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Show IDAHO ST1TE NEWS For the second tlmo in sixty dajt. Oroflno has been yulted by a fire, the lois to properly In Ins about 8,000. The 'Welaer city Mtincll ha passol an ordinance requiring nil property awner to keep their sldewnlka clou cf snow and slush. Willie Veach, of Wallace, hitched hla sled to r freight train, Intending to lake a rid?, when t'lo train backed up snd ho km crushed to death. Je t.n Tucker was found dead under nealh tila wagon, ncir Gold Triirli inlnlns rami'. H U presumed hu fol'. 'mm the waron, being killed 1 y tin fall Wllllnru Slon. a well known dim icter ofDoUe, where he hnd lived toj the paat twenty years, was found dea-In dea-In a barn, doath being due to nlooliol lim. F. C Oxman, who, drove a flock o' ihecp from Montana Into Ada count; without first giving notice to tha ctat live atock inspector, has bc:n fins $100. The school directors ot Caldwel have decided to build a now eight room school house on Was'jlngto: Heights If the people will vote tht bonds. A severe windstorm swept Long valley a few days ago, doing conald erablo damage to farmer, blowing down barns and small buildings, fen cr , etc. The city council of Caldwell has let a contract for the erection of thf city hall, to Harding & Williams, of Caldwell, for $19,200 for a brick and stone structure. Peter Steers, sent up from Bingham county, for two and one-half years, on. conviction of embeztlement while sheriff of that county, was granted a pardon last week. As a result of wanton, careless shooting on the part of some unknown person, Charles Morton, aged 35, ol Boise, Is In the hospital suffering from a bullet wound In tho thigh. Mrs. A. W. Trlde. living eight miles from Boise, has rased SO tut Keys this season and has disposed of 72 of them in the Boise market, clearing the sum of $125 for her labor. The total registration ot both col lego and preparatory departments al the state university at Moscow is now 354. The college registration is 227 as 'compared to 176 two yoars ago. John llautella, aged 19, was drowned In tho I'ajolto river, near Uirdo, while trying to cross tho stream on horsobnek. Tho body was recovered a short distance below the ford. t . Great preparations aro boing made at Moscow for tho cunji carnival and 'armors' institute which will bo held during the annual convention of tho Idaho Agronomy association at the college ot agriculture. Rudolph Wetter, convicted ot murder mur-der in Idaho county, who was to havo been hanged on July 10, but was reprieved, re-prieved, had his sentence . commuted to life Imprisonment by the stato , pardon board, last week. Frank -Merry, a barber of Culdesac, ittempted suicide at the hospital In Lewlsten, severing his windpipe with a pocket knife. The doctors sewed the onds ot the severed windpipe together to-gether and he will Tecover. There are so far three known candidates can-didates for the speakership of the house of representatives. They aro A. H. Conner, of Shoshone county, J. Frank Hunt, of Bannock county, and Robert M. McCracken, of Bingham. Bing-ham. ' Charles Battler, a well-known cltl-en cltl-en of Kendrick, was shot twice by Ezcl Seigman In a saloon over an argument ar-gument as to the meaning ot a German Ger-man word. Seigman claims self de fense. Sattler is not dangerously Injured. In-jured. The entire plant of the Nampa Foundry & Machine, company was destroyed de-stroyed by a are which started from the stove In the office and spread over the entire building. The loss Is estimated esti-mated at $35,000, with Insurance ot $8,000. Night Policeman John Nevlns, of Welser, against whom charges ot at slating in the stealing of coal from coal cars was made about two weeks ago, and who was laid off by the city council pending an investigation, has been reinstated. Major Frank Fenn, forest suparvlnor has been ordered to go to the northoru part of the state to organlzo tho Coour d'Alene reserve, which has juot recently been established. This reserve re-serve Is located in the counties ot Nez Perce and Shoshone The sugar beet factory at Nampa has started on Its Bteffens run, which wljl last about thirty daya. The re-rent re-rent damages Incident to the hlg wind have now all been repaired and It Is thought there will be no furthet delays until the ond of the fall run. The Caldwell city council has passed an ordinance which provides that no license 'shall bo Usued to any person for tho conducting of a saloon except a majority of Jhe- resident property owners ot tho clock in which the saloon sa-loon s to ho toeated shall give 'their oqnssnU |