The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Inc next quarterly COuVcutIOu VI
the Idaho Retail Grocers' association
will be held in .Weiser early In April
Rabbits killed 100 three to 1--WE
years old apple trees near Paris last
week, by eating six or eight inches Of
the bark
The Oregon Short Line has every.
thing ready to commence laying steel
ON the Raft river cutoff as soon as
the weather settles.
An automobile club was organized
at Idaho Falls last week. The club
members will enter into the cam
paign for good roads.
Two bridge carpenters were drown |
ed when trestle along the banks OF
the Pend O'Reille river east Of Wren.
CO, went into the river.
The farmers OF the Birch Hill dis.
trfct of Kootenai county have on foot
project to build telephone Tine to
connect with Rathdrum.
A struggle that has been carried on
for many years by the people Of Null
/. Ian to secure patent to the townsite
has been satisfactorily ended.
It is now planned to divide Oneida
county into two counties. The people
of the east side claim they have the
necessary valuation for another
county.
The body of William T. Lewis was
found in lonely place on logging
road near Kootenai. Near 1t was a
rpo {,,ru
brought in verdict of suicide.
w. F. Burgg. convicted at Twin
Falls Of bootlegging, has been fined
$500 and received sentence Of six
months in the county Jail. He was
convicted on seven counts for illegal
selling Of liquor. &.
The Main Line leageu comprising
Of baseball clubs representing Nam
pa. Caldwell, Mountain Home, Pay.
cite, Weiser and perhaps Ontario
and Vale, is one of the possibilities
of the coming season.
The Downey Commercial club has
taken up the matter of obtaining sig.
natures to petition for a movable
school. and it Is assured that Downey
will be one of the points at which
the school will stop next winter.
In the upper Salmon river district
the snow is sixteen feet deep at
Moore's camp in the Buffalo Hump
district, and all old blazes made to
preserve snow records are covered
up. Six feet fell in twenty-four
hours during one storm.
Idaho scored high at the Portland
stock show. A bunch of steers ship
ped to the show by the Idaho Provis-
ion & Packing company of Boise car
ried of the escond prize over all com.
.petitors from the northwest. This
bunch consisted Of sixteen animals.
The supreme court has decided
that when a Carey act company en-.
tiers into a contract to provide water
on the settlers land beginning at a
certain stated date. and the water is
not forthcoming at that time. that the
company is liable for damages sus.
tsined by the settler.
James Sheldon and William Butler.
convicted burglars, who came near
breaking out of the Blackfoot Jail
while awaiting trial. having removed
about dozen bricks from the cell
wall before being discovered, were
last week taken to the state peniten
= tiary to begin their sentences.
&c There is now in Preston twenty
! two mercantile establishments. two
lumber companies, four large nipple
.ment houses, four hotels and restaur
ants, three theatres, three cream sta
tons, one state and one national
bank, two produce and seed houses
and many other enterprises.
From all over the state persons
who are interested in educational
work. both as parents and teachers
are voluntarily offering commenda
ton of the plan adopted in the Idaho
schools which contemplates the fur
therance of vocational education
says the superintendent of schools.
Roy Meadows, wanted in Boise or
charge Of forgery. surrendered t.
the sheriff at Salt Lake last week, be
ing without money, could secure ne
badly beaten by couple Of soldiers
Meadows evidently preferred impris
onment to being stranded In Utah.
Two women are given praise a
Emmett for improvement work. Mrs
Ruth M. Hunt for interesting thu
Idaho Northern in turning It's ground
from a dump heap into a parl
square, and Mrs. J. B. DeClark, VIII
has revived the agitation for q def
Mite and systematic Improvement o
the cemetery.
After having been confined to hi
cabin in the hills south of Wallac
for almost month. SO i'll that he wa
unable to leave his bed. P. A. Car
son, an aged trapper, was rescued b
another trapper who accidental
came to his cabin, and was taken I
Wallace. 1t is believed he will RI
cover from his terrible experience.