Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-09-24
IDAHO STATE NEWS

institute at Boise went on record as
being in favor of statewide prohibi-
ton.
Filler is to have an alfalfa mill that,
will cost in the neighborhood of $1O,--
600. Twin Falls capital is behind the
move.
Twin Falls is to have car service
IL franchise is granted by the city
council to the parties who have ap--
piled for It,
All arrangements have been made
for the Intermountain Fair which will
be held in Boise during the week COM
mencing October IL.
The Thomas ]. Redmon Hardware
company of Konsington, Kan, has de-
cided to locate in Shoshone and In
stall there a $4,000 stock of goods.
Representative Thomas r. Kerl of
Kootenai county, and Miss. Isabel
Brooks of Memphis, Tenn, were mar
ried at Trinity cathedral in Seattle
The Kicks academy at Rexburg be-
gan its twenty-second academic year
on Monday morning, September 49,
Ten different courses are offered this
year.
bingham county has gone dry by
majority of $500. There was only
one precinct, and that in Idaho Falls,
that returned a majority for the
"wets."
E. C. Curry of Nampa was thrown
from sulkey while crossing Indian
~ infh 90, nj toll
The horse stepped on him. injuring;
him severely.
The REIMBURSEMENT of timber tracts.
in Idaho aggregating $1,500,00O in
value will be made the subject of q.
thorough test by the members of the
Marble Creek Land commission.
The chief of police of Boise has.
started crusade against the unde-
sirable element of men and women
in the city, who come from parts I'M
known and take up their abode in the
rooming houses.
The Idaho game warden is planning
to import LOCO Chinese pheasants to
be turned loose in various portions OF
the state, and it is expected that in
a few years the sportsmen will have
some excellent shooting.
Frank McGill, charged by G. H..
johnson of Boise with having secured
money to the amount of $3.50 by
means of worthless check, pleaded
guilty to the charge, and the Judge
sent him to jail for five months.
The forty-second annual communi-
cation of the Masonic Grand Lodge
of Idaho was held in Boise last
week, the attendance OF delegates be-
ing one of the largest in the history
of the grand lodge or the state
1t is rumored that the business
men of Malad are about to petition
the authorities to abolish the police
force. Malad has had no saloons
since January /. and this is given as
the cause for the moral condition of
the town.
Leaving her little baby girl asleep
in bed while she prepared breakfast,
Mrs. Levi Craig of Mace returned to-
the child's room half an hour later
to find the tot dead. The child had
pulled the covers over its face and
Smotnered 10 death.
The Ada county commissioners
have fixed the tax levy for the year
1909 at $2.10 on the 500, as COM
pared with levy of $165 in 1908.
$3.50 in 1907 and $1.95 in 1906. The
increase of As cents is due to the fact
that expenses of the county have ine
creased.
The opening of Artesian City To-
Gated about 18 miles southeast of
Twin Falls on the Minidoka & South
western railway, took place on the
18th. Artesian CITY, Comprises 500
acres. This has been subdivided into
BUSINESS and residence lots and Ave
and ten-acre tracts.
1t is announced that an organize
ton, having for it's object the strict
regulation of the liquor traffic other
than state wide prohibition and to be
known as the State Taxpayers
league, is now under way at Boise, IL
being the intention 70 institute a
league In each county in the state.
In the death at Malad of Herbert
Jones, southern Idaho lost one of her
highly esteemed citizens, and one
who had long been prominent in pub
lie life. Mr.. Jones served three
terms as county commissioner, an of
flee which he finally vacated to be.
come a probate Judge, and has been
4 state senator.
Two hundred census enumerators
will be appointed to count the popula-
ton of Idaho next year, all appoint
ments being made on recommendation
Of Supervisor Perrault. Idaho was
counted in 1900 by 164 enumerators.
The decennial count of population will
begin April Is next.
The county commissioners have
filed levy in Shoshone county of 80
mills. Last year it was % mills. The
reason for the raise in levy is stated
by the commissioners to be the de-
crease in the assessment roll from
$10,0OO.O00 to $7,O00O0O in one year.
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