The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-15
.IDAHOSTATE NEWS

nights. Early closing has been If
vogue for over year.
Provision is being made for the ir
rigation of the lands Of the new state
institution. the home for feeble-mind
ed. etc, north of Namps.
Practice marches through the hills
Is miles above Boise will be made
By every troop in the squadron sta
toned at Boise barracks.
The village trustees Of Rathdrum
have Appropriated 500 upon petition
jf the women Of the Twentieth Cen
fury club, for improving the city park.
Since the opening Of the postal
savings repositories In Idaho approx.
imately 1900 accounts were opened
with more than 1900 deposits and
about $500 Withdrawals.
Last week a pet eve belonging ia
Mrs. c. e. Carver of Twin Falls gave
birth to three healthy lambs. all oi
which are living. Last year the same
eve gave birth to twins.
Richard Balbaugh of New Meadows
has contributed $40 to the Golfers OF
the state through the payment of
fine assessed when he was arrested
on charge OF fishing without II
censs. M
The city Of Lewiston will expend
approximately 100000 this summer
bn street improvements including paw
Ing and parking, sewer extension,
sidewalk construction and street
grading.
A. Rosen, a hide dealer, was held
up in his wagon, where he was asleep
In South Boise, and robbed OF $3.50.
The thief beat Rosen over the head
\ with a club and he was sent to the
hospital.
Camp Colonel Shoup of the Sons OF
Veterans was organized in Salmon re-
Gently with w. H. Shoup, commander.
There are about 100 young men in the
vicinity who are eligible for member.
ship in the order.
January 81, 1912, there were fifty.
three postal savings repositories Ill
operation in Idaho, with deposits
amounting to more than $4,000.
This amount was received from
about 1900 depositors.
AS Idaho is the forty-seventh state
In population, standing twenty ninth
and twenty-second in relation to
postal savings puts it in a consider
able higher class than the states
with larger populations.
Rumors of the letting of the con.
tract for the construction of the ex.
tension Of the Idaho Northern from
Smiths Ferry to the Payette lakes,
have been confirmed. The road Is to
be completed November 30 w.
While rushing down the heavy can.
yon grade out of Burke, a push car
on which Miss Leah Richev and Miss
Alvia Richey, two young school teach.
ersi we've ridingr was, wrecked. and the
two women. seriously injured. a..
Water; companies must bear the ex,
pense of tapping their pipes to furnish
connection with all city, residences, II
they are to serve the public impair
TALLY, according to a decision by the
United States supreme court in a
case from Occur d'Alene.
Prompt and efficient. action OF the
Boise fire department saved the bust
ness district from what might easily
have been one of the worst confia
grations the city has ever known
when the store of the Globe Wall Pa
per & Paint company was Quilted by
fire, w.
T. G. Hattabaugh, state insurance
commissioner, is suffering from the
effects OF severe strain he sustained
at Idaho City. He was walking upor
the snow, which was several feet deel
in places, when he broke through th'
heavy crust and wrenched his leg ant
back.
Rev. Har1d l.. Pickett, formerl!
pastor of the Unitarian church o
Boise, has been offered the manage
ment of the country estate Of Mrs
William Foster of Boston, and will &C
cept the offer and preach Sundays il
various Unitarian pulpits In the vicin
lty of Boston.
George w. Kingsbury, who recentl
answered the last summons at hi
home in Salmon, had been in bushes
TOR ten years in Salmon. and wa
county commissioner at the time @
his death. He was born in Ohio i
1856; in 1882 he engaged in bushes
In the Black hills. -
Six hundred and seventy officer
and enlisted men Of the Idaho militf;
will represent the Gem state in tn
biennial maneuvers of the organize
militia of Idaho, Washington and Or
gon and the regular troops stationee
at Boise and Vancouver. to be hel
early this fall at Grays Harbor, Was
Only two arrests were made by til
police department of Nampa durir
the month of March, according to II
report of Chief of Police Maloney. TT
chiefs report also showed that
men were given nights lodging