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Nicknamed the Gem State. The bluebird is the official
state bird. Area is 83,888 sq. mls.
(SFC, 6/28/97, p.E3)
Idaho is about 1/2 times the size of Iraq.
(SSFC, 10/9/05, Par p.27)
55-38 Million BP Daniel Axelrod
(d.1998), paleobotonist, in 1998 published “Eocene of Thunder Mountain
Flora of Central Idaho.”
(SFC, 8/7/98, p.D3)
640000BC Volcanic eruptions in northwest Wyoming,
extending to Idaho and Montana, created a caldera some 40 miles long
and 30 miles wide. The surface collapsed thousands of feet into a magma
pool and marked the area later known as Yellowstone. Continuing
eruptions caused climactic changes around the world.
(SFEC, 10/18/98, p.T5)(HC, 10/10/06)
1852 Jul 12, Dr. John Hudson
Wayman camped at the City of Rocks in Idaho and called it “one of the
finest places of its kind in the world.” US Congress named the area a
national reserve in 1988.
(SFC, 7/6/06, p.E2)
1855 Nez Perce elders agreed to
sell most of their land to the US government. They retained some 10
thousand square miles as a reservation in the area where Washington,
Oregon and Idaho meet. Gold was soon discovered in the area and in 1863
the US government called for a new deal.
(ON, 3/04, p.1)
1863 Mar 3, Idaho Territory formed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1863 Jul 4, Boise, Idaho, was
founded.
(Maggio, 98)
1864 The US Congress pushed
Idaho’s northeastern border back to the Bitterroot Mountains after
Sidney Edgerton of the Idaho Territory went to Washington with $2,000
in gold. Edgerton wound up as the territorial governor of newly created
Montana.
(WSJ, 5/31/08, p.W9)
1865 Jun 29, William E. Borah,
Republican senator from Idaho, proponent of the League of Nations, was
born.
(HN, 6/29/98)
1871 Luther Burbank developed the
Russet Burbank potato, later identified with Idaho.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.4)
1872 Mar 1, President Grant signed
a measure creating Yellowstone National Park (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming.
The act of Congress creating Yellowstone National Park was based on a
report from an expedition led by Ferdinand Hayden. The 2.2 million-acre
preserve was the first step in a national park system. Nathaniel Pitt
Langford (39) was appointed the 1st Superintendent.
(SFC, 5/19/96, Z1, p.2)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(ON,
11/02, p.4)(PCh, 1992, p.526)(AP, 3/1/08)
1885 Oct 30, Ezra Pound (d.1972),
poet and critic, was born in Hailey, Idaho. He wrote “The Cantos.”
Pound met William Carlos Williams at the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1907
and they remained friends and wrote many letters. “Pound-Williams:
Selected Correspondence” was ed. by Hugh Witemeyer in 1996. Ezra Pound
spent 3 winters with W.B. Yeats (1913-1916) as the poets artistic prod
and secretary. During World War II, Pound was arrested for broadcasting
fascist propaganda to the United States from Rome. He stood trial for
this crime and was judged to be insane. He was incarcerated at St.
Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington from 1946 until his release in 1958.
“Literature is news that stays news.”
(SFC, 6/3/96, BR p.6)(AP, 8/25/98)(HN,
10/30/98)(SFEC, 6/18/00, BR p.10)(MC, 10/30/01)
1890 July 3,
Idaho became the 43rd state of the US.
(HFA, '96, p.32)(AP, 7/3/97)
1899 The Western Federation of
mine workers demanded that only union workers be hired, but mine owners
refused. In Wardner, Idaho, the Bunker Hill Co. mine was dynamited.
Pres. McKinley sent in troops who gathered up thousands of miners and
confined them in “bullpens.”
(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A17)
1905 Dec 30, Governor Frank
Steunenberg of Idaho was killed by an assassin's bomb. The former gov.
of Idaho, was blown up by a booby-trapped gate in front of his home in
Caldwell, Idaho. Three Western Federation of Miners leaders in
Colorado, Charles Moyer, George Pettibone and William Haywood, were
“legally kidnapped” to Idaho and put on trial for the murder. The event
and surrounding circumstances were described by J. Anthony Lukas in his
1997 book: “Big Trouble.”
