Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-08-19
In THE GEM STATE

A DflSk HTS MOuudy DIT Inc lNdpd
city pumping station did about $500
damage. The cause is given as spon.
taneous combustion.
Peter Arena, who was accidently
shot at Oakley, Ida, Sunday died at
the l.. ID. S. hospital of Salt Lake City
Tuesday morning, from his wound.
The directors of the Commercial
club of Boise have decided to enter
tain the newspaper men of Idaho when
they assemble here for their conven
ton August IA and Is.
The Commercial club of Boise is in
receipt of letters from several census
enuemrators in Idaho, complaining
that they have not been paid by the
government for their service.
Crushed to death by fall of rock
the body of John Doyle was found
Tuesday by party of prospectors or
Big Deer Creek, twenty-five miles
northwest Of Salmon City, Idaho
Knight Templar souvenirs from
Idaho are being gobbled like hot
cakes by visitors to the Congress no
tel of Chicago. where the Idaho
Knights have taken up headquarters
Work on the raising of the ole
track of the Southern Pacific trestle
on the Lucin cutoff, to conform with
the newly constructed trestie, which
was built five feet higher, has begun
Charges of receiving and attempt
ing to hide stolen goods were made
against J. Franklin, well known
pawnbroker of Ogden, by the police
Tuesday. Franklin was arrested. but
later released on bail.
Fruit-growers of Idaho, Oregon and
Washington at meeting in Seattle
last Friday organized the Northwest
ern Fruit Exchange, cooperative
gency, to handle the business of the
fruit-growers of the three states.
Forest Wilson, is years lod, charged
with stealing SIS in nickels from a
slot machine in the transfer office OF
Cole & Butts of Ogden, was discharg
| ed from custory and the second de
gree burglary case against him was
dismissed.
Nearly one hundred men fought to
save the thriving town Of Wardner,
Idaho, toward which the great forest
fires were sweeping last Friday. Only
mile and half of heavily timbered
hill interviewed.
According to late advices no great
damaged has been done in the Boise
forest by fires. All fires in the forest
have been extinguished, but many
men are still retained in the freight.
ing service as a precautionary mea.
sure
The decision in the famous mono
zite case in which the defendant
| Clyde Cox, held land as timber which
the mining men declared to be miner
al, has been decided in favor of the
plaintiff by Register William Balder
son of the United States land office
and thee timber entry is therefor
cancelled.
A dispatch from Washington to the
State Land Department at Boise, says
THE land department has been ad
vised by the secretary of the interior
that the application for segregation
under the Carey act, made by the
Thousand Springs Land & Irrigation
company has been granted, the maj
of the proposed irrigation proect ap
proved, and the contract executed.
At a recent meeting, the Idaho State
Poultry association took effective
measures to protect the poultry inter
ests in this state and at the same
time to advance those interests. TIL
association decided to award $50 t,
the person who causes the arrest ant
conviction of anyone caught stealing
poultry from members of the associa
ton.
The increase in the settlement o
the new lands in Idaho is well show
in the report of the state engineer o
, the water right permits issued. Dur
. ing the seventeen months of the pres
ent administration there have beel
3,275 applications for water right
filed, or more than one-half than wer
received during the preceding fiv
years.
Bissell Harrison has returned t
Springville from the railroad camp
of the Ely Construction company no'
operating near Pueblo, Colo, with
case of typhoid fever This is tn
fourteenth case among Springyill
boys contracted in these camps.
Earl Hawkes.. who was thrown be
tween an engine and separator nea
; Preston Sunday, died as result of tn
t terrible burns which he received fror
escaping steam. For hours befor
death the young man suffered untol
agonies. He is survived by a wifi
and one child.
The earth dam of the Big Lost rive
, Land and Irrigation company. situa
ed above Mackay has been pronoun
2 ed unsafe and the report of the engil
: eer in charge of the investigation hs
r been published in full with CONNER
by the Mackay Miner.
: Work is now fairly started on til