Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-05
IDAHO STATE NE VS.

$4,000.
Two hundred and fifty acres of
MELONS will be planted at Emmett
his season.
In eighteen days during the month
of February 100000 worth of town
lots were sold in the town of Je-
rome.
The Peoples bank of Cambridge has
heen sold by e. M. Shelley to A. w
Gipson, G. D. Smell and DR.. A. lshan
of Caldwell.
Building has been in progress at
Twin Falls all winter and at least
fifty residences are now in course OF
construction.
A number of the mine owners OF
northern Idaho have gone to Boise
TO fight Senator Kern's employers liza
bility bill, now pending
Within the last eighteen months
$4,000 has been expended by the
various church organizations of Twin
Falls for houses of worship.
The Weiser city election will take
place Tuesday, April 6. The election
| promises to be warm one, as liquor
end anti-liquor questions will enter
strongly into the contest.
Talk of putting Wallace on the
main line of the Northern Pacific by
making the Observation-Disclosures branch
the main line between Missoula ana
! Spokane is again revived.
Excavation is under way for the DIE
Jumping plant that has been pur-
chased by the city of Weiser, and will
he installed in place of the old one.
1t will be operated by electricity
The upper Snake river valley Is
fast becoming one of the great po-
tato growing sections of the United
States. Potatoes are shipped from
this point to all parts of the country
During the grazing season of 1908
the forest service will permit upon
the grazing acres within forest re
serves nearly two million head OF
torses and cattle, and upward of sew
en- million sheep and goats.
Mary Clay, a young woman Of
Meadows, who had retired at nigh
apparently in the best of health, was
found dead the next morning wher
her mother went to her sleeping
apartments. Death was due to hear
failure
The present bonded indebtedness
of the state is 1,364,0 900, and the to
tai possible bond issue under the cor
stitution, on the 1908 equalization, /
| $1,735, 2OO-leaving a possible constitr
| tional issue at the present time @
1 1871 200.
State Treasurer Hastings has re
/ ceived from Nez Perez county $67
L 523.31 on account of state taxes fo
.1908. This is the largest singl
Il payment so far received and place
Neg Perez in the lead for percentag
paid up.
The mining outlook for the entiI
Wood river district is more promi
ing at the present time than eve
before in the history of the variou
camps More properties are bein
1 worked, with better shoWtngs, tina
at any previous time.
E. T. Johnston of McLeuth, Kan,
figuring on installing a creamery
\ Weiser. Mr. Johnston visited Weis'
\ recently and was very much int
- ested with it as point for a creaI
cry. The matter will probably
. taken up by the Commercial club.
n. David b. Cob1e, jr, formerly
~ newspaper man of Idaho attempts
=. suicide by taking chloroform at
"a hotel In Portland Detecting t
IT odor, hotel employees broke into Il
ne room through rear window. {
le. door being locked, and saved Coblt
( life.
John La Ford, former resident
Spencer, suicided in hotel in 81
Lake City, hanging himself with
sheet He was So years old, h
been employed by the Woods Lii
stock company. He had been drink
y before his suicide and had no mon
left.
At a meeting of the fruit grove
of Ada county, held in Boise
was decided to form an incorporat
association. Much interest and
{ lhustasm was manifest thFoughe
" the meeting and 1t is expected Il
The organization will meet with mt
l success
A Lewiston dispatch annount
that because of the risks which
low peach growing through the
nual frost damage, White Bros.
Crum, the largest orchardists of
Snake river valley, will graft PR
buds on a 35-acre peach orchard
Alpowa.
. A new bank is to be opened
/ Twin Falls within the next 81
days The new institution will o.
with a paid up capital stock OF >
I'M 300. M. II. Cazier, a Chicago c.
IA talist, will be president, while
directorate will be made up of Il
stru. capitalists.
tleR- Frank Walsh, Jesse Coates and
= - rpannalI in ia Twin hs