The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS

amount Of $4,000 were voted for the
construction of a new school house
at HOLSTER.
President Taft last week sent to the
senate the nomination of Darwin A.
Utter to be surveyor general of Idaho.
Mr.. Utter is the incumbent.
Filthy conditions in the unloading
pens at Glenns Ferry form the gov.
ernment's basis for suits aggregating
$4,000 against the Oregon Short Line.
Nampa citizens object to being tax.
ed for the building of three bridges on
the Payette river, at Fruitland, Letha
and Plymouth, and will ask the courts
for relief.
The citizens of HOLSTER and sur.
rounding community are to have their
own telephone system, which will be
connected with the Mountain States
company's line.
N. A. Just, IS years old, a ranch,
man of Shelley, died at Salt Lake
hospital last week of pneumonia. Mr..
Just was stricken with the disease
three weeks previous.
Oakley school bonds sold at 5h per
cent to Keller Bros. at Denver last
week. There was keen competition
on the bonds, which were voted to
build $4,000 school house in dis.
trict No. 2.
The State Bank of Mackay, at
Mackay. in Custer county, has been
merged with and taken over by the
w. G. Jenkins & Co. bank at Mackay,
leaving that city with only one bank
Ing institution.
Resulting in loss of approximate
iy $4,000, three buildings at Nez
Perez, the Nez Perez hotel the John
Nezbit meat market and residence and
burned to the ground.
According to information given out
by Oregon Short Line officials, about
$375,O0O has been asked for in the
way of improvements to be made in
The yards and on other of the com.
pany's property at Pocatello.
The wife of Fred Gilman, rancher
near the King Hill grade. is much
worried over the absence of her hus.
band and she fears either accident Or
foul play. The missing man was last
seen in the town of King HILL
Suffering from 1.-The hallucination
that she is mind reader, that she
knows just what people are thinking
and that some man has been saying
evil things of her, Miss Grace Pad
dock of Boise is to be sent to the asy-
tum.
e Friends of Lewis Hooker, 60 years
Of age, are inquiring his whereabouts.
Mr.. Hooker, who has been living at
the p. B. Johnson ranch, one-half mile
vest of Twin Falls, left there on Sat
qrday, March 8, without giving notice
Of his departure.
If the people in the vicinity of Pay.
cite will agree to grow 100000
pounds yearly of dewberries, currants,
cherries and raspberries, the Baker
tuild a plant in Payette and agree to
take all the fruit raised.
1t is claimed that HOLSTER. in com.
pany with the great Twin Falls-Sal-
mon River tract, of which it is the
capital, is on the threshold of pro.
gressive movement that may assume.
within the near future, the + proper.
tons of an old-time boom.
Pocatello has an excellent chance
to get on the route of the Glidden
tbur this year. All that is necessary,
according to President Theodore Tur.
ler, of the Idaho State Automobile
association, is concerted action by the
motorists of the southern part of the
state.
That narrow gauge railroad will
be built this. year by the Short Line
people from Mackay to Clayton via
Round Valley and then up the Salmon
river to Clayton Is generally believed
In Challis. This would mean great
activity among the mines OF Custer
county.
The irrigated tract of the Portneuf
Marsh valley company last week pass.
ed from the suppositious stage into
that of reality when, with impressive
ceremony, the main headgates of the
company's system were raised, allow.
dow through the canals.
'"I'm goin' to start kickin' that
dawg aroun'," is the battle cry of H.
s. Ashby, Horticultural inspector OF
Ada county, following his experience
at farmhouse near Eagle Monday,
, when he was severely bitten by dog
which attacked him unawares, says
the Boise Statesman.
u The body of L. H. Vilhauer, a hard
Mare man. who committed suicide,
was found on the lawn at the capitol
building grounds at Boise. A bullet
hole was bored entirely through his
head from 80 caliber revolver He
Is supposed to have been rendered de.
spondent by misfortune.
The decomposed body of a man, evi.
IDENTIFY George w. Burns Of Boise. was
found floating in the Boise river at