Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-01-05
IDAHO NEWS.

IDAHO NEWS.
The weather all over the state has
been cold but clear and bright.
The senate has confirmed w. II.
Savidge of Boise as superintendent Of
census.
Walter X. Hillon of Moscow has been
appointed a shoe and harness maker
at Fort Hall.
Senator Heitfeld and family are once
again comfortably settled 10 their
Washington home
The contract for carrying the United
Stetes mails from Murphy to oreana
Idaho, has been awarded to the Idaho
Nevada s. California Stage company.
An 0regan Short Line freight train
was wrecked on the division west %
.Pocatello one day last week, causing
considerable delay in traffic, but luckily
no lives were lost.
James Havs has returned to Boise
from Salt Lake where he had his broken
arm examined by means of the X-ray.
operation will be necessary to
RNi Nen the member.
4hssszss ialsfI senee tax paid in the
ahaf Ss It'll ~ ii. III. Clark.
of HorsesAo administrator
divided among tbs SIS, s99. 81.
The inheritance tax anaounted to
S1O7.25.
The Artesian Hot & Cold Water COM
pany of Boise is enioining Mr.. Wilson,
from whom they bought the land pro-
ducing the hot water from boring for
hot water on his own land, alleging
that as he is below the company's
wells if he continues he will reduce it's
flow of hot water to such a point as to
render their plant valueless and make
the successful heating of buildings
during real cold weather next to an
impossibility.
Elwood Madden, formerly Of Boise,
passe through the state last week on
his way from Cape Nome to Chicago to
= purchase manhinery with which to
work the placers at Cape Nome in
which he is interested. Mr.. Madden
got into Cape Nome last spring with
S2l in his pockets. But he caught on
and the other day he and his associates
refused $50, 900, offered by Seattle men,
for the property They expect to make
$500, 600 this year
Pensions have been granted to citi-
Gems of Idaho AZ followss Original PEN
sions George II Riees Murray, SIS per
mcntht Egilliana wallace, $40;
sJanes II Mcneil, 0rangeville, So; Alex
ander w. Taylor, Kendriclx, Sc; Henry
Pfanger, Orogno, So; Simeon b. Wright,
Bonners Ferry, SO; Nicholas Lamb,
Mount Idaho, s12; Milo H. Bracey,
Agatha, So; George T. Belden, Ward
ner, IS. Increased pensions-Henry
Robinson, Caldwell, $40 to S12; Bailey
Powell, Kellogg, Sc to So; Gilbert
Smith, Meadows, Sc to IS; John II.
Kansteiner, Eagle Rock, Sc to IS;
Charles Horn, Seneagwotteen, S24 to
$780, John Hanson. Horse Shoe Bend.
$40 to S14; and Charles H. Alexander,
Nampa, Sc to $40. Israel Gamlin, Hope.
has been restored at the rate of Sc
Martha Clark, Boise, has been granted
widows pension of Sc; Gertrude L.
Bradley, Wardner, and Jane Darrah,
Pocatello, have been granted pensions
of Sl2 each as widows of Spanish war
veterans.
There is porter running on the
Boise-Salt Lake sleeper who was all
through the eampaignin Cuba and also
severed uuder the Stars and Stripes in
the Philippines. He had his leg shat
tered and is drawing q pension of S22 a
month.
General Traffic Manage S. w. Eccles
of the Oregon Short Line, after return
ing from two days business trip in
Idaho, made the statement that con-
sidering the time of year the business
being done throughout the state is
quite remarkable.
Adjutant General Weaver has re-
ceived present of a Mauser revolver
The pistol fires ten shots 1t is cooked.
by the recoil and can be fired as rapidly
as the shooter can pull the trigger. 1t
is sighted up to 500 yard and will shoot
accurately at this distance
The county school superintendents of
Idaho met in Boise last week and ex-
changed views on a great many mat
ters connected with their Offices A
permanent organization was affected,
with Miss French as president and Miss
galloway of Weiser as secretary.
Isador Morris, who was one, of the
original owners of the Big Camas mine
at HALEY, in recent interview in Salt
Lake CITY is quoted as saying that with
developments now planned carried out,