action looking to cancellation on a
*. count of non-payment will be take
he until after March Is next.
re Those interested in the Indian Coy
er Reclamation company report tn
water will be turned on to Brown tia
section southeast of Mounta
Home, at once. The project is
W pumping proposition and power Il
zee the pumps will be received from II
ed Kuhn plant at Salmon falls.
ge Notification has been sent to II
ON various militia companies OF the sta
OF by F. A. Mccall, adjutant gener;
'ao officially announcing that Lieutena
lit A. R. Emery of the Eighth Unit
ne States infantry has assumed practc
un. charge of the military instruction
the national guard of Idaho.
What is conceded by all who ma
seen it to be the best and most co
the ,,,.o o,d ,oo,rata man of Idaho e,