Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-05-14
IDAHO STATE NE VS.


siderable excitement in that section of
che state.
The thirteenth annual state conven-
tion of the Idaho Sunday School assoc
citation will be held at Caldwell, May
IS, 10 and 20.
President Taft last week informed
Senator Borah that if he made a trip
west this fall he would visit Idaho en-
route to Seattle.
Ross McLain OF Nampa was thrown
from wagon during runaway at
Nampa, landing under the horses
feet. being seriously injured.
The 1S-months-old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. e. w. Ferris, living two miles
west of Twin Falls fell into an irri-
eating ditch and was drowned
DIR. D. K Pearsons, of Chicago has
donated $4,000 to the College Of Idaho
at Caldwell This is contingent upon
that institution raising $4,000 addi-
tional.
The senior class which will grad
uate from the University at Moscow
this year numbers 49, larger than
has ever before graduated from the
institution.
In the municipal primary election at
Lewiston, approximately 900 votes
were cast out of total of 1900 and
registration of 500. Mayor Henry
Heitfeld was renominated.
William Layton has been convicted
in Lemhi county of murder in the sec
ond degree. Layton killed William
! Verges, known as wild Bill" in the
Salmon country last winter
Governor Brady, 1T is announced,
will at once take steps to organize and
carry out plan for presenting to the
battleship Idaho an appropriate silver
service on behalf Of the state.
All depositors of the defunct Capital
] State bank, of Boise. will receive dol
lar for dollar within three months if
the present plans to discharge the la
hilities Of the institution are carried
| out
The saloon men of Harrison are en-
deavoring to upset the plans of the
prohibitionists of that town and con
tinue selling liquor. A Occur d'Alene
attorney has been employed to try to
nullify the village charter.
H. Herbert Anderson. late presi-
dent of the Panhandle Smelling com
pany at Ponderny, near Sand Point,
Idaho, was acquitted on a preliminary
hearing at Spokane of the charge of
embezzling S1,75O of the company.
An application for the segregation
of 10000 acres in Owyhee county
known as the Chow creek project, has
been filed at the United States land
office. The tract also embraces q
small area of state and private lands
The information has been received
from fruit raisers in and around Brig
ham City that 30 per cent of the
peach crop had survived the heavy
frosts. The apple crop was little dam
aged in the territory but pitted fruit
suffered seriously.
The Idaho Northern is making prep
: arations TO survey for an extension tc
Horseshoe Bend Officials admit tha
the survey is to be made, but claim Il
is in order to hold the right of way
to that point, while some claim i
means more than that.
The secretary of the interior has va
, Gated an order of withdrawal for irri
CATION purposes for use in connection
with the Minidoka project, Blackfoot
: Idaho land district, approximate
1908 acres of land, and restored !
! to the public domain.
n with fbi
murder of Samuel Moores, an aget
: man, was acquitted in the distric
4 court at Weiser. The evidence was o
a circnmstantial nature. Biggerstaf
! and Moores had trouble a short tim
! before the mans death
Judge o. E. McCutcheon. regent 0
the state university. has announce
+ the appointment of the professor VIII
will be president of the new law dc
@ partment of the university John I
r MacLane, assistant attorney genera
has been given the chair.
Because of the strenuous life Wa
lace pastors follow while doing dutie
= among the miners and congregations
: there are now only two ministers G
= the gospel in Wallace the Episcopa
+ Congregational and Baptist churche
: being without pastors at present.
> Over 300 people from Boise, CALI
y we'll and Nampa attended the auctio
), . sale of lots at Kuna on May A. an
i, fully 80 per cent Of them invested /
r. lots, some purchasing several. Tn
e sales aggregated 144 lots at an ave
age price of 500 each, or $14 400.
Mrs. Tim Wilson, who resides nea
n Grangeville, was attacked and badl
beaten by an unknown thug on tw
'e different occasions last week. the a
O. lacks occurring at night, when he
n. husband was away from home. n
e. cause for the attacks are known
=. exist.
3 Structural steel for the thre
e bridges to be erected by the Rapi
ID Transit company at points along 1t
lie line through Ogden canyon is on tt
q ground and the bridges will be throw
ID together in short order by lare
force of expert bridge workmen