Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-05-15
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

DIS IOCSlNSl VI PuOtAO AhOhSJo
at Blackfoot.
Work on the plant of the Occur
d'Alene Powder company at Wallace
is progressing rapidly.
The city council of Wallace is plan
ming to pave the streets in the bust
Hess section of that city this summer.
Jesse Adams, a Short Line engine
hostler, was killed on May 2 by an
explosion of fuel oil at Glenns Ferry.
The Nampa city council has de-
cided to pave the streets in the bust
ness section with bithulithic pave
ment.
The commissioners of Washington
county have refused to grant a license
for saloon in the precinct of Cam
bridge.
There has been a greater rush of
homeseekers into Caldwell the past
month than during any period of the
citys history.
The G. A. r. department of Idaho,
is making great preparations for the
annual encampment, to be held in
Boise June "a, 25 and &c.
Fully 1000 people from different
sections of Boise valley attended the
opening of the new hotel at Star,
thirty-room structure recently COM
pleted at cost of $4,000.
The Modern Woodmen of America
held their state camp meeting at
Payette on May 5, 6 and z, an unusu-
ally large number of the members of
the order being in attendance.
Miners new hotel, the Wayside
Inn, has been formally thrown open
to the public, the electric light plant
is working in fine shape, and the out
look for Miner is very bright.
Sixty thousand apple trees shipped
| into Mountain Home in one con
signment recently is said to be the
largest single shipment of fruit trees
ever made into the state of Idaho.
An unknown man fell underneath
the weels of a Northern Pacific train
| at Taft, and was instantly killed as
the result of his attempting to alight
from the train while it was in motion
While w. A. Ewing was driving
along the streets of Boise he was
struck by a street car and knocked
from his wagon, sustaining serious
| bruises, three of his ribs being
| broken.
An extended speech in opposition
| to the forestry service was made in
| the senate on the 9Th by Senator
Hepburn, while the agricultural ap-
preparation bill was under consider
| alton.
The Idaho State Sunday School as
ISOLATION convened in annual session
| at Boise on May g. almost every sec
ton of the state being represented
and much enthusiasm in the work
being shown.
Willie Auxberger, aged Ii, has con-
fessed to attempting to set fire to
Nampa school house, giving as rea-
son for the attempt that he did not
like any of the teachers, and that he
did not want to go to school,
A number Of the temperance work
ers of the state held a conference in
Boise last week, to consider plans to
bring about a more vigorous enforce
ment of the laws on the liquor ques-
ton, with a view to finally securing
statewide prohibition.
The Seventh Day Adventists, who
are erecting a college at Eagle, near
Boise, say they expect to be ready
to open the schools this fall. The
institution is being started by the
members of that denomination of
southwestern Idaho.
The state summer schools at Boise
Pocatello and Occur d'Alene, provid'
ed for at the last session of the state
legislature, will be held this veal
from July 20 to August %. Some
of the very best instructors that can
be secured will have charge of the
schools.
The state land board has extend
ed the time for the completion of the
Alberta project by the Idaho 1rriga
ton company from May 8. 1908, tc
May 8, 1909, the extension being con
ditional that actual construction worF
shall be resumed within the mex
sixty days.
Governor Gooding, accompanied by
f. f. Johnson of Wallace, q. =
Hoover of Boise, and Fentress Hill o
Miner, attended the meeting of gov
ernors. with TIE president, at Wash
ington, to ccpfer upon the "conser
walton of the national resources o
the country"
The news comes from Boise tina
forty bankers and head officers o
the big bonding companies in som'
Of the largest cities of the east, mid
die west and the south are coming
to southern Idaho this month to lool
over the country, with view TO III
ture investments.
Rodney Olney, prominent younl
business man of Standpoint, lost hi
life while fishing from a canoe II
Lake Pen d'Oreille. The canoe car
sized, and Olney and companion