Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-04-10
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Parma's first market day" proved
great success and monthly sales
will be held in the future
Among the new buildings planned
for the season in st. Anthony is an
opera house to cost at least $4,000.
Real estate dealers of Boise and
other business men report more ac-
tivity in the several lines of bust
ness than there has been for some
time.
Albert Earle. aged IS, whose home
is in Salt Lake City, was struck by
passenger. train at Pocatello, his
skull being fractured, and his jaw
broken
A crusade is on against the viola
tors of the anti-gambling law in
Boise, and every effort will be made
to suppress gambling in every form
in the capital city.
At a meeting of the state land
board, held last week, the board au-
thorized the leasing of 1900 acres of
land in the vicinity of American Falls
for dry farming purposes.
Work is to be commenced at once
on the $4,000 school house, the gift
of Mr.. Bull to the town of Bull, and
the structure will be completed in
time for the fall term of school.
Joe Shannon, aged II, fell from a
trestle at Idaho City. striking on a
rock twenty feet below, fracturing
his skull The lad is in Boise hos
pita1 in precarious condition.
About one hundred men are work
ing on the government dam on the
Boise river above Boise, and it is ex-
pected that the entire structure will
be completed by the first of May
Senator Borah has secured the pas
sage through the senate of his bill
giving to Boise small parcel of
ground in the military reservation
for boulevard and park purposes.
The board of directors of the Cald-
well public school has decided to APP
propriate $40 per year for the pur-
pose of supplying the school with
magazines and newspaper periodi-
Gals.
A force of eighteen men in charge
of A. L. Ostner has left Boise for
Bog Bar to commence working on the
Boise-Atlanta wagon road. The work
will now be rapidly pushed till the
road is completed
Jim Daley, who is charged with
having stolen a horse from ranch
about three miles from Caldwell, was
captured at Vale, Oregon, and
brought back to Caldwell for trial.
The horse was recovered.
The father of George DAILY, the It,
year-old boy who was caught in the
turn-table of the Northern Pacific
and crushed to death, has sued the
company for 100000 damages.
The large canal which is being con-
structed at Mountain Home under
the direction of j. H. Garrett is about
completed, and it will be ready to de-
liver water to the people there who
may want water this season.
Sixty thousand fruit trees, the 1arg-
est single shipment of the kind ever
received in the state of Idaho ar
rived in Mountain Home recently, con-
signed to the Idaho Fruit Land COM
pany. The shipment consisted most
ly of apple trees.
The mystery concerning the disap-
L
old Weiser boy who mysteriously dis
appeared in 1893, has been at last
cleared up. The boy committed sui
eide in 1905, while an inmate of the
Oregon state insane asylum.
At a meet =; of the Idaho State
Livestock Sanitary board held in
Boise, it was decided that there shall
be a more rigid enforcement of the
statute requiring the inspection of
livestock, particularly horses, before
driving them from the state
Caldwell's market day, held on the
first Monday of each month, is de-
veloping into a big sales day. The
object of the Commercial club, who
conducted the sales, is to establish
regular sales day devoted exclusively
to livestock and farm products.
The state land board has ordered
that applications be made to the in
terror department for patents for all
the acreage on the Twin Falls tract,
south side, that has not been pre-
yiously asked for, or the remainder
of the segregation of 244, 900 acres
Captain S. Meek of Elwood, Ind.
has been elected superintendent of
the Boise public schools by the board
of directors to take the place of SUI
perintendent Williamson, resigned
The change will take place at the be-
ginning of the next school year
March was one of the busiest
months in the history of the United
States land Office at Boise. During
the month 1872 homestead entries
were maze, as against SO for the
same month last year; 35 desert en-
tries were made. as against II for
last year.
Many homeseekers from Iowa and |
Kansas have arrived at Burley dur
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