Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-09
IDAHO STATE NE WIS

year.
During the fiscal year ending June
80, 1908, there were 1922 public land
entries made in Idaho, embracing
1887 ,402 acres.
At Spirit Lake the women have
raised $50 toward equipping the boys
gymnasium which will be installed in
the church, soon to be erected.
In an endeayor to rid that town OF
an undesirable element, the WeiseI
police have recently been arresting
all hoboes and putting them at work
on the streets.
Members of the Pocatello Italian
colony are interesting themselves in
national movement to make October
IL, Christopher Columbus day, ma
tional holiday.
Owing to the overcrowded condition
of the schools of Emmett, the school
board has decided to secure two adj
ditional teachers and are now looking
for suitable rooms to do the work in.
While engaged in repairing roof
in Boise, Thomas Garrett, aged "a
and unmarried, slipped and fell to
the pavement below, being SO badly
injured that death resulted four hours
later.
While attempting to board a rapidly
moving train in Pocatello, William
Baker, aged Is, fell under the wheels
and was crushed to death. The boy
was attempting to steal a ride on the
train.
A watermelon weighing rs pounds
and being 16 inches in diameter,
raised by N. Ray on his farm near the
Barber mill, is to be one of the ex-
hibits of the state fair to be held at
Boise.
]. W. Pittinger of Nampa has just
returned from trip into Wyoming,
where he disposed of his crop of ap-
pies, contracting them at a price that
will net him about $4,000 for the crop
from his twelve acres of orchard.
George Fulton, 13-year-old Boise
boy, while hunting ducks, accidentally
shot away the fieshy part of his right
hand. The shot whizzed past the
boys head leaving few powder
marks on the right side Of his face.
1t is estimate that the cost of sur.
veying the Bruneau-Twin Falls lands
in Owyhee, and Twin Falls counties,
where approximately 100000 acres of
land are to be opened to settlement,
will be between $4,000 and $4,000.
Growers are now packing apples at
Payette, Weiser and some parts OF
the Boise valley This crop is
greater than ever before in the his.
tory of the state, and shipments will
amount to between 500 and 600 cars.
During the fiscal year ended June
| 30, 1908, the total receipts from pub.
| lie land sales in Idaho reached $685..
1877 and practically half million dol
lars will, in consequence, be turned
into the reclamation fund to Idaho's
credit
The state land board will file a lien
selection upon 10000 acres of land in
the Boise national forest, formerly D
| part of the Sawtooth national forest
reserve. This selection is in indem-
nifty of losses of homestead entries
and preemptions.
Weiser is enjoying building boom
at this time A number of substantial
residences are being built, besides an
elegant brick church. Real estate
men report business good in their
line, many deals being made for city
and ranch property.
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crates of peaches this season, and
what makes the item more interesting
is that he sold them to the consumers
living in and near Nempa says the
Nampa Record More than 1000 crates
were sold in one day.
The supreme court decided in favor
of the anti-Dubois faction in the con-
test between the two factions of the
Democratic party known as the Du,
bois and anti-Dubois factions. This
means that the anti-Dubois ticket will
be placed on the regular ballot
A committee from Emmett, repre-
senting the Baptist church, were sue
cessful in persuading the Baptist
State association to select Emmett
as their next meeting place. 1t is
hoped to have the new Baptist church
ready for occupancy by that time.
One of the pioneers of the Occur
Alenes and the man through whose
promotion the Tiger mine at Burke
was made a mine, died in a sanitar-
ium in Philadelphia last week, says
the Wallace Times. He was John M.
Burke, after whom the town of Burke
was, named.
While working on the roof of the
Young Mems Christian association
building being erected at Payette, J.
J. Gogolin, carpenter, fell through
the rafters to the floor of the second
story, receiving injuries which may
prove fatal, his skull being fractured
and one arm crushed.
For the first time since the town of
Nez Perez was established the grain
grown In the surrounding prairie has