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Show E9HSBSS9Q9 IDAHO STATE NEWS Hulloy suffered a $0,000 fira'( last week. The ourpntej of Odltfwoll ihavo formed a union. About fifty teachers nttemled tho oponlng session of tho Canyon County Teachers' Institute at CaltiWell. Tho olty of Caldwell Is making over her $31,000 bond t8S,,ci nml' work on tho now city hall will be pushed, Tho Bolso IlaBln Power & Hydraulic company has now ovr eighty mqn at work on tho ditch cast of Placorvlllo. Tho annual horso ra'ces which have inndo Meadows famous, for the past Si years wero held TlnfrBday, August 23. In Latu'.i county crda havo been excellent, ex-cellent, thin season, arid', eastern f armors ar-mors aro purchasing farms in all parts of tho county. S Belated tales of n cloudburst on .Deer creek, below Foroslt are- tot tho effect tiiat tho damage will aggregato closo to $10,000. Farmers of Long valley doclaro that .no less than 600,000 bushels of grain will bo the' result of the harvest In Long valley this year. No::t yoar the Payette cannery will try to got planted 100 acres of tomatoes, toma-toes, as It Is believed the farmers can inak $200 per acre from this crop. This Is tho first Beason Jbat blight ha not nppoarcd among tho tomatoe plants In Payette valley, and a largo crop Is betng ralsod, although the ncrsago Is small. Tho Fajetto cannery la making" a very successful run this year. Over 8,000 crates of peas have been packed this .season, and tho crops of beans Is now being cared for. Tho body of John Robinson, a prospector pros-pector and civil war veteran, was found by ome boys on a sand bar on tho Bolso river near Caldwell. Death, was duo to natural causes. On tho strength of having a beet dumping station put in at New Plymouth, Plym-outh, ranchers in that vlnclnlty havo subscribed 260 acres of Ground more to be planted to beets next year. A five ncro tract near Twin Falls, recently Improved and sown to alfalfa, alfal-fa, was sold last week for $300 an acre. Tho owner had Just sold two crops of hay which netted him $50 an acre. ,' Tho total assessed valuation In the stato for 1906, as reported by the state board of equalization, amounts to $80,704,349.16, nn Increase ovor 1905 of $5,423,261.29, last yearVJJeuros being $75,281,087.97. The secretary of the interior has granted nn extension of tlmo to tho Vulcan Iron Works of Chicago for furnishing fur-nishing matts and lifting devices for uso In connection with tho Minidoka irrigation project. E. D. Carter, who built tho first sawmill and the first hotol at Wallace, Wal-lace, Idaho, and who installed the first clo,ctrlc light plant and water works, owning both for a tlmo, died nt Eau Claire, Wis., August 3. Tho biggest potato raiser In Long valley probable Is Clarenco "Shaw. He has fifteen acres In tubers this yoar and ho says ho will havo no trouble In marketing his wholo crop at from li cents to 2& cents per pound. Tho Idaho Light & Power company, tho now organization which contemplates contem-plates Installing electric lights In Payette, Pay-ette, Welser and Ontario, Is now pushing push-ing tho work of securing the remainder of tho right-of-way for Its power ditch. One niilo a day Is th; rate that tho Payetto Valley railroad Is creoplng toward to-ward Now Plymouth from Payette. The roadbed Is all completed and moro than 175 men are employed In rushing tho line to Its objective point, In tho presence of her husband and 15-year-old daughter, Mrs. Lottie Mc-Dermott, Mc-Dermott, wife of Peter McDermott, a farmer eight miles from Forest, was Instantly killed by a' tree which her husband had felled falling upon hor and crushing In her skull. Tho Methodist conference, which was In sosslon In Idaho Falls last week, agreed to support the plan of tho Anti-Saloon league, to support no :andldato for the legislature who woul . 'not pledge hlmsolf to vote nnd work for a liberal local option law. Ed Graham was arjrestod at Welser on a charge of forgery. Ho cashed a chock at the Elk saloon for $37, but only received about $15. Later, he offered a check at another saloon, but the proprietor was suspicious suspi-cious and called in the sheriff. Tho first annual tournament, of the Idaho-Utah Sportsmen's association in Pocatollo closed on tho 29th with W. It. Crosby of O'Fallon, III., high gun among the professionals, and P. J. Holohan of Twin Falls winner of tbo high average for tho amateurs. W. P. Kottonbach, president of the Lowiston National bank and, one of the wealthiest men In Lewlston, had a narrow escape from bolng killed by the explosion of a 5-gal!on can1 of gasoline gaso-line while replenishing th task of his touring car near Wapa lake. |