The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-03-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Laying Of the conduit system which
the Idaho Oregon Light & Power COM
pany Is to install in Boise, will COM
mence in the next ten days or two
weeks.
Alexander P. Wilson, who was one
of the best known business men ina
Boise, is dead. His death came as
the close of an illness of almost a
Years duration. 1900
Approximately 5000 acres of state
land will be sold at Burley by George
A. Day. state land commissioner, at a
sale beginning April 20 and continu-
ing perhaps two or three days..
Boise has taken the initiative in the
organization of q Taft club. bringing
Into political life the Idaho Taft club
OF Ada county, with membership at
the time of organization OF over 100.
Anders Beck, who died at Paris last
week at the age of 81, was pioneer
of Idaho. having been here since 1864.
Eleven children, forty-six grandchil.
dren and four great-grandchildren sur
vive him.
While sitting In chair talking to
his family, William Breen, "a years
old, of Boise, fell dead. supposedly
from heart trouble. Mr.. Breen had not
complained of being Ill until few
moments before his death.
David NJ. John believes that he has
found coal on land not far from EN-
met. and he has filed what is known
as "coal declaratory statement"
which gives him year to find out
whether coal actually exists there or
not.
The Unitarian church at Boise will
be closed indefinitely. although the
several societies connected with the
church will be held together. The
Unitarian church has had an uphill
struggle ever since it was established
In Boise.
At the largest ATTENDED Mormon con.
ference ever held in the Rigby stake.
at which Apostles Heber J. Grant and
Hyrum M. Smith were present, John
w. Hart, one of the most prominent
men in Idaho, was made president OF
the stake
Five dollars fine was imposed by
Judge Dietrich in the federal court at
Pocate.lo on Mrs. Pearl Richards,
postmistress at Buist, Idaho, who
pleaded guilty to an Indictment charg'
ing the making of false postal reports
to the government.
John Moore, colored,. lies in Boise
hospital with sundry bullet and razor
wounds about the head. neck and
face, and Walter Smith is in the coun-
ty Jail, charged with being the man
who did the shooting and cutting. the
result of fight over a woman.
Nez Perez county voted dry on the
18th. 2,4O7 to 2,127. Lewiston, the
county seat, gave the vets majority
of 66l, but this was overcome by the
dry vote of the rural district. Won
en-, farmers and Indians ON the re.
serve voted solidly dry. The cam
paign was bitter one.
Fritz Holland. local middle
weight, has received assurances from
the authorities of Kootenai county
and the city of Occur d'Alene that
they will cooperate with him in pro.
noting an athletic club, where six and
ten-round boxing bouts are to be
staged every two weeks.
The bakers have come back at
James H. Wallis, state dairy, food and
health inspector. Through C. G..
Brink, secretary of the Idaho Master
Bal ers' association. they have issued
a statement, in which they charge
tho officer with misrepresenting con-
ditlons in the bakery business and
with! prosecuting the bakers.
The general election movement IN
progress in this state to select dele
gates to the Lewiston convention to
be held May 16, where the eight Idaho
delegates to the republican convention
will be elected. is gradually revolv-
ing into contest between the Taft
and Roosevelt supporters, with La
Toilette having small following.
James Case, aged so, rancher liv-
ing near Dubois, was bitten py a
vicious boar and died few hours at
terward from loss of blood. Case went
into the pen presumably to feed the
animal. The boar attacked him and
bit him several times in the right leg.
severing an artery.
System in potato raising is the lat
est hobby of Don H. Bark, the engi-
neer in charge of the government ir-
rigation Investigations In this state.
Mr.. Bark is going to the bottom of the
production of 'spuds" in Idaho and in
tends to learn just how much it costs
to do the work we'll.
Awakened, from their sleep by the
cracking of flames which were con-
suming their home, and barely escap-
ing from the burning building in their
night clothes was the perilous expert
ence of John Misner and his two little
children when the Misner home at
Boise was destroyed.
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