(SFEC, 10/5/97, BR p.1,6)(HN, 12/30/98)
1906 Dec 3, The U.S. Supreme Court
ordered Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders extradited to
Idaho for trial in the Steunenberg murder case.
(HN, 12/3/98)
1907 Jul 24, In Boise, Id., the
last day of the Bill Haywood trial over the 1905 murder of former Idaho
Gov. Frank Steunenberg. Haywood, president of the Western Federation of
Miners, was defended by Clarence Darrow.
(SFEC, 10/5/97, BR p.1,6)
1910 Aug 20-21, The Great Idaho
Fire killed 86 people and destroyed some 3 million acres of timber in
Idaho and Montana.
(http://www.idahoforests.org/fires.htm)
1924 Jul 25, Frank Church,
Sen-D-Id, was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1926 The last grey wolf
disappeared from the Yellowstone region. By 1973 only a few wolves
remained in northern Michigan and Minnesota. In 1995 the federal
government reintroduced wolves to the greater Yellowstone region
(Idaho, Montana, Wyoming) and by 2008 their population reached 1,500.
(Econ, 3/29/08, p.44)
1928 J.R. Simplot bought his 1st
electric potato sorter. By the start of WW II he ran the biggest potato
sorting operation in Idaho.
(WSJ, 10/7/04, p.A12)
1929 The William Edgar Borah
Outlawry of War Foundation was founded at the Univ. of Idaho.
(AP, 5/17/08)
1934 Jul 28, 118° F (48°
C) at Orofino, Idaho was a state record.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1937 Sun Valley, Idaho, became the
first ski resort in the US to provide lift-served skiing.
(Hem, Dec. 94, p.78)
1939 Sep 1, US Sen. William Borah
of Idaho said 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this
might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is
— the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly
discredited by history." In 2008 Pres. Bush quoted these words in a
speech to the Israeli Knesset.
(AP, 5/17/08)
1940 Jul 12, Rufus Robinson and
Earl Cooley jumped out of a Travelair plane to fight the a forest fire
in Idaho’s Nez Perce national Forest. The were the first smoke-jumpers.
(SFC, 9/14/96, p.B5)
1940 The population was 524,873.
(Postcard)
1943 Jan 16, A state record of
-60F (-51C) was recorded in Island Park Dam, Idaho.
(MC, 1/16/02)
1946 Ray Dunlap, a chemist for
Idaho’s J.R. Simplot, invented a way to make frozen french fries that
wouldn’t turn soggy.
(WSJ, 10/7/04, p.A12)
1948 May 1, Glenn Taylor, Idaho
Senator, was arrested in Birmingham Alabama for trying to enter a
meeting through a door marked "for Negroes."
(MC, 5/1/02)
1948 Idaho put “World Famous
Potatoes” on its car license plates. Its potato business was mostly due
to the efforts of J.R. Simplot (1909-2008), later known as the spud
king of America.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot)(Econ,
6/14/08, p.105)
1950 Robert Smylie was elected
attorney general of Idaho.
(SFC, 7/21/04, p.B7)
1951 Dec 20, Bechtel scientists at
a military facility in Idaho powered up a small nuclear reactor and lit
4 light bulbs. It was the 1st fission reactor to generate a usable
amount of electricity.
(SFC, 5/12/05, p.C1)
1953 A chemist working for J.R.
Simplot, Idaho potato mogul, perfected a technique of freezing chipped
potatoes. By the late 1960s Jack Simplot was the largest supplier of
French fries to McDonald’s.
(Econ, 6/14/08, p.105)
1954 Robert Smylie (d.2004) was
elected governor of Idaho and served 3 consecutive terms.
(SFC, 7/21/04, p.B7)
1954 Robbers in Boise, Idaho,
escaped with $46,000. 4 suspects, including Boise bartender John
Eubanks (40), were later arrested in San Francisco.
(SFC, 2/20/04, p.E4)
1961 Jul 2, Novelist E. Hemingway
shot himself in the head at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. Boozing and
physical trauma led to depression, electroshock therapy and suicide. In
1976 his son Gregory (d.2001) authored “Papa: A Personal Memoir.”
