Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-24
IDAHO STATE NEWS

been started
As the result of rabbit drive in
which the male residents of Wendell
took part, 200 Dummies were killed.
Joe Wilson and Elmer Jernberg,
Juvenile burglars have been sent to-
the reform school from Pocatello
Lynx are becoming numerous in
the country west of Standpoint. Two
large ones have been seen the past
week
Timothy Sullivan, convicted on cir
cumstantiaI evidence at Pocatello of
numbering woman of the under
world, has been sentenced to forty
years imprisonment.
Ditch work is progressing on the
new irrigation project east of Post
Falls and steam shovel Is to be
put to work there Surveyors are
busy and the $500 acres are being
plated.
Many new residences have been
| built in Emmett during the past year.
| Several bungalows are among this
number of very artistic design. Some
of the res dences cost from $4,000 to
$1,000
Less than two years ago the land
now occupied by 500 people as a
| townsite at Richfield was an unproN
ductive desert Today it possesses
every evidence of healthful, substan-
tial growth.
Big sheep interests In Fremont
county are seeking to have the lease
on 10000 acres of choice grazing land
i in that county renewed at the nominal
sum of tx cents per acre, the price
paid at present.
Two carloads Of the new feed, al
| falfa meal, was shipped from the new
mill at Shelley last week. This is the
| first alfalfa meal mill built in the
state, though 1t will in all probability
be followed by others.
The Jerome city council has pro
vided for the installation of electric
lights at nine different points in that
city and the illumination will be ex-
| tended to a greater area OF the town
as rapidly as revenues will permit.
The plant of the Utah-Tdaho Sugar.
company of Idaho Falls has used
$4,000 tons of beets so far this sea
son and the end of the campaign is
not yet in sight and the factory will
operate for several weeks longer.
| Axel Nelson, young man employ
| ed at the Dry Pressed brickyard at
| Standpoint, was badly hurt when a.
| flying shovel struck him in the face,
breaking his upper jaw and knock
ing out all the teeth but two back
ones
Charles Jackson of Priest river re-
Gently killed a duck from whose craw
he washed out ii pieces OF gold. Mr..
Jackson will now pan some Of the
dirt around where the ducks have
been feeding in the hope Of finding
a fortune.
The Idaho Geographical society, or
ganized at a meeting in Boise last
week, has as its object the study of
the physical features of the state. the
correction of maps and the provision
of names. The organization Is to be
statewide in Its operation
The real estate men OF Boise have
formed an organization, over thirty
firms being represented at the initial
meeting. The object of the organiza-
ton Is TO raise the standard of the
business and promote a more friendly
feeling among the different firms.
The Idaho college of agriculture ia
planning a series OF farmers insti-
tutes and has fixed dates for the fol-
lowing: Grangevile, December Z;
Boomers Ferry, December and .;
Standpoint, December 10 and II;
Occur d'Alene. December 10 and IA
Timothy Sullivan. railroad grader
| from Telluride, Colo has oeen
found guilty by jury at Pocatello of
murder In the second degree. On the
night of November 30, he killed Mrs.
Ora Bosland of Salt Lake. better.
known as Lucy Miller, woman OF the
underworld.
Meat dealers In Lewiston express
| themselves in indignant terms over
the charge made In Secretary VIII
sons annual report In which he states
that their profits are the largest of
any dealers In the United States.
| Their gross profit Ia placed In the re-
! port at 62h per cent.
That 1t was an utter physical impos-
sibility for DR.. Cook to have climbed
Mt. Mckinley upon the occasion Of
his visit to that region Is the positive
statement made by ]. p. Bower of
Boise. who spent nearly two years liz
that part of Alaska working O placer
claim near Mt. Mckinley
The home of Walter Cox, living
near Nez Perez was destroyed by fire
one night last week. The four chill.
dren were sick with measles, and Mr.
and Mrs. Cox were forced to walk
three-Quarters Of mile through deep
snow and the bitter cold to carry the
children to a neighbours home. de-
/ fective flue was the cause OF the Are
The report Of the Marble Greek
] commission gives 1000 acres Of land