Montpelier examiner., 1909-11-12
IDAHO STATE NEW s

The sale of milk in Idaho after MAY
!, 1910, shall be prohibited except in
bottles, the bottles having a thor
ough. cleaning before refilling.
Eric Larson, st. Anthony pioneer,
died in an old paint shop back of a
pool hall. No one was with him at
the time of his death. He was So,
years old.
G. G. Nelson Of Hepburn harvest
ed over 100 tons of potatoes this sea.
son. He planted IL acres and the
yield will amount to over 800 bush.
els per acre.
The Idaho POWER & Transportation
company of Idaho Falls has ac-
quired the property and business OF
the st. Anthony Light & Power com.
pany for $150,OO0.
Three daughters of William TalIey
OF Sweet, on going to their cellar
on an errand, were rendered uncon--
scaous by the gas that had escaped
from the gasoline engine
The Idaho State Poultry assooia
tion has been organized at Boise.
about SO poultry men being present
at the organization. The association
will be statewide In its scope.
John Miller. 40 years of age, en-
ticed the 1o-year-old daughter OF Mrs.
Ledford of Cougar Gulch, to go,
away with MIN. and all trace of them
has been lost after reaching Spo-,
kane.
The news comes from Oakley that
Bishop Roswell Hunter was instantly
killed in Cottonwood canyon. He was
coming from a sawmill with load OF
lumber when the wagon tipped over.
crushing him beneath the load.
Cities and villages have the power
and authority to pass ordinances to-
prevent the running at large of
horses within their corporate limits,
according to an opinion of the SUI
preme court in case from Koote-
mai county.
Representatives of various towns
met at Rexburg in the Commercial
club rooms recently to discuss the,
proposition of securing .wo passen-
ger trains daily along the 81. An
thony brancn, land remedying the
mail service.
The work on the high line ditch to
be built by the Payette Heights Ir-
rigatfon company at Payette, has
been started. This ditch is to re-
claim about 1000 acres of lands near
Payette. Several hundred acres wtlY
be put under cultivation next SPRING
The man who was killed on the
railroad between Weiser and Nampa
some time ago is believed to have
been Lou Browning, a printer who
had been working at st. Anthony for
about three years. He left that
place and has mysteriously disap-
peared.
The Oregon Short Line cutoff.
crossing a large acreage of rich irri-
gated land in Lincoln county and ex-
tending from Bliss to Rupert, paral-
leling the Southern Idaho railroad.
viii be ready for spring traffic if the
promises of the railroad men are
made good.
The Vollmer- Clearwater company
has filed acquisitions with the various
agents II the Northern Pacific at
grain shipping points on the Clear
water and Grangeville branches, for
900 cars to be provided at once for
use In carrying the company's grain
to the coast.
H. @. Koeppen Of Boise has been
awarded contract for the construc-
ton of the State Deaf and Blind
school at Gooding by the educa-
tional commission, the building to
cost $4,000 with the interior OF the
third floor and other portions of the
structure unfinished
Tom Lindsay, a waiter in tie Owl
restaurant at Grangeville, was seri-
ously cut by Louis PendeI, a disa-
washer. They had been fighting, PEN
del being BADLY badly beaten by Lind
say. When Pendel gained his free
dom he secured a large carving
knife and stabbed Lindsay.
For the first time in its history,
he Albion State normal school has
IN attendance of more than 200
pupils. The enrolment last year was
fbout $50, and the gain so far this
aear Is believed to indicate total
enrolment by the close of the cur,
'ent year of more than zoo
@. o. Hardin, proprietor OF res.
aurant in Coeur d'Alene, was badly
burned while lighting the gasoline
burner of the coffee urn. In filling
he gasoline reservoir he spilled
ome gasoline on his arm and clothes.
IS he touched the match to the
turner the flame ignited the gasoline.
II the opinion of Attorney General
icDougal that saloons having II
enses issued prior to May 6, 1909,
nay continue until that date next
ear Notwithstanding the interven-
lon of prohibition, shall be sustained
" the courts, practically all of Wei
er's saloons will run until April.
John Burke, Fred Harris, Harry
leel and James Cook, the men ar
ested several daysA apo au sucnInIor