Statewide News in Idaho

Statewide News

NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE OF IDAHO
CULLED FROM OUR BRIGHT EXCHANGES
Alfalia is beginning to take on it’s green cast; rose bushes are budding for their spring growth. Farm work is right before us. – Gooding Herald
E. P. Bacon, financial agent of the Beaver River Power Company, was in Gooding on Tuesday to arrange for a survey to bring his lines into town. Bacon stated to the Leader that the new service would be available here by the first of April – Gooding Leader.
Double tracking of the Oregon Short Line from Granger to Huntington at an early date may be decided upon at the conference of Harriman officials which is now being held at Salt Lake City, according to statements given out by those in close touch with the situation.
A newspaper in speaking of a deceased citizen, said: “We knew him as Old Ten Per Cent, the more he had the less he spent, the more he got the less he lent—he’s dead, we don’t know where he went; but If his soul to heaven is sent, he’ll own the harp and charge ‘em rent –will Old Ten Per Cent.”
Tomorrow W.P. Kennedy, general traffic manager of the Great Northern Railway, will present to Louis Hill, president of the Great Northern, his recommendations that the Great Northern change its present line so as to enter the city of Sandpoint – Northern Idaho News.
J.G. Smith of Preston, manager of the J.G. Smith Mercantile Company, says the Downer Idahoan, has been busy at the local branch this week taking stock. Mr. Smith has just returned from the buying trip in the east.
Honorable John M. Haines, ex-mayor of Boise and one of the best known business men in the state in the Tribune, Sunday, formally announced himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. The announcement was made in the Boise Statesman.
All doubt concerning the place of location of the sugar factory by the Amalgamated Sugar Company was finally dispelled Wednesday when I. R. Eccles with a body of engineers arrived in Burley and began laying out the grounds and making the necessary surveys preliminary to beginning work on the factory on the side selected northwest of Burley. Burley Buletin.
On Monday in broad daylight and apparently through the negligence of a guard, Oliver H. Bates, Jr. a prisoner in the Cassia County jail at Albion says the North Side News and escaped and at last reports yesterday was still at large. Bates was being held under a state charge and also on a federal warrant under the white slave laws.
The North Side News says; What has been known as the Perrine eighty a valuable tract of land adjoining Twin Falls, was sold last week by I. B. Perrine to William E. and John C. Sanger, the reported consideration being $100,000.00. This was a Carey act entry by Mr. Perrine seven or eight years ago when it was a sage brush desert. Such is the rapidity with which events move in this section of Idaho.
J. O. Morgan, the big sheepraiser of Blackfoot, passed through on his way home from the Gray’s Lake Country, where he is feeding several bands of sheep this winter. Mr. Morgan reports a considerable loss of sheep in that region recently, the cause of which cannot be ascertained. Sheep men in this vicinity say that when the sheep begin to die in this way that mortality ceases when the animals are supplied with green quakenasp, the bark of which they peal off and devour.
Shoshone Idaho, February 15 1912. The stock of contraband intoxicating liquors on hand to date was destroyed yesterday by Sheriff Zug, acting upon the orders of Judge Walters. In the presence of the court attaches and citizens the Sheriff poured the liquor down the sewer in the court yard, whence it flowed into the Little Wood River, and soon there was nothing but the familiar odor arising from the grated pipe that led into the ground.
The Pocatello Tribune says: That the Democratic board of county commissioners of Bannock County were as much to blame for the alleged inequalities in assessments in this country last year as Assessor Hillman is of the opinion that Theodore Turner of the Bannock Abstract Company, who was employed by the Commissioners Dixon and Harris to make an examination of the books and rolls of Mr. Hillman and who reported to the board this morning.
Suit for $30,000 damages was filed in the district court this morning by County Assessor W. H. Hillman against County Commissioners Riley Dixon of McCammon and Alex Harris of Turner, charging libel and defamation of character. Six causes of action are named in the complaint which was prepared by Colonel Ferguson, attorney for Mr. Hillman, each county alleging damages to the amount of $500.00. Mr. Hillman charges that Harris and Dixon were actuated by malice and asks judgment against them in the sum of $30,000. Pocatello Tribune
A convention of forest supervisors and ranger of three forest districts met in Pocatello this morning. The convention will last for three days and the meetings are being held in the Commercial club rooms in the Y.M.C.A. building. Clinton G. Smith supervisor of the Cache range, with headquarters in Logan and formerly a resident of this city, was chairman of the meetings today and tomorrow and the next day the meetings will be in charge of Supervisor J. F. Bruins of the Pocatello range and Mr. McCoy of the Minidoka range respectively.
Mountain Home Feb 14.-- A great ovation was tendered former Governor James H. Brady on his arrival in Mountain Home from Boise today. He was met at the train by school children and bands and a parade was formed and he was welcomed to the city in a most demonstrative manner. In the evening a reception was tendered at the high school building and Mr. Brady declared that if he lived he would put water on every acre around Mountain Home. Men will be put to work at an early day repairing the old irrigation system, and he also outlined in his talk, his plans for the completion of the entire system started by the Great Western Company. Idaho Falls Post.
The first gun of the campaign which will be carried on by the merchants of Twin Falls and Southern Idaho, against the mail order houses and their methods was fired by State Pure Food and Sanitary Inspector James H. Wallis, who in a public meeting held in the Commercial club room gave the life to the Montgomery Ward’s scurrilous circular. Inspector Wallis, who has visited this city a number of times in his official capacity, was stopped on his way east by a wire telling him of the situation and arrived in Twin Falls Saturday afternoon. He met with the merchants and stated that he would do all in his power to aid them in the fight to check the encroachment of mail order houses and before leaving gave the strong endorsement of the local merchants which will be found in the center of this page.—Twin Falls Times.
The Preston Booster, Preston, Idaho - February 22, 1912
Transcribed by Charlotte Slater