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A11)(TMC, 1994, p.1961)(AP,
7/2/97)(SFC, 8/5/98, p.E3)(SFC, 8/25/98, p.A2)(SFC, 12/21/98,
p.B5)(WSJ, 6/18/99, p.W13)(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A18)
1964 Feb 11, Sarah Palin, later
governor of Alaska, was born in Sandpoint, Idaho. After 3 months her
family moved to Alaska. In 2008 Sen. John McCain named her as his
vice-presidential running mate.
(SFC, 8/30/08, p.A6)
1971 Nov 22, The US Supreme Court
struck down dozens of state laws that discriminated against women when
it ruled that an Idaho law violated the 14th Amendment guarantee of
equal protection in the case of Mary Maxine Reed.
(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A21)
1972 May 2, In Idaho a fire at the
Sunshine Mine precipitated the death of 91 underground employees by
smoke inhalation and/or carbon monoxide poisoning.
(www.usmra.com/saxsewell/sunshine.htm)
1972 Aug 22, US Congress created
the Idaho’s Sawtooth National Recreation Area.
(www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1995/July/Day-28/pr-1138.html)(SFC,
12/11/99, p.A18)
1974 Sep 8, Evel Knievel (b.1938)
attempted to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho on his rocket-powered
motorcycle. He failed and parachuted down.
(WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A1)(www.evelknievel.com/bio.html)
1975 May 6, Bundy victim Lynette
Culver disappeared from Pocatello, Idaho.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy)
1975 Jul 28, The US Dept of
Interior designated the grizzly bear a threatened species in the lower
48 states under the US Endangered Species Act. Most of the bears in the
lower US lived in and around Yellowstone National Park in Idaho,
Montana and Wyoming.
(http://fieldguide.mt.gov/detail_AMAJB01020.aspx)(Econ, 11/5/05, p.88)
1975 Oct 5, Democratic Senator
Frank Church of Idaho charged that the CIA tried to kill Cuban
President Fidel Castro during the administrations of three US
presidents.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1976 Jun 5, The Teton Dam in Idaho
burst catastrophically and water blasted through a narrow canyon and
onto Sugar City. It released nearly 300,000 acre feet of water, then
flooded farmland and towns downstream with the eventual loss of 14
lives, directly or indirectly, and with a cost estimated to be nearly
$1 billion.
(AP,
6/5/00)(www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/sylvester/Teton%20Dam/welcome_dam.html)
1978 Micron Technology was founded
in Boise, Idaho, by 4 engineers: Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis
Wilson and Doug Pitman. Startup funding to produce memory chips was
provided by Idaho billionaire J.R. Simplot.
(www.micron.com)
1980 J.R. Simplot, Idaho potato
tycoon, began serving on the board of startup Micron Technology. He
invested several million dollars into the company, which made memory
chips.
(WSJ, 10/7/04, p.A12)(www.micron.com)
1981 Claude Dallas (30) killed
Conley Elms and Bill Pogue, officers for the Idaho Department of Fish
and Game, who were investigating reports of bobcat poaching in remote
southeast Idaho. Dallas served 22 years for the execution-style
slayings and was released in 2005.
(AP, 2/6/05)
1982 Daralyn Johnson (9) was
abducted and murdered in Nampa. Charles I. Fain was convicted and
sentenced to death for the murder. In 2001 Fain was released after DNA
evidence demonstrated that he was not linked to the murder.
(SFC, 8/24/01, p.A6)
1988 May 24, Vice President George
Bush and Michael Dukakis won the Idaho presidential primaries.
(AP, 5/24/98)
1988 Gov. Cecil Andrus closed
Idaho's borders to new nuclear waste shipments in frustration with
federal policies. The borders were re-opened after a few months and
then closed again.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A6)
1988 Jun 23, The Yellowstone Fire
began and by Sep 11 burned some 1.6 million acres in Idaho and Montana.
(SFC, 10/30/03, p.A15)
1990 Mar 30, Idaho Gov. Cecil
Andrus vetoed a highly restrictive state abortion measure, saying the
bill gave a woman and her family no flexibility in cases of rape and
incest.
