Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-02
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Inc recent storms have made the
high mountains put on their coat of
white In the near vicinity of Atlanta.
The town lot sales held at Jerome
and Wendell were a great success,
more than $4,000 worth of lots be-
ing sold.
1t is estimated that fully $50
houses will be erected in Jerome and
Wendell as soon as material and la
Dor can be had
dam is to be thrown across the
Portneuf river at Morse island as
part of an irrigation system that will
irrigate 1000 acres of land.
The Mountain Home. fair will be
held October 10. IA, ID and 16. Four
thousand dollars will be paid out for
races, premiums and amusements.
HALEY has three industries which
they defy the world to beat, viz:
Farming, stock raising and mining.
In these they claim to excel the en-
tire state.
The grade work on the Nez Perce
& Idaho electric railroad will be COM
pleted and the track will be laid and
ready for operation before the close
of the year.
One thousand of the best and 4.
year-old steers on the ranges of cen.
trail Idaho will be purchased by Fred
Miller Of Pomeroy to be fattened for
the Klondike market next summer.
Owing to the number Of irrigation
companies now engaged in carrying
out enterprises in Idaho, almost tho
entire hay crop of the state will be
used at home, and little will be
shipped out.
The King Hill irrigated fruit lands
which are to be opened for settle
ment on October - under the Carey
act, are located in King valley on the
Snake river about 100 miles south
east of Boise.
Joseph Sorrow, a blacksmith at
Grangeville, will be tried on a charge
81 murder for shooting Night Police
man Henry Williams in pistol duel.
following quarrel over some i'm
pounded stock.
The Great Shoshone & Twin Falls
Water Power company is rushing
work on the extension to Filler and
Buhl and those towns will be sun
piled with light and power current
In very short time.
Members of the Nez Perez Indian
tribe will send larger delegation to
Carlisle this year than has ever left
Idaho for an eastern educational in
stitution, If the plans of the govern.
ment employees are realized.
While splitting wood, Dave Huff.
man, living at Atlanta, had the mis-.
fortune to almost sever his left
thumb from the hand, the axe handle
having caught on the splitting block.
making his aim go wide of the mark.
The Oregon Short Line Railway
company entered a plea of guilty to
seven cases of action for violating the
safety appliance act in the United
States district court at Boise one day
last week, and was fined 500 ana
costs.
The Short Line, it is understood.
will put in an ice house at Mamma
this winter with a capacity of 1000
tons at cost of $4,000. This ac.
ton is necessary on account of the
increasing fruit shipments from this
point.
The Nampa chamber of commerce
is making arrangements to have fruit
Kept In cold storage for the purpose
of showing visitors who will be in
Nampa during October. and fruit
growers are being asked to contribute
to this collection.
Francis X. Mattenet, who recoy- |
cred from the Snake river the body
of Charles Upper, the boy who was
drowned Sunday, August %, has been
presented with fine gold watch by
the citizens of Twin Falls, in appre. |
citation of his action.
A prominent Salt Lake man, after
visit through Idaho. said that the
crops in the vicinity of Idaho Falls,
st. Anthony Ashton and Marysyille |
were remarkably heavy. Il saw many
fields" he said, I'm which the yield |
of oats will reach 100 bushels to the |
acre"
company of Market Lake men I
and others have made arrangements
to buy 100 head of high grade dairy
cows and will place them on the
ranch in that vicinity for the purpose
of supplying cream to the Com.
mercial Cream company at Idaho
Falls.
Reports from briggs are to the eff
feet that the Chicago C Northwestern
railway has party of surveyors at
work laying out a route for railroad
through that region. This is one Of
the links in the chain that is to bind
this section of the great Northwest. !
ern system.
r. D. Anderson. charged with the
murder of James Bachus at Clifford,
was released upon his own recogniz.
ance last week. Anderson's arrest
was caused by the confession OF
Bachus' wife that Anderson did the
killing LATER she rnnudiafad fbir