Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-07-31
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

Miner.
A Country club has been organized
at Miner, and fine tennis court has
been built.
The depot for the California, Ne
vada, Idaho & Northern railway at
Caldwell is about finished.
A movement is on foot to organize
company for the purpose of build
ing large grain elevators in Nampa.
By two-third majority the people
of Mountain Home decided to issue
$4,000 bonds for a city sewer sys-
tenn.
Fire which started in a saloon at
Cottonwood, practically destroyed the
business portion of that town, with
a property loss aggregating $3.50. 1000.
The State Summer Normal school
for the southern and southeastern
districts of Idaho is now in session
at Pocatello, 100 being enrolled on
the opening day.
A petition has been circulated in
Shoshone, asking the Short Line to
establish a new passenger depot
there, and to move the old one to a
good place for freight.
A number of new houses are to be
built in Shoshone this summer. for
renting purposes. At present there
Is not an empty house in town, and
this is the dull season.
John Fleming of Rupert has been
held to the district court on a charge
of murder in the first degree for
shooting from ambush his neighbor,
Frank Langford, on July 8.
Early in the spring Of 1909 about
$4,000 trees will be put out along the
three miles Of shore line of Lake
Lowell, near Caldwell, where the
park touches the reservoir.
Word from Grand Forks and st.
Joe county is that most of the saloon
men have decided to obey orders of
the United States government deliv-
cred through forest officials, and
keep their saloons closed.
The different orders of Emmett
who own cemeteries are considering
the advisability Of securing some man
to care for them and of utilizing the
water on the bench to beautify and
improve the city of the dead.
The new Methodist church build
ing at Emmett, erected at a cost of
$4,000, was formally dedicated on
July 10, the amount needed to pay on
the debt on the building being raised
after the dedication services.
There will be an opening of 10000
acres of Carey act lands held at
Downey about August 10. which
homeseekers are already beginning
to look after. This land is only
about seventeen miles from Mccain
mon.
While Mrs. Charles Taylor was
filling the tank of a gasoline stove
at her home near Meridian, an ex-
plosion occurred, the house being set
on fire and destroyed, with all It's con-
tents. Mrs. Taylor escaped without
injury.
That Nampa will have free deliv-
cry very soon is evident from the
fact that the population is sufficient,
the postoffice business is sufficient,
the people of Nampa want it and the
department seems to be willing to
grant it.
Work on the Lewiston cutoff. pop
ularly known as the Snake river rail-
road, is steadily progressing. Over
200 men are working on the great Ok
Bow tunnel, which will be 21 by 26
feet and 1900 feet in length when
completed
Cambridge has been without open
saloons since May 1, and the action
of the board of county commissioners
last week in refusing to grant retail
liquor licenses to two applicants is
an assurance that the town will re-
main dry"
Arrangements are now being made
for the opening of third tract of
irrigation land in Idaho some time in
October, when the country around
the Malad river will be thrown open
tc new settlers under the rights of
the Carey Act
The assessors OF the various coun-
ties over the state are to meet in
equalization August IA. just previous
to the annual meeting of the board
for the adjustment of the taxes for
the various counties.
State Game Warden Stephens,
Martin earn of Sugar City and viii
liam Van Iorns of Hagerman have
been appointed as delegates from
Idaho to the International Fishery
congress, to be held in Washington.
D. c., September 27 to 29.
]. w. Shaffer, who has been do.
ing threshing around Nampa, is au-
thority for the statement that wheat
is turning out as high as 70 bushels
to the acre and that there are no
small yields at all. Barley goes as
high as 80 bushels and oats go up to
10.
The state land board has fixed Oc-