Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-12-30
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Thomas Passey of Paris, who has
been a resident of Bear Lake county
for forty-five years. is dead
President Taft has sent to the senate
the nomination of Benjamin C. Barber
to be receiver of public moneys at
Lewiston.
There are IT'S patients at the Gro
fno insane asylum at present, this
number being an increase of rs per
cent in the last five years.
Farmers of northern Idaho are not
getting as high a price for their wheat
as they would like, and a good many
of them are holding it for better
price.
The secretary of the interior has
withdrawn for water power sites un
der the act of June %, 1910. approxt
mately 1850 acres of land along Crane
creek in Boise meridian.
Engineer A. B. Ball is held respon.
sible by the board of inquiry for the
accident which occurred December 16
at Owyhee station, resulting in the
death of Roadmaster Timothy Dono-
van.
Since the origin of the parole sys.
tenn at the Idaho Industrial Training
school there have been released on
regular parole 81 boys and 81 girls.
Very few of these have violated their
parole.
Charles Eickler, aged q, must spend
from one to fourteen years in the pen.
itentiary for participation in the Mil
ner hold-up. The young man pleaded
guilty and gave in excuse for his act
that he was drunk"
The operations of the coal trust
will hereafter bring forth no walls
of terror from the residents of HALEY,
Burley and Rupert, towns on the Mini
doka project, as electricity is to be
used for heating purposes.
People Of north Idaho, in the Clear
water timber section, are very anxi-
Gus that necessary steps be taken to
manufacture and market quantities of
the timber killed in that section by
forest fires the past summer.
December has so far proved a BAN
ner month at the state penitentiary
in the receipt of prisoners, more new
arrivals being registered than for
some time past. In all 16 prisoners
have been received this month.
Warden Shook of the state peniten-
tiary will ask the next legislature to
pass law making escape from the
penitentiary felony. The supreme
court declared a similar law, which
doubled
Mark Coffin and e. B. Berg have or
ganized the High Line Pumping COM
pany for the purpose of supplying
water for 1000 acres of land too high
to irrigate from the high line canal.
The land is on the original Twin
Falls segregation.
To provide tax levy OF not to ex-
coed one mill on the dollar. to be used
as fund for advertising the resourc-
es and exhibiting the products Of the
several counties of the state, is the
purpose OF petition to be presented
to the next legislature.
The senate has passed Senator Hey
burns bill exempting the owners of
unpatented mining claims from per-
forming the requisite development
work on them for the season of 1910
in instances where the claims were
damaged by forest fires.
The new packing plant which is
being erected In Moscow is fast near
ing completion. 1t is expected that
everything will be in readiness by the
first of the year. 1t is constructed
almost entirely of brick, cement and
iron and is practically fireproof.
The Utah-Idaho Sugar company will
pay five dollars per ton for beets next
season at the factories located at
Idaho Falls, Blackfoot and Sugar City.
This Is an increase Of twenty-five cents
per ton over last season and a fifty
cents per ton increase over what was
paid two years ago.
S. A. Lowd died suddenly at Cald.
well on Tuesday, from apoplexy. He
was well-known insurance man, hay.
ing done business In Texas, California
and other states. He had contracted
with the Denver, Laramie & North.
western railroad to enter their land
department about January /, 1911.
Secretary of state-elect w. L. Gift
ford has decided on the following
members of his office force for the
next TWO years: Byron Hyatt, chief
clerk; G. l.. swormstedt, recording
deputy, and the Misses Sophia
Schmidt, Martha Knight and Irene
Loyelace, clerks and stenographers.
The senate has passed Senator Bo-
rah's bill permitting entry upon lands
under irrigation Projects which have
been relinquished by the original loca-
tors. without regard to the provision
In the act Of the last session prohibit
Ing entries until after irrigation
charges are fixed.
William Kahn of Pingree was instant.
ly killed in a fall from his wagon at
Blaekfoot. He had driven over from
Pingree with hayrack to move some
freight to his home and as he was
leaving the city his horses took fright
and overturned the wagon.
The state OF Idaho will receive $685.,
O74 from the national forest reserva
revenue fund.
The residence of Andrew Hite, eight
miles south of Van Wyck, was totally
destroyed by fire. The origin of the
FIRE was defective hue. Loss about