Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-02-02
IDAHO NEWS.

at hendrick has resulted fruitleSsly.
Among the subscriptions to the Boise
railroad fund is one of s635 made by
nineteen Chinese in business in that
city.
Old settlers and weather profits claim
that il more snow does not fall soor
there will be scarcity of water nex'
summer.
A fire at Gem destroyed a restaurant
and the two year old son of A. Magnu'
son, the proprietor of the restaurant |
was burned to death.
William N. Nichols, who came tC
silver City from Ohio in 1873, and ha,
been prominently identified with Silver |
City ever since, is dead.
The new pedestal for the statue OF
Washington, which has long been the
pride of Boise, has been finished and
the statue hoisted into position.
Fred Granholm of Boise has just pniG
SIC fine for selling liquor to minors.
and his prosecutors declare other saloon
men will he tried on like charge.
People coming out from Warren are
obliged to travel long distance or
snow shoes, the snow being about seven
feet deep on the summit of the divide.
1t is expected that Willard White, OF
Boston, promote of the Payette railroad
and power project, will arrive in Idaho
during the week to look after that
project.
Travelling Guard Hugh Fulton arrived
in Boise from the north last week with
six prisoners for the penitentiary, four
from Kootenai and two from Latah
counties
The experts report shows that G. W.
Lamoreau, ex-clerk of the district court
and auditor and recorder of Ada county,
is short in his accounts in the sum OF
i,549.7O.
o. Ii. Reed, who was a corporal in
company H, First Idaho volunteers,
died at Florence, Colo, on the 18th inst. i,
from dysentery, contracted while in
the Philippines.
The state has this month received
81 900 from leases in section of Nee
Perez county from which no revenue
had formerly been received. The land
leased is about twelve miles east OF
Lewiston.
Judge Stewart has overruled the
motion for a new trial in the case OF
Paul Corcoran, the Couer d'Alene dyna-
inter, serving seventeen year sen
teuce for murder. The defense had de-
elared the trial jury was prejudiced.
me executive eomnittee of the Demo
era6ic state eommitsee will meet il
Roise March lis and make arrangement
Tor holding the party state convention
and apportioning the delegates to sait
conventions to the various counties o
the state.
A plant for the manufacture of hrs
class pressed brick is to be established
ut Boise by the Salt Lake, Utah, Pressed
Brick company, they deeming Idaho
good field for their business. The pro
posed plant will have capacity o
$4,000 per day
1t is estimated that it will require al
expenditure of SIS, 900 to 300, 600 to re
store the conditions that existed befor
the flood at Kendrick, but the peopl
have evidently determined to do .
without delay. Trains will be runnin
in week or ten days
Articles of incorporation of the Idah
Mining & Development company hav
been filed with the secretary of stat
the capital stock of the company bein
placed at 81 900, 900, and the princip;
place of business is Boise. SecFetar
OF State Patrie is director.
NJ Grandduist, a prominent Nez PER-
reservation farmer residing at Agathi
was struck by the Orc Elmo train viii
walking on the track above the mout
81 the Potlateh and now lies in a cri
zeal condition, having received terrib
injuries about the head and body.
uONtEIOI ANPSh "
for Wardner, where he will spend
week or ten days looking into the ma
ter of the appointment of coun
commissioner of Shoshone county
all a vacancy, and otherwise size l
the situation in that district.
The state live stock quarantine Ia
has been upheld by the supreme coui
the case in question being that of
Utah sheep owner, R. Rasmussen, W.
was fined for driving his sheep fro
Utah into Oneida county, in violation
the quarantine proclamation.
Some miscreant has been leaving b
of meat and bologna saturated wi
poison lying around the streets of Boi
and as result over twenty-five do
have died of poisoning during the pa
week, a mum Der of the dogs thus kill
being considered very Valuable.
The Roise INDEPENDENT Telepho