The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-11-30
IN THE GEM STATE

At public auction near Star, thirty
cows sold at an average price of SIS.
Reports from the upper country
north of Emmett indicate the heaviest
fall of snow for so early in November
in many years.
Two men, while hunting rabbits
just east of the town limits of Noun
tain Home, killed fine. fat buck.
The deer was brought down with a
shot from a .22 caliber rifle.
January 20 to February 3, Is the
time set for the big poultry show to
be held in Boise. Money is being
raised for the purchase of a NAM
moth tent in which the show is to
be held.
Michael Conway, who died recent
ly at his home near Notus, was the
first agent the Short Line had at
Caldwell, coming from Utah when the
road was first built, and later en-
gaging in farming.
One of the most complete tele-
phone systems in any city of its size
in the west and a combination auto
mobile ambulance and patrol are to
be part of the equipment of the Boise
police department next year.
In a decision handed down at Lew
iston the supreme court has decided
that debt ordered to be paid by
judgment of the court is legally
alive up until six years from the
Of hn limo If hn nd
The contract for the construction
of steel bridge to be known as the
Mountain Home bridge across the
Snake river between Gilmore and Owy-
hee counties has been let The price
to be paid for the completed bridge is
$22,674.
The state dairy, food and sanitary
inspector has rushed to the protec-
ton of the farmer who makes his real
cider vinegar by issuing warning to
all dealers that the spurious goods
have got to be cleaned off the market
at once.
John Corby, found guilty of assault
with deadly weapon for using a
knife on James Lucas in a Boise sa-
loon on the night of August 29, has
been given an indeterminate sentence
of from six months to two years in
the state prison.
William Odell, widower, sixty-five
years old, killed his son David at Post
Falls and shot the thumb off Ben
Stellman. All the men had been
drinking, and when quarrel arose
over trivial matter, the elder Odell
was attacked by the others.
There is estimated to have been
about 10000 acres of grain and 5000
acres Of timothy raised in Long val
ley this year, which is less than 10
per cent of the agricultural land now
under cultivation. Most of the grain
yield was SO bushels per acre.
Joe Glennan, "a years old, was
placed in the penitentiary last week
under sentence of from one to two
years, for assault with a deadly
weapon. This is the outcome of q
family quarrel, in which Glennan and
his 19-year-old son engaged in duel.
James H. Wallis, state dairy, food
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tees to all of the poultry dealers in
the state warning them that any VIC
lation of the state laws prohibiting
the sale of undrawn poultry will be
prosecuted to the limit by his depart
ment.
DR.. All Fang a Chinese doctor OF
Boise, who has lived in Idaho As
years, is to return to China, taking
his wife and daughter with him, as
we'll as four of the five pioneer
Cinnamon Of the basin. 1t is be
lieved that all of the party will re
main in China.
In a decision handed down at Lew
iston, the supreme court has affirmed
the Judgment of the district court IN
Kootenai county in the sum of $4,000
in the condemnation proceedings
brought by the Idaho Western rail
way company against the Evangelical
Lutheran synod.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of Rolf Johnson, the 15-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. F. S. johnson o.
Cole Sschool station, who disappeared
from the sawmill at camp IA at Ar
row Rock on October 16 with at leas
5000 in his pocket. The boy has no
since been heard from.
Governor Hawley has asked thu
Short Line to continue work on thu
station at Hammett. 1t was rumoret
that the Short Line had decided tt
abandon the plan of putting station
at Hammett, on the grounds tina
there might be shortage of watel
for the use of the railroad next year
Marion Kirkpatrick, a handsome
young woman of %, is under arres
at Boise on the charge of being ;
daring and successful horse thief.
is alleged that, unaided, she rounde'
up a large band of wild horses be
longing to a large cattle company II
Owyhee county, selected the bes
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