Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-10-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Ed La Quatte, ra7cher from
Camas prairie, was run down ana
killed by. locomotive in the yards at
Glenn's Ferry.
The Thornton post office was
robbed recently, the thieves getting
away with about SIT in cn2h and 9
small quantity of stamps.
Lescola W:itson, 14-year-old boy
was severely injured at Boise by
falling from the rafters of an old
building in which he was playing.
D. Pettijohn, a stockman whose
home was at Rockville, about twenty
nve miles from Caldwell, died in a
Boise hospital from cancer of the
stomach.
For the opening session of the grand
lodge of the /. o. O. z. at Grangevtlle,
1872 delegates from the southern part
of the state were present. arriving on
a special train.
A fire starting in the business sec
ton OF Bellevue destroyed four build
ings and for time threatened the de-
struction of the entire town. The loss
is estimated at $50, 900, nearly all COW
ered by insurance
The Boise assay office last weeF
had one of the largest weeks output
OF the season, assaying $4,000 worth
of gold Nearly all Of this sum was
melted into two immense bars, weigh
ing about eighty-fvo pounds.
Hartman is the name of a new
town in Lincoln county. 1t is locat,
| - ~ Nf
by the Rliss-Rupert cutoff Of the
Minnidoka & Southwestern railway,
in the southwestern part of the
county.
Mathew Pauls, aged 16, and James
McCenstery, aged "a, ere inmates
of the county jail at Idaho Falls as
a result of attempting to get out OF
the country with two horses belong
ing to rancher named Stewart at
Thomas.
Twin Falls capitalists have filed ap
plfcation with the HALEY land office
for the segregation, under the Carey
act, of 10000 acres of land in the
Raft river valley, and 1t has been
accepted. The opening will be held
in June, 1910.
1t is believed that the new town OF
] Medbury will quickly become ship
! ping station OF importance when the
new ferry across the Snake river lis
z completed, as the people of Bruneau
l. valley have under construction
$ wagon road direct to that place.
It ESTIMATED the shipment of po-
tatoes from Idaho Falls this season
: v i'll be in the neighborhood of 750 to
y 800 cars, in addition to those con
sumed locally This years crop prom
ises to be one Of the largest in point
- Of yield in the history Of this section.
. TIC. Egleston, formerly of Caldwell,
: but row a resident of Denver was a
Caldwell visitor last week. Several
" years ago Mr.. Egleston sent to Persia
for l0G pounds of alfalfa to be soyu
ID on his ranc1 in Neb.as He state;
81 the grass has proven a wonderful sue
81 cess.
It Henry Holden, young man o
@ Lewiston, was accidentally shot anC
ell killed near Echo Ore. With thret
e. brothers, HOLDEN was making al
er overland trip to Turlock, Cal, whel
OF the wagon box and was shot in tn
OF lungs.
he The Boise Statesman reports tina
nd Frank playhouse has struck an extra
ey ordinarily rich vein OF gold-bearini
N. ore in the abandoned workings of
mine along the North Fork of tn
Boise river, about thirty miles abov
OF its junction with the main channel c
as the stream.
ay James Lyons, aged "a. of Firth, wa
la' killed while driving a traction engin
an over the government canal east {
SUI Firth. The bridge gave way whe
of the engine was well ae oss the strli
zen ture, dropping the machine Int
~ about three feet of water. Igor
rs was caught under tie engine.
re- Mrs. Alice Thalls came to Bois
'hn' in search of her two children, VIII
fh' she charged, were spirited away fro
In Oklahoma city by her divorce
husband, Charles M. eagle, when
IN earned the courts of that state hf
&C., given her custody of their offsprin
mas been successful in securing thel
mr.. Representatives OF a moving pi
osv ture firm were in Idaho Falls receI
hnt ly, taking photographs. Several vieN
sis. were taken of a ninety-aere pota
roc. field on the Joseph Taylor ranc
showing the various stages of t
far crop in the process OF being harve'
dad ed, also views at the sugar factor
The complaints made by Ida,
sheepmen and cattlemen to Jam
Wilson, secretary of agriculture, d.
lars ing his recent visit to Idaho, W
cka probably be adjusted to the satisf;
we'd ton alike of the forestry departing
mp. and citizens, according to Distr
the Forester Clyde LeavIut.
ants The Oregon Short Line has secur
tied a permit for new round-house
OF Idaho Falls, which will cost $751;
ees and accommodate four to six locor
Judi lives, this increased housing capac
ad being required by the increasing bl