Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-07-06
IDAHO STATE NEWS

AN k~NEAN va tbASN last M0th NOltQ
$4,000 bonds for new school build.
ings.
Actual work is to be started this
year on the home for feeble minded
TO be built ut Nampa.
The summer normal opened at
Boise last week with good attend
Rnce, ninety-nine enrolling.
1t is announced that The telephone
rates at Roise are to be increased.
since the consolidation OF the two
companies.
The Oregon Short Line contem-
plates building fine new passenger
station at Pocstello next year. The
depot will cost million dollars.
The Denver. Laramie & Northwest.
ern railroad. now fifty miles out Of
Denver. is pushing westward and will.
it is said. reach Boise next year.
The $4,000 viaduot at Pocatello,
spanning all the tracks that cross the
main street of the town. is about com.
pleted II IS Il third of a mile long.
Peter Fails committed suicide at
AceQuia by taking poison. He had
been respondent for number OF
years because OF poor health. He
leaves a wife and four children.
The Cambridge Brick company has
Just opened the first kiln There are
10000 brick in this kiln. and they are
pronounced of a very superior quality
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them.
The Lincoln county fair will be held
at Wendell some time during the lat.
ter part of September. 1911. The bust.
ness men are at work arranging the
premium list and getting stock sub
scriptions.
Edward Magill OF Hamer, who was
shot in the abdomen by Hugh Whit
ney in his flight from posses. and who
is being treated in Salt Lake hos
pitsl. is believed now TO have chance
for recovery.
The Oregon Short Line has COM
menced TO rush construction of its
line between Caldwell and Winnemuc-
ca. Two hundred men are at work
and rails are being laid at the rate
of mile a day.
The output OF canteloupes from
Payette will be the largest in the his
tory OF the industry. The district
has planted over $50 acres. The ship
ments Of caateloupe will aggregate
over 1s5 cars for the season.
A F. Adams. one OF the pioneers q
Camas Prairie. died last week Of hem
morrhage OF the brain. Mr.. Adams
was one OF the first of the permanent
settlers on the prairie and was well
known throughout that section.
Standpoint will have a safe and sane
Fourth II the orders Of Mayor Moody
are carried out 70 the letter. The
mayor issued orders 70 the chief OF
police stating that the use Of fire
works, fire-craeksrs. etc. will be posi-
lively prohibited
The south branch OF the oregon
Short Line railroad from Rupert TO
Bliss is nearing completion But ten
miles remain to be built between
Wendell and Jerome before the branch
will be finished. The line altogether
will be seventy-three miles long.
During a quarrel because one re
fused TO drink with the other, Ben
Higgs. a rsncher at Soldier. shot and
Killed Joe Jones. s camp tender. 4
bullet passing through window o:
the saloon inflicted = painful flesh
woand upon James Campbell. aged 4.
The road from Willow Creek TO
Bellevue was formally turned over
TO the county and the business men
Of Bellevue last week. after 500 which
was raised 20 repair It had been ex-
pended. All crossings have been
hridged and the road is in excellent
shape.
4 quick job was done by the Boise
police department last week in az
resting and bringing to trial Albert
L Law. a peddle-, charged with issu-
ing a fictitious check. L took less
than half a day from the time the AZ
fair was reported to the authorities %
land Law behind the bars.
This will b 4 banner year IN the
Psyette district The apple trees are
heavily lsden and the orchardists are
now beginning TO thin fo- the fall
crop. A large acreage Of young OF
chards is coming into beariag this
year and the output from Psyette will
be larger than ever before.
The final fornalities n the turning
over to the Oregon Short Line railway
OF several subsidiary companies in
Idaho have been completed. District
Judge Alfrei Bulge q Pocstello has
acquiesced in the dissolution Of the
corporation which formerly controlled
these little roads as independent lines.
Railroad traffic has been seriously
impeded lately between Tsndoy and
Salmon hy reason Of the fast melting
SHOWS Of the mountains. which caused
the Lenahi river 70 overflow lis hslks
and wash away the Oosdhe6. Two
bridges have also been sweep away.
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