The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-12-28
IN THE GEM STATE


First National Bank of Caldwell to
December Is, 1881.
So far this month the government
assay office at Boise has bought $72,-
900 worth of gold from the mines of
the district, and has shipped 1t to the
Denver mint for coinage.
A large number of Hollanders have
arrived in Twin Falls during the past
week, with a view to establishing a
colony or possibly two or three col
onies in this part of the country.
Lumbermen of northern Idaho, rep
resenting 100000 acres of timber. who
held meeting in Spokane last week,
pledged the University OF Idaho $54,-
900 to construct forestry building.
The postmaster at Emmett has re-
ceived official notice from the post
master general, stating that Emmett
had been designated as a postal saw
ings depository, to take effect on Jan.
uary 4.
Isaac R. Smith, farmer living in
the vicinity of Midvale. Washington
county, believes that he has found
coal. He has filed a coal declaratory
statement in the federal land office on
certain lands.
The 13-months-old child of Or. and
Mrs. Elliott Tennyson, living near En-
NETT, choked to death on walnut
shell The little one got a piece of
shell, and In attempting to swallow 1t,
1t stuck in the throat.
Articles of incorporation were fled
with the secretary of state recently
by the Del Rio Ranch company of
Twin Falls. This company, according
to the articles, will engage in a gen.
eral orchard business.
A. D. McKinlay of Twin Falls, a pio-
neer of Idaho. twice probate judge of
Shoshone county and owner of much
Wallace property, was instantly killed
when an engine blew up at Glover Sid
ing, near Pendleton. Ore.
The Kuhn brothers from Pittsburg,
Pa, who have extensive railway and
irrigation projects in southern Idaho.
bought the Emmett fruit exhibit d.
the Canyon county fair this year and
took it to New York to demonstrate
what Idaho can do.
In the Long valley hay is selling at
S. per ton, oats, $1.25 per hundred.
weight; wheat, 81 per cwt.; potatoes,
81 per cwt.; creamery butter, 40
cents; ranch butter. IS cents; butter
tat, "a cents; eggs, 40 cents; fresh
pork, 10 cents per pound.
It is indicated that the Union As.
sociation Baseball league next year
will consist OF Boise, Helena. Salt
Lake, Ogden, Missoula and Great
Falls. If Butte remains in the league
a team will be placed in Pocatello
making an eight-club league.
The alfalfa mill at Filler just recent
ly completed by stock company o.
farmers at cost Of $4,000, is now
running night and day, with a full
force of men. The mill is now hand
ting Ave tons of alfalfa per hour and
is running fourteen hours day.
Idaho now numbers among her fail
suffragettes three women who are
competent to practice as attorneys be
fore the supreme court of the state
The latest addition to this coterie o
women attorneys is Miss Margare
Beall Cornell of Gilmore county.
Voters of Salmon City have for thu
fourth time declared in favor of mum
cipal waterworks. The proposition
submitted was to issue 100000 o
bonds to buy and improve the private
water system. Previous elections hav'
been invalidated after extended litiga
ton.
The Boise-Meridian road now unde
construction by the county is the bes
piece of roadway ever built in Idaho
and will prove lasting monument t.
the present county commissioners
according to representative of Spc
kane paving firm, who Inspected tn
work.
There was a largely attended meet
ing of farmrs at Meridian last week
called for the purpose of devisin
ways and means to relieve the hig
tax situation. Most of the officer
from the governor down to the count
end precinct officers were hauled owe
the Goals.
Premature nitroglycerine explosion
is now the agency blamed by the o
ificials investigating the case for tn
fact that Harry Barton's head was pa
italy blown away shortly after tn
robbery of the grocery store and pos
office at Picabo on the night of NJ
vember 81.
Warning the new corners to tn
state that there is perhaps no Occup;
ton that requires better judgment
more liberal application OF brain powe
than does farming in an irrigate
country, J. S. Jones, chemist at tn
experiment station at Moscow, give
the beginner several apt suggestion
in a bulletin just issued.
The advertising of the big land sal
which is to be held in Canyon count
on January 5, 1912, by the land depar