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IDAHO STATE NEWS Idaho Falls has received an offer for her municipal power plant from the Byllsby people of Chicago. Governor Hawley is exerting every effort to secure the 1913 session of the International Dry Farming con. gress for Boise. That a motor car service will soon be in active operation between Idaho Falls and the several towns adjacent in the very near future is a foregone conclusion. North Idaho is second in the United States in the production of lead. this year, according to the annual advance statement of the United States geological survey. Indicative of interest in the movement for better educational facilities, figures show that $250,000 is to be expended in northern Idaho this year for school buildings. Work on the Burley sugar factory is progressing very rapidly. Over 100 men are now employed on the building, and twenty-five carloads of machinery have been received. "Hamp" (J. H.) Peacock, a printer, aged 49, died at McCammon from heart failure last week. Peacock had worked in a number of printing offices throughout the state. Several of the negroes who have been giving the police department of Boise all kinds of trouble lately have been escorted to the city limits and shown the way out of town. More than 21,040 acres of land in the dry farming belt of Ada. Boise and Canyon counties have been added to the enlarged homestead classifications of the interior department. The comptroller of the currency has authorized the payment of a second dividend of 10 per cent to the creditors of the First National bank of Salmon, which was closed last June. That Bonneville county will soon -140 si officials her JOJ home B base denced by the act that the county commissioners are already figuring on such a building, says an Idaho Falls dispatch. The Soda Springs Commercial club is urging the county commissioners of Bannock county to appropriate $1,500 for the construction of a road from Soda Springs through the Tin Cup country. The last of the work of grading the Salt Lake & Idaho railroad has been completed. The roadbed is now ready for the steel for the entire sixty-five miles from Burley to Kelton Summit, near the Utah line. Mike Davis, who held up Mike Ryan at Mountain Home and robbed him of $2.50, must serve a term in the penitentiary The sheriff heard of the robbery and ran out in his night clothes and arrested Davis. William Martinsen of Idaho Falls, who owns extensive ranch interests near Grant, has been shipping baled alfalfa to the St. Louis markets and has received a price ranging from : $24.50 to $26 per ton for it there. The village board of Burley has had prepared an ordinance calling an election for voting upon the question of bonding for $85,000 to extend the electric lighting and power station, and put in water works and sewers. Legal authorities in Adams county have requested an opinion from the office of Attorney General McDougall as to whether the question of removing the county seat from Council to some other city within the county may be submitted to the people at the general election this fall. Notice of intention to circulate petitions for a vote on the question of moving the county seat of Cassia county from Albion to Burley has been published, and the petitions will be circulated within a few weeks, and the question will be settled at the polls in November. The interior department. notwithstanding the action of the attorney general in dismissing the .criminal suits against the Barber Lumber company, says a Washington dispatch, has recommended and urged that an appeal be taken to the supreme court in the civil cases against this company. After waiting nearly ten years for water, the people of Dead Ox Flat last week saw water lifted 110 feet high at the rate of twenty cubic feet a second and running in three of the ditches, one fifty, one eighty, and one 110 feet lift. It is estimated this section will now furnish homes for from 500 to 1,000 families. Mrs. Mary A. Rich, widow of
