Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-01-07
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The city Of Weiser has Just Installed
4 new pumping plant for the water.
works system.
The State Dairy association conyen-
ton will be hela In Twin Falls on
January 20 and 24..sng s
There was but fifteen-day run at
the Nampa sugar factory, owing TO
the scarcity Of beets, sos
OF the seven normals In the Pacific
northwest, the State Normal at Lewis
ton, is recognized as the foremost
The forest reserves in Idaho are to
be "dry" in the future. orders have
been issued to close all saloons on the
national forest reserves,
It is said that determined effort
will be made at the coming session OF
the legislature to amend the Sunday
rest law along more liberal lines.
Fire which threatened to destroy
the business section OF Kootenai was
subdued after the new Athletic club
building had been burned to the
ground.
John M. Lowell, a Great Northern
brakeman, was severely injured at
Elmira. While making coupling he
slipped. and his foot was badly
crushed
c. W. Williams, who had been Nv
ing eight miles west Of Emmett, Is
dead at the age Of So, being one OF
the Oldest persons In that portion OF
the Payette valley
Samuel Holman, resident OF Gus.
ter county for thirty years, is dead.
He was the founder OF the town Of
Custer and the discoverer Of many OF
the mines that arr now famous.
The success Of the state poultry
show at Boise has resulted In the
members of the association declaring
for bigger and better show next
year, and plans are already under way.
The large boarding house at KEEL
logg Of Mrs. Charles Russell was
burned to the ground and eight board
ers were injured, all Of whom are now
at the hospital of the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan Mining company.
The farmers supplying the Black
foot sugar factory with beets next
season will be paid SIS ton for their
beets, and 1t Is believed they will
raise sufficient crop to keep the fac
tory running several months
The movable school OF agriculture
sessions In Meridian proved great
success. Much good was accomplished
along the lines for which the school
was organized, and 1t Is planned to
have similar affair next year.
John ]. Franklin of South Boise is
the possessor Of team of bull moose
which he, captured in the northern
part Of this state q year ago, and the
team has now become so broken that
they are driven BY Franklin about the
city.
A charge Of murder in the first de-
gree has been preferred against Will
liam Crowder. who ia alleged to have
stabbed Lawrence Vaughn to death
at Eagle. The complaint is signed by
Robert Vaughn. brother Of the dead
man. 81
Thomas Underwood was seriously
injured when eight tons Of cornice
stone at the capitol building in Boise
gave way and fell But for the fact
that he was on top of the rock when
1t fell, he would have been crushed
to death.
The 1910 show Of the Idaho State
Poultry association came to close
Saturday night, inaugurating a new
era in the poultry industry in Idaho.
for It is recognized on all sides that
the show was the best ever held In
che state.
John George, a Greek laborer who
was engaged in saving timber near
Pend d'Oreille, was struck by fall
tng tree and instantly killed. An err
ror in notching the tree caused it to
tall the wrong way. Georges skufi be-
ing crushed.
The members of the legislature from
southeastern Idaho seem to be unit
In demanding an appropriation for the
construction Of good road through
an impossible sand bank in the Fort
Hall Indian reservation between Po-
catello and Blackfoot.
The hrst instance on record In the
northwest wherein one jurist commit.
ted another to the insane asylum, oc-
CURED at Lewiston last week, when
Probate Judge 7. @. Hanlon commit
ted Probate Judge J. e. Jacques Of
Idaho county to the Orofno hospital
for the insane.
The commissioner Of public lands at
Washington, according to advices re.
celved by the Lewiston land office,
has decided In favor of the Northern
Pacific against Idaho in a suit involv.
Ing title to several thousand acres Of
valuable timber land In the North
Fork region.
An Emmett correspondent says the
people Of that section Of the state
threaten to resort to the courts II |