Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-16
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an from the state prison.
Idaho will send marksmen to par
ticipate in the national rife team
match to be held at Camp Perry,
Ohio, commencing Monday, August 3.
The contract has been let for the
building of the new gymnasium and
armory at the Albion state normal
school, authorized by the last legisla
ture.
Judge W. G. Dunbar formerly prin-
cipal of the Boise high school, will
probably succeed Harry Leonard, who
resigned as probate judge of Ada.
county.
Accidentally stepping into the open
| ing of the rock chute of the Last
| Chance mine a Wardner, Robert Bots.
miner, aged rs years, fell Sky feet
to his death.
| The local option question is an ex-
ceedingly live one in eastern Idaho
these days, it being freely predicted
/ that in some of the counties the saloon
will be tabooed in the near future.
The assessor of Canyon county an
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an increase of 800 names on the tax
roll He estimates that the assessment
for the county for this year will reach
100000 900.
Judge Harry Leonard probate judge
of Ada county, has rendered his resig-
nation to the board of commissioners,
having been offered a position which
he regards as superior to that of pro-
bate Judge.
The new grain elevator being built
at Caldwell, which will have capac-
ity of $4,000 bushels, will be ready
to receive grain about August l. The
building is six stories with the base
ment.
The number of saloons in Boise has
been reduced from twenty to
twenty-seven as the result of two
proprietors failing to apply for re-
newal of licenses. The city revenue
from the saloons is about $4,000 a
year.
The Blackfoot diamond jubilee,
, marking the seventy-fifth anniversary
of the raising at Fort Hall of the first
American flag to be foated west of
the Rockies, proved to be a greater
success than its promoters had antic-
ipated.
The six-year-old son of Mr. ana
Mrs. Peter Dillinger, living near
Standpoint, was shot and killed by
his eleven-year-old brother while the
two children were playing with %
calbre rife, the shooting being acct
dental
The Boise Commercial club intends
to send band of twenty pieces and
a marching club of forty members to
the seventeenth session of the Ma
tional Irrigation congress, which will
be held in Spokane the week of Au-
gust 3.
Surveyors are in the field running
out the line for new railroad through
Long valley. This is presumed to be
an extension of the Dewey line. now
running from Murphy, in Owyhee
county, to Emmett, in Canyon county,
through Nampa.
One of the largest delegations from
J an outside state to the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition will be that from
the great Occur d'Alene district in
Idaho on August "a, according to e. M.
Chilcote, secretary of the Occur
d'Alene Mining association.
William Mathews, alias F. M. Mar
vim, was held for trial at Omaha by
! Judge Dietrich in the federal court at
Boise. Mathews was arrested at Twin
, Falls on suspicion of being connected
/ ruy4fI -
May. He VS. placed under a $4,000
bond.
, Pleas of guilty were entered in the
, federal court at Portland last week
by Edward Stoffer and William
, Manner, both of Lowrie, and j. NJ.
: Neal of Boise to charge of main
, tanning Illegal Enclosures of govern
t ment land. The men were fined 5000
each
Announcement that the Northern
Pacific railroad has begun construc-
ton of the Lolo cutoff from MissouIa
Mont, to Lewiston, explains the re-
cent activity by that railroad In the
: upper Clearwater county, where II
now has three surveying crews at
work.
ne uSdlH Oh henry ". hlSBS
7 which occurred at the hospital at the
y Soldiers Home on July 3, removes
!, one of the oldest and most prominent
q pioneers of the state. Mr.. Riggs
il came to Idaho in 1863 and was the
d first man to locate Boise City, just AZ
years ago.
A continuance is expected in the
cases of the government against the
Barber Lumber company in the fed
}. eral court, in which the former seeks
to recover from the defendant corpor
d alton a cancellation of its titles to
g some thirty-five thousand acres Of
O Boise county timber land
2. A monster petition bearing 3,64(
/ names of prominent people of ADJ