Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-04-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS

81 HOLSTER.
President Taft last week sent 20 tn
senate the nomination Of Darwin a
Utter TO be surveyor general Of Idaho
Mr.. Utter is the incumbent.
Filthy conditions in the unloading
pens al Glenns Ferry form the gov
ernment's basis for suits aggregating
$4,000 against the Oregon Short Line
Nampa citizens object 10 being tax
ed for the building Of three bridges on
the Payette river. az Fruitland. Letha
and Plymouth, and will ask the courts
for relief
The citizens Of Hollister and sur.
rounding community are TO have their
own telephone system. which will be
connected with the Mountain States
companys line.
y. A Just. e5 years old. q ranch
man OF Shelley. died al q Salt Lake
hospital last week Of pneumonia. Mr..
Just was stricken with the disease
three weeks previous.
Oakley school bonds sold 81 81 De,
cent 10 Keeler Bros al Denver las,
week. There was keen competition
on the bonds. which were voted &c
build $4,000 school house in dis
trict No ?.
The State Bank OF Mackay, at
Mackay, in Custer county. has been
merged with and taken over By the
". G. jenkins & Co. bank at Mackay.
leaving that city with only one bank
ing institution.
Resulting in q loss OF approximate
b $4,000, three buildings al Nez
Perez. the Neg Perez hotel. the John
Nezbit meat market and residence and
the VI. D. Demoud residence. were
burned TO the ground.
According 10 information given out
By Oregon Short Line officials, about
$4,000 has been asked for in the /
way Of Improvements 10 be made in /
he yards and on other OF the com
pany's property az Pocatello.
The wife of Fred Gilman, 2 rancher
near the King Hill grade, is much
worried over the absence OF her hus-
band and she fears either accident or
foul play. The missing man was last
seen in the town OF King Hill
Suffering from the hallucinatiol
hat she is a mind reader. that she
Knows Just what people are thinking
and that some man has been saying
svil things OF her, Miss Grace Pad
dock Of Boise is 10 be sent TO the ssy.
lum.
Friends OF Lewis Hooker, so years
Of age, are inquiring his Whereabouts.
Mr. Hooker, who has been living al
the P. B. Johnson ranch, one-half mile
vest OF Twin Falls, left there on Sat
nrday, March 9, without giving notice
Of his departure.
II the people in the vicinity Of Pay
cite will agree TO grow 100000
pounds yearly OF dewberries. currants,
cherries and raspberries, the Baker
Preserving company OF Denver will
build plant in Payette and agree TO
take all the fruit raised.
1t is claimed that HOLSTER. in com. !
pany with the great Twin Falls-Sal. !
mon River tract, OF which il is the
capital, is on the threshold Of a pro-
gressive movement that may assume. G
within the near future. the propor. {
tons of an old-time boom. q
Pocatello has an excellent chance T
to get on the route OF the Glidden :
tour this year. All that is necessary, S
according TO President Theodore Tur. I
ner, OF the Idaho State Automobile {
association, is concerted action by the O
motorists Of the southern part of the Y
state. 4
That narrow gauge railroad will
'e built this year by the Short Line
people from Mackay 10 Clayton via \
Round Valley and then up the Salmon
liver 10 Clayton is generally believed
n Challis. This would mean great
'ctivity among the mines OF Custer ',
ounty.
The irrigated tract Of the Portneut :,
darsh valley company last week pass. =
d from the suppositious stage into =
hat of reality when, with impressive y.
CEREMONY. the main headgates of the -
ompany's system were raised. allow.
1g the water Of the Portneuf river to "
ow through the canals.
I'm goin' to start kickin' that -
avg aroun'," is the battle CRY of H.
Ashby, horticultural inspector OF :.
da county. following his experience =.
farmhouse near Eagle Monday. ~
hen he was severely bitten by a dog
hich attacked him unawares. say.
lie Boise Statesman.
The body OF L. H. Vilhauer, a hard s,
are man, who committed suicide. b
as found on the lawn at the capitol kr
Hiding grounds at Boise. A bullet m
Die was bored entirely through his an
lad from 3S caliber revolver. He Ct
supposed to have been rendered de- ha
ondent by misfortune. N
The decomposed body Of a man. evi. SO
ntly George W. Burns Of Boise. was
ind floating in the Boise river at
int near the Soldiers home al
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