The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Between 500 and 1000 acres are be.
ing planted to orchard in the vicinity
Of Emmett this spring.
The senate has passed the French
bill granting an extension of tune for
one year for the payments by settlers
on the Occur d'Alene reservation.
The Elks of Pocatello are planning
to build lodge building which is to
be one of the most beautiful and |
modern fraternal structures in the |
northwest.
The first cheese ever turned out by
an Idaho factory was made at Bull
last week by the Glover Leaf cheese
factory, which has a capacity of TO-
900 pounds of milk daily,
Over 60 acres of land, including the
heart of Parma, have been released
from litigation and given clear title
through the amicable settlement Of
the Fouch- Bates claims, says the Par
ma Herald.
The natural site for a lake at Bliss
is being tested, and If it is found that
few crevices can be sealed with
concrete, lake covering twelve
acres will be formed at once and Dor.
dered with trees.
The action OF the authorities in
driving 100 members Of the Industrial
Workers of the World out Of San
Diego few days ago was holly con-
lemned at meeting of the Boise So
sialist local held last week.
B. F. O'Neil, former president Of
The State Bank of Commerce OF Wal
lace, Idaho, will be brought back from
Vancouver, B. c., to stand trial for
violation OF the banking laws of Idaho
and embezzling the funds of the in.
stitution.
Looming Through the darkness like
myriads Of fiery eyes. several hundred
sagebrush fires nightly herald the
rapid disappearance OF the sagebrush
from the Marsh valley and proclaim
the reclamation of what was once
deemed worthless la9d.
!, The contract for the framing Of the
portraits of Idaho governors, past
and present, which are to be hung in
the new capitol, has been let by the
capitol commission to Horace Myers
ut a price Of $33 for each frame.
There are twenty portraits
.. Headed by the mayor, a heavily
armed posse Of citizens searched the
point OF the mountain above Wallace.
In the vicinity Of Buena Vista heights,
for several hours. trying to pick up
the trail of monster cougar that was
seen by a number Of persons.
In a running rifle battle between
Max Smith, chief OF police and a
Mexican, the latter was killed near
Blackfoot. The shooting was the re-
suit OF the arrest of Mexican for
drunkenness, the man who was killed
starting row following the arrest.
Two prominent idaho women, Miss
Permeal French, dean OF women of
the state university, and Miss Grace
M. Shepard. state superintendent OF
public instruction, were guests at
the banquet given in honor of Ella
Flagg Young at Spokane last week.
e. N. Davis, a well-to-do resident
Of Wendell, fell from rim rock at
the Thousand Springs power plant
and was killed. He was climbing
out OF the canyon in the dark and
fell 50 feet. Davis was over 60 years
of age and is survived by three chill
dren.
At a meeting Of the Business Mems
definitely decided to hold county
fair in that town this fall. Purses ant
premiums will be guaranteed by the
business men and citizens from al
parts of Elmore county will be inter
csted.
Providing themselves with com
plete cowboy equipment, includin!
saddle, chaps, lariat and bride
Johnny Brassfield and Lee Crawfor'
of Boise have departed for the wild
OF the state, leaving one man minu
a horse and another minus the equii
ment
Three prisoners, Ed Keeps. Earl
Shane and refer CarmOn, oSCdpe'
from the Pocatello Jail by saving tn
iron bars of one OF the windows. TIL
first two were cowboys held on tn
charge of horse stealing and the Las
named was q Mexican, charged wit
bootlegging.
Boise Is to have new and mo-
ernly equipped bowling alley that wi
rank with the finest alleys in any {
the coast or northwest cities. Bow
ing is a favorite sport in Boise, an
1t is expected that with the install'
ton of these new alleys the gam
will take a decided squirt.
A. J. Sucker, one OF the olde
Idaho pioneers, dropped dead almo
Immediately after luncheon, at tt
home of his daughter In Boise. t.
was "a years old and had been a re-
sdort re Idaho since 1896 cOmiI