Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-01-07
IDAHO STATE NEWS

MOSCOW Is to nave poultry SNOW
January 90. 81 and %.
A contract for nearly 100000 OF
sewers at Payette has been let to a
Butte firm.
Harry Thomas, colored, was shot
and killed at Pocatello by w. Nj
Young, also colored Self-defense is
claimed by Young.
On and after January 10 butter and
cheese made in Idaho will have to be
properly labeled under instructions
from the state pure food inspector.
The site for the Oregon Short Line
depot at Wendell has been decided on.
II will be located Oh Idaho street,
near the present Idaho Southern sta
ton.
The assessed valuation of the city
property of Jerome this year was
1886, 900, based on one-third of its
actual valuation, a good showing for
new place not much more than a
year old.
Wendell has made remarkable
growth in the last few months, the
class of buildings erected and those
projected being far above the average
found in towns OF its age.
The fourth annual defamation con-
test of the Idaho Scholastic league
was held in Boise last week. The hon
ors were won by the academy at Po-'
catello and the Payette and Twin
Falls High schools.
In a rabbit drive which took place
in the Twin Falls district recently, it
is estimated that over 1900 rabbits
were killed AS hundreds escaped,
another campaign against these pests
will be made in the near future.
Mailer Yockey, carpenter. who fell
from the second story of a new build
ing on which he was working at
Weiser, died at the hospital without
regaining consciousness. His thigh
was broken and his skull fractured
by the fall.
Presley f. Horne has been regularly
appointed and confirmed as register of
the United States land office for the
HALEY district. Mr.. Horne succeeds
A. 1. Mcmahon of Shoshone, who re-
signed voluntarily to attend to private
business
| State Treasurer Hastings has made
public a report showing that for the
year 1909 the interest paid by the
banks over the state for the use of
public funds will amount to $3S,109.19,
as compared with $22,$SO.13 in 1908
and $1S,266 in 1907
Twin Falls business men believe
that their city is the logical supply
point for the Jarbidge mining camp,
and are bending every energy to in
duce the Minidoka & Southwestern to
extend it's road from Salmon river
| dam to the scene Of the reported dis
covery.
Fifty feet of the low water bridge
at Bonners Ferry has been carried
down the river by ice, making it inn
possible for the ranchera on the north
side of the river to do their trading at
the ferry. 1t is expected that work on
the new bridge will be started the first
of the year
The 3-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Albert Farnsworth of Chester
was accidently shot and killed by her
10-year-old brother who loaded a rife
and pulled the trigger. The injured
child was hurried to st. Anthony for
medical aid, but the child was beyond
help.
Action has been begun by the gov
eminent to determine whether the
permit of the Washington Water Pow
er company, of Spokane. to overflow
certain lands on the Occur d'Alene
reservation shall be revoked. The ex-
tent of this overflow is placed at 6,240
acres.
The states of Idaho, Utah. Wyoming
and Colorado will join hands in the.
promotion and establishment of good
roads, interstate highways being sug-
gested as the possible outcome of the
movement to be launched at a meet
ing to be held in Salt Lake January
rs. 81 and 2S.
The plant of the Caldwell Mill &
Elevator company, in Caldwell, the
largest of it's kind in Idaho, was put
in operation December Q. The ele-
vator has $4,000 bushels capacity and
the mill will produce 300 barrels of
-four in twenty-four hours. and uses
1900 bushels of wheat daily.
John H Garrett, former general
manager of the Great Western Sugar
Beet company of Mountain Home, in
dicted for conspiracy to defraud the
United States government in connec-
ton with the sale of water rights I'M
der an irrigation project and for sub
oAudIiOn VI pOlJuiJF uOCihA CD hO Will
appear for trial when wanted.
The Idaho State Teachers associa-
ton, in session at Boise, elected c. E.
Rose of Boise, president; Miss Alice
Daily, Pocatello, secretary; J. e.
Turner Payette, treasurer. The ses-
sion was one of the most successful
in the history of the association.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver gave
his address, Juvenile Reform Cues
tion," before the teachers.
bids for Wendell's new hotel are tn