Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-08-15
IDAHO Estate NEWS

in the field, headed by h. ID. Nichols
of Boise, for governor.
City prisoners are to be made to
work on the streets in Boise IN fti-
ture. and 1t is expected Migrants will
give the capital city the cold shoulder.
Laura Anderson, the ~five-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William An
derson of Mullan, was burned 10 death
when matches with which she was
playing set fire to her clothing.
Albert Gordy shot his wife twice
at Orofino. He also shot five times
at Clarence Pool, who was in company
with Mrs. Gordy. Gordy was arrested
on a charge of insanity recently, but
discharged.
Carl Deane of Ten Davis, about 10
miles below Notus, is suffering from
a gunshot wound in his leg, caused
by accidental discharge OF his gun
while out hunting. The wound is not
a serious one.
Many Ada county sportsmen de-
clare that by the time the grouse sea.
o opens there will be almost none
left to shoot in the county, and they
will ask for a change of the game
laws before next year..
F. H. Peters, commissioner of i'm.
migration for Calgary, has been spend.
ing several days in Idaho, coming
here for the express purpose OF con-
ferring with Don H. Bark with re-
gard to irrigation problems.
Tuesday, August 20, is the date set
for the townsite opening for Mantour
on the Idaho Northern extension, IA
miles from Emmett. Excursions will
be run from Nampa and Payette in
order to accommodate those who may
desire to attend.
Alfred Anderson, aged so years. of
Boise, and Mrs. Mary E. Robinson,
aged so, of Cache county, were mar
ried last week at st. Anthony by Gov.
ernor Hawley, who stated that it was
the first time he had had the pleasure
OF performing a marriage.
To investigate claims of that section
for a railroad from Twin Falls to
Wells. Nevada, to connect with the
Western Pacific, a committee of rail.
o men from San Francisco and a
number of business men from Wells,
New, visited Twin Falls last week.
Because he is alleged to have used
force In eiecting a boy from his prem.
ises, Elmer Mcconnell, a rancher from
Dry Creek section, has been arrested
on complaint of Henry Eidelbock,
who charges him with battery on the
person of his SOL, Walter Eidelbock,
Sensational testimony to the effect
that boys were stripped of their cloth
ing and dashed with heavy straps was
given at the opening of the reform
school investigation at st. Anthony.
our straps were introduced and il
was testified that they were used for
child beating.
The report of the commandant of
the Soldiers Home for July shows
hat there were 202 at the institu-
uon; that four were admitted and two
were readmitted during the month.
The total number in the home dur
Ing the month was 20S. 1t cost s2,76S
to maintain the institution.
Boise is soon to become the center
OF one of the greatest building stone
industries of the United States. Mil.
Hons of feet of stone that Is fully he
equal of the famous Bedford lime
stone will be quarried from Table
rock, and the Boise quarries expect
to compete against the Bedford stone.
A report by State Inspector Nc.
Pherson on orchard development dur
Ing the past three years shows thai
the acreage in orchards in 1910 was
56,541 acres, in 1911 $500 acres, and
In 1912 142.775 acres. The increase
In the total acreage in 1911 over 1910
was 4O,258 acres, and in the two years
of 1911 and 1912 the increase over
1910 was 86,432 acres.
The assessor reports that the cash
value of Lemhi county property this
year amounts to $3.911, 1862; land totals.
tl,3S5, BOO; Improvements on land,
S26s.f63; improvements on mineral
land, s2O4,64o; livestock, 1916, 700. The
total taxable value. under the 40 per
cent rate. is sI,652, 1854.
The Boise Statesman announces
that w. E. Pierce has sold the
Boise Railroad company to the
l~nterurban company, officially the
Idaho Railroad Light G. Power com.
pany, thereby creating a merger of
all the Boise i%nterurban and city lines.
The sale includes the Natatorium.
An extraordinary landslide occurred
on the ranch of Mrs. Verna Kellogg,
near Boyle Creek. Those on the ranch
were awakened by the roar If water,
breaking of trees and grinding of
and gravel. Two OF three acres
d hillside slid down n covered ff-
leen acres OF valuable land seven feet
deep with debris.
Final arrangements have been COM
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