Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-23
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

l OdBCDTuSH idnQ near Emm0CI was
sold last week for 800 an acre.
modern garage is to be built In
Boise for the accommodation of au-
ttomobile owners.
Egyptian wheat grown on a ranch
two miles west Of Nampa yielded 80
bushels to the acre.
John H. Sullivan is dead as the re-
suit of an accident near Beatty, when
he fell from wagon.
The fruit. shipped from Boise ana
Payette valleys brought the growers
at least half a million dollars.
Many farmers about Emmett are
now gathering their beet crop and
loading them for the sugar factory
| at Nampa.
One of the features of the fair at
Mountain Home was the Indians who
gave races daily, stage holdups and
other frontier scenes.
The grand encampment of the I. b.
o. F. convened in Boise on October
10, the Rebekah assembly also meet
ing at the same time.
The elevators at Ashton have been
very busy Of late, and as many men
as can work are trying to keep the
grain out of the way. They are work.
ing Sundays and nights.
Ivan Jorgens, Neg Perce farmer.
recently threshed an 80-acre field of
wheat that yielded 81 bushels to the
acre, all of it graded No. and
weighing more than 60 pounds to the
bushel
The report comes from Council that
A. l.. Richards, candidate for county
attorney, was brutality beaten by a
man who had taken exception to
something Mr.. Richards had said at
political meeting.
Growers are now packing apples at
Payette, Weiser and some parts of
the Boise valley. This crop is greater
than ever before in the history of the
state, and shipments will amount to
between 500 and 600 cars
1t is estimated that the cost of snr-
veying the Bruneau-Twin Falls lands
III Owyhee and Twin Falls counties,
where approximately 100000 acres of
land are to be opened to settlement.
will be between $4,000 and $4,000.
John Flemming. sentenced to hang
In December for the killing Of
neighbor last July near Shoshone,
Lincoln county, has just been
brought to the penitentiary. He
was placed in solitary confinement.
DIR. Dwight Arnold, former Boise
dentist, died at Long Beach, Cal.
last week. The deceased was one of
the promoters of the first street rail-
way in Boise, and at one time held
large property interests in the CAPT
tai city.
resident of Nampa has demon
strated that fine tobacco may be
grown in that vicinity. He has a few
plants in one of the flower beds that
have grown luxuriently and had
reached the stage of maturity fort
night ago.
G. r. Wheeler, whose fruit ranch
lies half mile west of Shoshone.
has demonstrated beyond all doubt
that Lincoln county is well adapted
to fruit culture. His prune orchard
has yielded bounteous crop, CON
sisting of over forty tons.
Plans are being made for the con
struction of a high electric rover
line from Thompson Falls, Mont. to
the Occur d'Alene mines in the Muir
ray district. 1t is estimated that be-
tween $2,500.000 and $4,000. ODO will
be expended in the project
A dispatch from Washington an
nounees that the Minidoka irrigation
project looks SO good to government
officials that they are making prelim-
mary surveys with a view to ma
terially enlarging the irrigated area
on the north side of Snake river.
At the coming general election two
amendments to the state constitution
are to be submitted to the electors
OF Idaho, one to permit COUNTY as
SCISSORS to employ necessary assist
ance, and the other being the ques-
ton of abolishing the probate court.
George Goodbub, a clerk in the
freight house of the Boise & Inter.
urban Railway company in Boise
committed suicide on the 18th, shoot
ing himself with revolver. Before
he fired the fatal shot, Goodbub drank
carbolic acid. He had been drinking
heavily.
ooi AsSpcoHieF VI mountain Home,
one OF me Oldest and best known pio-
neers of s4aaho. underwent a novel
and painful operation last week.
wnen large portion of his tongue
was removed, because OF cancerous
growth. He is recovering from the
operation.
Dr.Jfsk. Dubois, brother Of ex-Sen-
etor =. 4. Dubois. who has practiced
In Boise Tor many years, is very i'll
from cancer of the throat. and 1t is
relieved ne cannot live long, The
senator and his family have gone to
Doise to remain with the doctor until
tue end comes.
According to report from Voll-
mer, the farmers are delivering an