The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-06-20
IDAHO
IDAHO STATE NEWS
sari P. Brown. Publisher.

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900 schoolhouse
Tho annual convention of the south
Idaho Christian Missionary society
will be helo in Boise June 1916.
George Sharman, SO years old, died
at Boise hospital from injuries re
-ceived when he fell from q porch.
Plans for watering 5000 acres on
Little Willow, nine miles east of Pay.
cite, are rapidly approaching compile.
ton.
Rev. Russell Austin Mckinley, D.
D.. for three years pastor of the First
Presbyterian church in Boise, died
June 2 at Reynoldsville, Pa.
The work of laying steel on the
Caldwell Interurban has commenced
and will continue as rapidly as pos
sible until the work Ia completed to
Snake river. - .
Noise, red fire and patriotism will
vie with each other at Boise on July
4. where plans for mammoth indie
pendence day celebration are being
formulated.
Harold Hunt of Emmett, aged 10,
passed the highest test in the eighth
grade examinatin in the county, max.
ing an average Of 96 per cent in all
OF the studies.
Worry over money caused Morris
Burke. aged 80, and son of William
Burke, a cattleman of American Falls
and Portland, Ore, to take poison at
Salt Lake, death resulting
Governor Hawley has been invited
by the Spokane Chamber Of Commerce
to attend the national assembly of
civil service commissions, which
meets in Spokane on June 81 and %.
Flockmasters have commenced de.
livering their wool to the warehouses
in Palette. The seasons clip is esti-
mated at half million pounds
somewhat less than last year. The
quality is excellent.
Nearly 5000 notices have been sent
out from the office of w. l.. Clifford,
secretary of state, calling upon cor
porations doing business in Idaho to
submit an annual statement and to
pay the annual fee to the state.
OF the ninety-four members Of the
graduating class of 1912 of the Boise
high school, twenty three are going to
higher institutions of learning this fall
and twenty-three were not quite decid-
ed when the canvass was made by
Principal Rose.
The electric line between Caldwell
and Nampa opened for business for
the first time on June g. BY the open
ing of this line the dream of many
of the citizens Of the two towns has
become realization and will prove
to be of mutual benefit.
The danger of freeze and forst that
could injure the prospects of Payette
valley for the largest crop in It's his
tory has passed by. Enthusiastic
growers and shippers predict as high
as $500 carloads of fruit to be moved
out Of Payette this season.
The first contested case resultant
from the spectacular raid upon the
women Of the underworld Of Boise by
Sheriff Roberts on the night of May
16, has resulted in the acquittal of
May Stanley. who was accused of SELL
ing liquor without county and state
license
Sixteen applications for parole were
granted at the state penitentiary last
week, when the board of prison COM
missioners held its regular quarterly
meeting. More than forty applications
for parole filed before the board by
convicts at the penitentiary were con-
sidered by the commissioners.
The interior department at Wash
ington has approved the application
OF w. T. Homan Of Ontario for a
power site on the Snake river, be-
tween Weiser and Payette. Water will
be lifted from the Snake river a dis
lance of 300 feet and it is intended
to irrigate 10000 acres of land.
A Challis newspaper announces that
the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph company will connect all
It's telephone systems with the Challis
exchange. The Mountain States com.
pany also announces the building OF
line up and down the Salmon river
from Salmon City.
Mrs. Howard Upper, a widow, and
her two sons, Otto, aged Is, and
James. II, were drowned on their
homestead near Cameron. The boys
were in bathing and the elder got be-
yond his depth. James ran to the
house for help and the mother rushed
to their assistance when all three
were drowned.
John Sayer, who was convicted OF
a statutory offense in Bingham coun-
ty January 8, 1909, and sentenced to
serve three years in the penitentiary,
was taken to the prison last week,
after being at large three years since
his conviction, during which time no
attempt has been made to enforce the
decision of the court.
A serious accident that may prove
fatal occurred at Twin Falls. when