Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-05-25
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w H. Weatherby and Mrs. Jane
Snider, the victims of the shooting
tragedy near Goodine. are in Boise
hospital, and it is thought both will
recover.
The Emmett Commercial club has
arranged with the band for concerts
on Saturday evenings for five months.
The concerts are very popular with
the people.
Storms and cold weather not only
bother the fruit growers and farmers
of the state, but the fish hatchery SUI
perintendents as well, according to
State Game Warden Ben Gray.
The projected extension Of the Sc
bree electric line from Caldwell to
Nampa is taking definite shape and
will probably be financed within a
few days, in which event work will
commence at once.
M. p. Surrat, a burglar, who leaped
from the roof Of a building in Boise in
an endeavor to escape from a police
man. will recover from his injuries,
but he will be a marked man for the
balance of his days.
A contract has been awarded the
South Fork Milling company of Boise
for $1,000 railroad ties for use on the
road being built by the reclamation
service to the Arrow Rock dam site
The contract is for $3S.525
That the proposed move by the or
der of Elks to protect the animals
after which their order is named is
one of the best which has ever been
inaugurated in the state is the opin-
ion of State Game Warden Ben Gray
F. j. Hagenbarth Of Spencer and J.
Knollin of Soda Spring, appeared be-
fore the senate finance committee last
week in opposition to the Canadian
reciprocity bill. These gentlemen rep
resent the National Wool Growers as
ISOLATION.
1t is useless for land owners in
Idaho to make further requests for
loans from the state. Register N. Jen-
ness has applications which total
about half million dollars, and there
are practically no funds on hand now
to loan out.
Five crews Of surveyors are run
ming lines on the main canal and lat
erals for the Black Canyon irrigation
district. The preliminary work is be-
ing pushed at top speed. Nearly 10O,'
600 acres OF land will be reclaimed
under this project
Many sheep have been frozen in the
mountain ranges north Of Mountain
Home recently. Shearing had just
started at the Dixie plant when the
rains set in and the temperature
dropped The loss as reported will
yeach two or three thousand.
Conviction has settled down upon
the community that the 5-year-old son
of Henry Clark OF Garden Valley fell
into the Payette river and was
drowned. He disappeared on May 8.
Doubts are entertained as to whether
the body will ever be recovered.
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
SUI Go a HbNfoVo nAbn oCnO0A
Plans are already adopted and con
struction work will begin at once.
After following a trail of horse
thieves that kept him hot on the road
for over 500 miles and took him into
the three states of Nevada. Oregon
and Idaho. Deputy United States Mar
shall M. PRUSSIA of Nevada arrived in
Nampa last week to find his men.
Enraged, It ID 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 a 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 a fruit producer
and already over 1000 acres at the
east end of the fiat are being planted
to fruit trees of many varieties and
alfalfa.
The work of listing the various de-
linquent corporal ons in Utah. Idaho
and Montana was commenced by a
force Of clerks in the Salt Lake office
Of the internal revenue collector last
week. 1t is estimated that there are
300 delinquent corporations in the
three states.
At the Salt Lake office of the Utah
Idaho Sugar company where an &C
curate report is kept of the rainfall
throughout all parts Of Utah and Ida
no where beets are planted, it was az
nounced last week that the rainfall
had visited almost all of the best sec
tfons. Idaho especially being favored