American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1911-09-14
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The hotel and three dwellings Z,
Rocky Bar q destroyed BY nrs
last week.
Boise II to have Federated
Trades Council. u plans now being
formulated are carried out.
George Allen Of HALEY had his
right hand badly shattered By the pre-
mature discharge Of . gun while out
hunting.
The frst carload Of prunes OF tho
a was shipped from Emmett ON
September 2. The prune crop Of that
section this year 10 estimated 1t
about fifteen carloads.
Mrs. ". H. Hartman, widow Of
the late railroad king. last week left
for her eastern home. after three
weeks vacation 1t the country home
Of ". 8. Eccies. Island Park. Idaho.
Night Warehouseman H. T. Peter
con Of the Oregon Short Line was
run down and killed by . train ut
Payette on the 9Th. II IL not known
definitely how the accident happened.
o. L. Phillips, one Of Middieton's
prominent citizens and fruit growers,
was painfully and nearly fatally In
lured last week by being kicked in
the head by his family driving horse.
Ten thousand pounds Of luscious.
Juicy watermelons and cantaloupes
will be consumed by residents and
visitors to Mountain Home ON Sum.
day, September 10. which IL Melon
Day" in that city.
The number Of young trout in tho
streams Of Bannock. Bear Lake and
Twin Fails counties has been increas-
Cd approximately 500. 900 during the
past fortnight ~ q result of the visit
Of the state fsh car.
The Anti-Saloon league, carried on
its feet with the sweeping victories
o in Bannock and Canyon counties,
has already launched q movement to
down the "wets" in Ada county, II
such q thing Ii possible.
John Reed, aged 80 years, a tour
ist from Elwood. Neb., to Nampa,
vas the victim Of an accident in the
Pocatello yards that resulted in the
loss OF his left hand. Reed fell under
. train whom getting on.
At tho local option election in Can
yon county on tho 9Th. the county
again voted dry by . majority Of 2.40o
out of $500 votes cast. Nampa was
he only town voting wet. An In.
crease of the wet vote IL shown In all
the towns.
The first elephant that ever trod
the soil of Kamas prairie was exhib.
tied at Cottonwood last week by a
small circus. and the farmers from all
over the country suspended haresting
operations and came to greet the pio.
nser pachyderm.
Largely because she Is the mother
of ak children, Mrs. c. l.. Isbell Of
St. Joe, Ida. has been made teacher
Of the Gordon school at a salary of
500 per month. At present there is
but n child In the entire district.
besides those of the teacher.
The Long valley indictment return
cd against thirty-two ranchers resid,
Ing In that section Of Idaho, charg.
Ing them with conspiring to deprive
. citizen Of his rights under the laws
of the United States. were Quashed
In the federal court at Boise ON the
9Th.
Preston IL to have . water system.
Birch springs were purchased from
the Cub River Irrigation company and
q survey of the pipe line Is nearly
completed, when figures will be fur
nished of the estimated cost and an
election called to decide the bonding
question.
A coroner's Jury at Grangeville
found that Peter Malllck, q half-breed
Nez Perez Indian. who was shot to
death in the county Jail there, met
death at the hands Of unknown per-
SONS. 1t also e%xonerated the Jail
keepers on the ground that they wers
overpowered.
Bannock county has voted to re-
main in the dry column. following
one of the bitterest local option cleo
tons v e held. Despite the fact
that Pocatello. the county seal and
metropolis of the southeast part Of
the state, gave q wet majority of
$50. the drys won.
The Lower Salmon Falls power
plant located on the Snake river in
the Hagerman valley rs at present be.
ing enlarged to a care OF the rap
idly growing business and the new
territory being covered by the lines
OF the Great Shoshone & Twin Falls
Water Power company.
Heavy rains have fallen in the Snake
and Clearwater valleys and In the
Prairie regions. About five per cent
Of grain is still uncut. half Of which
ts barley. and this will discolor 10