The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-06-03
IDAHO STATE NEWS

IDAHO STATE NEWS
A special bond issue Of 100000
Will be voted in Latah county for the
building Of q new court house and
Jail.
The election in Twin Falls county
On the local option question failed to
change present conditions, the voters
deciding that the county should re-
main dry"
Arthur Hodges, formerly q promt
aent business man Of Oregon, has
the honor of being elected the first
mayor of Boise under the commission
form Of government.
A letter asking for an Idaho exhibit
1t the New York land show, to be
held November Is to December 2,
1912, has been received by the gov
ernor from the nations metropolis.
Governor Hawley has appointed
thirty-six delegates from various
parts Of the state to attend the North
western Development congress to be
held in Seattle, Wash, June to 8.
Arthur B. Cults, the convicted de.
faulting cashier Of the Idaho State
bank OF HALEY, has been sentenced
to serve an indeterminate Germ in the
state penitentiary Of not less than six
months nor more than ten years.
While playing near an irrigating
ditch, the gthree-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Schaub. living near
Nampa. fell into the water and was
drowned. The body was found a mile
below the scene of the accident.
From present Indications it appears
that when the Western Governors as.
sociation meets in Boise the first
week Of next August nearly all the
chief executives Of western states
who are members will be in attend.
ance.
James M. Bishop, who came across
the plains with his wife and six chill
dren and settled in Albion in 1879,
died on the 18th at Ray, after an i'll
ness Of two days, at the age of 80.
His body was brought back to Albion
tor burial
Another effort Is being made to or
ganize. an irrigation district to in
elude 10000 acres surrounding the
town Of Sunnyside in Elmore county.
A petition for the organization OF the
district has been prepared and is now
being circulated.
When asked by other senator's II
he would enter into an agreement to
bring about an adjournment by June
IL, Senator Borah said: There will
be no adjournment If can prevent
+ until the three-year homestead bill
IL finally passed"
+, Rev. David M. Hand, pastor Of the
arrested on the charge of having
wronged a 17-year-old girl, a member
of his church. The pastor, who has
a wife and four children, Indignantly
denies the charge.
There are twenty.three potato clubs
In the state. Most of the clubs have
been formed in rural schools and it
is evident that many Of the girl stu
dents have joined in with the boys
in a combined effort to promulgate
the starchy vegetable in Idaho.
Sixty-fve hundred pounds of dan.
delions were gathered by forty-four
boys and girls and delivered at the
three dandelion stations at Boise one
day last week, where they were cart
ed away in great wagon loads to the
river. The greatest number gathered
by any one individual was 800
pounds.
Mrs. Nellie Bennett Stuart OF Twin
Falls has received word that the SUI.
preme court of Utah has affirmed the
lower courts in a case in which she
was plaintiff against John Douglas
Petersen, concerning patents on the
Remington pump gun. Her late hus-
band, A. L. Bennett, was one OF the
inventors Of the gun.
Phenomenal crops are assured this
year in all the orchards of Washing
ton county and the Weiser valley &C.
cording to reports being received
from all sections.
A report from the office of the Sec
rotary of war shows the total cost of
Boise barracks to date to be 1898. 049,
of which 330,190 has been spent on
buildings and $63.221 on the water
supply. The land has been apprais-
ed and is estimated now to be worth
$500, 663.
Despite his effort to make the jour-
ney from Salem to Boise on horse
back with as little attention as pos.
sible, Governor Oswald West OF Ore
gon will not cross the state line into
Idaho at Weiser without formal re-
ception, if plans of the Commercial
club reach maturity.
The annual convention Of the Sew.
enth Day Adventists of southern
Idaho and eastern Oregon com.