Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-09
IDAHO STATE NE VS..

commissioner of immigration and la
Dor, has been appointed chief clerk
In the state land office.
Advocates of the local option move
ment circulated a petition in Emmett
and vicinity for local option and out
of 800 voters seen, 661 signed the
petition.
M. J. Shields, prominent business
man of Moscow, is dead from a com
plication of diseases. He was So years
of age and had been in business in
Moscow since 1878.
Oscar Anderson, cripple, was
burned to death when the Western
hotel at Wallace was destroyed by
fire last week. 1t is believed the fire
was of incendiary origin.
The franchise for the street railway
has been granted by the Idaho Falls
city council, and indications are that
1t will be only short time until that
city has a street car system.
The Shoshone Journal declares war
is to be waged on bootleggers in Lin
coin county by the prosecuting attor-
ney and sheriff The Elan is to en-
gage the services of an ex-saloon man
as detective.
| According to the annual report of
the state board of health, during the
year 1908 there were SAG births in
the state with 200 more boys than
girls. There were 1882 deaths and
1,741 marriages.
The Boise summer normal school,
which has proved so advantageous in
the past in enabling teachers to take
a post graduate course, Is again in
session, there being large attend
ance of teachers.
The thirteen-year-old daughter OF
Mrs. Thomas Haskell was thrown
from wagon near Cambridge as
the result of a runaway, the wheels
passing over her chest, crushing her
life out instantly.
A Boise woman discovered some
thing new in the way of double eggs
last week. She broke a small sized
egg and to her surprise found an
other hard shelled egg on the inside
of the first shell.
The supplement to the United
June shows that q new postoffices
have been established in Idaho with
in the year, names Of five having been
changed, and 20 discontinued.
William Renk of Renk brothers,
Boise and Sun Prairie, Wis, have
sailed from London with 220 head of
registered sheep. One-nalf OF this
consignment will go to Sun Prairie
and the balance will be brought
west.
Governor James H. Brady and Sen
ator Hepburn are announced in the
program of the National Irrigation
congress to be held in Spokane August
to IA as speakers at the sessions to
be held on August 10, Governors
Day"
Work has been commenced on the
city water works and drainage sys-
TENS at Parma, an Improvement that
I has long been needed and one that
! will give to the entire town better
/ service for both domestic use and for
1 fire purposes.
Among the new enterprises which
are prospective for Shoshone, but not
definitely decided on, are machinery
9 and grain storage warehouses, mod
ern steam laundry and dry cleaning
establishment, new newspaper and
], flour mill.
!, e. w. Marvin, arrested at Buhl and
: held under $4,000 bond to await trial
!, for alleged completely in the Omaha
train robbery, is believed to be the
= notorious desperate, Bill Mathews
: we'll known to the authorities in the
state of Washington.
V. S. McVey met with an accident
at Caldwell recently that came neal
:. causing his death. While working OF
e the frame Of the new Touring mill
l. he slipped and fell from the floor Of
u the second story to the first, break
ing two ribs, and fracturing his skull
Some of the eastern papers are de
claring that Harry Orchard has beer
" released from the Idaho penitentiary
which causes the warden to issue the
statement that Orchard is engaged il
;, the shoe department, and can be seer
"a at any time by those visiting the peni
i Tertiary.
IL W. ~ SAoJ 1Dii, q plOopGlOub
c. living three miles northeast of Mid
w vale, committed suicide on June 29
le by shooting himself in the RICH
ia temple. The cause of the act is sur
of posed to have been dependency owe
n. family troubles regarding division O
property.
A. R. Lee, Camas prairie ranehel
n. has been arrested on the charge @
It, assault with intent to kill, it bein
IT. charged that he shot a young ma
ne named Hazard the bullet goin
ee through the leg, after which he bea
by the young fellow over the head with
nd siX-shooter
&C. The Boise Commercial club has agai
m. gone on record as fayoring joa
IS. city and county building, the max
nv mum cost of the structure being est
ar- mated at 100000. A systematic can