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IDAHO STATE NEWS Teddy Arego, 7-year-old son of the proprietor of a rooming house it Boise, was killed by a kick from a horse. The state board of canvassers will meet on November 25 at the secre tary of state's office to officially count the votes cast at the recent election in Idaho. Rasmus Hoff has harvested 40,000 sacks of high grade potatoes on his ranch south of Idaho Falls. In addi tion to his potato crop Mr. Hoff has in 250 acres of peas. Congressman-elect Addison T Smith has gone to Washington to set tle up some of the private business 01 the late Senator Heyburn, whose pri vate secretary he was for many years After two years of preparatory work and the expenditure of $1,000, 000 to get ready, the real work of putting in the great dam at Arrow Rock-the greatest in the world-has begun. Fire, which is thought to have orig inated from the spark from a locomotive, did considerable damage to the Oregon Short Line bridge across the Boise river just west of the city lim its of Boise. The last hope of N. S. Sage, former Shelley banker, to avoid serving a term in the state penitentiary, was destroyed last week when the supreme court denied a petition for rehearing on the appeal to that court. T. Tanaka, Japanese, who is farming near Idaho Falls, produced over 40 bushels of peas to the acre on a 40-acre tract. He realized $60 per acre for the crop, which gives an idea of what can be done with this commodity. Carefully trundling two gaily decorated wheelbarrows, occupied by D Israel Westcott and Fred Harrington two Caldwell men, Jake Horn and P Charles Baker, paid the first of a num ber of freak bets made on the presidential election. h Parker V. Lucas of Roseberry, Harry McAdams of Corral, Homer Barton of Mullan and Paul Ostroot of fi Moscow have been selected to represent the University of Idaho in the annual debate with Pacific university of Forest Grove, Ore. 0 Blackfoot will soon boast of mater ial improvements being inaugurated a by the Oregon Short Line. Work has 0 commenced upon a four-stall round. house, which will be utilized for the engines operating upon the Mackay and Aberdeen branches, of W Having lost the Cassia county seat ti fight, the people of Burley and vicinity have not lost hope of yet obtaingo ing a county seat. They propose to have introduced into the legislature next winter a bill to provide for the organization of a new county. or Etta Pendry, aged 17, and Adeline Hanson, aged 16, both attractive maidens of Pocatello whose parents are of the best families in the city, th have been sentenced to the reform pa school at St. Anthony. The charge B was truancy and incorrigibility. B With the arrival last week of a comof plete triple combination auto chemical W truck Caldwell is equipped with most R complete and modern fire fighting apparatus maintained by a city of its h: size in the northwest. The machine and 1,000 feet of hose cost $10,200. If the plans of W. J. Jensen, president of the Jensen Creamery company in this state, work out. Idaho will be helped by the addition of from 5,000 to 10,000 high graded dairy cows imported into the state. It is planned to sell the COWS to Idaho dairymen. The first automobile funeral ever held in Boise took place last week when the body of Herman Estes, the Boise young man who committed suicide at Mountain Home, was interred. It was one of the largest and most impressive funerals held in Boise for some time. A conservative estimate of the amount of clover seed produced in the valley in the vicinity of Idaho Falls this season is 250,000 pounds. The farmers are paid 15c per pound or re-cleaned seed at the machine. Idaho leads the world on clover seed production. Announcement is made of the organization of a new banking corporation at Culdesac to be known as the Farmers' State Bank of Culdesac. The new bank takes over the busihess and accounts of the defunct Bank of Culdesac, which was closed few weeks ago. Leadership in the senate and house f the legislature-elect are mooted uestions among Republican memers, who are in overwhelming conim rol, making the question of ittle imas ortance to the Democrats, for the pe ninority has but a combined strength th f eight members. of The first sleighs of the season were n the streets of Hailey last week. A utter and several bobsleds were run-
