Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-06-15
in THE GEM STATE

The Nampa city council has passed
an ordinance permitting the opening
of moving picture houses on Sunday in
Nampa.
On July 1 the salaries Of large
number OF Idaho postmasters win be
increased because OF the growth Of
the postoffice receipts
Petitions to the county commission
ers have been put in circulation in
Caldwell to call a special election to
vote on the local option question
Seven crews of surveyors for the
Idaho Northern are now in the field
and it is said the road will be built up
the Payette into Long valley at once.
w. d. Garlock, prominent real es-
tate man Of Shoshone. was arrested at
Gooding last week and taken to Poca-
tello to answer a charge of using the
mails for fraudulent purposes.
1t is estimated that 1000 acres are
in crop on the Twin Falls north side
tract this year, and the completion OF
the new railroad to Wendell puts the
tract in touch with the markets.
Fruit is now far enough advanced
in Boise valley and other fruit grow
ing sections of the state to prove con-
clusively to the growers that the
frosts Of the early spring did little
damage.
The completion Of the Oregon Short
Line into Wendell on June 9 was the
occasion Of a celebration including
baseball game, races and oratory and
fireworks, in which thousand people
participated.
Mrs. Earl Brewer, wife of a promi-
nent ranchman who lives near Irwin,
Swan valley, near the Wyoming Dor
der, was struck by lightning and killed
while riding in an open vehicle with
her husband.
The first wool sale in Bannock
county this year was consummated
last week, when William Jackson, rep
resenting a Boston wool buying house,
purchased from Bicknell & Gemmell
their 100000 pound clip for 171z cents.
Two thousand cubic feet Of water
per second. or nearly twice as much
as is carried off by the valves, the only
outlet for the water before the spill.
way was built. is now passing over the
Mackay dam in the spillway built by
the state
Showing the excellent pasture to
\ be found in that part Of the state is
the fact that George V. Leighton,
eight miles west Of Boise, has a blue
i grass pasture of thirty acres, on which
he has pastured 900 head of sheep
for the past five weeks.
Indications are that there will be
fully 10000 more hunting and fishing
81 licenses granted by the state game
warden's department this year than
last, when 42,742 went out, or a num-
Der equivalent to 10 per cent Of the
q total population of the state.
There are seven machine shearing
u plants in and around Soda Springs
and two hand plants The machine
8 plants will average twenty-five ma.
4 chimes each, with an aggregate capac-
ity of 1850 sheep per day. The
d shearing season will last over thirty
8 days.
q Forty-nine cars Of ore have left the
8 Empire Copper company's mines of
Mackay for the Garfield smelters near
s. Salt Lake during the past four weeks
81 since the Shay road was put In opera
IS ton after the winters tieup on ac.
q count Of the snow on the mountain
RI side.
81 The health officers made a cleanup
81 at Pocatello last week, closing up
81 every restaurant in town, with one
exception. They had forty-six cases
"a in court and secured about forty-four
convictions. One case was postponed
and one dismissed because Of lack Of
It evidence.
Clinton Fl. Harrison, who since
March, 1909, has been chief of the
special agents of the interior depart.
SI ment in the Idaho field division. has
rendered his resignation, and upon its
acceptance will retire from the gov
ernment service and take up the prac
tice of law in Boise.
With the building of the Salt Lake &
Idaho railroad. on which work already
has started. will come greater wealth
to the northwestern part of Utah and
the southern part Of Idaho. Thousands
Iof acres Of land will be reclaimed and
settlers by the hundreds will flock to
the territory to be opened up.
|z After a spirited debate at the Og
den convention, in which Pocatello,
logan and Salt Lake were evenly
matched for the honor of entertaining
he United Commercial Travellers
next year. the northern districts OF
Montana and Idaho threw their in
&luence in favor Of Pocatello, which
secured the prize. the convention to
be held June 10, IL and u. 1912.