Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

Plans are at present being discussed
with a view toward the erection of a
new Trinity Episcopal church in Wal.
lace
Plans have been completed for
new $4,000 hotel, two stories in
height and built of white pressed
brick. at Richfield.
Daniel LAWYER another one of the
victims of the Oregon Short LiRe
wreck at Boise, died at a local hos.
pital from the effects of being scalded
Seward, the man who murdered
Mrs. o'Neill at Wallace, and attempt
ed suicide, will recover. He has signed
written confession admitting the
crime.
l.. d. Aired, cashier of the Idaho
Trust and Savings bank of Boise. is
dead from Bright's disease Mr.. Al
red was one of Bosses leading bust.
ness men
Over 100000 pounds of prunes, or
10000 crates, were shipped out of EN-.
NETT this year: $6,240 was paid farm.
ers for their fruit and $4,000 was paid
out for labor.
The record yield of wheat this Ma-
son for Camas Prairie was threshed
on the M. Baulch farm, about four
miles west of Granger. Twenty acres
of wheat averaged sc bushel to acre.
The Idaho state fair was extended
for two DAYS, the association hoping
by the receipts from the two extra
days to recoup the losses caused by
the bad weather at the opening of the
fair.
Meridian last year shipped out
more hay, grain, fruit and produce
combined, than all other stations on
the Short Line from Nampa to Hunt
ington, Ore, inclusive, the shipments
aggregating 1,123 cars.
Over $500 has been subscribed for
the building of free public ferry
from Newport, Idaho across to the
Fidelity Lumber 'company's sawmill
About $3.50 more is required to be
raised to complete the sum required.
The application of Frank T. Disney,
Gilbert L. White, G. B. Kefer, J. New
man and S. P. Newman to organize
the Lincoln County National Bank of
Shoshone, with 100000 capital has
been approved by the comptroller of
the currency.
Henry Moore, a farmer near Mos
COW, this year furnished one of the
most striking proofs of the Inland EN-
Dire's claim to the most productive
soil in America by raising on his 100
acre ranch forty distinct varieties of
vapetahIaS and fruit
The Bonner county display of fruit
and vegetables was distinctly in evil
dence when it came to awarding the
premiums at the Spokane Interstate
fair, capturing two firsts and nine
seconds out Of total of fourteen
plate entries of fruit.
Idaho apples on the eastern mar
kets are outselling apples from all
| other sections, with the exception Of
Hood River. Jonathan apples from
Idaho are in demand at $3.50 box,
while other places are offering their
Jonathans for $1.25 box.
the Idaho Utah Elevator company
| of Sail Lake, which is erecting S12-
QUO elevator in Filler have the build
| ing nearly completed. The elevator
will have a capacity of 10000 bushels
and has few competitors as far as ca
| paeiry is concerned on the tract.
The Young Women's Christian asso-
citation conference for Washington.
| Oregon and Idaho college women met
in the university of Idaho October 16
| TO Is. Delegates were present from
Albion state normal, Lewiston, Whit
man college, Cheney normal and
Idaho.
The tonnage at the sugar beet fac
| tory at Nampa this year will be far in
excess of last. This is all the more
remarkable considering the fact that
the acreage is great deal smaller.
| Scientific methods of filling the soil
| are accountable for this increased
| yield
Charles Rollins, alias Burns. con-
| yicted at Wallace of murder in the
| second degree for killing Charles Ed
wards, was sentenced to forty years
| Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
| Rollins attempted to hold up Edwards
| on the night of July 4, who resisted
| and was killed.
A verdict of not guilty was re-
turned by the jury in the case OF
:! George Wilkinson, on trial at Wal
| lace. Wilkinson was accused of at
/ tempting to kill c. M. Barlow in the
/ Standard mine at Mace on May 16.
Barlow alleged Wilkinson hit him
| with a steel drill.
Mrs. Emma Goldsmith, who gained
considerable notoriety during the la
Dor troubles in Wallace several years
ago, has been placed under bonds at
Wallace on a charge of assault with
a deadly weapon with intent to kill
Ed Scott, an employee at the Snow
storm mine near Mullen.
AS the result of fight at Taft, Peter
Rukavana, an Austrian, was killed
and George Melick, Montenegran,
probably fatally injured. The two
i men named became involved in a bit.