Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-04-24
IDAHO STATE NEWS:

Inc commercial club OF Thunder
City have set April rs as their sale
day.
Editor Davis Of the Caldwell Tri-
bune is congned to his bed with
smallpox.
The Baptists expect to commence
the erection of their new church at
Ustick in a few weeks.
HALEY is considering the sewer
question. The cost is estimated at
something like $4,000.
st. Anthony is considering the adj
visibility of issuing bonds for the
erection of city hall.
The next meeting of the South Ida
no District Medical society will be
held at Caldwell In July.
Mrs Onwiler, who was so seriously
injured in a runaway at Meridian
few weeks ago, is slowly improving.
Plans are being prepared for the
new hotel at Gooding. The structure
is to be three stories high and will
cost between 100000 and $4,000.
Election is to be held May in
Wallace to decide the question of
issuing bonds of $4,000 to be used
in construction of sewer system.
The town of Nez Perez is to have
railroad communication with the Lew
interchangeable line in time to de-
liver the grain crop of the present
year.
The proprietor of a cigar store in
Boise has been senteced to six
months Imprisonment in the county
Jail for permitting gambling in his
store.
The Boise City Twilight league is
the name that was given to the COM
mercial baseball league which was
organized last week by amateur ball
palyers.
The new battleship Idaho sailed from
League island navy yard on April
Is, for Hampton Roads, from which
point the warship will proceed to
Panama.
William Yates, the young man who
stole horse from ranch about
three miles from Boise two months
ago, has been sentenced to one year
in the state penitentiary.
The county commissioners of Ada
county last week fixed the rate of in
| terest to be paid by the repositories
upon county moneys at per cent
The former rate was 21s per cent.
Pasquale Menicucci, an Italian boy
employed at Pocatello as an engine
wiper, was so severely injured while
attending to his duties that death re-
suited while the lad was being taken
to the hospital.
The county clerk of Canyon county
recently refused to grant a mar
riage license to a couple, the young
lady being under IS. despite the fact
that the father of the young woman
gave his consent.
The question of bonding the city
of Twin Falls for $4,000 for the pur-
pose of installing a water system was
defeated, but the council will prob
ably arrange to submit the question
to the people again.
The Thunder City Commercial
club, recently organized, has selected
a committee to visit Boise and con-
| fer with members of the Boise Com
mercial club with regard to secur-
ing an interurban railroad for Thun-
| der city.
Every Protestant clergyman in Mos
| cow has received anonymous letters
in which the writer, who is rabidly
anti-prohibition threatens to dyna-
mite them some night He adds that
| he is a bad man when people NEEDLE
where they have no business"
The Columbian club of Boise, the
representative women's organization
of the city, numbering among its
members some of the most prominent
women of the Gem state, it is an
nounced will not support this year
any movement for local potion.
Much interest has been aroused at
| Caldwell over the fact that work has
begun on the San Francisco, Idaho
& Montana railroad. e. R. Place,
principal promoter of the project,
states that work will be begun at
once on the depot at that place.
After two attempts. incendaries
succeeded in burning down a shack
in Lewiston, occupied by Kwon Lung
& Co., Chinese laundry, and also
succeeded in burning the Baptist
| church and a carpenter shop be-
fore the fire was gotten under con-
| troll.
The secretary of the interior has
approved the Idaho state clear list No.
2, embracing 6,087 acres in the Lew
iston district. Part of the lands are
now in the Palouse national forest
but the state selection preceded the
creation of the reserve, hence is
valid.
The senate has passed a bill at the
urgent solicitation of Senator Hey
burn, and over the protest of Sena-
tors Hale, Nelson, Clay and other
leaders, to have the governmnt buy
up the Division" of tenderloin Sec
ton of Washington for sites for public
buildings.
Reports received from about every