Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-06-05
IDAHO STATE NE WIS

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Public park.
President Roosevelt has signed the
resolution recently passed by con-
lgress giving Idaho an additional l.
100000 acres for reclamation under
the Carey act.
The Boise Valley railway will have
cars running into Meridian by July
a, the main track having been COM
ipleted to Nampa, and a spur will be
built to Meridian.
Apples and grapes are being largely
planted in tn neighborhood Of EN-
NETT this spring, it having been DEM
onstrated that there is great profit in
this particular fruit.
A crawfish farm Is to be establish
ed by Boise restaurant man on the
Snake river between Hagerman and
Bliss. 1t is the intention to raise
crawfish for the market.
All of the business houses OF En-
NETT were closed one day last week
to allow the employees to witness a
baseball game, the proceeds of the
game being donated to the brass
band.
When the registration books for
the Salmon river land opening closed
at o'clock p. M, May 81, 4,020 names
were enrolled and s1,500,000 in certi-
fed checks were in the hands of the
company.
AS the result of threatened prose-
cutions, the town Of Wallace has been
enjoying dry" Sundays, the saloons
being closed on the Sabbath day
which in the past have enjoyed luc-
rative side door patronage.
1t is believed by the officers that
Roy Rutter, arrested at Wallace on
the charge of robbing Nels Iona at
Grand Forks, is the man wanted by
8he authorities of Culdesac for shoot
ing a former deputy marshal.
From twenty-five to fifty horses and
ten to fifteen COWS, to say nothing of
the many wagons, implements, poul-
try, ETC., change hands on each mar
ket day at Cambridge, the last regu-
lar monthly sale being held on June l.
The earth work on the Deer Flat
reservoir has been completed and
workmen are now crawling it. There
is also building at the present time
large distributing lateral direct from
the reservoir to and through Nampa.
The register of the land office last
week handed down another decision
in the Trinity country homestead
cases in which it was held that the,
fact that land was more valuable for
timber than agriculture could not pre-
clude homestead entry.
John F. Elwell was dangerously in
jured at the Norris ranch, about two
| miles from Middleton, being kicked in
the stomach by a horse which he was
| endeavoring to saddle. While the in
jury is a serious one, it is not thought
that it will result fatally.
The Vollmer bank will erect a mod
ern brick building, two stories high,
with offices on the second floor. The
structure will be Of brick and fur
nished with modern bank furniture
and steel safe. When completed
the structure will cost $4,000.
The latest reliable information
would indicate that work on the pro-
| posed railway to penetrate the Lemhi
country from a point on the Idaho
Northern in Montana will be started
during the present year. The line will
strike the Lemhi at Junction.
One the first day that the Twin
| Falls-Salmon River Land 81 Water
| company opened the registration
books for filings upon the 10000 acres
| of the Salmon river segregation, 500
| names were placed on the books, call
ing for approximately 10000 acres.
Articles Of incorporation of the
Idaho & Nevada railroad company
were filed in the Office of the seere-
| tary of state last week. This is the
| company that will build railroad
! from Twin Falls to Wells, Nevada,
work on the grading to start at once.
The state game warden says re-
| ports from all portions of the state
are to the effect that the fishing is
better this spring than for many
years. He believes this is result of
| the success achieved in catching per-
sons who violate the law SEEMING
and dynamiting fish has been greatly
reduced.
The people of Cuprum have en-
countered q very serious obstacle in
their effort to secure title to the lands
on which their buildings are located,
affidavits having been filed at the
United States land office declaring
that the lands are mineral in char
acter.
Interest is growing in that section
of Boise county known as the Dry
Buck" country among settlers looking
for dry farms, and 1t seems destined
to become quite farming community
as the entrymen are gradually coming
in to take up 160-acre tracts of this
land.
The wool producers in the vicinity
of Caldwell are in deep distress at the
outlook in the wool market. Over
half million pounds of wool is in the
forwarding houses in Caldwell and
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