Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1898-01-26
IDAHO NEWS.

hdJudged insane.
,Fhe next Idaho Intermountain fair
will be held in September instead of
October, commencing about the 25th.
It is believed the man st Clair who is
under sentence for the murder of John
Decker has served term at San
Quentin.
The Woman's Columbian club of
Boise has secured Hon. Fred T. Dobois
for lecture next Thursday evening.
His subject will be"Hawaii"
Governor Steunenberg has appointed
Frank w. Boyd Of Mountain Home as
delegate to the stockmen's conven-
ton that convened in Denver on the
25th..
A petition for additional letter car
riers signed by over 1000 citizens of
Boise, and representing over 5000
people, has been forwarded to Senator
Shoup.
Governor Steunenberg has instituted
manadamus suit to compel the state
treasurer to transfer to the general
fund The money held in the capital
building fund.
The Klondike fever is raging az
HALEY. Two parties are organizing
to go, and many miners and pros
pectors are getting ready to start In
? February or March.
Ralph Cowen of Boise is going into
the sawmill business at Lake Linde-
man, He will cut lumber and build
boats selling either to prospectors
Sor the journey down the Yukon.
Silver City is losing some of its best
people this winter but many who are
leaving will return with the robins.
Others intend remaining away per-
manently, according to the local paper
While returning from Rathdrum re-
Gently Rev. Hogson of Occur d'Alene
was held up within a mile of his home
The lone highwayman secured only 25
cents, all the money the preacher had
with him at the time of the holdup,
Mrs. J. G. Steele, who was burned at
Kendrick by attempting to throw a
burning rug from her house, died at
the come of her parents. She suffered
intense pain, almost two-thirds Of
her person having been burned.
Chief of police Francis, of Boise,
says the curfew bell has produced
splendid results. His personal OBJ
servation have been that there are no
small boys on the main streets of the
city at least after the bell rings. and
! his night men report that they see no
Youngsters after curfew excepting
such as are accompanied by elders or
are on permissible missions.
The town of Vienna, near the head
waters of the Salmon river is deserted
this winter. Vienna was busting
little town few years ago but its
glory has departed. Coyotes h owl in its
one street nightly, and the roofs of tho
houses have fallen from the weight of
snow. 1t is lonesome place, but yet
it will not do to call it anything but
an Idaho "Klondike' with a future"
and lots of it, before it.
~ X. Aramatsu, a Japanese laborer
of Pocatello, had his face badly burned
while at work this side of FOSSIL few
days ago. He was blasting some
rock and a charge went off accidental
ly. He is now at the Japanese head
quarters in this city, and doctors
Steele and Myer are attending him.
The foreman OF the gang was also bad
ly burned and was taken to the hos
pital at Salt Lake City.
The hearing of an important land
contest case, involving title to large
portion of the townsite of Hope, is in
progress in the United States Land
Office at Occur dAlene. The people of
Hope are contesting the right to o. G.
Smith to the land, claiming it was
a Government townsite. Smith is the
Oldest resident of the place and claims
to have squatted on the land long be.
fore there was a town of Hope.
Mr.. Webster of Rexburg the sheep
man, met with rather serious loss
last week, at his sheep camp, a few
miles northwest of town, where he is
wintering about 1000 head. For
4 winter protection Mr.. Webster built a
shed covering about an acre of ground
On this the snow accumulated about
IS inches deep, which -... too much
and during slight snow storm the
sheds came, down, killing about $50
head besides two horses
oliverFunts was caught in a rotary
v snow pillow west of Blaekfoot, and his
body was cut and slashed into strips,
which wound themselves around the
! knives and made a mass of gore and
flesh that rapidly froze and stopped
the gorking of the plow.
This snow will help the farmers