Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS

ton Of the state increased Is per
cent during the past year.
A Lewiston ice company has re-
Gently let the contract for the con-
struction of a thousand-ton fee house.
A poultry show is to be held in
Twin Falls. january % to 80, it be-
ing the intention of the promoters
to make the exhibition an annual af-
fair.
The grist mills OF the state have
an annual product of So 100000 in
value, the counties being the great
est producers In this line being La
tab, Nez Perc and Idaho.
Fred Seaward, convicted at Moscow
OF murder in the first degree, for the
killing Of Clara O'NeilI, is to be exc
cuted ON February 10, 1909. This is
the second death sentence In Latah
county.
The extension of the Minidoka
branch Of the Oregon Short Line from
Bull, the present terminus, to a point
rear Nyssa, Ore, where the branch
will again join the main line, now
seems assured
Numerous Boise people claim to
have felt the shock of an earthquake
late Saturday night or early Sunday
morning of last week, or about the
tine the terrible earthquake occurred
in southern Italy.
Almost half Of the wealth OF the
state for the year of 1908 came from
the sale and use of the products Of
the farms and ranges. 1t is estimat-
ed that the farm production was
worth over $4S,000,0O0.
North Idaho citizens will protest
against the passage of a bill for the
sale of several thousand acres of
rational land on the st. Joe river,
near Post Falls, to the Washington
Water Power company.
1t is reported that the total mum
Der of sheep at present ranged In
Idaho aggregates 100000, and that
fully 80 per cent of these are In the
seventeen counties composing GEN.
trail and southern Idaho.
There is now nearly three and a
half million acres of land in south
ern Idaho under ditch, and of this
! total, a million and a half acres IL
being farmed to hay, grain, sugar
beets, garden stuff and fruit.
J. j. Grant of Boise committed sui
eide in room in HALEY hotel, on
December 27, taking morphine, the
body being still warm when found
Grant was about 80 years of age and
. there is no known reason for the rasf
act.
There is now being farmed in Ida
, no at least 5000 600 acres of land
: The greater portion of this is cul
2 tivated without irrigation, but man.
thousand acres are rapidly being sup
piled with water for irrigation pun
: poses.
The number of cattle on the Idah,
: ranges is estimated at between TOO
e COO and 100000 head, the shipment
d during the past year aggregatin
: $4,000 head. on an extremely cor
o servative estimate. these being sol
/" at an average of $50.
Half of the business section of 81
: yer City, the largest mining camp !
II southern Idaho, was destroyed by mr.
.. carly on the morning of December 2!
= The fire spread so rapidly that dyni
y mite was used to check the flame!
II The loss is over 100000.
IS The Indian forest reserve set asid
J. for the Nez Perez Indians will her
IN after be partolled by rangers who wi
q protect the timber against fires, de
- relations, the logging of trees belo
e. certain cIassifications, and look ate
n the grazing stock within its boui
81 daries.
80 A law enforcement league was o
ne sanized in Moscow recently with Il
n, avowed purpose of enforcing II
e liquor laws. Rewards are to be pa
i'd 10 those who will secure conviction
ar or furnish evidence to convict.
NJ fund of $4,000 is being raised for Il
~ purpose.
NJ Mrs. ]. NJ. Bernard, president OF Il
he Women's Relief corps of Idaho, OF
of the best known and most phila
thropic women in the state, died su
IA denly at her home in Nampa on
lst cember 27. Mrs. Bernard was past
ms years of age, and had lived In Mann
"a fer over % years.
he The supreme court has hand
he down an opinion constituting the ST
s sIs ute relative to the fee to be charg
lat by county auditors for recording
ms. afidavit of proof of labor upon minr
ces claims. holding that where the
lad dayit covers work upon several cia1l
nv 10 cents shall be charged for each a
Sc every claim.
m II is estimated that the value
ms. the lumber and planning mill pr
the ucts of the state of Idaho for y
was 1850, 600 OF the lumber pr
uct at least IS per cent comes IT.
the northern counties OF the sta
IN particularly from Bonner, kootel
stv and Latah- counties.
dee The sentence of Mrs. Jessie re
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