Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-10-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

cite Valley road. :
Joe Downeds home at Van wyck !
was struck by lightning and de-
stroyed by fire; loss about $1,000.
Grover Everett, the boy who was &C.
cidentally shot about ten days ago. is
rapidly recovering in Boise hospital
The directors of the high school of
Roseberry have let the contract for a
building, the contract price being
$4,000.
The fruit crop in Lemhi county was
not touched by the frosts this year,
and is the heaviest in the history of
the country.
In future city prisoners at Nampa
are to be put to work on the streets
1t is expected this method will result
in causing the boboes to omit Nampa
from their itinerary.
Filler is now erecting a two-story
eight-room, buff pressed school build
| ing at a cost of over $4,000. which
when completed will be one of the |
finest school buildings in the state.
Building activity is greater at
Twin Falls, at the present time than
at any other in the history of the |
city. At least 20 business houses are
under construction in the heart of the
city.
The records in the office of the
clerk of Ada county show that 235
marriage licenses have been issued
since December 1, 1908, an increase
of 35 over the same period year
ago.
A Jack the Hugger" has made his
appearance in Boise, and has been
haunting the vicinity of the Park
school for several nights, and because
of his squeezing propensities has
caused the women and young girls
to remain in doors.
The sugar beet factory at Nampa
will not operate this season on &C
count of the shortage in beets caused
by a break in a canal which flooded
the crop. There is but a small acre
age, which will be shipped to the
, Blackfoot factory.
The stump question in north Idaho
is greater than the reclamation of
! southern Idaho land, 1t is said. More
than 100 devices have been devised
; for removal of stumps, but apparently
: the stumps of north Idaho with all of
these cannot be removed profitably.
A land drawing under the provi-
sions of the Carey land act has been
= concluded at Burley. The lands In
= cluded what is known as the Goose
! Creek project, $4,000 acres in all
= Within a few hours after the drawing
. began 10000 acres had been disposed
IL OF.
The display OF orchard, field and
- garden products made at the fair held
~ at Blackfoot is to be taken to Chi
ST cago, a firm of that city having of
81 fered to pay the transportation
ne charges and secure space for the ex
| Irri
cation show.
The state fish and game depart
ment is planning for an exhibit o
~ fish at the Intermountain fair a
various sizes of the small trout a.
wv various sizes of the small trout a
ar they develop in the trough at tn
We hatcheries at Hay Spur, Warm Rive
a and Standpoint.
he Crop conditions in the section trit
ed utary to Filler were never better an
he increased acreages in all grains an
be | products is the rule, with yields |
he proportion. The potato crop this yea
ar promises to be immense, far in exces
fe of last year, the acreage also Deln
greatly increased.
He At the result of the recent visit {
sht John HALEY, curator of the State Hi
to toricaI society to Meadows, the stat
vas will eventually obtain possession of
led valuable historic relic in the shape
EN- loo cabtn the building in which tt
!. first two Republican conventions
-; Idaho territory were held
Maurice Ivie, an iron constructic
workers helper, brought suit again
-, the Minneapolis Steel and Machines
- company for $1,000 damages, for
- juries alleged to have been sustai
- ed at Downey. August 10, last An
. frame broke, Iyie says, percipitatil
NJ him to the ground and breaking t
'asl small bone in the left foot.
80, An acre plat of alfalfa on the sta
mt and national experimental farm
era. Gooding, on which was sown
tent pounds of seed on the 9th of Jur
ular is one of the show pieces on
farm An unsolicited sample tax
up Friday, September 10, measur
48 inches over all. root 20 inch'
who and % inches above the ground
n OF The annual show o. the Interme'
PING tain Fair association. at Boise,
kill tober Ills, will excel al former
was hibitions In both attendance a
the magnitude, according to the pred
g to ton of President Edward Payne. I
lvor- space for exhibits has been m'
Riz- than doubled.
tory Chester Rogers met with tra
two aath na.r C1a1dwa1l while firing
10. traction engine pulling separator
ieay- crossing a stream the separator sure
the forward against the engine, catchi
Rogers between the two machin
crushing him to death.