The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-09
Blackfoot Optimist
Fan r. Brown. Publiaher.
olAcxFooT IDAHO
IDAHO STATE NEWS

To ststs W. c. T. U. Of Idaho will
lntrsaucs bill at the next session Of
tho legislature asking that capital
pun1sAnent be abolished.
TAs third annual Chautauqua will
DO hall in Boise, June 10 to 20. and
tho directors and committee are hard
At wsrk completing the details.
Whlss Rlaying- with group Of play.
mates a the turntable at the o. s. L.
;roundhuuso at Boise, Mildred Street.
or. aesa III years. had both feet badly
crushaaL
~ vote Of 205 to 10 the taxpayers
Ct Bsfse have expressed their wish
that IL $4,000 city improvement
bond ixsue recently declared null and
void hy the district court be reissued
A sAipment of 3O5 dairy cows
reacAsd Wendell recently from Wis
oonsfn. This is said to be the larg..
est shipment Of dairy stock ever
made ffum east to west across the
conf1aenk 49,
Dsa H Bank. engineer in charge Of
The government irrigation investiga.
tioas In l1aho, has devised measur
ing Aox n weir to cost not over $3.50
tA1f win measure exactly the water
thax d used
Buase win be a veritable garden
this summer II all Of the plans of the
various Improvement associations
materiallxe within the next few
wes1n. Prizes have been offered ag.
xrsEAkfng $3.50.
WAfle attempting to put the weapon
IN III scsbbard, Staten Moss of Pay.
et4s was accidentally shot in the calf
OF The right leg last week. The bullet
followed the bone down to the foot
where it lodged.
Work is progressing on the big irri
CATION canal along the west side of the
Salmbn river, In the Challis valley
The water is being taken from Chal
lis creek. and the ditch will reclaim
a large tract Of farming land.
Track lnying on the Idaho Northern
extension north Of Emmett is proceed.
ing rapidly. The grade to Horseshoe
Bsnd is complete and the track-laying
machine and a large force of men will
soon hare the rails laid to that place.
The sheriff has brought back from
San Francisco, Harry Sprague, the
selrcoufessed safeblower of Monk &
Co.'S store at Salmon in December,
1879. Sprague talks freely Of his
~
iteuf.
Idaho,s growing dairy industry has
received fresh impetus in the estab.
lishmeat of cheese factory at Buhl
and In the promise of others at other
points in the state as fast as enough
cows can be shipped in to supply
theR-
bszx. Lee Miller, who committed
suicide il Spokane. was bride Of but
a fen months. Prior to her marriage
to = Wallace restaurant man last
fall. she vas known as Beatrice
Fairfax. a name which she took when
she began stage career.
Thsrs ia universal mourning among
the trainmen and old time travellers
over ths death of Mrs. Ryan, who for
years Hanaged the eating house at
,Gleans Ferry. litter going to Coke
ville. Wyo, where she was in charge
Of the station eating house.
Several thousand acres of land in
Ran4ack and Bear Lake counties
which have been withdrawn from all
forms uf entry because of the pres
enee 1f phosphate deposits may be re-
.xtcrod 10 surface entry If bill now
rpenlinE in congress is approved.
Orchards in Twin Falls. Fremont
Bingham and Lincoln counties are In
excellent condition, and indications
point to IN unusually large fruit yield
In al tho fruit-growing sections in
souliacxn and eastern Idaho, accord
ing 10 J. u. Mcpherson. state horti
cultural Inspector.
Amhy Shaw and Louis Stephenson
tho tEo Soys arrested for breaking
into The Luxton meat market and Ida
no Fans Junk company at Idaho Falls
were fUEnG guilty. Shaw will pass
six nanfhs in Jail and Stephenson
wiE rcmain in the training schoo
until he attains his majority.
L. u. Blackwell, resident of Soutl
Boise. vho had been missing for 81,
weeks. and who had been given up al
dead ~ his family. has returned t.
his kosne. and claims<he has no recol
.lectiaa of his doings from the time HI
disappeared from his home until h
Awolrs in San Francisco hospital.
A neg concrete bridge to cost sew
eral tAossand dollars will be con
strucxed in the west end of Idoh,
Fx1l2 over Grow creek this summer
Ths shan viii be sixty feet. This i'm
prosercnt. together with other worl
q \ Eke nature in and about Idah
FaHA Is fast making of it city beau
t1cnl
" y. Morton. one of the men worl
.snE n . box factory at Caldwell, ha
his xaxlk hand taken off by one of tn
.1x1s u the factory. The acciden
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