Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-19
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

just created in Alaska.
OF eight bills presented at the Ia
stance of the Eastern Idaho Press as
ISOLATION, four were enacted by the
Tenth legislature.
The Nampa chamber of commerce
has gotten out 10000 small folders to
advertise the town during the time
that the low colonist rates are in eff
feet.
1t is expected that over 100000
will be expended In new buildings In
Twin Falls this year, and that at least |
400 houses will be built during the
summer.
The articles of Incorporation of the
Bank of Commerce of Lewiston have
been filed and the Institution regu- |
larly authorized to- engage in a state |
banking business.
Seventeen families OF new settlers |
arrived in Nampa one day last week. |
Ali westbound trains are loaded down |
with home seekers. and many are get
ting off at this point
Another railroad for Boise is being |
talked of, and this time it is the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul that Is
billed to reach this garden spot of the
Snake river valley soon.
Two prisoners, named Williams and
King, escaped from the Canyon coun-
ty Jail, breaking their parole as trus-
ties when being sent short distance
from the jail to get some coal
BY what is understood to have
been a unanimous vote, the soldiers
home board has reelected H. L.
Chamberlain commandant of that in
stitution Efforts had been made
to displace him.
The first state land sale for this
year is to be held at ST. Anthony. FIRE.
mont county, April q. About $500
acres of land, appraised at from $40
| to $11.50 per acre, will be offered for
salt at that time.
The state land board has elected
the subordinate officials who labor
under it's jurisdiction Canyon coun-
ty landed the registership. M. l.
| Church, who for two and one-half
years had held that position, was re-
elected.
Sites have been purchased for two
Indian day schools on the NeZ Perez
reservation, and as soon as the new
appropriation is available work will
begin on the structures. One school
viii p built near Kamiah, the other
at Ahsahka.
That nearly 100000 has been
squandered by u. E. Mackinnon of
Chicago, manager of the Amadof
mine, is charged by seven Chicago
stockho, ders in suit filed at Wallace,
Ida The Amador is just across the
Montana line from Wallace.
Two full-blood Indians, Dick Moses
and Thomas Henry Mox-Mox, have
been bound over to the federal distr ct
court at Lewiston on the charge of
gambling. Theirs will be in the ma
ture of a test case for the suppression
of gambling among the Indians
Rumor is current in Boise to the eff
feet that the railroad interests repre-
sented by j. ]. Hill have practically
decided to enter that territory It is
said that the Gilmore C Pittsburg line
being constructed from Armsted into
Lemi county, is backed by Hill.
G. r. Shaw's automobile, being
driven by his son and carrying three
other persons, ran off bridge over
Jacobs creek, near Boise, turning com
pletely over and throwing all the oc
! cupants into the ditch. None of the
. passengers were seriously injured.
AT a mass city convention, Boise
Democrats made the following nomi
nations to be voted upon at the bien
| NAL city election to be held April 6
r For mayor, Joseph T. Pence; TO
/. treasurer, Mrs. Ruth Nj. Hunt; fol
councilmen, C. r. Shaw, Edward
Stein.
The organization of the Succo
l creek and Henderson fiat water dis
triet means much to Caldwell in tn
7 reclamation of 3,670 acres OF fertil'
Snake valley lands. This body OF LAM
lies from nine to sixteen miles from
0 Caldwell, and is especially adapted t
T horticulture.
It is given out that furthe
| draughts on the Carey act trus
d fund, maintained by the state, by as
e sistants in the state engineers Office
will not be tolerated by the state Ian
< commissioners in future. The boar
has just had an order entered for r.
g. trenchment.
In spite of rumors of protest
against patent to Mary Lowery,
Nez Perez Indian woman, who hold
an allotment at koskia, which ha
been sought by men who intend to e
% tablish a pulp and paper mill, 1t
At believed the allotment will be mad
1t to the woman.
The bill to create the Eighth judi
I'd tal district. consisting of the 'eountie
N of Kootenai and Bonner, passed b
b, the legislature, is now before tn
le governor, and it is believed he wi
sign it, and should he, he will I
r: obliged to call an election to ehoos
ID a Judge within forty days.
n An enthusiastic meeting of II
Sc Boise Booster club was held OF
40 niob+ Iacf uank under the auSDicl