Montpelier examiner., 1908-04-03
IDAHO STATE NE WS

IOWn.
The acreage in grain in the vicin-
ity of Van Wyck will be greatly in
creased over last season.
The smallpox situation in Canyon
county is causing the quarantine of
fcers considerable trouble.
At Lewiston preparations are un-
der way for the state meeting of
bankers to be held in June.
Ross Van Pelt. aged II years, was
kicked by a horse at Jordan Valley,
which resulted in the breaking of his
left leg.
There are at present seventeen
Commercial clubs affiliated with the
League of Southern Idaho CONNER
cial Clubs.
The owners of the Oxbow power
plant have asked for a franchise from
the Payette city council to install
lighting system.
Two Blaine county men were last
week fined $50 each and costs for
having in their possession so pounds
of trout. The limit for each person
allowed by law is 80 pounds.
/ The county seat fight in Kootenai
county is waxing warm and is the
center of political interest, Occur
d'Alene having actively started
campaign for it's removal from Rath>
| drum.
George w. Hyde, son of one of the
best known pioneers of Idaho drop
ped dead at oreana, Owyhee county.
Hyde was seemingly in the best of
health, but had suffered from heart
| trouble for some time.
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the woman's Christian Temperance
Union and the Idaho Anti-Saloon
| League was held in Nampa last week.
The members of both associations
will work for local option in Idaho.
The second convocation of Scottish
Rite Masons of southern Idaho was
! held in Boise last week, and large
number of prominent members of the
order were present. Degrees were
conferred upon lage number of can
| didates.
Flowing has begun in and around
McCammon and the farmers are pre-
pairing to seed large acreage this
spring to wheat and other farm stuffs.
Wheat is now a scarce article, and
the roller mills are paying 80 cents
a bushel for it.
Governor Gooding has recommend
ed to the president the appointment
of Second Lieutenant Lafayette Lans-
Gon of Weiser to take the examina-
tion as a guardsman from Idaho for
admission to the regular army as a
second lieutenant.
"A dispatch to the Salt Lake Trib-
me from Boise says: Reports re
ceived here from almost every sec
ton of the state show that Taft will
nave a solid delegation from Idaho,
and by a very large majority, to the
Chicago convention.
The Boise Commercial club has
Deen having a very substantia
growth in membership the last few
weeks, principally through the work
of two soliciting committees, which
have brought in So names to be
voted on for membership.
About 300 acres of land near the
Minidoka irrigation project in south
ern Idaho have been withdrawn from
all forms of disposition under the pub
i. lie land laws pending a thorough ex
| animation to determine whether II
will be possible to irrigate the trae
by a pumping system.
z United States Attorney Ruick has
been advised that suits are soon tC
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acres of valuable timber lands il
: Idaho from Fred A. Hyde and JohI
A. Benson of California, who are un
r der indictment for conspiracy to de
! fraud the government.
l Intent in warming two sticks o
l giant powder which they were gentl.
2 rubbing in their hands, Ernest Eide
and Louis Chermack forgot to watcl
for blast that had been set, nea
i Clifford. Elder met death and Chez
mack is perhaps fatally injured as
result of the explosion.
/ The mystery surrounding the Al
tempted shooting of Edward Shair
!. wald, president of the First Nationa
: bank of Weiser, had another ne
phase added to it last week, when
man giving his name as James Boil
was arrested, charged with threateI
! ing Mr.. Shainwald's life.
I w. S. Kuhn, the Pittsburg capita
ist. who has been in Idaho in comes
ton with the Twin Falls enterprise
in which he and other capitalists ar
q interested. says that in all probabi
q ity the Gooding- Miner electric lin
which his company proposes to bull
will be extended to Boise.
i. Paul Emanuelson, the timberma
:, imprisoned in the Bunker Hill an
II Sullivan mine at Wardner, by tn
II caving in of an abandoned stope, Wa
M rescued alive after having bee
- buried for thirty hours His cor
panion Rasmussen, was rescued SOC
10 after the accident occurred.
q John A. Freund, the man VIII
n after 13 years continuous service wit
1 lie