The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-06-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The hrst carload of new wool was
shipped from Idaho Falls last week.
About 1900 acres of land was sold
| at HALEY last week by the state land
| commissioners. realizing $4,000.
The Pocatello council has author
lied twenty blocks of paving. The
call for bids specified bitulithic only.
Mrs. Tennie Wozniah of Soldier has
been sent to the Blackfoot insane
| asylum on complaint Of her husband.
A. N. Wozniah.
| Boise river has reached the maxi
mum height for this year. and Is at
present higher than it was at any
time during 1911.
Pioneer day. June Is, was generally
celebrated throughout the state, the
governor having issued proclama.
ton declaring a legal holiday.
Governor J. H. Hawley has appoint.
ed William e. Koontz of Corral as
commissioner to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of T. M
Mink.
| Extensive preparations are being
made by the directors of the Inter-
Mountain Fair association for the
1912 meeting which will be held at
Boise October to II.
The president Of the State Dental
] association has sent out invitations
| to all the members requesting their
| presence at the state meeting. which
| is to be held at Idaho Falls, June II
and Is.
The fruit-growers and business
| men of the Payette Valley have de-
| cided to hold a street fair and agri-
cultural and horticultural exhibition
| at Payette some date after the 18th
of September.
Shelley will hold big celebration
the Fourth. A live committee is in
charge of the affair The committee
Is getting out a newspaper especially
to advertise the big event, which is
certain to be big affair.
! y. D.. Blivens, a young drug clerk,
shot and killed himself in his room
at Pocatello. 1t was apparently u
case Of suicide. Blivens came to Po-
catello year ago from Hennessy.
Okla, where his parents live.
Rarely has there been such DEM
onstration in Weiser as that which
followed the announcement that the
bond issue had carried. The victory
for the bonds Is taken to mean a new
era of advancement for the city.
Four years ago not single carload
Of wheat was shipped from American
| M l., - Cy,O
in 1910 this increased to 80 cars Of
wheat shipped and the 1911 shipment
was 21S cars to January 1, with q
large portion of the crop unsold.
J. N. Mclaughlin was badly bruised
and A. H. King, supervisor Of bridges
and buildings on the Montana divi-
sion of the Short Line, was seriously
injured when a speeder on which they
were riding on the st. Anthony branch
near Ucon jumped the track and
landed in the ditch.
l.. Stillson, prosperous wheat
grower and rancher of the PalOuse
country, has bought and leased 1850
acres of state land 10 miles west OF
Idaho Falls on what is known as the
high desert and is having the ground
all plowed and will SOW the entire
acreage In wheat.
Charles T. Barringer and Ed. Ost-
ner, both we'll known young men OF
prominent Boise families. were seri'
o,tsly injured in polo game at Boise
barracks, Ostner being struck glac-
ing blow in the forehead by mallet,
and Barringer colliding with another
player, who was not injured.
The farmers of Boise valley who
compose the Boise River Prior Rights
association, have been making duty
of water investigations during the
past two months, which have been
very successful in establishing the
amount of water required to irrigate
crops on various kinds of soil.
Grocers and fruit dealers viii be re-
uuired to remove their displays from
the sidewalks, or any places where
they will be exposed to dirt, unless
they are securely covered with glass,
wood or metal, according to a bull
letin Just issued by the state food,
dairy and sanitary inspector.
The U. 3. lanu OIHce at polso 10
present swamped with inquiries
about the three-year homestead law,
but at this time the register Is I'M
able to furnish the desired informa-
ton. AS yet no copies of the act or
the regulations that will accompany
! II have been received at the Office.
To bring into closer touch the mer-
chants and business men OF Idaho;
more effectively to bring about q re-
duction In commodity freight rates
T. from the east to the intermountain
), territory, and generally to promote
!, the interests Of both buyer and seller
}, in the Gem state, the Idaho Retail
/ Merchants association was organized
: at Pocatello on June IL.