Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-06-08
IN THE GEM STATE


tai savings repositories.
The Kootenai County Fair associa-
ton has completed plans to hold the
fair the last week in September.
There has recently been sharp ad
vances in the price offered for Idaho
wool, seventeen cents being offered
for good qua ty Of wool.
w. E. Bradley has been arrested at
Boise on the charge of having set
fire to his own home, the charge be-
ing preferred by his wife.
Fruit prospects in the Hagerman
valley are exceedingly bright. A few
sample boxes of strawberries have
been picked and the crop will be on
the market shortly.
The thirty-second annual session Of
the First Baptist association of Idaho.
compromising twenty-one churches,
met with the Mountain Home Baptist
church June 1 and 2.
After negotiations pending for
about two years, the deal whereby the
state of Idaho will come into posses
sion of the land to be known as Hey
burn park, has been concluded.
The state land sale held at Weiser
last week was a success in every re-
spect Bidding was lively and as a re-
suit the state treasury will be en-
riched by approximately $4,000.
Albert Collier, the 14-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Collier of Nam
No ,rl, moo ooofdoUtoII.r oho& nFor,,o-
ial day, died at Boise hospital where
he had been taken for treatment.
The grape crop in the state this
year is to be one of the largest that
Idaho has ever seen according to in
formation which has reached the Of
fee of state horticultural inspector.
The one and half year old grand
child of Albert Neighbors of Moscow
accidentally fell out Of the baby car
riage in such manner as to hang it.
self and was dead when discovered
Mountain Home will go ahead and
issue its coupon bonds in the sum of
$4,000 for the purpose of construct
ing and installing a system of water
works for the town. in view OF de-
cision by the supreme court.
Seven Of the eleven riders who en-
tered the first endurance run OF the
Boise motorcycle club returned from
the 127-mile trip from Boise to Pay
cite and back with perfect scores,
making the run in nine hours
Because he happened to be sent
enced under a law which did not go
into effect until after the commission
N of his crime, Howard Hunter, sent
Fenced from Blaine county to fourteen
bars imprisonment. has been re-
eased.
% It is the intention OF the Ohio so
ciety of Idaho to see to It that the
1000 former Ohioans now residents
Of Idaho exert every influence in the
future to bring to Idaho its fair pro-
portion Of desirable citizens, says the
Boise Statesman.
The Gray Eagle ana Silver City
Mining company has been organized
at Caldwell to develop two mineral
lodes on West Sinker creek, four
miles north Of the city. Some work
has been done, and the ore obtained
assays high in gold and silver.
Bernard Thompson, aged s, and
Russell Moore, aged TO- we're drowned
in an old mill pond south OF the city
limits at St. Maries. The pool was
partially filed with sawdust, which
the boys must have swallowed with
the water and which FASTENED theil
death.
The Boy Scouts of Pocatello recent
ly put in a day pulling weeds and
cleaning off the vacant lots of one OF
the real estate additions. After theil
labor they were presented with a bis
$40 gold piece by agents of the prop
erty. Some of the coin went for Z
big feed.
During a severe electric storm. the
home of John Long, four miles south
east Of Grangeville. was struck by
lightning and one corner of the build
ing. a two-story frame structure, wa.
torn out. but did not catch fire. Foui
children in the house at the time es
capped injury.
Not only the small farmer of tn,
state. but some Of the large irrigation
companies, have been inadvertentl,
responsible for the destruction O
thousands of fish in the streams O
Idaho. particularly about Antelope
creek, because of the construction O
high concrete walls in their canals.
More general interest in the matte
Of good roads seems to be taken thi
spring than for years past The agi
tation Of the subject is bearing goo
fruit in more systematic road worI
and much less waste through misd
rected efforts. says the Boise States
man.