Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-01-26
IDAHO NEWS.

$3.50
Herbert r. Blaclxstoclx. a prominent
sheep owner of Caldwell, died recently |
in Salt Lake, OF pneumonia.
Preliminary surveys of the proposed
road from Boise to Butte are being
made from Boise and Challis.
From December IS to January IA
there were thirty-fve deaths in Boise,
q number never before equalled in the
same length Of time in the city's his
tory.
George w. Lamoreau, county clerk
of Ada county, is short in his accounts
and his deputy is in charge of his Of
Gee. His shortage is estimated at
$4,000.
The state treasurer has received from
Idaho county the final installment of
its state taxes for 1899, which amount
ed to S759l.05 The county treasurer
made notation that he paid the bal
ance under protest as it bad not been
collected by the county. Suit was to
have been brought to collect the
amount.
State Superintendent Savidge says
the census of 1890, as far as it affected
Idaho. was VIGOROUSLY defective.
Whereas our population was only re-
turned as $4,000, it really was about
100000. This was direct injury to
the state. While a padded cencus" is
wrong, he says, so is an inadequate
enc. The figures will be as nearly cor
rect In 1900 as it is possible to make
them.
DR.. r. J. Alcorn of Rathdrum, has
begun serving a sentence of seven
years in the state penitentiary. He
was convicted of manslaughter for
causing the death of Mrs. Cora Burke
at Harrison, Idaho, last June. He was
charged with performing a criminal
operation puqa Ser This chargH Ne
aaniSa F4ts arss yrial IS nasggms
disagreement.
nav haiaa ble Il agree upon q YER
Dict. The second trial ended last
Saturday in verdict of guilty of man
slaughter.
Judge Beatty has issued a temporary
injunction in the case of John L. For
bis ct al. VS.. the Buffalo Hump Mining
company ct al, restraining the Buffalo
Hump company from disposing of ore
from the Tiger-P oorman mine at Burke,
unless it shall deposit one-third of the
gross proceeds in bank, subject to the
~F a
permanent injunction has been set for
hearing on February LIST This case is
one that attracts much attention among
mining men. 1t is alleged that when
Messrs, Clark andsSweeney secured con.
troll of the Tiger-Poorman company
they selected a new board of trustee!
and that they sold the mines of tbs
company to the Buffalo Hump Mining
company, controlled by Clark anC
Sweeney. The price fixed was $3.50,
600, or rs cents share. The money
was deposited in a bank in Spokane
where any stakeholder could securi
his proportion upon surrendering hi
certificate of stock. The minorit.
stockholders claim they had no MOTTO
of the proposed sale. They value thei
stock at more than 25 cents, som
setting price of 81 upon their hold
ings. They are said to hold between
500, 600 and 100000 shares. Suit wa
brought by them to set aside the sale
and they now seek to restrain tn
Buffalo Hump Mining company fror
converting to its use what they clair
to be their proportion of the output {
the mine.
The Idaho delegation in congrei
last week waited ubon Land Commi
aioner Hermann and protested again!
the injustice done the state by incluC
ing large tracts of agricultural Ian
within the bounds of forest reseryi
tions.
The faculty and students of the I'm
versity of Idaho wish to bring to I'll
attention of the people of the state I'll
story of the noble life and death ,
Ole Hagberg, the stndent-soldier of til
university cadet corps, who gave h
life to hisadopted country, and ask fl
contributions to erect a monument
his memory. OF thirty-fye Universal
student who enlisted, he is the onl
one who lost his life. The foliowir
contributions have been made: Facu
20. ~ of university, $4,000; Company
4 East Idaho volunteers, $4,000; ST
deng y Hpiyersity, $5075 REM
tAHea ahdta be made to Mrs. w.
e lx.1en nsn at Boise, who is trust,
" EfEe Aud $500 is wanted.
A little after IL o'clock last Thur
day night Walter Taylor shot and il
ntantly killed Ed lie Roy at Lewiston
| near the Last Chance mill. Tayl
was accompanied by his cousin, AND
Barnhart, both of whom are now und
arrest.
The farm at the Soldiers Home la
year produced S974.O7 at cost
B657.92, making balance to its cred
Ro1a II 1909 ha ration