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Show i - "1II.'!!?.'.'J' I IDAHO STATE NEWS Tho Mcnnonltes are) constructing n , largo church at Nampa. , Tho ntfiilfa meal mill at Nnmpa will bo running lu a fow daya, Tho I'rohlbitlcnlatB o.f 'Canyon coun-' coun-' ty Have placed a ticket In (tho field. Tho W. C. T. U. stute convention I will bo hold at EmmoU. on October 2nd to 4th. ' . Kastern capitalists arc. figuring ou building on electric llnoJr6ni Mond owa to Lardo. Tho Dtwoy railroad hs brought to Nampa from Kmmett ihrcq carloads of fruit ovcrv for tho past' week. Tho packing plaut ntt Nampa h.n been putting up 800 to 000,, crates of rrult daily, employing Sov "packers. J. M. McKinncy waiC knocked down by a car on tho rallioad tracks at Nampa and narrowly escaped death. About sixty ministers and laymen woro in attendauco at tho meeting ot tho Daptlet association ot tho Plato ol Idaho at Caldwell. Ono hundred and fifty men aro engaged en-gaged In tho logging operations at th Darbcr mill and tho forco'ls to bo lu creased to 300 for winter work. Tho first annual Fremont county fair proved a grand bucccss, a total of 12,000 people passing through the gates during tho threo days of tho fair October 17 will bo rionecr day at tho State fair to ho held at Boise, an I a largo number of pioneers from all over tho state havo signified their In Icntlon of being present. L. A. Richardson, for two years general gen-eral foreman of tho Short Lino shops at Pocatelln, has' been appointed mas-tor mas-tor mechanic ot the Rock Island, with headquarters at Trenton, Mo. With tho farming Interests gradually gradual-ly absorbing what was onco a vast rango for countless head of sheep and cattle, wool-growing Is rapidly dwln dllng in Importance) In tho I.owlstou country. Ono thousand tons ot steel rails havo been shipped from .Pittsburg for tho Boise &. lnterurban company's new electric rosd,, and within the month another 1,000 tons will t bo re colved. f ' William Trye, aged.wne.of tho old ploneors ot IdaboJCUy.Ta bachelor, was found dead lying prostrated on tho floor of his cabin, about half a mile from town. D(th was duo to natural causes. It Is ropdrtod on good authority that tho..Short Lino or Union Pacific exton Blqn from Huntington northIa the Snako river to Lowlston Is" finally do elded upon, and that dirt will be flying on tho grado within 30 days. Two. Immense steam shovels, each weighing 'about 70 tons, arrived al Nampa a few days ago for the govern mont reclamation service. The big machines Were puC together and taken to tho works on thaf'Dear Flat roser voir. t Fire, believed to bo of Incendiary origin, wiped out tho whole of the business section ot Oro Flno, entail lug a financial loss of $75,000, with insurance ot less than $20,000. Fit teen business houses wero burned, In addition to tho postofllco, bank, news paper ofllcos and two hotels and many residences. D. A. McKinnoy, proprietor of the Dobol holed at Oro Flno, In which the recent flro originated, has been placed under arrest, charged with arson. Tht population Is greatly excited and threats of bodily harm havo been made against .McKinnoy, notwithstanding that his own family barely escaped In their night clothes. The O. R. & N. Co. Is said to have entered Into an arrangomont With Da vld EccIpb ot Salt Lake, owner of the Sumptcr Valley road, to build tho pro posed lluo from Baker City to Dal lard's landing, 75 miles, on Iho Snako rlvor. f As tho rosult of a runaway In Boise, four poople, Jack Mills, Miss Stella JohnBon, Miss Suo Westover and Miss Magglo Hooper, wero thrown from tho wngon and injured,, Mr. Miller being dragged sorao dlnjanco and badly brulsod up. An oxtenslvo export trade In barluy and other brewing grains may soon be 'developed from the Nez Perco pralrlo It tho Investigations nqw being mado by Horr Charles Pleas, a director of a Seattle brewery, aro satisfactory to him and his company. ( H. T. Johnson of Twin Falls statoa that ha sold onough potatoes from 27 acres last year to pay for the clearing and fonclng of SO acres, and tho cut tlvotlon of the crop. This year ho has 20 acros In potatoes which promise to yield nn well aa last year's crop. A, A. Gibbons, who was kicked in tho hoad by a horse npar Idaho City, tho nccldont resulting In his losing all memory of tho past, was operated on at a Boise hospital last week. On recovering re-covering consciousness after the operation, oper-ation, Mr. Gibbons' memory returned ontirely. Tha formal opening of tho PayetW Valley railroad, the lino just completed com-pleted from Payatto to Now Plymouth, iwas celobratd on tha 22nd. One ol tho prottlost Incidents of tho day was a flag ralsng by the Puritan society. This Bocloty was organized In 18(17 14 peopl. |