IDAHO FOOD OFFICIAL CLOSES DRUG STORES AND CAFÉS AT 9 PM
[By Associated Press]
Boise, Idaho, July 11 – Cafés, drug stores and soda fountains all over Idaho will have to close at 9 o'clock every night after July 15, according to an order issued today by Idaho's federal food administrator, D. F. Bicknell. The order makes no exceptions save fruit stands and cigar stores, but includes broadly all places at which food or merchandise is handled her sold. With the exception of drug stores, soda fountains and cafés all places of business will open at 8 o'clock in the morning and close at 6 in the evening. The exceptions may remain open until 9 o'clock at night, and cafés and hotel dining rooms may open at 5 in the morning. On Saturday only all stores, may remain open until 9 at night, and on Sunday drug stores and soda fountains may be open only from 1 o'clock in the afternoon until 9 o'clock at night.
Source: The Quincy Daily Journal - July 11, 1918
Submitted and transcribed by Debbie Gibson

IDAHO STATE NEWS
The post office at Aden, Elmore county, has been ordered discontinued after May 31.
Oscar F. Brunzell has been appointed postmaster at Reynolds, Owyhee county, vice J. M. Brunzell, removed.
About sixty members of the Idaho State Press association departed for St. Louis on their annual outing on the 11th.
Two stores at Payette were ransacked by burglars one night last week, goods to the amount of $100 being taken.
A movement is on foot to organize a four-club baseball league, comprising the towns of St. Anthony, Idaho Falls, Blackfoot and Pocatello.
The ferry boat at Star is now carrying passengers across the river. The ferry transports people and loads free. It is operated by the county.
The Weiser Gun club has completed its organization and will hold its regular shoots on Thursday of each week. There are twenty-three members.
This spring is the first time in the first time in years that the natives of Emmett have not had plenty of mushrooms. Lack of the delicacies is due to the dry spring.
Clyde Smith, aged 8, while trying to climb upon a heavily loaded wagon in Boise, fell underneath the wheels and was seriously injured, his spine being injured, as well as sustaining numerous bruises.
While Mrs. S. B. Thompson and Mrs. C. Thompson of Payette were out driving the horse ran away and the vehicle collided with a tree. Mrs. S. B. Thompson sustaining a fractured collar bone.
H.A. Mondschein, a jeweler of Blackfoot, committed suicide by taking prussic acid. It was taken at his room and death was almost instantaneous. Ill health is probably the reason for his action.
John Isham, aged 30, who had been working on a ranch near Mountain Home, was taken seriously ill while driving a wagon and fell to the ground, being unconscious when picked up, death ensuing an hour later.
The business section of Ketchum was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 11th, two blocks on Main street being burned. The Williams hotel, the opera house and the central station were among the buildings burned.
During the summer Emmett, will be connected with Roosevelt by telephone. As soon as the snow clears two or three gangs of men will be put to work. The work will be rushed so as to be completed this summer.
The news comes from Washington that the quartermaster-general has decided to allow an expenditure of $140,000 out of the general fund for the enlargement, improvement and general repairs to the barracks at Boise.
It is predicted that more freight will pass through Emmett this summer than ever before. If the wagon road to Thunder Mountain is not completed before fall mining machinery will be hauled from Emmett to where the new road ends.
George Wingert, for many years a resident of Hailey, where he conducted a lodging house and operated drays, shot himself through the head on the railroad bridge at Boise and fell from the structure into the river. No trace of his body has been found.
The Lamb-Patton Airship company, limited, of Bellevue, Blain county, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000, all of which has been subscribed. The company proposes to manufacture, sell and rent self-propelling ships for aerial navigation.
The post office at Glenn’s Ferry was entered by robbers on the night of the 13th. They blew open the safe and took about $600 in cash and stamps. Later a man was found about two blocks away with a broken leg. He is believed to be one of the robbers.
The log drive down the Payette this spring will be the largest, with one exception, in the history of the Payette river. The exception is twelve years ago when E. E. Stanley and Ed Allen brought a total of 13,000,000 feet of lumber down the river.
A construction engine coming into Nampa from Boise ran into a train of coal cars standing on the side track at the Y badly demolishing two of them. One car and the engine were thrown from the track. An open switch caused the wreck. No one was injured.
Supervisor Pringle at Fort Hall Indian school announces that the well now being driven there has developed a steady flow of 130 gallons per hour, thus assuring an abundance of water supply. For a while it was feared that there would be a water famine at Fort Hall.
Source: The Marysville Republican - May 17, 1904
Submitted by Anna Parks

