Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-09-05
IDAHO NEWS


Governor Hawley has appointed
Hugh Wood of Spencer, John Hanson
and Wesley Gibson of Roberts as com
missioners of highway district No. /
in Fremont county.
Governor Hawley has been invited
to deliver an address at the first
meeting of the Idaho Development
congress. which in Boise on
September 16 for a two days session
The branch of the Oregon Short
Line from Ashton to Victor, forty-six
miles, will be completed in the latter
part of September or October, and a
celebration will be held there at that
time.
The Salmon National Forest SER
vice has completed the new pack
bridge owe the Salmon river. near
the mouth of Bis creek. 1t is a cable
suspension bridge, six feet wide and
226 feet long.
A Congregational church with
twenty-nine charter members was or
ganized recently at Mccall, which lies
at the head OF Long valley in Boise
county, and on the southern shore of
Payette lake.
H. E. Page of Jefferson. Ia, aged
"a, died in the baggage room at the
Short Line depot at P~ocatello. He
was stricken on the train while re-
turning home from a trip to the Puget
Sound country.
When the public schools of that
section of Idaho open September 9
the pupils of seven towns in the
Clearwater river valley and the Nez
Perez and Camas p~rairies will occupy
new homes valued at s125,0Oo.
What is believed to be one of the
most important safety appliances for
locomotive boilers yet invented has
been patented by Richard ]. Hogan of
Pocatello. 1t is claimed the device
will absolutely prevent explosions.
Coal of good quality has been dis
covered on a ranch on Mann creek,
about twelve miles from Weiser. The
vein at present is eighteen inches
wide and of fairly good quality. 1t
burns %splendidly and throws out an in
tense heat.
The large pea crop in the %neighbor-
hood of St. Anthony of which there
was over $4,000 acres, is coming in,
and the yield will average very close
to twenty-five bushels per acre and
the farmers are receiving $3.50 per
bushel for them.
Winter wheat is being harvested
in the st. Anthony section, and the
crop promises to be as large as last
year, both on the dry farm as we'll as
the irrigated lands. Crops of all
kinds look fine and the beet crop Is
above the average.
Boise is to have a polo tournament
this fall. The dates have not been
officially announced, but it has been
definitely decided that the tourna-
ment will take place during the week
between the Pendleton Roundup and
the lntermountain fair.
Within a short time Weiser will be
about the busiest town on the map,
and by long odds the busiest town of
It's size in the northwest. And this
will bebecause of the fact that oper-
atoms are expected to be under way
In full blast On the extensive city i'm
provements.
Former Governor Gooding and as
sociates have taken an option on the
Guyer hot springs near Ketchum. The
option covers ESQ acres of land and IL
the deal goes through the new owners
Will build a summer hotel, a sanitar-
lum, and make it a fine public bathing
resort.
Senator Borah's amendment to the
deficiency bill, bringing desert land
on government irrigation
projects under the provisions of his
Dill, directing the %patentins of home
e as soon as the entrymen COM
ply with the homestead law, remained
in the bill as it finally passed.
James Hawley, the trusty who mys-
teriously disappeared from the peni-
Tertiary on August IL, and who was
apprehended by the city marshal of
Umatilla, Oregon, has been returned
to prison and will have to serve a
year and three months because of his
attempt to escape.
Instead of shipping the spawn of
eastern brook trout from Pennsyr-
vania, the officials of the game and
fish department are conducting ex-
periments with a view of procuring
the spawn from the Idaho born east
ern brook trout in the h%atcheries at
Hayspur, Warm River and Standpoint.
J1Dby Jack. a Lemhi Indian FROM,
Fort Hall reservation. was run
over and fatally injured by a string
cars at Pocatello. Both legs were
broken, one arm nearly severed. eight
lids fractured and he suffered a cut
on the head.
mat the Oregon Short Line will
100000 in betterments at Po-
catello at once is the latest report.
fignt miles OF new track will be laid.
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