Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1897-09-29

As recently foreshadowed, Joseph
Perrault, chairman of the republican
state committe, has been selected for
surveyor general. The news comes in
a dispatch from Washington.
Nothing is prettier than a beautiful
lamp. We have the handsomest line in
the county to select from They are
cheap to. Hammond & Whitman, 80
The Short Line started in last week
to build stock Yards at Granger for the
transferring of shipments at that point,
They would have had the pens COM
pleted by Monday, but we understand
the y. P. got out writ of injunction
restraining the Short Line from COM
plotting the work. Thus the gap is
forced little wider Later the pens
have been finished without interference.
Saturday no less than half dozen
drunken men were to be seen on our
streets and such obscene language as
was used is disgrace to any town pre-
tending to be city No ladies or chill
dren went on the lower end of Wash
ington avenue that could possibly avoid
it. Perhaps there is no need of
marshal during most of the time, but
such days as last Saturday and many
others there is need for several peace
officers
About forty new tenement houses are
being erected by the Diamondville Coal
Co., on their property at the coal camp.
Twenty eight of them are nearly COM
pleted. In view Of their strike and the
fact that the Quealey mines have begun
shipping coal, these new buildings are
evidence that they intend to end the
strike soon, and begin shipping coal in
larger quantities than ever Develope-
ments in that section are always
watched with interest in this city
The isolation which has been a feature
Of farm life is gradually passing away
as the country districts have become
more thicl1ly settled and railroads have
been built. Farmers wives now have
their reading circles, and altogether
country life is changing its primitive
| aspect for one of comfort aid con
venience. The latest suggestion to
lessen the loneliness of farm life is by
means Of the telephone. It is said that
already in Kansas q number Of ranches
are connected with each other in this
| EhaoyN ~,
cases the barbed wiring is used, in
many cases the barbed wire fences serY
ing.-Ex.
The investigation of the various de
partments of the state government
which was proposed at the recent ses
sion of the legislature is not to be made
The legislature provided by joint reso-
luton that the governor, secretary of
state and attorney general should con-
stitute commission for the purpose of
making the investigation. By the same
joint resolution $4,000 was appropriated
to defray the expenses of the work. 1t
is said at the state house that the inves-
tigation will not be made. The reasons
are not stated, but one of them appears
to be doubt about the legality Of the
method adopted in making the appro-
priation
Warden Van Dorm is about to erect
some additional buildings that are
badly needed at the penitentiary at
Boise Under former administrations
these buildings have cost the state $3.50
each, and Mr.. Van Dorm will now erect
similariones at an expense Of not over
$500 each. The prisoners that have es-
capped from the penitentiary recently
the warden attributes to negligent and
sleepy guards who were appointed on
political recommendations Mr. Van
Dorm has since received authority from
the prison board to select his own
guards and this he will do hereafter
solely with view to fitness. Mr.. Van
Dorm is being warmly commended on
his efficient direction of the prison sys-
tenn and will certainly do his part in
the good work Of the present edninis-