Western Inventors
People from Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada Granted Patents
Washington, July 14--Patents have been issued as follows:

Utah--Willliam Bright, assignee of one-halo to W. H. Schock, over thermometer; John B. Fleming, Frisco, steam boiler; Angus McKellar, Salt Lake, concentrator and Amalgamator, Lemert C. Vanvoorhies, Salt Lake City, duplex penholder, William P. O Meara, Salt Lake City; Trade mark for baking powder.

Idaho--Carl Rosenhold and J. W. Carlson, Wardner, bicycle bell.

Montana -- Charles O. Anderson, Butte, Ice velocipede; Byron Markham, Helena,
Bolster plates, Lawrence K. Dovlin, Haver, Electric railway system.

Nevada--Clinton L Bancroft, Brown’s voting Machine.

Pensions were granted as follows:

Wyoming--Charles W. Tarnin, Viola, reissue; Clara N. Blanke, Laramie, original widow.

Idaho--William I Stunit, Forest; Charles H. Hubbell, Boise, original.

Nevada--Peter T Kaufman, Eureka, original.

M. I. Burns was appointed postmaster at Invanharn, Wyoming, vice C. C. T Thompsons, resigned.
Source: American Eagle - July 17, 1897
Submitted by Richard Ramos

BRIEFLY TOLD
Casper celebrated Arbor day by planting 2,000 trees.

Cheyenne is overrun with tramps and robberies occur nightly.

John Duddy aged 40, long a resident of Butte, was found dead in bed Saturday.

J. Martinez, a traveling doctor is under arrest at Denver, Idaho, charged with rape.

Pocatello is making an effort to have the place of holding United States district court removed from Blackfoot to Pocatello.

Overflowed streams have done so much damage to the roads between Boise and Silver City that the stage route has been changed.

Sixty thousand ties are being floated down Big and Little Bear Creeks, to the river where they will be loaded, from near Kendrick, Idaho.

A party of eastern investors have purchased 10,000 acres of land on lower Horse creek, where they will establish a colony of eastern farmers.

The Shoshone Indians are protesting against the appointment of a civilian as Indian agent. The Indians have prospered under the jurisdiction of the war department.

R.S. Reid, a Lewiston, Montana sheep herder, while lying on the grass watching his sheep, suddenly felt a peculiar sensation in his little finger. He had been bitten by a monster rattle snake and to keep the poison from entering his blood, cut the bitten finger off at the first joint.
Source: American Eagle - May 8, 1897
Submitted and transcribed by Kathie Scott

