Cloudburst Damages Pasture and Town at Ketchum
A Friday cloudburst on Ketchum’s eastern edge drenched Horace C. Lewis’s pasture and reservoir, filled ditches with silt, flooded Lown Street, and drove sheep from corrals. J W Newman could move only 42 carloads of sheep by freight. five more by sheep train. Town repairs will cost modestly under 100 dollars. Dam debris removal may reach 200 to 300 dollars. Idaho Irrigation project extension plans for Richfield Gooding and Shoshone were discussed at a Friday board meeting with Governor Brady and state officials. final proof window runs Oct 4 to Apr 4, 1911.
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Ketchum
Horace C. Lewis
Lown
Wood River Times
J. W. Newman
Lewis
Idaho Irrigation Company
Richfield, Gooding
Shoshone
James H. Brady
Ert Lansdon
G. JG. McDougal
Belle Chamberlain
Autumn Approaches Warns Of Coming Season Changes
A reflective note on approaching autumn describes shorter days and migrating birds as cool fronts gather. The piece imagines winter winds, harvest abundance, and the earth preparing for rest before renewal.
North Dakota Board Grants Time Extension to Entrymen
The state land board met in Boise last week and ordered a blanket extension of time for all Carey act entrymen. The action aims to ease deadlines for those filing rights and requirements under the Carey act, extending deadlines across the board.
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ND Board
State Land Board
Boise
Tacoma Damsel Seeks Solo Life On Lone Claim
Miss Alice Yrue of South Tacoma set out for Thalia to prove up a lone mining claim near Pietrich. With a bulldog and saddle horse she plans to live on the claim, confident she can hold the fort alone despite being the only other woman in the area.
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Spokesman-Review of
Spokane
Tacoma
Alice Yrue
Thalia
Ieleieh
Thalid
Pietrich
Miss True
Cut Out the Booze Wagons Arrive for Dam Project
A carload of dump wagons for the Lincoln county dam construction arrived at Shoshone last Thursday. End-gate inscriptions urged sobriety with lines such as Cut out the booze and There is only one wagon that beats ours, the water wagon. Wagons from Stroud Manufacturing of Omaha were unloaded.
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Stroud Manufacturing Company of
Omaha
Jerome Attorney A B Barclay Visits District Court
A B Barclay, prominent Jerome attorney, has spent most of the week in the city attending sessions of the district court.
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A. B. Barclay
Jerome
Man Hears Call of Memory as He Reaches Idaho
Henry Johnson of Sutherland Oregon returns to Idaho to recover the bones of his mother buried on the Boise Kelton trail twenty years earlier. He finds Burley anew, notes irrigation, bridges, and town growth, and lays the remains beside her husband and father before continuing to Twin Falls. The journey took months with nights in the open, driven by love and remembrance.
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Sutherland, Ore
Idaho
Henry Johnson
Burley
Havin
Boise-Kelton Trail
Douglas County
Johnson
Lows
Oregon
Deserts
Tin Mountains
Oregon Coast
Simver
Boise-Kelton
Heyburn
Snake River
Burtey
Plice
Hoek Creek
Deve
Twin Falls
Dows
Foley's Honey and Tar Promoted for Children Use
Foley's Honey and Tar is described as safe and effective for children with no opiates or harmful drugs. The message urges to obtain genuine Foley's in yellow packages from T. M. Starrh.
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Foley
T. M. Starrh
Pink Pajamas Sparkled Tale of Lost Trunk and Treasure
Tacoma journalist Chapin D. Foster stored his trunk at a Dietrich depot. The lock was broken and the trunk robbed, leaving only a pair of pink pajamas given by an old girlfriend from Litchfield, Minnesota. Train crew recovered the trunk. Foster departs for Tacoma amid mixed sentiment. Sheriff Sutherland of Gooding was in the county seat for several days.
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Chapin D. Foster
Tacoma
Dietrich
Waho
Boise Statesman
Foster
Boise
Litchfield
Minn
Sutherland of Gooding
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Miles
Plains
Christ Church (Episcopal
Williard H. Roo ™S
Mes
Jacob Wilmert
Lincolln
Ben
T. M
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Brogen
Brogan
W. M. Wayman
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