The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS


- By1lsby people of Chicago.
Governor Hawley is exerting every
sa1k,Cf TO secure the 1913 session Of
Hae International Dry Farming con.
aresS f0r Boise.
That q motor car service will soon
to IN active operation between Idaho
MA0z and the several towns adjacent
Nm the very near future is foregone
4zsnnelnainn
Aorth Idaho II second In the United
2kk&Hz IN the production Of lead, this
Hgnr: according to the annual advance
Nanfement Of the United States geo.
3DEfeal survey.
En1akcative Of interest in the move
-menE Tor better educational facilities.
Axures show that $250.000 is to be
expended In northern Idaho this year
Enr school buildings.
Work on the Burley sugar factory
d progressing very rapidly. Over 100
men are now employed on the build.
Ing. and twenty-five carloads Of ma.
"<Ainery have been received.
HAmp" q. HI Peacock, a printer.
7za4ed -. died at McCammon from
heArt failure last week. Peacock
had worked in number Of printing
offices throughout the state.
Several Of the negroes who have
besA giving the police department OF
Boise all kinds Of trouble lately have
been escorted to the city limits and
shown the way out of town.
More than 21,040 acres Of land in
she dry farming belt Of Ada, Boise
saaA Canyon counties have been added
gs &he enlarged homestead classified.
.ls10n8 Of the interior department.
IMe comptroller of the currency
s1aS authorized the payment of sec
eaand dividend Of 10 per cent to the
,screSdxcrs of the First National bank
rs3f salmon. which was closed last
-.Eune-
Tint Bonneville county will soon
tEase = home for her officials is evi.
sdenoeA by the act that the county
sScumzMdssioners are already figuring on
ssuch q building, says an Idaho Falls
dispatch.
The Soda Springs Commercial club
Is urging the county commissioners
of BaunDck county to appropriate ST..
ADJ for the construction of road
FROM Sixia Springs through the Tin
ssCnp cxNantry.
The last of the work of grading the
.Saix Lake e Idaho railroad has been
completed. The roadbed is now ready
sIur the steel for the entire sixty-five
1aailss from Burley to Kelton Summit,
ssear the Utah line.
Nike Davis, who held up Mike
Ryan at Mountain Home and robbed
.him of $3.50. must serve a term in
the, psanitentiary. The sheriff heard
,s1f the robbery and ran out in his
night clothes and arrested Davis.
William Martinsen of Idaho Falls,
who OWNS extensive ranch interests
near Grant, has been shipping baled
alfalfa TO the st. Louis markets and
Gas received price ranging from
<24k0 to $26 per ton for it there.
Rhe village board of Burley has
dad prepared an ordinance calling an
l=leetinn for voting upon the question
NJ bonding for $4,000 to extend the
slectric lighting and power station,
and Exit In water works and sewers.
legal authorities in Adams county
f.nave requested an opinion from the
.ssnfee of Attorney General McDougall
rs to M1aether the question of remov-
Snx the county seat from Council to
some other city within the county
xnaT be submitted to the people at
lezhS general election this fall
Nn1iee Of intention to circulate pc
s.1tfnns for vote on the question of
ssnavinE the county seat of Cassia
x.nunfy from Albion to Burley has
g0een Published. and the petitions will
.aa circulated within few weeks,
mad the question will be settled at the
l3oNs IN November.
The interior department, notwith-
standing the, action of the attorney
general In dismissing the criminal
4suits against the Barber Lumber
s,ompany, says Washington dis
saa1rh, has recommended and urged
chat an appeal be taken to the SUI
scxEme court in the civil cases against
sg1Eix company.
Amer waiting nearly ten years for
.xzter. the people Of Dead Ok Flat
azst week saw water lifted 40 feet
nigh 1T the rate of twenty cubic feet
~ secnad and running in three of the
-.t1Ehes. one ffty, one eighty, and one
Hl0 feet lift. 1t is estimated this
-seefion will now furnish homes for
TsE1n $50 to 1000 families.
Nn Mary A. Rich, widow of
&ynxfle Charles c. Rich of the Nor
1ox church, prominent and
wealthy woman Of that region, died
NJ her home at Paris, April II, aged
-as9mty-five years. General debility
rNaH the cause.
II A Thometz received check for
ax9z&3o for single car of Idaho
Ewzl v,ofatoaS last waek grown IN