NEWS FROM OVER THE ENTIRE STATE
INTERESTING ITEMS AS GLEANED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
   William Quinn, who was fatally shot by Deputy Sheriff Hicks, in the saloon of the Wallace hotel, at Wallace, died last Thursday.
    Frank Blazer, who has been in the Thunder mountain country for three years was in Boise last week. He had the richest specimens of antimony ore ever seen there.
    Work has been started on the Odd Fellows building at Ashton. The work will be pushed as fast as material can be secured as it is to be finished by the middle of July.
    Two men, believed to have been concerned in the robbery of the Onyx saloon in Salt Lake last week, are in the county jail at Pocatello awaiting the arrival of the officers from Utah.
    James McDonald was examined for his sanity Saturday at Pocatello, by Drs. Bean and Steely, before Judge T.A. Johnson, and committed to the state asylum for the insane at Blackfoot.
    D.S. Lowrie, who has been station agent for the Short Line at Pocatello for the past four years, was promoted on May 1st to the position of traveling auditor of the Idaho division of the system.
    The Pocatello Tribune says that ore assaying $50 per ton in gold, under an eighteen foot capping of almost pure iron, has been discovered on the north side of City creek, about four miles west of Pocatello.
    It is not “Editor Hogan” Of the Moutainhome Maverick, instead of Editor Simkius. Mr. Hogan is from South Dakota and highly recommended as a newspaper man. Mr. Simkius will enter the real estate business.
    A.S. Mack has resigned his position as assistant secretary and cashier for the Boise Railway company, which he has held for the past two years, and accepted a position as state manager of the Des Moines Life Insurance company.
    Robert Bernhardt Oslund, who has for the past three months been engaged in teaching music at Wallace left there last week to accept a position as organist of the Congregational church at Cleveland, Ohio, where he will continue to teach music.
    The work done on the roads by Henry Rigby, the new road overseer at Rexburg, is deserving of credit, says the Standard. There is a marked improvement in the streets and alleyways, and the conditions are very gratifying to the citizens of the town.
    J.O. Corder, who died at his home in Boise last Saturday, was one of the oldest settlers who took part in the early day affairs of Idaho. He came to the state in 1863 and settled at what is now known as Mayfield, twenty-five miles southeast of Boise.
    According to the sworn statements of the large producing mines of the Coeur d’Alene’s, with the exception of the Stewart and the Success, the reports of which have not as yet been filed with the assessor of Shoshone county, the total net profits for the year 1906 were $6,436,756.03.
    Two bad actors went into George’s restaurant at Idaho Falls, shortly after midnight, Saturday night and stared a scrap. It seems they had a grievance against the proprietor and were hunting trouble. In the melee the curtains were torn down and other damage done. The individuals sought to start a rough house, but before it got fairly under way, Officers Chase and Fackrello arrived on the scene and took the two belligerents in tow. They gave the names of Harry and Oscar Walker, and are brothers. They will have an opportunity of making their peace with Judge Crowley.—Idaho Falls Post.
    Elmer Knudson was the victim of a runaway accident Thursday of last week, near Victory. The colt he was driving took fright at the school children, who were practicing outdoor calisthenics. Aside from a lame back for Master Elmer and a broken stave for the rig, no serious damage was one.
    The Kellogg State Bank was opened for business at Kellogg Monday, of last week, with P.P. Weber, the Wardner banker, in charge. The bank is owned by P.P. and John Weber, pioneer business men and bankers of Wardner, who operate the Wardner bank, and it will be run in connection with that institution.
    The ball given under the auspices of the Wallace last week was one of the greatest social events of the season. The affair proved such a success that there is much talk of arranging another in the near future. The proceeds were applied towards the purchase of new music and uniforms for the band members.
    Professor W.R. Siders, superintendent of the Pocatello public schools, has been appointed to assist Miss Belle Chamberlain, state superintendent of public instruction, in the preparation of the new course of studies in the public schools of Idaho. Professor Siders is recognized everywhere as one of the leading instructors of Idaho.
    The trial of Blinkley and Purdy, says the Idaho Falls Register, who were arrested in California some time ago and brought back to the Falls for killing elk for their teeth, came to a sudden ending on Saturday when the two defendants suddenly decided to plead guilty; after a number of witnesses had been examined for the government. They were fined the maximum.
    Yesterday was a big day for Payette and the citizens had the opportunity of entertaining two prominent and important delegations. One was the business men’s excursion from Portland, Oregon, and the other a special train of more than 250 Dunkards from the eastern states who were on their way to Los Angeles to attend the annual conference of the German Brethren church.
    Joseph Higham died at Idaho Falls last week after a lingering illness of several months. An operation was performed for a cancer of the stomach some time ago. Shortly after he went to the hospital at Salt Lake City. After he returned he commenced failing rapidly. He was one of the old settlers, having located with his parents and brother in Swan Valley in 1878.
    Montpelier and Bear Lake counties, like thousands of other sections throughout the United States, are overrun with the pesky little yellow-headed dandelion. Many remedies have been tried in an effort to kill this weed, but none have proved successful. It seems, however, that a scientist in the eastern college has discovered a spray that will knock out this “yellow peril” quickly and permanently.
Source: The Teton-Peak Chronicle - May 9, 1907
Submitted and transcribed by Kathie Scott

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