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Short News Notes From All Parts of IDAHO Mountain Home,-Contract for the re-construction of the Camas canals the and reservoir was let last week to Morrison-Knudsen company, which commenced work immediately. Emmett-E. H. Fikkan, present cashier of the Eagle bank, at Eagle, has accepted the position of cashier the First National bank of Emmett, of succeeding C. B. Polly, resign. ed. Mr. Fikkan will assume his du ties here November 1. Arco-Farmers in this vicinity are the lookout for a huge bear which on is believed to have been responsible for the killing of 50 head of sheep the ranch of the Utah Construction company on at Era Flat and a calf and Mr. lamb belonging to Earl Miller. Miller , shot the bear and wounded it but by the time a saddle horse could be procured so that the animal could 30 chased, the bear had disappeared. Mountain Home - The Mountain Home hotel, which has been closed for a number of years, was reopened last week by Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Nordyke and son. It has 29 rooms and will be conducted under the name of Nordyke and Nordyke. Lewiston-The 20 per cent payment checks, amounting to $40,000, were distributed to the depositors of the First National bank of Clarkston last week. Receiver R. D. McCulley an nounces that this dividend was made possible without a single foreclosure or forced sale, which he considers re markable under present conditions throughout this section. Twin Falls,-Commissioners of the Fwin Falls highway district and Hillsdale highway district at a joint meeting here, awarded contracts for reflooring of the Hansen bridge over Snake River canyon, involving an estimate expense of $3000. Specifica of tions provide for replacement wooden floor and covering the new floor with sand and oil. Emmett,-Over two hundred quarts home canned fruit were shipped from of here to the Children's home in Boise, all being donated by Individuals and organizations of Emmett. Kellogg-Contracts recently award ed for construction of a paved high way from Cataldo to Mullan include one to the Mohr Construction com pany, Spokane, for grading and sur. facing from the Bunker Hill smelter C. Pine creek, for $51,147, one to to M. Payne & Co., Spokane, for surfac (Fom Wallace to Mutian, for $18, 607, ing and one to Samuel Orino, Wal lace, for construction of two 47-foot concrete bridges near Mullan, span for $17,573, or $87,607 for the three contracts. Of this amount Shoshone county will pay 42 per cent or $37, 533. The remainder will be contri buted by the federal government. King Hill,-From his 130-acre farm the King Hill tract John C. San. born on of Hagerman valley this season of obtained a yield of 1734 bushels alfalfa seed, or an average of a little better than thirteen bushels to acre. From this crop Mr. San. born the received $12,628.98 from the of Gooding Seed and Feed company, Gooding who this year have pur- the chased five carloads of seed from King Hill district. Malad,-A sale of 100,000 tons of to be shipped to Kansas City, hay, where it will sell for $32 per ton, Mo., fair to form an important factor Ida. bids breaking the deadlock between in hay growers and Idaho and foreign the ho owners, who have been in sheep of feeding their sheep in Idahe a habit buying hay for this purpose at and fixed by the sheep owners. will Grandview, price in Owyhee county, 25,000 tons of hay, Chattin the supply will supply 15,000 tons, and remainder flats of the 100,000 tens will be supplied by other points. Caldwell,-That the relief given the of the Boise project by Dr. the settlers W. Work, secretary of interior, Hubert under section 1 of the Phipps is not satisfactory is the position taken bill, by officers of the Boise Payette Water Users' association. Charges approximating $887,000 will be defer under the relief given and spread over red practically all lands under con trol of the association. Boise,-Chet Langer and E. L Jones, alleged robbers been of held the in Bank the