Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-08-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS


Several miles of concrete sidewalks
are to be built in Twin Falls.
Standpoint is agitating the matter OF
municipality owned waterworks sys-
tenn
A Midvale citizen convicted OF
"bootlegging" whiskey, has been fined
$500.
Lightning struck a $1,000 ware
house at Grangeville, the building be.
ing entirely destroyed.
Ex-Governor Gooding has been an.
pointed road overseer in one of the.
districts in Lincoln county.
A federal building which will cost
$4,000 is to be one of the additions
to the growing city of Lewiston.
One hundred families will move
from Utah to the Cove ranch near
Bellevue, which consits of some 5000
acres. The ranch has been laid out
in 40-acre tracts.
Lincoln county is the banner coun.
ty in the state for percentage of in
crease in assessed valuation, as shown
by the six abstracts now on file with
the state auditor.
The state land board has set dates
for opening Carey act lands to entry
under the Twin Falls, Oakley and Big
Lost river projects, September 8, and
September "a, respectively.
Dreaming that he was on a train
that was about to collide with an
other, Ed. Johnson jumped from
third-story window of Wallace hotel.
He was not seriously injured.
Martin Curran, rancher near
cacti. They cost dollar each. They
are said to yield in first-class fodder
from so to 100 tons per acre.
Two men, woman and boy sus-
tanned painful injuries at Twin Falls
as the result of a runaway caused
by team of horses becoming fright
ened at the animals in circus.
Richfield is to have ample fire pro-
lection, as soon as the apparatus can
be shipped from the factory The
town council last week ordered by
telegraph complete outfit for utiliz-
ing the city water supply.
The mayor of Lewiston has order
ed all dice games stopped in saloons
and cigar stores. Since Judge Steele
stopped slot machines last fall, cigar
stores have introduced dice games
which are played for cigars.
The mystery of H. G. Emmett OF
Boise, who has been missing since the
evening of July LIST, leaving
home under no cause at all, is at last
solved. He is in Portland, Ore, and
has sent for his wife and family.
The fifteenth death resulting from
the collision of electric trains at
Gibbs, took place when Herman Gil
bert of Occur d'Alene passed away
Gilbert's leg had been broken, one hip
crushed and he suffered internal in
juries.
The town of Ashton has municipal
water plant costing something over
$4,000. The water is obtained from
an eight-inch well drilled in lava rock
to depth of 115 feet and is pumped
to large elevated tank by 35 horse
power gas engine.
Snake river is to be spanned by a
bridge. The state of Idaho, county
commissioners of Twin Falls and Lin
coin county and enterprising citizens
of Rupert have made the plan pos
sible. The bridge will be a steeleon-
crete structure and will cost $4,000.
The famous Payette cantaloupe Is
now on the market. The output of
this year will be larger than last year,
somewhat earlier and of a better quail
ity. Payette will probably ship fifty
cars of cantaloupes ana about the
same number of watermelons this
season.
Emmett holds the record for rails
ing the finest italian prunes in the
state of Idaho, which means the finest
in the world. Over 500 tons of prunes
were shipped from that town last
year. One million pounds, 10000
crates, for which S6,25O was paid to
the farmers.
A compromise on the location of
the deaf, dumb and blind school for
Idaho was effected by the board, Gre
ated by the last legislature to locate
the institution, by which the town of
Gooding, Lincoln county, secured the
location over two other applicants,
Weiser and Boise.
The alien and non-residence IL
cense law enacted by the Tenth ses-
sion of the legislature will increase
the revenue of that department $780,
900 this year The statute provides
aliens and non-residents must pay SO
for fishing license, SIS for bird
license and $25 for big game.
Fire destroyed four stacks of grain,
aggregating 10000 bushels, at the
John Walker farm. north of Weiser.
The fire started from the engine of
q threshing outfit, which was just pull
ing by the Walker field to begin
threshing.
Through the efforts of the chairman