Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-07-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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In 1911 there was paid out by tn
lumber interests of Idaho the sum O
$5000,0o for labor and the sum o
s350.01o for supplies.
John NJ. Haines has filed his accept
ance Of the nomination as a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
governor with the secretary Of state
1t is estimated that at the presen
time there are 100000 sheep grain.
upon the hillsides of Idaho, which
yearly yield a wool clip of 1900, 0OC
pounds.
r. P. Shawhan, state senator from
Canyon county, who was prominently
identified with the Roosevelt move
ment in Idaho, does not believe there
will be a 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 it 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 206,-
$4,000 pounds of beets In this in
dustry there was spent s1,147,65O for
labor and 1898, 1868 for supplies.
Murder in the first degree is the
charge that Ray Weaver, alias VIII.
son. the youth who courted Miss
Lera Speer of Rupert, must answer
when he is tried for sending poison
through the mail to the girl he
Yeoed -@'- a. 49,
Ted Schaefer, aged "a, was almost
instantly killed at the Erbes ranch,
on Eight Mile creek, when hay fork
fell from a derrick and struck the
young man on the head. His skull
was badly crushed. He never regained
consciousness.
c. S. Mcconnell, city health officer,
and James H. Wallis, state food. dairy
and sanitary inspector in 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,000.
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
have progressed as far as Montour.
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 a vote of
241 to 101. AS a two-thirds majority
was required this gives a clear major
ity of 49,
The estimated amount of saw tim
Der standing in Idaho is 60,000,000 900
feet. At the present scale of prices it
will require s4S0,000,00O to market
this timber for labor alone, and the
additional sum of s12O,0OO,OOO will go
to the merchants and the farmers for
supplies
When the sVte board of equaliza-
ton meets in August it may find it's
laborious task materially simplified
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 144 students. 1t is the
largest enrolment for the first day
in the history of the school. 1t is
expected that there will be a 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 ]. u McPher-
son, state horticultural inspector. Da-
Wis has entered plea of not guilty
and it is expected that he will offer
stubborn contest when the case
comes up.
According to figures of the Canyon
commission company which is
handling the bulk of the strawberry
crop about Caldwell, the total yield