American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-03-12
IDAHO STATE NEWS

predicting the heaviest yield of win.
ter wheat In many years.
Preston has property values esti-
mated at s1.500,0 900. Its bank demos
it's aggregate something like s9O0 ma
and the p~ostoffice receipts amount ~
about $1,000 annually.
Th~ farmers In the vicinity of
Remington school at Ten Mile mot
last week and organized a school sim.
liar to those already in existence :,
different parts of the country.
Snowfall on the Boise river water.
shed is normal or above at several
points. according to information gath
cred by Edwar L. Wells, section N.
rector for the United States weather
bureau.
OF approximately $4,000 Of Der.
sonal and real property taxes for 1912
allowed to go delinquent in Canvon
county in January, $13,O36.56 had
been received at the county auditors
office up to March l.
Robert LaSalle, a negro, and Mar.
gtret La Vada, who is port Indian and
part negro, have been arrested al
Ogden and will be taken to Pocatello
where a white slavery charge will be
placed against La Sale.
Petitions are being circulated in
Canyon county asking the support OF
the national congress for the bill in
troduced by Senator Borah for an ap-
preparation of $4,000, 900 for irriga.
ton and drainage enterprises in the
west.
The home of Mrs. Rose E.. Pette..
one mile south of Meridian. was
totally destroyed by fire of unknown
origin. The loss will be in the neigh
borhood of $1,000 to the building and
contents. There is about $500 insur
ance.
Falling from the train in some un-
explained manner, Luther Moulter of
Burley, aged 29 years, was crushed to
death under the wheels Of a special
train that was carrying home a crowd
of excursionists who had been in
Boise.
The dry forces will hold a state.
wide prohibition convention in Boise
March 25th, 26th and 9th. This con-
vention promises to be the creates.
gathering of "drys" ever held in the
state. One thousand delegates are ex-
pected.
1t is understood that the Boise-Pay.
cite Lumber company plans to re-
sumo operations at the Barber mill,
Boise, this year, providing the Oregon
Short Line will give a rate that will
permit the hauling of logs from Long
valley.
The regular monthly traders day"
auction sale held at Caldwell last
week was the most successful since
J the Inauguration of the event seven
years ago. Approximately 5000 buy
D ers and sellers fiocked to Caldwell FOR
the sale.
There is now under contemplation
the erection of a $2O,0 Carnegie l.
brary at Preston, as the city council
has guaranteed $1,000 annually for its
maintenance. The ground has already
been promised by the president OF
Oneida stake.
Mrs. Bertha Milleman is 4S years OF
age, but when she started Sunday ait
ernoon for San Francisco by way OF
Portland she climbed aboard a rail
way train for the first time in hel
life, says the Boise Statesman. Prac'
. tically all her life she has lived In
: Boise.
Jesse Stitt came into HALEY last
/, week with a native trout which ne
caught two miles below the Magic
dam. 1t is the blue ribbon trout Iof
this section. weighing exactly IL
ponds 2 ounces, measuring 20 inches
in length and Is inches around tns
y thickest part.
The state supreme court has grant
q ed a writ of mandate to compel Sec
rotary Of State Clifford to attach his
4 signature and the seal of the state
to the deed transferring the timber
on 10000 acres Of state land in BOISE
t basin to the Barber Lumber company
for S100, 1000.
Idaho's public utility commissiol
has instructed the attorney genera
e Of the Gem state to file suit aganis
/ the Oregon Short Line Railroad cum
pany before the interstate commeie'
u commission and petition that oou'
Il to reduce the freight rates upon Goa
from Wyoming mines to Idaho points
If the senate passes the ShacAiS
ford good roads bill and S2o'oVV'VV
annually is appropriated by the ~
a eral government to aid states \
building, maintaining and impro'nn
n roads, Idaho will receive from "
federal treasury a total of Sll-.'V
a each year, provided the state raiss
a like amount.
The big game of Idaho n u
scenic beauty of the Island I"