(AP, 3/30/00)
1992 Aug 21, US marshals moved
onto the property of Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho and began a
shoot out where Mr. Weaver’s 14-year old son, Sammy, was killed as well
as Marshall Bill Degan. Federal agents were than held at bay for 11
days and before it ended Weaver’s wife was shot dead. The FBI, in an
attempt to serve an arrest warrant on Randy Weaver on weapons charges,
killed Weaver's wife and son at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Kevin Harris was
acquitted of federal charges in 1993. In 1995 the government awarded
Weaver family $3.1 mil for wrongful-death claims. In 1996 criminal
charges were filed against Michael Kahoe, chief of the Violent Crimes
and Major Offenders Section of the FBI, for destroying a report
critical of the FBI. He was sentenced and fined in 1997. In 1997 Kevin
Harris was charged with the murder of Bill Degan and FBI agent Lon
Horiuchi was charged with the murder of Vicki Weaver. State murder
charges against Kevin Harris were dropped in 1997. State manslaughter
charges were filed against sharpshooter Horiuchi in 1998.
(WSJ,3/13/95, p.A-14)(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A19)(WSJ,
8/16/95, p. A-1)(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A19)(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A1)(SFC,
10/11/97, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/8/98, p.1)
1993 Jul 8, A jury in Boise,
Idaho, acquitted white separatist Randy Weaver and a co-defendant of
slaying a federal marshal in a shootout at a remote mountain cabin.
(AP, 7/8/03)
1993 Kevin Harris was acquitted of
federal charges in 1993. In 1995 the government awarded Weaver family
$3.1 mil for wrongful-death claims. In 1996 criminal charges were filed
against Michael Kahoe, chief of the Violent Crimes and Major Offenders
Section of the FBI. In 1997 Kevin Harris was charged with the murder of
Bill Degan and FBI agent Lon Horiuchi was charged with the murder of
Vicki Weaver. State murder charges against Kevin Harris were dropped in
1997. In 2000 Kevin Harris was awarded $380,000 by the federal
government in exchange for dropping a $10 million civil damage
suit.
(WSJ,3/13/95, p.A-14)(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A19)(WSJ,
8/16/95, p. A-1)(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A19)(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/23/00,
p.A5)
1995 Gov. Phil Batt negotiated a
deal that gave the state a court-enforced schedule for nuclear waste
cleanup and removal from the Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A6)
1997 Oct 3, The US Forest Service
arranged a land swap with the Riley Creek Lumber Co. to preserve an
ancient cedar grove at Upper Priest Lake. Riley Creek paid less than $2
million in 1992 for the grove and obtained $8.7 million worth of
federal land in exchange.
(SFC, 10/6/97, p.A3)
1998 Jan 20, The Idaho Coeur
d’Alene Indian tribe planned to begin a national online lottery called
US Lottery. US residents will be restricted by their local state laws.
(SFC, 1/16/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun, Mike Ferguson opened his
Yellowstone Bear World in Rexburg.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 1, Guards of the Aryan
Nations headquarters assaulted Victoria and Jason Keenan. In 2000 a
jury awarded the Keenans $6.3 million for the attack and held Richard
Butler and his Sapphire Inc. negligent.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A3)
1999 Apr 27, Gov. Dirk Kempthorne
announced the movement of plutonium-contaminated waste out of Idaho to
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Some 4,900
more shipments over the next 19 years were scheduled.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A6)
2000 Jun, Plans moved forward to
develop a $563 million WestRock ski resort at West Mountain with
backing by Gov. Dirk Kempthorne.
(WSJ, 6/28/00, p.B1)
2000 Sep 22, Richard Butler agreed
to give up his 20-acre Idaho Aryan Nations compound to settle a $6.3
million verdict. Butler will deed the property near Hayden Lake to
Victoria and Jason Keenan by Oct 25th to settle a suit following a 1998
attack.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A3)
2000 Nov 9, Pres. Clinton ordered
661,000 acres of federal land added to the 54,400-acre craters of the
Moon National Monument in central Idaho.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A6)
2001 May 29, JoAnn McGuckin (46)
was lured from her home in Sandpoint and charged with felony injury to
a child. Her 6 children (8-16) later held off police with the help of
dogs. The father had recently died. The standoff ended peacefully Jun 2.
