American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-06-13
NEWS NOTES OF IDAHO

PROMISES 10 De an exceptionally long
n this year.
A celebration that will break all
past records is being planned by Twin
Falls for July A.
The state normal at Albion will have
a summer session at which two cours-
es will be offered.
with the breaking OF better weather
the fishing easo in the Occur d'Al.
enes hal been formally opened.
Morris Burke, a cattle buyer from
Sugar City, committed suicide by swal-
lowing several ounces of carbolic acid
at Twin Falls.
AS a result of too much dope" two
men, railroad laborers on the Idaho
Northern, died at Van Wyck and four
others are very sick.
Robert Kidder, a prominent business
mar and flnancier, committed suicide
at Idaho Falls, by hanging himself.
Financial difficulties was the cause.
Lewiston this week celebrated it's
twelfth annual Rose Festival, and it
was considered by all who witnessed
1t II of the most gorgeous events
ever held in the Inland Empire.
Hays Walden, well known about
Gooding, shot and killed Pedro As
chola. a Spaniard, on Glover Creek
in Gilmore county. Walden rode to
Mountainhome and gave himself I'D
to the sheriff.
1daho's old soldiery is looking for
ward with pleasant anticipation to the
25th annual encampment of the Grand
Army OF the Republic which ~convenes
at Occur d'Alene on June 20 for a SEES
sion of three days.
George W. Tannahill, an attorney of
Lewiston, will be nominated for the
office of United States senator by the
democrats at the primaries next mon1h
unless the machine jumps a cog be-
tween now and the date OF the primar-
les.
Six different schools in Ada county
offered free scholarships to the
students who make the highest aver
age grades at the state eighth grade
conducted on June II, 10,
and IA, in the senate chamber at the
state house.
The following f~ourth-class postoffic-
es were designated as postal savings
repositories, effective July 1: Challis,
.~larkford, Ferdinand, Clifford, Gilmore,
kamiah, K~ooskia, Lapwia, Meadows,
Midvale, Murray, Paris, Peck. Reu5-
ems, st. Joe, Sites, Vollmer, Winches-
ter.
Penniless and without friends, Har-
ry Wilson, a half-breed Indian. who
the talk of all Idaho, when on
March 2, 1905, he jumped from the
Drink of Shoshone Falls, landing in
the pool below, and escaping unin-
iured, has died at St. Lukes hospital in
The Oregon Short Line together
With the rest of the Hartman systems
will adopt a new form of community
boosting for this year. The plan COW
rs the publication of a monthly illus
rated bulletin containing ALL possible
Industrial information concerning the
tates tapped by the systems.
Celebrating its great growth durSng
last two years, the city of st. Mar
will hold on July Al one of the
iopeSt earuiva1S o,ar etarad -,
Of like size in the northwest.
he merchants OF the town are now
usy preparing for the celebration and !
re planning a number OF entertain
lent features which will be spectacu-
II.
The Idaho C Washington Northern
as received $4,000 postal cards in |
0lors. showing 10 scenes on the lines /;
f the Blackwell road. The Pend !
reille river, Box Canyon. Sullivan, /
win and Spirit lakes, cedar and white /
inc forests the lumber and logging !
ldustry, with the big lumber mills al /
pirit lake, lone and Newport, con I
.itute the features OF the postcard I
cries. {
The famous springs of the Yellow :
one and other great parks of this :
apparently are backed com
.etely off the boards by the discovery 4
freakish springs near Weiser. on \
hat is known as the Washington I
ines ranch, for they not only produce /
solution as savory as chicken sour \
la carte, but also jelly, and are fam \
IS for their cleansing and curative I
l~alities. Each one OF the remarkable I
,rings is different, both in size and 1
.aracter of flow, and their combined
rength irrigates a large pear orchard. !
Warehouse Burns in kooskis.