The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-09-12
IN THE GEM STATE

neville county.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will Wis
1t Pocatello September q, according
to word received last week.
Pelicans are destroying great num-
bers Of fish in the reservoir OF the
Fort Hall irrigation project.
Idaho and six tributary intermOun-
tain and Pacific northwest states show
deficiency Of $4,000 tons of hay,
based on an estimate Of August 1.
The thirty-sixth annuel conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal church of
the southern Idaho and La Grande
districts was held at Weiser last week.
Belief that further serious trouble
between stOckmen on the mountain
near Mackay will be avoided Is con-
tanned in reports received from Custer
county.
In spite of the drouth this year, exs
hibitiOns at the state fair this month,
September 22-27, will be greater than
ever, Secretary o. p. Henderson, an
nOunceS.
After two months of union evening
services during the time many of the
Boise pastors were on their vacations
the churches have resumed their SER
vices in their own churches.
In voting to assess the cost of street
improvements to abutting property the
city council has disposed of a question
which has been theme of discussion
for the past month or more.
Before Madison county cattle were
placed on the forest reserve this sea-
son, $50 head were vaccinated. Farm
ers report themselves much pleased
with the results Of this vaccination.
The Bonneville county farm bureau
has appointed two men to make an
immediate inspection of potatoes in
that district. The inspectors who did
the work last year We're designated.
The four-months-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. A. J. Higgins, of Boise, was
smothered to death when she fell from
the bed on which she was lying, when
her mother went to morning church
service.
: Abe Crosse of Deer Flat is suffer
ing from poisoned eyes, which were
affected by smut when threshing. The
attending physician says the sight of
one eye is gone and the other badly
affected.
Arrowrock dam, the world-famous
irrigation reservoir structure across
the Boise river, % miles east of Boise,
saved enough crops this year to pay
it's initial cost of $4,750,0OO, it is
asserted.
The water situation throughout the
upper Snake river valley Is critical as
the low condition of the river makes
it impossible to get water into the
canals in sufficient quantity to main.
tain a flow. a
Valuation on real property and prop
critics owned by public utilities were
advanced approximately $4,000, OOO.by
the state board of equalization, ac-
cording to figures compiled by the
state auditor.
Thirty head of high grade Holstein
dairy cows were bought in Ontario
by Clark Smith of Nampa for four
prominent dairymen in the Kuna coun-
try. The average price paid for the
cattle is STAG.
A sturgeon nine feet and two inch
es long, weighing 800 pounds, was
caught by Merton Eels of Caldwell in
the Snake river below the Warm
Springs ferry, near what are known
as the Big islands.
Following an exciting chase, man
driving large Car and giving his
name as Charles Henderson, was lodg-
ed in the county Jail at Wallace and
a cargo of 10 five-gallon kegs of liquor
was confiscated by the sheriff's force.
Fred Pascoe of Deer Flat had his
two middle fingers on his right hand
badly cut while cleaning the weeds
from a riding pillow and rolling coulter
while In motion. One Of the fingers
was entirely cut off and hung by the
skin.
Bert Dresser of Homedale shot and
killed his father-in-law, Prince Ben
nett, following an alteration In which
Dresser is said to have taken the gun
which belonged to Bennett, from his
father-in-law's hands, and then shot
him.
About 100 head of steers and sew
eraI hundred sheep will be used in
demonstrations to be conducted at the
University of Idaho experimental farm,
south of Caldwell, this winter, in the
use of locally produced feeds, large
~ alfalfa and corn silage.
The Owsley irrigation project, con-
sisting of 14,811 acres in Jefferson
county, has been ordered by w. @.
Swendson, state reclamation commits
sioner, to be thrown open to entry
October 8. Irrigation water will be
taken from Mud Like.
A welcome to returned Bingham
covntv Soldiars and sailors will he