(SFC, 5/31/01, p.A10)(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A9)
2002 Feb 1, The Idaho Legislature
voted 50-20 to override Gov. Dirk Kempthorne’s veto and repeal term
limits.
(SFC, 2/2/02, p.A5)
2002 cMar 15, Idaho lawmakers
approved a non-binding measure urging peaceful self-determination for
Spain’s Basque minority. They added a condemnation of the ETA following
reactions from Spain and the US State Dept. The Basque community in
Idaho numbered some 15,000.
(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A2)
2002 Jul 13, US governors opened
their summer meeting in Boise, Idaho, with high health care costs the
main topic.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2003 May 4, Idaho Gem, the 1st
cloned mule, was born at the Univ. of Idaho.
(SFC, 5/30/03, p.A2)
2003 In Idaho a development plan
for Tamarack Resort, a ski village in Donelly, was approved with
support from the governor. Lifts opened in 2004, but in 2007
construction stopped as investor’s pulled back under a credit crunch.
(WSJ, 7/7/08, p.A3)
2004 Feb 4, Idaho state police
said they support a bill that would require DNA samples to be taken
from convicted burglars. The Legislature and Gov. Kempthorne would have
to approve the proposed law.
(USAT, 2/5/04, p.6A)
2004 Jun 10, Sami Omar Al-Bussayen
(34), a Saudi graduate student, was acquitted of charges that he used
his computer expertise to foster terrorism.
(USAT, 6/11/04, p.4A)
2004 Jul 17, Robert Smylie (89),
former governor of Idaho (1954-1966), died.
(SFC, 7/21/04, p.B7)
2004 Sep 8, Richard G. Butler
(86), founder of the Aryan Nations, was found dead in his bed in
Hayden, Idaho.
(AP, 9/8/05)
2005 May 16, In Coeur d’Alene,
Idaho, police found Mark McKenzie (37), Brenda (40) and Slade Groene
(13) bound and slain. Shasta Groene (8) and Dylan Groene (9) were
missing. Shasta was found alive July 2.
(AP, 5/18/05)(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A18)
2005 Jul 2, Shasta Groene, an
8-year-old girl kidnapped six weeks earlier, was rescued at a Denny’s
restaurant in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Joseph Edward Duncan III, a
registered sex offender, was arrested and accused of kidnapping Shasta
as well as killing members of Shasta's family. [see May 16, July 4] The
remains of Shasta’s brother, Dylan Groene (9), were found 2 days later
in western Montana.
(AP, 7/2/06)(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A18)(AP, 8/28/08)
2005 Jul 4, Idaho authorities said
they found the remains of Dylan Groene (9) in western Montana. [see
July 2] In 2008 a jury recommended the death sentence for Joseph Edward
Duncan III in the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of the 9-year-old
boy.
(SFC, 7/5/05, p.A3)(AP, 8/28/08)
2005 Oct 17, Idaho state and
federal health officials are trying to get to the bottom of nine
reported cases of suspected sporadic CJD in Idaho this year.
(AP, 10/17/05)
2005 J.R. Simplot, Idaho
billionaire, donated his 7,370 square-foot house and 37 acres in Boise
to the state of Idaho. It was meant to house the state governor.
(Econ, 2/25/06, p.34)
2006 Jan 24, Officials said 4
people were killed in Carlsbad, Ca., when a twin-engine plane from
Idaho skidded off an airport runway and burst into flames.
(AP, 1/24/06)
2006 Jun 15, In Idaho Alofa Time
(50) drove into an oncoming car in downtown Boise and killed Samantha
Nina Murphy (36) and daughter Jae Lynne Grimes (4). The severed head of
Time’s wife's was tossed from his pickup truck in the suicide attempt.
(AP, 6/17/06)
2006 Dec 13, Idaho officials
tested tissue samples to find out why more than 1,000 mallard ducks
have died along Land Springs Creek near Oakley, about 180 miles
southeast of Boise.
(AP, 12/13/06)
2007 Jan 26, The Maine Legislature
overwhelmingly passed a resolution objecting to the Real ID Act of
2005. The federal law sets a national standard for driver's licenses
and requires states to link their record-keeping systems to national
databases. Within a week of Maine's action, lawmakers in Georgia,
Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington state also balked
at Real ID. Idaho approved a similar bill on March 8.
