Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-06-29
IN THE GEM STATE

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A hay fork struck the ten-year-old
son of H. ]. Dickman, near Nampa.
in the head. tearing his face fright
s fully He may not recover.
AT the annual grand lodge session
4 of the Knights of Pythias, held at
Standpoint, seventy-five Knights. rep
A resenting forty-four Idaho lodges
were present
The first contract for the construc-
n ton of the extension of the Idaho
Northern from Emmett to Smiths
q Ferry was let last week to the Utah
A Construction company.
The residence of John Sanford, of
a Nampa, was totally destroyed by fire
4 last week, the fire being caused by
4 an overheated stove The loss was
4 $1,250 with no insurance.
q The new Hotel Washington at Wet
3 ser is nearing completion, 1t being
q expected that the opening will oc-
cur September /. The hotel when
completed will be one Of the finest
In the state.
Boise is to have a safe and sane
a celebration of Independence day, ac-
u cording to an edict of the police de-
3 partment, the dealers being warned
to sell nothing but small fre-crack-
ers, the giant cracker being barred
p. Garden was seriously injured
8 as the result of a runaway at New
:. Meadows. In his endeavor to stop
II the frightened horses the wagon
& tongue hit him in the chest. causing
81 what is feared to be serious internal
8 injury.
q In fight between worlxmen near
Hmmett, man named Sullivan drew
4 his knife and cut the throat of Dave
s. Kelly about three inches in length
q from his ear and narrowly missing
the jugular vein. The injured man
81 will recover
81 AS Charles Winder, a rancher liv-
Ting near Cambridge, was closing a
h gate at his home a bolt Of lightning
struck him unconscious. When the
& physician arrived he had regained
& consciousness and no serious results
are anticipated
One of the biggest catfish ever
" caught IN the Boise river was landed
Il last week by c. II. Comingore, near
Il Boise. The giant cat tipped the
beam at 11ik pounds and measured
z271s inches in length. He was landed
& with light tackle
a The largest mortgage ever filed in
Idaho was filed last week at Lewis
#ton.. The instrument is $175.000, 900
9aud Is given by the Oregon-Washing-
ton Railway & Navigation company
NO the Farmers Loan g. Trust com
Spany. of New York.
Mrs. Cynthia Mann OF Boise, who
went to Washington last week to at
tend the charities and corrections
convention, was knocked down by a
shorse attached to a buggy as she
was alighting from street car and
was painfully injurd.
Federal aid for good roads in the
s shape Of million acre land grant
# for each of the western states. was
81 advocated by a number of prominent
speakers before the annual conven-
ton of the Intermountain Good Roads
association in Pocatello.
R. j. ODonnel, balloonist, OF
Spokane, Wash, giving a street car
nival in Weiser. was drowned in the
Snake river about one mile from
where he ascended. AS he dropped
with his parachute, the wind carried
him to the middle of the river.
Tests made at the experimental
pilots scattered over the state indi-
cate that Idaho ranchers will be able
to get along this year with much
less water than they had to have last
year. according to Don H. Bark, CHIEF
of the government irrigation investi
cation for Idaho
NJ H. Spangler. who pleaded
guilty at Shoshone to the charge Of
murder in the first degree, in connec
ton with the death OF Mrs. Cora B
Rogers. a divorced woman whom he
was accused of having shot April 1.
In that city, has been sentenced t.
life Imprisonment.
There is no longer any scarcity o
work about Boise says the States
faan. There Us a constant demand
for labor in the various farming an,
milling sections Of the state. and
there have been scores of laboreri
who have left the city in the pas
New days to take work.
The report comes from Wallac'
that Fred Hartman. newly-aI
pointed justice of the peace Of Avery
Slogan the celebration OF his appoint
ment to Office Immediately. after ez
acting S105 cash bonds from a pris
oner. which he proceeded to spend
having sos left when arrested