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Show , rr IDAHO STATE M3.TCfi I'he Uapllsta' association mat at Caldwell tho latter pnrt ot last wear. f Every Idle enr on tha Short Lino la' being called Into uao to move tho bwC crop. ..... . , Kmma It, Mcltiort hag becu appoint" od pogtmfsl'regs "at Klfe Rl(y, --Iiiaho county. A farmer near Huhl had an acre of locust trees set out this your, which aro now nearly twelve feet high. On tho Twin Falls tract this year ii,3C3 acres ot land have boon entered, nearly 2,000 of which, has beeu entered In Scptetnbor. Work has boon begun by the contractors con-tractors on the sewors at Caldn'oll, and tho work will bo finished as rapid .y as possible. Klio at Minidoka destroyed halT'the business section of that town, causing a total loss of $50,000, with Insurance covorlng one-third. ' - Tho Codlego'of Idaho, -at'. Caldwell, opened Hslslxtocnth school ycarfbn tho 19th, with' tho largest attondanco in tho history of the school. The thrco eastern Idaho districts, UIackfoot,"idaho Falls; and Sugar City, will this fall harvest a totil of 113,. 000 tons of sugar' becie. Forest RlUIua, a three-year-old boy,' tvas so seriously Injured by an explosion explo-sion of kcroseno at WcUcr that death ensued after hours of suffering. Two yenra ago thero were not more ilian twenty families lu upper Long .'alley, whllo at tho present time the population Is estimated at 7,000 or 8.000. A trolley car struck a runabout in which P. W. Hclphroy and Miss B Lane were riding, in Dotse, both being! thrown to tho ground and slightly injured. in-jured. -, j . . - State Bank Examiner C. S. Lovoland1 has authorized the Bank of Washing ton county, of Mtddieton, to begin biisi. noss. Tho capital or the bank Is 25,-.000, 25,-.000, fully paid. ; - ; ; Mrs. Jacoblna Nelso, aged 71, of Po catello, wandered away from her home 'at night, fell Into the Portneuf rlvor and was drowned, her body being found six fcouro later. Edward King, operator of the moving mov-ing picture machine In the Empire theatre the-atre 1at .Bols6,r was seriously; burned, and the 'theatre damaged to v the amouaUof $2,500 lasfcwcek. Oats seven feet and thre? laches high, yielding 75 bushels, have heen growa this season In Long valley, and tho settlers are drifting from mining and stock raising to farming. A very desirable immigration is settling set-tling near Mountain Home, the benefits bene-fits of which la reflected in modern brick business blocks ant? an Increase in the valua of alfalfa sad grain fields., Lnst week a number of Payette val ley fruit growers organized the Payette Pay-ette Valley Apple Growers; union, limited, lim-ited, with the end io. view of putting their apples on the market In better shape. f Tho city Jail at Culdesac was destroyed de-stroyed by fire at about 2 o'clock lu the morning, under circumstances that lead to the belief that the fire was ot Incendiary origin, The Jobh Is about 14,000. Prune pickers are working overtime theso days, and the big warehouses ore being taxed to tho utmost to handle tho large quantity of the fruit wh'lcii is being dumped beforo their doors. Tho farmers of Klmberly have organized org-anized a warehouso company and expect ex-pect to bold their grain- tor higher prices. Thcro are 74 stockholders In tho company, and they are building a warehouse 40x87 feet. Tom MoKnlght, an employee ot Pago '& llott's camp on Daggott creek, was severely injured by a log rolling on hlin. Mr. McKnlght was engaged in work along the creel: when he foil In, ail imense log rolling over him. Tlo first car of Idaho prunes of this season's crop was sold in Chicago on the 14th at auction by tho Earl Fruit company) the car bringing $1,315. The prunes' were shipped by the Payette "Fruit Packing company ot Payette, Tho thirty-two National banks of Idaho, had f 6,892,216 In loanB and discounts dis-counts September 4, the date ot the comptroller's last )!. They carried $458,700 gold coin, had $10,268,620 individual in-dividual deposits land percentage of re-servj re-servj 16,90. A special meeting of the pardon board was he)4 last week to consider tho application for a commutation ot sontonco for Rudolph Wettor from death to, life imprisonment. The matter mat-ter was taken under advisement until the, regular session next month. i Copll Hlngley, of Culdesac, was run over and probably fatally injured by a ,tam. He sustained three broken ribs 'and' other serious injuries. The boy ran around in front ot one team, not seeing the one which knocked him down, tho wagon passing over his body. Joseph Drown met with a serious accident ac-cident at Meridian. Whllo walking In front of a tam hitched to a hay wagon, wag-on, ono of the, horses reached ovor and grabbed Kimjjy tho throat, lifted hltrufrom the .grotmd. then threw hltn back to the groiind", inflicting serious injuries. |