Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS
IDAHO

george w. GURUS OF BOISE mas, been
awarded Rhodes scholarship and will
enter Oxford university next fall.
About 200 volumes of books were
presented to the new Carnegie library
at Nampa by townspeople on the night
'of the opening of the library
John Ten Fix Of Lewiston has been
appointed cadet at West Point and
,Jarl Pauls of Lewiston and H. l.. G.
Jones Of Wilson named as alternates.
The senate has passed the bill pro-
viding for the survey of all public
lands, reserved and unsurveyer in
Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Cali,
fornia.
Resolutions have been introduced in
both branches of congress granting
to Idaho an additional 100000 cares
of land to be reclaimed under the
Carey act
Flowing wells can probably be OBJ
tanned in a number of districts in
southwestern Idaho, according to a re-
port issued by the United States geo.
logical survey.
The Unity church of Boise, the first
Unitarian church to be erected in
Idaho, has been dedicated. The struc-
ture cost $1,000, and has a seating ca
pacity of 300.
Many newcomers are now arriving
in Payette valley During the past
week eight families arrived from east
ern states with their household goods
to locate in thel valley.
Emma Carson, aged 18, who was ar
rested at Spokane last week while
masquerading in male attire, stated
that she had just come from Spokane
and that her parents reside in
Weiser.
Nelson Swanson, formerly of Wei
ser, writes firm Rawhide, New, that
he has bonded one OF his mining
claims for $4,000 and has since then
secured several others in the same
locality.
Because Boise chicken fancier has
fighting rooster, one that actually
chases children around the neighbor-
hood, he was fined In the police court
one day last week for permitting his
chickens to run at large.
system at Nampa will begin within
few days. The contract includes the
completion of over 1000 feet of sew
ers, and it is thought it will take about |
sixty days to complete the work.
The president has renominated Jas
M. Shoup of Idaho as United States
marshal for the Juneau district, |
Alaska This is his fourth appoint |
ment to this office, he having origi- |
nally been appointed in June, 1897.
Walter Johnson, the baseball player |
who made such phenomenal record |
in Idaho last year that he was drafted |
by the big league, has been operated
upon for acute mastoiditis. and the |
physicians say he will not be out for
a month
Congress has passed a bill renew
ing the homestead rights of entrymen
who have entered upon lands which
they later abandoned without receiv.
ing consideration for ACCOMPLISHMENTS
or have not had their entries cancelled
for fraud
Mail Carrier Frank Steadman, on
his way from Rocky Bar to Atlanta,
was caught by a snowslide on Bald
mountain and killed. The body was
underneath two and a half feet of
snow when found. Mr.. Steadman was
81 years of age.
Chris Woeser was instantly killed
while working on the Capitol build
ing at Boise, by having his hand
caught In one of the large wheels
which propel the stone cutters saws,
and being thrown against set screw,
striking on his head
Two young men, George Hurley and
John Regain, were arrested at Weiser
last week, charged with attempting to
burglarize several homes Hurley
looks like the man who attempted to
assassinate Banker Shainwald, but the
banker failed to positively identify
him
The largest irrigation scheme in the
world, contemplating the reclamation
of 100000 acres of land in the great
Snake river valley, west of Salmon
river, is being projected at an esti
mated cost of $20,0O0,000 by F. H.
Bull, the millionaire steel manufac
turer
Charged with violating the state
grain law in handling grain in ware.
houses, C. B. Watkins of Greer has
been bound over to the district court.
Watkins is alleged to have said that
he could not deliver the identical
grain called for by the warehouse
tickets.
With heavy penalties for breaking
the agreement IL vounc mon oponlov
ed in banks, stores and offices of Troy,
in the northern part of the state, have
organized a "musache club" The
members bind themselves not to shave
the upper lip for a period of three
months.
A. E. Love. who escaped from the
Idaho state penitentiary July 20, 1906,
was recently captured at Grand
Island, Neb. The escape of Love was
the cause of four guards at the prison