Montpelier examiner., 1910-06-24
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The new Wendell Inn. at Wendell,
is in process of construction, and when
finished, at cost of 100000. will be
one Of the finest hotels in the Pacific
northwest.
w. A. Shumwate, q Nampa grocer,
fell from a step-ladder and suffered
O bad break of the femur bone. While
his condition is serious, he is getting
along all right.
More than $SOO.O00 worth Of build
ings will be started on actual con-
struction work this month in Boise,
breaking the building record for
monthly total in that city.
The completion of the Oregon
Short Line from Bliss to Rupert will
be matter of great convenience to
the travelling public and of tremen-
dous benefit to the North Side tract.
The surveying force Of the Pacific
& Idaho Northern has begun work on
the extension from Evergreen to
Meadows, distance of sixteen miles,
which is to be completed by Novem-
| ber /.
Little interest was taken in the mu-
nicipal election at Lewiston on June 13,
out of 1900 voters registered only
1900 exercising their privilege of vot-
ing. The "wets" will control the city
council.
The step-daughter of Senator Ben
ham of Owyhee county, Mrs. Emily
o. Johnson, and bride of two weeks,
died Monday night at Boise hospital
from a nervous trouble of several
years standing.
The semi-centennial celebration OF
the founding of the town Of Franklin,
the Oldest town of the state, was held
on June IA, an excellent program be-
ing carried out, many OF the states
prominent citizens being present.
The long-looked-for mixing machine
for the bitulthic paving has at last
arrived at Caldwell and work has be-
gun on the paving. The machine
weighed 1880 pounds and the freight
from Boston to Caldwell was $1,618.00.
Several hundred town lots at Hey
burn and Rupert, on the Minidoka ir-
rigation project, will be reappraised
and sold as a result of the recent
passage Of the Hepburn bill authoriz-
ing the reappraisement of unsold lots
in government townsites.
The news comes from Jarbidge Of
the recovery of the body Of O. E. Bell,
who fell into the crater Of an extinct
volcano at the head of the Bruneau
river February 81. Prospectors dis
covered Bells body 800 feet below
the mouth Of the crater.
After going swimming with num-
Der of boy companions against his
mothers wishes, Jay Fitch, the S-year-
old son of B. R. Fitch, a prominent
real estate man of Payette, stepped
OFF of sand bar into deep water and
was drowned in the Payette river.
The interior department has been
having trouble over the sub-laterals
on the Minidoka project which have
not been maintained In proper condi-
ton by the district organization, and
as a result some lands entitled to
water may not receive an adequate
supply.
Contracts have been executed with
the Oregon Short Line Railroad com
pany by which the company grants
to the United States the right to cross
the right-of-way and pass underneath
the tracks and roadbed of the rail.
road company with various canals
near Burley.
The Blackfoot North Side Irrigation
company will shortly place upon the
market $4,000 acres of choice land
This can be taken up under the Carey
act. The company is now having the
tract surveyed and engineers are also
running the lines for canals and irri
eating bitches.
! Mike Yokel of Salt Lake City
threw Charles Blecha at Idaho Falls
Wednesday night, In straight falls
: securing the first fall In twenty-siz
minutes, and the second fall in eleven
minutes. Blecha made a hard fight
; while he lasted. but Yokel had toe
much strength and ability.
Horace Lewis OF Ketchum has JUS
!, lost ten head of cattle on his allot
ment in the Sawtooth forest. lnyesti
! cation shows that they were poisoned
by eating wild parsnips. The weet
:, seems to grow in one place, which
will now be fenced in to keep tn,
stock from getting at It,
July End iS the date set for tn,
drawing of town lots at Pingree. Th,
Oregon Short Line will grant excur
; sion rates from every station on it,
! line June 1st and End. The new rail
road will be pushed to Pingree Jun,
30th, and the first train operated OF
the day of the opening.
= Based on postal receipts during tn,
r past year, the salaries of most of tn
' presidential postmasters of Idaho will
r be advanced July /.
: The ladies of the Order of the Mac
D cabees last week celebrated the lmn
teenth anniversary of the order Ii
: HALEY.
I Work is to begin in a short time OF
: the triangle road between Boise, Gale
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