(AP, 2/4/07)(Econ, 3/24/07, p.36)
2007 May 20, In Idaho law
enforcement officers stormed a church in Moscow where Jason Hamilton
(36) went after wounding three in a courthouse ambush where he faced
mental evaluation. Hamilton killed his wife at home and sexton Paul
Bauer at the church before taking his own life. An officer who was shot
responding to a gunman spraying bullets at a courthouse died of his
injuries.
(AP, 5/20/07)(SFC, 5/21/07, p.A5)(SFC, 5/22/07, p.A3)
2007 Jun 11, Idaho Sen. Larry
Craig (62) was arrested by a plainclothes officer investigating
complaints of lewd conduct in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis
airport. The conservative three-term senator pleaded guilty on Aug 8,
paid $575 in fines and fees and was put on unsupervised probation for a
year.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2007 Jul 23, A wildfire in
southern Idaho had covered more than 880 square miles, growing by about
200 square miles in just 24 hours during the weekend. Fire officials
said it threatened tracking and radar facilities at Mountain Home Air
Force bombing and firing range, which is used by pilots training for
duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Firefighters in central Utah faced a
threat of strong wind gusts as they battled a huge wildfire, where
several small communities were evacuated.
(AP, 7/23/07)(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A5)
2007 Aug 27, Sen. Larry Craig,
R-Idaho, said in a statement he was not involved in any inappropriate
conduct when he was arrested at the Minneapolis airport and should have
not pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. The Capitol Hill newspaper
Roll Call reported that Craig was arrested June 11 by a plainclothes
officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in an airport restroom.
(AP, 8/27/08)
2007 Aug 28, A day after reports
surfaced of his June arrest at the Minneapolis airport, Sen. Larry
Craig, R-Idaho, told a news conference the only thing he had done wrong
was to plead guilty after a police complaint of lewd conduct in a men's
room; Craig also declared, "I am not gay. I never have been gay."
(AP, 8/28/08)
2007 Sep 1, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig
announced his resignation, saying he would leave office on Sept. 30,
2007, in the wake of fallout over his arrest and guilty plea in a
Minnesota airport gay sex sting. However, Craig later reversed his
decision, saying he would serve out the rest of his term.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2007 Oct 4, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig
defiantly vowed to serve out his term in office despite losing a court
attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a men's room sex sting.
(AP, 10/4/08)
2008 Jan 5, In Hayden, Idaho, a
man who believed he bore the "mark of the beast" used a circular saw to
cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911.
(AP, 1/9/08)
2008 Mar 28, The grey wolf of the
northern Rocky Mountains was taken off the federal protection list
after reaching a population of some 1,500 in the greater Yellowstone
region. Wolves were reintroduced in 1995 after disappearing from the
area in 1926. On July 18 a judge restored protection for the wolves in
Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, derailing plans for public wolf hunts this
fall. On Sep 29 a federal court overturned the Bush administration’s
decision to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list in the
Great lakes region.
(Econ, 3/29/08, p.44)(SFC, 7/19/08, p.A4)(WSJ,
9/30/08, p.A1)
2008 May 25, J.R. Simplot (b.1909)
died in Boise, Idaho. He had left home in 1923 at age 14 with four gold
coins given to him by his mother. He ended his life as the spud king of
America and one of the nation's richest men. In 2007 Forbes magazine
listed him as the 89th richest American with $3.6 billion.
(AP,
5/26/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot)(SFC, 5/29/08, p.B5)
2008 Oct 14, Gray wolves in the
northern US Rocky Mountains returned to the endangered species list,
thanks to a court victory by environmental groups over the US
government [see May 28, 2008].
(AFP, 10/14/08)
2009 Jan 2, Idaho investors met
with Daren Palmer of Idaho Falls and were informed that as much as $100
million in their investments was gone. State security regulators soon
launched an investigation into Palmer (40) and his Trigon Group Inc.
under allegations that he had operated a long running Ponzi scheme.
(WSJ, 1/17/09, p.B4)
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