Montpelier examiner., 1908-10-16
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

cI ledSI twenty business ana resi-
dence buildings in Buhl.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the warehouse of the Young Trans
fer company at Weiser, causing
loss Of several thousand dollars.
The eighth annual Canyon county
fair was held last week at Caldwell,
the exhibits being the largest in num-
Der i1 the history of the county.
There are to be no more saloons
| in Grangeville until the town has
| practically doubled in population.
Grangeville now has population of
$500.
The regents of the University o.
Idaho have under advisement the
establishment of law college in con-
nection with the university There is
at present no such institution in the
state.
John La Ampert, who was In the
county Jail at HALEY awaiting trial
for the robbery committed at the Nay
Aug mine last July, broke jail by
tunneling under the foundation of
the court house.
The Automatic Cattle Guard COM
pany, limited, is within the next for
ty days to start work on the erection
IN Standpoint of a new factory, to
cost In the neighborhood of $4,000
and to employ fifteen men.
The State Medical association, at
meeting held in Boise, selected Seat
tie for the meeting place next year,
at which time the association will
meet in conjunction with associa-
tions from Washington and Oregon.
The Standpoint fish hatchery is an
absolute certainty. Work is to be
commenced upon it at once, and
when completed it is estimated that
between $4,000 and $4,000 will have
been expended in its construction.
The city waterworks system is be-
ing extended to cover practically the
entire town of Bull. Workmen are
row engaged in laying thirteen ad-
Citional blocks of mains, which will
be completed before cold weather
begins.
Leslie G. Stewart, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas H. Stewart OF Boise,
was accidentally killed while driving
team near Atlanta on Saturday.
The horses became frightened and
ran away. The dead man was %
years old.
The $4,000 of bonds recently is
sued by Independent school district
No. of Pocatello have been sold to
A. B. Leach & Co., bankers, of Chi
cago, the price paid being par and a
premium Of 1892 and accrued inter-
est from June 23 of this year
Four families arrived in Nampa
from Tacoma, Wash, last week,
bringing their household goods. A
peculiar part of this circumstance Is
that all of these people came with
the intention of locating, and none OF
them had ever been in Nampa before
From eight acres of ground on
which potatoes were grown last
year, George Wise, whose farm is
two and one-half miles west of Twin
Falls. threshed sixty-four and one
haH bushels Of wheat to the acre
This is the top yield reported this
year.
The application of Aaron Kuhn of
Spokane, Wash; D. M. Drumpeller
George w. Adee. Earl D. Farmin and
II. G. Culver to organize the Bonner
County National bank of Standpoint
with $4,000 capital, has been ap-
proved by the comptroller of the cur
rency.
A dispatch from Atlanta announces
that while Robert Holmes of Boise
was going down the James creek sum-
nit with a load OF freight, his team
ran away, doing great deal of dam
age to the wagon. killing one of the
horses and bruising the other three
badly.
Two-thirds of an acre of tomatoes
on the experimental farm of the state
university produced this year over
5000. the fruit being sold to Moscow
dealers at wholesale. Double the
profit might have been realized but
for the severe freeze, which injured
the crop.
j. Hiatt of State Line, says the
Freewater Times, has a fruit record
that will be hard to beat, three Grav-
enstein apple trees, from which he
picked this season and sold IS boxes,
at an average of 40 cents clear of the
box, the family using in addition
about Is boxes.
By vote of 5 to 1 the electors of
Twin Falls county decided upon
bond issue of $150,OOO for the erec-
tion of county court house and jail.
Iafauca intarast wac aroueed in the
election, principally because of the
strenuous opposition in the western
end of the county.
The farmers Of Soldier are begin
ming to realize there is more profit
in fine stock than scrubs. and are go
Ing largely into this industry. Perch
eron and Belgian horses seem to pre-
dominate in the draft horse class,