Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-05-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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MOSCOW now has on an anti-saloon
campaign in full blast. The desire
there is to remove temptation from
the path of the students.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved of the cur DIV dw.VRionb
of weiser into the United States Ma
tional bank of Weiser with $4,000
capital.
The Woodmen OF the World init
lated class OF 100 during the gath
ering at Lewiston last week, when
Woodmen from all over the state we're
present.
Joe Shanahan, the boy whose skull
was crushed by falling from trestie
at Idaho City recently, has SO far re-
covered as to be able to leave the
hospital.
There were but about three hun
dred people in the entire Long valley
in 1898. The population at the pres
emit time is conservatively estimated
at 5000.
Idaho Falls has made a pronounced
step forward by deciding to install a
paid fire department. A new chemical
engine has been ordered, also a team
and harness.
Wells Allen, a 12-year-old boy of Po-
catello, was accidentally killed by his
13-year-old cousin. The gun was acct
dentally discharged while the safety
catch was being raised.
The state land board has ordered
sale of state lands to be held at Rath-
drum, Kootenai county, on May 10, at
which time about 1000 acres, mostly
agricultural land, will be offered for
sale
Despondent as is supposed, over a
| love affair, Meta Bailey, handsome
| young woman 20 years of age, living
near Emmett, committed suicide by
swallowing two ounces of carbolic
| acid.
With an aggregate loss of between
| $4,000 and $4,000, the entire bust
ness portion of Black Bear, near Wal
lace, was swept by fire on April rs.
With the business portion went eight
| dwellings.
Careful examination upon the part
of a number of Boise fruit raisers and
packers showed that very little dam
age has been done to the fruit of
Boise and the valley during the recent
cold spell.
Fire which started from unknown
cause in the Snyder department store
at Idaho Falls practically ruined the
stock, valued at $4,000, and upon
which an insurance of only $4,000
was carried.
The postoffice department has
about completed arrangements for the
installation of free delivery service
for Idaho Falls, and it is expected
that 1t will be inaugurated not later
than July /.
At a meeting of the directors OF
the Boise Commercial club and other
representative business men of that
city it was decided to hold a three
days Fourth of July celebration at
Boise this year.
But for the use of dynamite In the
destroying of other buildings in the
path of the flames, the entire town
of Emmett would have been de-
stroyed by fire on April &c. AS it was
the loss will exceed $4,000.
The Palace hotel, one of the largest
buildings in Murray, was completely
destroyed by fire on April 26. Dave
Miller, an old-time miner, suffered Sc
we're burns about the face and hands.
William Pitkin had his hair and face
burned in rescuing Miller
1t is estimated that enough cattle
were driven out of Long valley last
year to load 100 cars, and that the
sheep driven out would fill 160 cars
At present all grain is raised without
irrigation, and fully 5000 carloads OF
timothy could be produced each sea.
son.
A special to the Boise Statesman
from Huntington, Ore, says that q
coroner's jury has held Mrs. Clarke
Layton on the charge of murder. Il
! | rs alleged that she strangled he1
newborn baby and threw the body
, into sewer. Her home is at Coun
, | Gil.
, The great tent in which Evangelist
: c. D. Haudenschild had been holding
: revival meetings at Weiser for the
past three weeks, was set on fire by
vandals on the Goth, after the close
of the services. and entirely de
stroyed A piano and an organ were
saved.
One of the banks of the Coeul
, d'AIene river below Wallace Is being
| eaten out by the stream which is a
/ the highest stage it has been this year
: The streets of Osborne are overflow
! ing. No serious damage is expected
. as the high stage is thought to have
been reached.
At a regular meeting of the state
board of medical examiners held a
Occur d'Alene City, out of twenty
! eight applicants for certificates tc