American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-12-19
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IDAHO STATE NEWS

ekteriOr - being waged BY The Bois<
Commercial club.
Artichoke-fed hogs may be ono d
tho coming PRODUCTS OF Idaho. accord
tng TO c. r. Law. Of 0reenieaf, who
has been DOING some experimenting
along this line.
The first Edison storage battery
cars TO operate west Of New York will
within . few weeks. b. gliding over
tho new Twin Falls electric scenic
route to the Shoshons falls.
Boise may b. provided with ! ceun.
try club ~ tho result OF . quiet move.
ment that II now under way. Several
prominent local business mon are con.
siderlng the country club idea.
The Pnyette- Boise Valley Spray
company have added an addition to
the building. which cost $1,000. They
sold this spring to the farmers In the
valley more than $4,000 barrels OF
spray.
Tho State Society Of Engineers will
hold their annual gathering In Twin
Falls on the 2sth Of December. This
organization 10 composed Of more tnan
200 civil, mining and mechanical en-,
gineers.
LurtnE HIS sweetheart into the
depths Of q mine near Harvard, Jesse
DiIiman shot and killed Miss NJ. Liner,
IL years old. OF Helmer. and probably
fatally wounded himself. DlIman IL
in the hospital.
Joseph y. Carol, formerly boiler.
maker for the Idaho Northern ut
NsHnpa. arrested for bigamy on com
plant OF . woman claiming to be his
common law wife. now faces q more
serious charge. that Of white slavery.
Antonio Barrctia. = Spanish labor.
or. WA Instantly killed at Boise when
the axle on a Of the flat cars OF a
work train on which he was riding
broke. causing tho car to crash into
tho one on which Barretia was rid.
ing.
The Boise assay office win close on
June 30 next unless Idaho's senators
are able to insert and keep In the leg
islative appropriation bill tho item
making sufficient appropriation TO
keep this office during the coming fis-
cal year.
The Commercial club. as wcll an
prominent Boise men. II putting up n
sun fight to maintain tho Boise as.
say office. The outlook In Washing.
ton at tho present time il not con.
sidered encouraging. but the fight Will
DO carried right up 10 tho end.
A Washington dispatch says Sen,
ator Borah Of Idaho In not In favor
OF tho proposal OF Governor Hadley
OF Missouri to call q convention of Re-
pubiicans next summer for the pur.
pose OF protecting plans for reorgani-
sation oil the Republican party.
The supreme court In a decision
rendered last week declared unconsti.
tutional the act designated az Title
ID OF the political code OF the sessions
laws oil 1908. relating to the organiza.
tion of drainage districts. because OF
tho invaiidity OF a section thereof.
Ono measure which the Twin Falls
delegation will endeayor to secure the
-~<'@E@ ~ a. b1 " hl UIONlulnK
for the regulation of the prices paid
for farm products. etc. bought and
sold within tho state. by companies
having more than one station open for
business.
The Wilson Orchard company has
received "A shipment OF $500 yearling
apple trees from tho Hartley Nursery
al Emmett TO be planted on the 100. |
acre tract Just cleared on Eagle |
Heights. This In 10 bo one OF the larg. |
est n finest orchard tracts In the
community.
The HALEY Miner reports that there
Is only one man at the Magic dam,
n he viii stay there all winter as
watchman to look after tho property
OF tho company. The force OF men
that has been there all summer doing
repair work and making improve.
ments was recently laid Off.
Attempting o cross the Clearwater
river late at night In a nigh wind,
II. NJ. Campbell. a ferryman Of Aga.
tina. a small town above Lewiston.
and an intoxicated Indian who goes
by the name OF Dixie" Leech were
drowned a few feet from the landing
With approximately 3 900 head OF
the finest livestock tina. has ever been
collected west of the Mississippi. river,
che Northwest Livestock show opened
at Lewiston on the 9th. with monster
crowds O every section OF the
states OF Montana, Oregon and Wash
A salmon trout 81 inches long and
weighing IL pounds and two ounces
was caught IN Wood river on Decem-
2. 1t was fished out OF what is
called the back waters Of Wood river,
where the Malad and Wood rivers
meet, and was caught by two women.
The farmers in the Middleton seq
ton are rejoicing over the fact that
they have no hay to sell. having sold