Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-09-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Sunday. =
A Boise groceryman convicted OF
selling raisins that were unfit to eat
mas been fined SIS.
A sale of 1000 acres of special grant
state lands, situated in Ada county,
will be held on or about October l.
George Reed, of Mimiuoka, while
wading in the Snake river near the
Minidoka dam, got beyond his depth
and was drowned.
An elevator and cold storage plant
will be erected in Bellevue, and work
will be begun in time to insure its
completion to handle this years crops.
Bear Lake county voted dry" in the
local option election. Incomplete re-
turns indicate that 80 to 85 per cent
of the votes cast were against the sa-
looms.
H. L. Sisson, brakeman, whose home
is in Spokane, was killed at Sand
Point by being crushed to death be-
ween two cars in the Northern Pa
,itic yards.
The bond election at Shelley to
raise money to complete the school
house was a one-sided affair. not
single vote being cast in opposition to
the bond issue.
Walter Groves was electrocuted and
instantly killed while working on
mole of the electric light company dur
ing a storm at Boise. He has wife
and two children at Newport, Ind.
Almost sufficient capital has been
raised by the people Of Camas prairie
and Gooding to build an electric line
between the two places, and work Will
commence on the project Immediately
Commissioner Joseph p. Fallon, OF
the state department of immigration
and labor, is making an effort to Sc
cure Idaho's exhibit at Seattle as a.
nucleus for a perman~..- cAlIiDit IN
Boise.
G. F. Erdtman, Nampa tailor, was
seriously burned by the explosion OF
a can OF gasoline George S. Stoker,
an employe, in an effort to rescue his
employer was burned severely on one
leg and arm.
A new industry is to be established
at Mountain Home, the installation OF
shops for the manufacture of the SAGE
grubbing machine, which will prove a
boon to the west, and especially to
country covered with growth of sage
brush.
One of the largest funerals ever held
in Malad was that of Thomas Daniels,
who died August 81 of general debil'
| oO 1lnRna GP0
crossed the plains in 1849 and settled
in Malad in 1860. He leaves wife
and eleven children, all living near
Malad.
The Federal Mining & Smelling
company, of Wallace, will pay divi
q dends on the preferred stock of the
J. company September 10 of $1.75
" share, amounting to 100000. This
will bring the total amount paid since
n the organization of the company t
r $7,4G0.000
- Eddie Wilkinson, a resident of Idaho
y Falls, employed as brakeman on tins
g Oregon Short Line, was shot by
= negro whom he was ejecting from thu
ID train near Payne's siding The blu.
" let entered Wlkinson's neck, inflictinI
- a painful but not serious wound. TIL
Ii negro is under arrest.
=. Surveyors are in the field running
:, line OF survey for the projected raj
y road from point in Lemhi county I
= Boise, the construction of which IS
- be undertaken by what is believed I
- be a subsidiary company of the Nortf
~ ern Pacific, or a company capitalize
by the Hill interests.
:. After drinking four ounces of ca
bolic acid, the 21-months-oid son
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Hooper died {
:. G1angeville In terrible agony befol
- physicians could administer an ant
- dote. The poison had been purchase
as a disinfectant, and the child
=, some manner got hold of 1t.
IA Three openings of Carey act lane
-bt to entry will be held during the mont
of September, as follows: Big Lo'
River segregation, $4,000 acres. Arc
., september n; irwin rals-0akley Sc
&c regation, $4,000 acres, Oakley, Sc
lar tember 20: Twin Falls-West End sc
,er regation, 10000, Bull. September
ger Chief among the improvements
lalt st. Anthony is the erection of ne
az county courthouse, to cost $4,000,
ces which amount st. Anthony will co
90, "a tribute $4,000 and the county of Fl
on, mont $4,000. Plans have been {
cepted for new theatre to cost SIS
600, and a $4,000 Mormon tabernac
Articles of incorporation of t
} OF Idaho State Life Insurance compa
day have been filed with the =ac,v.aly
wn state. The company has capital;
The ton of $3.50, 900 and surplus of SEE
be 600. The object of the organization
len declared to be to hold money in I
to state to assist in the development
the Idaho.
ex About three weeks ago Willis
= Fair fell into a prospecting hole