Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-06-15
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Fremont country. There are 100000
acres of prime farm lands contribut.
ing their wealth to the residents OF
that county.
st. Anthony has electric lights
and water system, supplying electric
power for light and power purposes,
and water for domestic use, and pres
sure for fire protection.
One family near Wendell boasts that
the only staple groceries needed to be
purchased are coffee. flour and sugar
They produce everything else they
need right on their good north side
farm.
Everything is running smoothly at
the state industrial school in st. An
thony, according to Governor Hawley
who spent day inspecting that in
stitution on his recent trip through
the southeast.
Jack Flynn, who shot and seriously
wounded a Twin Falls man named
Connors, at Jarbidge. has been &C.
quilted by the trial judge, the evi.
dence showing that the shooting was
in self defense.
Hop smokers are having all sorts of
trouble in Boise, says the Statesman.
Where they were smoking a quarters
worth of opium few years ago they
are now paying three and four dol
lars for the same amount
w. A. Rose, a farmer living near
Boise, is the owner of copies of one
of the oldest newspapers published in
New York state, the Ulster County Ga
zette, of which he has two copies of
the edition of January 4, 1900.
Boise valleys fruit crop was great
ly benefited by the recent rainfalls.
and the fruit men claim that this year
is going to be the best in their his
tory, because of the excellent fall of
rain and the temperate weather.
Delegates to the annual convention
of the Intermountain Good Roads as
ISOLATION to be held at Pocatello June
% to "a will work for good roads
throughout the western states under
the slogan, Good roads for good peo-
pie"
Charles Elmer Johnson, believed to
be a resident of Boise. has been kill
ed in an accident on the railroad at
Mabton, Wash, and citizens there
have written to the postmaster at
Boise, asking information regarding
him.
The annual Grand Army encamp-
ment for the state of 1adho will this
year be held at Twin Falls June 20.
81 and %, and is expected to be one
of the most successful that has been
held in the history of the state organ
ization.
There will be slight decrease in the
corporation tax collected in the Mon
tana-Idaho district this year as com
pared to the tax collected a year ago |
Assessments in this district to May / |
aggregated s202,799 as against s2O3,. |
444 last year.
Because of the rapid increase in |
the number Of prisoners at the state |
penitentiary and the consequent de-
mand for cell room, Warden Shook |
proposes to at once begin the install |
lation of forty more cells in the new
cell house in the prison yard.
Southern Idaho will have the great. |
est crop this year ever known in its |
history, according to Charles ]. Sin |
sci, a well known fruit man, who has |
just returned from an extensive trip |
through all of the fruit growing Sec
tons of this part of the state
/
acres; is 60x100 miles; six times as |
large as the state of Rhode Island |
Two-thirds of this area is rich agri- |
cultural and grazing lands; the other !
third timber lands. The population in
1900 was 1881; in 1909, 1880.
Work was begun last week laying
the steel on the Golden Gate branch
of the Short Line from Caldwell to
Homedale, about a mile and a half
to be laid daily, so that it will only
be few days till business and traffic
can be done between the two towns.
The Southeastern Idaho Beekeeprs'
association, composed of a number of
those interested in the production of
honey in that section of the state,
met in convention at Idaho Falls last
week. The members of the associa-
ton will market 800 tons of extracted
honey this season.
After negotiations pending for
about two years, the deal whereby the
state of Idaho will come into posses
sion of the land to be known as Hey
burn park, has been concluded.
Albert Collier, the 14-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Collier of Nam
pa, who was accidentally shot Memoir
ial day, died at Boise hospital where
be had been taken for treatment
1t is the intention OF the Ohio So
ciety- of Idaho to see to it that the
1000 former Ohioans now residents
of Idaho exert every influence in the
future to bring to Idaho its fair pro-
portion of desirable citizens, says the
Boise Statesman.
Bernard Thompson, aged 8, and
Russell Moore, aged 10, were drowned