Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-08-28
IDAHO STATE NE WIS

and 2.
The railroad from Jerome to Good
ing will be completed and in opera |
ton before the close Of the year.
1t is announced that the Sisters OF |
Mercy of Toledo, Ohio, are to estab- |
lish branch school for girls at Mos
cow.
Griffith Brown, aged TO- was acci-
dentally shot and killed by a play
mate, Martin Lane, aged 10, near
Goodrich.
f. A. Boozer, who lives near Nez
Perce, has harvested 95 acres Of
spring barley which averaged 35
bushels to the acre.
The waterworks bonds recently vot-
ed at a special election OF Emmett
citizens have been sold at 8 per cent
premium to a Chicago capitalist.
Jesse Walling threshed 1850 bush
els of wheat from SO acres OF new
land that was in sagebrush last year,
says the Nampa Record-Herald.
The average assessed valuation Of
patented lands In Shoshone county Is
$9.43 per acre. In Nez Perez, county
1t is 1902, and in Bonner, $5.75.
Most OF the homesteaders who were
ordered out of the St. Joe district by
the forestry service during the recent
forest fires are returning to their
ranches.
Billy Brean, bartender in saloon
en- Loon Creek, was shot and NOR
| tally wounded by a robber who held
up the saloon, one day last week. The
murderer escaped.
The premium list for the Canyon
county fair is just out, and the indica'
lions are that the coming fair Will
eclipse anything that Canyon county
has ever seen before.
An attraction at Bosses Intermoun-
tain fair which will be held this year
October 10 to "a, inclusive, will be
exhibitions to be given by G. c. Stro-
bel with his airship.
l. B. Perrine of the great Blue
Lakes orchard on Snake river, south
of Shoshone, is putting in small
cannery, to work up his surplus fruit
for the outside market
Dan Yost of Madison. who was Sc
badly burned about the face with gun
powder during a trip to the hills, Is
on the road to recovery, and his eye
sight will not be impaired.
s. s. Wilt, fruit grower living
near Nampa, has 80 trees of Hale's
early peaches, and says that he has
had three crops from these trees IL
the last five years that have nettet
him $3.50.
Preparations for the Idaho stat
, fair to be held in Boise the last Weel
of October are rapidly being made
} and the indications are that the even
) will be the best in the history OF tn
/, fair association.
|, ]. w. Pittenger living near Nampa
has just threshed the grain from
fiye-acre field of wheat and got %
; bushels, but there was one acre
this that yielded 80 bushels. Tn
wheat was California club.
. Filler is to have a modern butte
!. factory in the near future. This fat
, tory will have capacity of 300
/ pounds per day, which will mean
|. pay roll Of $500 to $500 a day, som'
e thing over $4,000 a month.
a Every train brings more home seel
n ers to Caldwell and the Office OF tn
T Payette-B Boise Water Users associ'
q ton Is overrun with letters frol
. every part of the country. asking Il
information about the country.
william Burghardt, farmer itvin
II seven miles southwest of Nez Perc
. has harvested As acres OF barley fro
If which he secured 1900 sacks. TT
n barley grades No. / brewing, and tt
l. sacks weigh out three bushels.
e, The Lakin Milling company N
9. closed the -four mill at Peck Tor
y short time, as no new wheat has De-
y secured and the old grain has be-
q marketed. Flour is shipped for expo
y trade and comes In competition WI
coast mills.
Taking as a basis the proposed
ia crease in the assessed valuation
to Ada county to approximately $15'OO
IN 600. the total assessed valuation OF I
ae state when the various counties q
~ eoualized win, It is estimated, 'rea
20 $50, 100000.
We AT the meeting of the committee
We the assessors appointed to make
To- concentrations for the revision of
an revenue laws to the next 1egislatu
20 1t was decided to urge legislation
na the creation of state tax commisi
10 similar to that of the state OF wa
ington.
The state land board last W.
made an application for the segre
as ton of 2S2,SSO acres of land in O
IN hee county, part of the Twin "a
on Bruneau segregation, of between
srs 900 and 500, 900, which the Twin Fl
n. Land & Water company proposes
wn irrigate.
n.y. Those who pack prunes during
Law fruit season are up against a seri
of proposition, says the Emmett Int
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