The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-07-08
nckfoot Optimist
Karl P. Brown. Publisher.
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More than $50 teachers are enrolled
for the agricultural course at the sum-
Moscow.
in 1911 there was paid out by the
lumber interests of Idaho the sum OF
$b.00O,00o for labor and the sum OF
$350.0L0 for supplies.
John M. Haines has filed his accept
ance Of the nomination as a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Aoxernor with the secretary of state.
1t is estimated that at the present
time there are 2.600,0 sheep grazing
upon the hillsides Of Idaho. which
yearly yield wool clip of $1,000, 900
pounds.
II. P. Shawhan, state senator from
Canyon county, who was prominently
Identified with the Roosevelt move
ment In Idaho, does not believe there
will ne third party formed in this
state.
Large quantities of gold bullion are
regularly being brought to the assay
office at Boise and from present indi-
cations 1t is estimated that the
amount this year will surpass last
years output by 100000.
The sugar beet industry shows that
in 1911 there was marketed by the
farmers of Idaho the total of 2O6,.
$4,000 pounds of beets. In this in
Iustry there was spent $1,147,65O for
labor and $393,S6S for supplies.
Murder in the first degree is the
charge that Ray Weaver. alias Wiz
son, the youth who courted Miss
Lena Speer of Rupert, must answer
when he is tried for sending poison
through the mail to the girl he
WoOed.
Ted Schaefer, aged "a, was almost
instantly killed at the Erbes ranch,
on Eight Mile creek when hay fork
fell from derrick and struck the
young man on the head. His skull
was badly crushed. He never regained
consciousness.
G. S. Mcconnell, city health officer,
and James H. Wallis, state food, dairy
and sanitary inspector, in a confer
ence last week, decided to use their
combined efforts to clean up places in
Boise, which are not in the proper
sanitary condition.
In Idaho the highest wages in the
world are paid for mining. Every
miner in the Occur d'Alenes receives
$3.50 per day of eight hours. In Sho-
shone county alone there was paid
out to the miners in wages in 1911 the
sum Of s4.64O,OOO.
The paving question In Idaho Falls
was settled last week by the council
voting solidly, over the veto for the
mayor, for an ordinance which pro-
vides for paving 10000 square yards
of street in the unpaved portions of
the business section OF the city.
Six new railroad points will be
placed on the map with the compile
ton of the Idaho Northern extension
from Emmett to Smiths Ferry, the
locations of which have just been an
nounced. Track laying operations
navy PAO3ACOSCu d6 A0l do MOutOul.
A Chicago dispatch says that Colo
mel Roosevelt, unable to secure the
support of any of the eight Idaho
delegates to the Chicago convention.
will appeal to his partisans In Idaho
to send a new delegation to his Pro.
gressive Republican convention in Au-
gust.
Meridian voters have declared for
greater improvement in it's education.
al facilities when the bond election
to authorize the issuance of $4,000
in school bonds, carried by vote OF
24l to 1O1. AS a two-thirds majority
was required this gives a clear major.
ity of Is.
The estimated amount of saw tim.
Der standing in Idaho is 60,000,00O.0OO
feet. AT the present scale of prices il
will require $4S0,O00,O00 to market
this timber for labor alone, and the
additional sum of $120,OOO,OO0 will &c
to the merchants and the farmers fol-
supplies.
When the state board of equaliza
laborious task materially simplfied
and lessened by the employment of a
wonderful little machine styled the
"Brunsviga." which has been option
ally purchased by the state for use
at such sessions.
The sixth annual state FORMAL sum
mer school opened at Boise, June "a
for six weeks session, with an en-
rollment of la students. 1t is the
largest enrolment for the first day
in the history of the school. 1t is
expected that there will be regis
tration of fully 200.
H. A. Davis OF Boise has been ar
rested for his alleged failure to prop
erly spray the trees in his orchard
at Nampa, according to J. U. McPher
son, state horticultural inspector Da
Wis has entered plea of not guilt,
and it is expected that he will offel
"a stubborn contest when the case