Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-04-06
IDAHO'STATE NEWS

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death having resulted from internal |
injuries.
The body of ]. 0. Nermillion, who !
was drowned in the Snake river al
Augur Falls. on Sunday. December 1, ,
was found in the river near Bull |
on March %.
Property in Idaho will be assessed f.
as its actual cash value this year re-
CARELESS of all consequences. This /
is the dictum of the state board OF
equalization.
The survey has been made for the
new town OF Lowell Park. The new
town is located at the junction of the
Oregon Short Line railroad with the
Rupert Bliss cutoff
All indications point to a banner
year on Camas prairie. The heavy
snow OF the past winter is sure in
dication and guarantee that the
grain yield will be far above the av-
erage.
The fame of Camas prairie as q
health resort is rapidly spreading
over southern Idaho, and many inquir
les have been received by local physi
clans asking regarding accomoda
tionS.
A blind man of Boise, who sued
his wife for divorce. charging cruel
ty, was denied a degree of divorce,
but the court ordered the wife to
pay SO month in support OF her
husband.
After losing five bear dogs and
coming within a decidedly close mar
gin of death in bear fight himself,
H. c. Armstrong, living fifteen miles
back in the hills from Boise. came
into town with the pelt of the animal
Work has been started on the inter
urban line east of Idaho Falls. 1t
will be 33 miles in length and will
cost approximately $4,000. The
line will branch, one terminus being
at Popular and the other. at Goshen.
Authorization for the building OF
the long-planned Raft River cut-of
destined eventually to connect the
Lucin cutoff with the main line OF
the Oregon Short Line at Burnley, has
been made at the Hartman offices in
New York
The federal grand jury which for
two weeks had been probing charges
here, Thursday night returned eight
secret indictments directed, it is re-
liably stated. against the night riders
who terrorized settlers In the Camas
Prairie country.
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she succeeded in frightening away
and then fire three revolver shots al
his fleeing figure, is the exciting ex
perience Mrs. ]. II. Stonehouse, {
prominent lady of Weiser, went
through one night last week.
There is a great deal of activity il
Nampa relative to the good roads
proposition within the city limits
The thoroughfares leading into Nam
pa from the various communitie:
have been improved by dragging TIL
work being done by farmers.
One year ago the assessors in tn
various counties of Idaho placed
valuation of s42,OOO.OOO on the farm
of this state. This was done for tn
farmers will pay taxes on the sam
farms at a valuation OF Si0O,O0n.O0'
The work of relaying all that par
of the Idaho division of the Orego
Short Line with 80 pound steel, nc
already equipped, was commence
Monday Ind will be completed i
about ninety days The new rails wi
replace the 7O-pound rails now in use
For the purpose of forming a con
pany to take whitefish from the lake
in the northern part of the stat
eastern capitalists are now in Bots
While scores of individual fisherme
have been making a living in tn
manner, this is the first company
invade the field.
After coming from Argyle, Fla,
Moscow, arriving March IA, and b
ing arrested the next day loiterir
about the University Of Idaho
Sheriff Brown, who charged her vii
insanity. Miss Augusta NJ. Hun
whose mysterious actions created
sensation. has been discharged.
Ihere are nunCIeuS Ol SlopO''
tickets being deposited at the Mani
passenger depot every day and sin
the special rate began on the 10th
this month there have been not lie
than 500 tickets deposited for layov
privileges. AS high as 80 in one d.
have been deposited.
The president has issued an ord
postponing until 1912 all advance pa
ments due from settlers on the Sou
Side Minidoka irrigation project
cause of hardships they endured IL
season, and the Oregon Short Ii
has agreed to furnish seed to the
farmers upto the value Of 100000.
A colony of cougars infesting
North Fork region in the vicinity
Big island. 40 miles above Ahsahl
Idaho, is decimating the deer in tt
locality, according to r. B. Hibbs,
Lewiston. who has been hunting a