Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-09-11
IDAHO STATE NE WIS

10 $1Zb per acre, ana further out
from $50 to 800.
Nampa is to have a $4,000 bushel
grain elevator with a warehouse of
eight to ten carload capacity.
The 20-year-old son Of George CAT
ferty of Fairview, had hand sew
cred at the wrist by threshing ma
chine.
Sixteen peaches of the Crawford
variety from the orchard of John Err
pelding, near Emmett, weighed eight
pounds.
Within the past six months four
teen residences have been completed
| in Filler and a number of others are
| planned.
Work has commenced on the Sand
point fish hatchery, which is located
across Lake Pend dOreille from
Standpoint.
1t is expected that $4,000 worth of
seed will be grown on 100 acres OF
his ranch at Yale.
The Idaho Building & Loan asso-
| citation, through whose Instrumental
| ity so many Boise homes have been
built, is 10 years old
George w. Jenkirs, who lived near
Nampa, ran silver into his finger
while doing some carpenter work
some time ago. Biood poisoning set
i'll, death resulting on August 26.
Around Twin Falls the crops were
not as good this year as last, but
owing to the increased acreage, the
aggregate farm products of that re-
gion will be as large as last year.
The outlook for fruit in the section
about Emmett Is very promising.
Peaches are now ripe. Watermelons
and canteloupe are ripening and the
prune orchards are heavily loaded.
Owing to the number of irrigation
companies now engaged in carrying
out enterprises in Idaho, almost the
entire hay crop of the state will be
used at home, and little will be
shipped out
The state. horticultural board will
make recommendations to the gov
ernor and the next legislature for the
separation of the offices of horticul-
tural inspector and pure food and
. dairy commissioner.
From sagebrush desert to live,
bustling, growing town with modern
buildings, many lines of business and
with railroad in two years Is the
: record of Filler, in the heart of the
Twin Falls South Side tract.
Prohibitionists of Idaho, in conven-
ton at Boise, adopted platform of
principles and nominated state
ticket, w. @. Stalker of Caldwell be
ing chosen for governor and William
G. Light of Kendrick for congress.
John F. Hale, for fifteen years a
, resident of Owyhee county, where he
was a rancher and prospector. died
in Boise last week. Heart disease
was the cause of death, which came
: as Mr.. Hale, So years of age, was
helpless on cot.
. Drainage district No. / has beer
! organized in Bonner county. It IS the
acres and the soil is rich and deep
J being formed of the sedimentary de
posits of ages. This land can be re
= claimed for Sc to 81 an acre.
Fruit growing in the vicinity o.
. Nampa is profitable. One fruit grower
! has delivered his berry crop for this
. year, and the total receipts amounted
: to little over $1,000. He has fifteer
. acres of orchard which will give hin
:. at least 5000 boxes of winter apples
: When the tickets nominated by tn,
n Dubois and Anti-Dubois convention
v were presented to Secretary of Stat,
" Lansdon for fling, the Anti-Duboi'
l. ticket was accepted as the regula
- Democratic ticket Mandamus Pre-
n. ceedings against the secretary 0
d. state will be instituted at once in tn,
supreme court by the Dubois faction
A prominent Salt Lake man, afte
visit through Idaho, said that tn
.. crops in the vicinity of Idaho Falls
9, ST. Anthony, Ashton and Marysvill
1t were remarkably heavy. 81 saw man
1t fields" he said, Gin which the yiel
it Of oats will reach 100 bushels to tn
Y. acre."
b. A cavalry troop at Moscow is to b
10 q feature hereafter for students a.
IS tending the stat university. Wit
10 the opening of the new school year
er troop will be organized, which wi
e be- 1t is said, the only university cay
D. airy troop west of the Mississippi
river
=, Reports from briggs are to the e
feet that the Chicago & Northwestern
railway has a party of surveyors g
70 work laying out route for vailroa
az through that region. That is one {
le the links in the chain that is to bin
d this section to the great Northwes
re ern system.
at The new town of Gooding is I
le lave a newspaper. Lisle C Barbe
IS publishers of the Shoshone Journa
he have faith in the growth of the tow
Of which hears the governors nam