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Show Oregon-Idaho Development Congress Will Open at Weiser Next Friday I Special to The Tribune. WEISER, Ida., April 25. The Oregon-Idaho Oregon-Idaho Deevlopment congress, that meet! In this city Friday, -April :t0, Mav l and 2, promises to be the biggest event of the kind In southern Idaho. Special rates have been granted on the railroads leading lead-ing to this city, and from the Information received by the officers of the Weiser Commercial club, the attendance will bo large. Tho eNcrcIses will be hold in When Ion theater, the finest building of the kind in the state, with u sealing capacity ca-pacity of 1000. Prominent men of Idaho and Oregon will be present and deliver addresses," Saturday evening a banquet will bo served by the ladles of the On' look club of this city In 1. O. O. F. hall after the evening session, which will be short. Sunday, the visitors will be given a free excursion over the Pacific & Idaho Northern railroad to Evergreen, a distance dis-tance of seventy-six miles. This excursion ex-cursion Is tendered through the courtesv of Vice President and General Manager Ifclgho of the Pacific &. Idaho Northern. ' one of the lending and most untiring of our- citizens to make the affair a success. The programme, which Is not complete, will consist of addresses by prominent citizens of Oregon and Idaho, interspersed inter-spersed with music and other entertaining entertain-ing features. The following luu'o accepted ac-cepted Invitations lo address tho congress: con-gress: Dr. J. It. Numbers, mayor of Welscr, address of welcome. lion. James II. Brady, governor of Idaho. lion. J. U. Richards of Boise. Ida. ! Hon. Addison Bennett of Portland, Ore., "Central Oregon and Coos Ray." Colonel E. Ilofer. Salem. Ore., "Development "Devel-opment in Oregon and Idaho." lion. A. I. Fre.hafcr. state senator from Washington county. "Washington County. Coun-ty. Its Uesources and Possibilities." Bellly Aitklnson. secretary of I.cnguc of Southern Idaho Commercial Chibs, Boise. Ida.. "The Wok of the League." C. M. HIM. president League of Southern South-ern Idaho Commercial Clubs. Twin Falls. Ida., "What We Are Trvlng to Do." G. A. Hurley, Vale, Ore., "The Wealth of Central Oregon " Miss Eslelle Riddle, editor of the Ontario On-tario Optimist, "Women Boosters." lion. Joseph P. Fallen, commissioner of Immigration for Idaho, "Tho Upbuilding of rditho." lion. George W. Shellenburger, Boise, Ida., "Slain AUrd Railroads." Colonel C. E. S. 'Wood. Portland. Ore.. 'The Railroad Situation In Southern Idaho Ida-ho and Oregon " A member of the Portland chamber of commerce, "The Railroad Situation From the Standpoint of Business Interests.'" Automobiles will be at the disposal of visitors, who will be shown about the city and points of interest In and about tin- city- The handsome new miarlers of the Weiser Commercial club will !' used as headquarters by tho visitors during their stay In the city. Colonel Ilclgho, chairman of the entertainment commit- toe, Is sparing no time or energy to make the congress a grand success. A bunch of -MS head of beef steers were shipped from this city Wednesday afternoon after-noon to Topnenlsh, Wash., from which point they will be shipped to Fairbanks. Alaska, for the Alaska trade. They wore fed at the ranch of J. 11. Hughes, four miles west of this city, on alfalfa hay alone. The bunch averaged over 1GQ0 pounds. Feeding began November S. This Is the third bunch Mr. Hughes has fed for tho Alaska market. 9 The Weiser Rod and Gun club has arranged ar-ranged for a big shooting tournament May 15 and 1C. Some of the most expert shooters In the country will be present. They will come here lrom Boise, where the tournament closes on the 1Kb. From here they will go to Walla. Walla. Th Weiser Rod and Gun club Is a member 6f the national association. A number of valuable prizes will be given, botli cash and medals. t Weiser is gelling the automobile rage. New mnchlnes are arriving every week. Bulck and E. M. and F. Studcbaker's appear ap-pear to be the favorites here. - H The Butte Baseball club of the Inter-mountnlu Inter-mountnlu league, John S. Barnes, manager, man-ager, has been here several days training for the season that opens May I. with Butte at Boise. Barnes has accumulated a crowd of husky, lively yjpung players, and the club ibat beats tliem will have to do some ball playing. The season of the Intermounlain league opens at Boise, May 1, between Boise and Butte. 1 V Weiser Is having a building boom. More buildings are In course of construction now than ever before in the history of the clly. both business and residences. Work will begin Immediately on two large business blocks, one to cost $"5,000, the oilier $10,000. It Is estimated that building build-ing operations now in progress will reach $200,000. Very good for a. town that never had a boom and docs not want one. Big real esiate deals are the order of the day lu this section. About four weeks ago the Roullard tract. consisting of 15,000 acres, was sold for $15,000; throe weeks ago the Swauger property was sold for $15,000; one week ac:o the Rauahan properly was sold for $27,000, and Wednesday Wed-nesday the Haines tract was purchased by Weiser residents. It contains 5000 acres. With the exception of the Rana-han Rana-han property, all these tracts will be set oul in apple trees and sold on easy terms In five and ten-aero tracts. The Rauahan Raua-han property is supposed to have been purchased by representatives of the Oregon Ore-gon Short J line railroad for roundhouse, machine shops and yard purposes, as II Is rumored the division will be removed from Hnntlncton to Weiser as soon as the Northwestern railroad, now building down the Snake river, Is completed to Lev.lstnu. |