Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-08-03
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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a steep hill, near Cambridge. Wal.
lace Coffee, 10 year old. fell off and
was serevely injured, but it is be-
heved he will recover.
Six counties in the northern tier
are responding literally 70 a call for
financial support to build home at
Lewiston for the Children's Home
Finding and Aid society.
The Conway hotel at Star was de.
stroyed by fire Wednesday morning,
but most of the furniture was saved.
It is thought that most If the loss
was covered by insurance.
The body of Louis Odick, the boy
drowned near Caldwell, has been re-
covered The body was quite badly
discolored and cramped up and it
was evident that the boy was seized
with cramps.
The Payette Valley arilroad has Sc
cured a contract from the govern.
ment to carry mail over its entire
line from Emmett to Payette. Mail
is now carried daily to Letha and
Falk from Emmett
Owyhee county mining properties
are producing well and number of
mines have a large force Of men
steadily at work. so that bullion re-
turns and payroTls maintain good
business and trade conditions.
The board of commissioners of Cas-
STA county has closed its session as a
board OF equalization. and has left the
assessment roll in much the same
condition as it was when turned over
to them by the county assessor.
Exclusive of the Boise river stor-
age, the great Boise irrigation pro-
ject was IA per cent completed, and
the storage unit was SO per cent
completed by the end Of June of this
year, according to an official report.
A movement was set on foot at a
meeting of the Boise Police Benevo-
lent association last week, to secure
some property and build a real home
for injured, aged or decrepit patrol
men who are past the period OF ac-
tive service.
Because Mack MCLEAN. colored,
snored, as he was enjoying a siesta
on lounging couch at the Court
ney Colored Gentlemen's club in
Boise, Ed Caldwell, also colored, at
tackled him with a knife, infiicting
severe wounds.
Detectives are searching for the
person who placed threatening let
ter, demanding 800. on top of a post
beside a mail box in front of tbs
home of c. R Carlson, a we'll known
west of Meridian.
The Caldwell Commercial club and
real estate dealers are making pre-
parations for an extensive campaign
of advertising of the city. The most
important work is the arranging oil
four different exhibits, one for Des
Moines, Omaha, Lincoln and Cald
well.
Francis Fox, who conducts a board
ing house at Wallace, was shot three
times and beat over the head until
unconscious by Jack Dillon, miner
the shooting occurring without warn
ing and apparently without cause
Fox is in the hospital and Dillon IL
Jail
Idaho county is the first to file will
the state board of equalization ;
complete abstract of it's assessment
Of property for the present year. Thu
to be SS,2S5,416, an increase of 81
325,7S2 over 1910, or 100 per cent in
crease.
The actual work Of consolidatin,
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company system and the Inderenden
system in the district including Ada
Canyon and Washington counties. 4
under way. but the real consolidation
in Boise will not be completed TO
two months or longer.
Boise is expected shortly to com,
into ownership of 160 acres OF lanC
up Boise canyon by the good grace
of Uncle Sam, and it is said that ;
great quarry located on this land will
furnish the municipality with as fine
a grade of pavement rock as wal
ever used in the northwest.
Mrs. Mary e. Hartman, widow o
the late railroad king, f. H. Hartman
is expected to arrive from New Yori
early next month with her children
to spend few weeks on a ranch nea
Island Lake. northeastern Idaho. ;
few miles west Of the Yellowstone
branch of the Oregon Short Line.
Two freight trains collided nea
Downey, the crews having a marrow
escape from death. Both engines wer,
demolished and both engineers ant
fremen were slightly injured.
The Smithsonian institute will sool
be enriched with the skeleton of ;
huge prehistoric animal excavateI
from sand hill five miles west o
Montpelier. The finders believe the.
have unearthed the skeleton of ;
mostodon.
It. H. DeBord became suddenly in