Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

$4,000.
The new mining camp of Jarbidge
has at present a population of 500,
with new settlers coming in at the
rate of IL to 10 day.
Orders have been placed for the set
ting out of nearly 200 acres of or
chard on the Emmett bench in close
proximity to the town of Emmett this
spring.
1t is said that beefsteak is selling at
Is cents pound in Jarbidge, but that
hay is selling at the rate of $3.50 ton,
grain at 8 cents pound and potatoes
is cents a pound.
Hygienic drinking fountains will be
put in all of the public school build
ings in Boise during the summer. This
was the decision arrived at at meet
ing the school board last week
Caldwell horse buyers are shipping
$50 head of horses, sold to the United
States government. The horses go
from Caldwell to Seattle and from
there to the Philippine islands
Walter Mckinley, aged 25, and
Louis Vakid, an Austrian, were buried
in snowslide at Burke, on Monday.
The men were on their way to the
Arlington tunnel when struck by the
slide.
The Commercial club of Mountain
Home has taken up the matter of
waterworks system, and will no doubt
see that the town has a system of
of IF uh oh no
be proud
The Ferguson Fruit company, which
controls 1000 acres of the Ferguson
fiat, located on the west end of the
Twin Falls tract near Bull, have made
arrangements to place 250,000 apple
and peach CRAFTS upon 4S acres.
John Skillern, who probably owns
more sheep than any other man in
Idaho, as he has $4,000 head scattered
on the range, has just been over the
ranges and is gratified with the I'M
expectedly small losses that he no
ticed.
The Ada county grand jury empan-
eled for the investigation of alleged
combinations in restraint of trade,
submitted its report. declaring that it
had failed to find a combine among
either the meat or coal dealers Of
| Boise.
Norman Hendrickson, aged II, a
resident of Boise, was fishing near
Middleton and while attempting to
land a large fish. the hook tore loose
and flew upward toward him, pene-
. ! ,ir al
destroying the eye.
E. w. Prince, who owns the Clear
Lake ranch in the bottom of Snake
river canyon, four miles north of
Bull, is making arrangements to plant
200 acres to peaches. This land is
located similarly to the Perrine or
chard near Twin Falls
The Cambridge Commercial club
has organized a stock company and
raised $1,000 to build and operate a
large shearing plant near town, and
enough sheepmen have already
booked their fiocks for shearing to in.
sure the success of the enterprise
During the last 80 days, according
to the records of the station agent at
Kimberly, over forty cars of hay have
been sent to other points and there
are wintering in that immediate vicin-
ity something like 10000 head of
sheep, also quite a large number of
cattle
H. M. st. Cyr, who ten years ago
shot and killed Archie Edmond in a
fit of anger near his home in Boise
county, was released a few days ago
after serving a sentence in the state
penitentiary that length Of time. He
was convicted of manslaughter June
;, 1903.
In order to assist in saving crops
from frosts, the Independent Tele-
phone company has decided to give
daily weather forecasts for the bene,
fit of it's patrons in Idaho, so that the
farmer and fruit grower may have
ample time to prepare for the frost
danger.
Since the granting of the first
Carey act segregation about 10 years
ago, there have been appropriated un-
der this law, 2,47S,S56 acres, the rec
lamation of which is estimated to cost
$67 100000. Private enterprises are
retaining 10000 acres at an esti-
mate cost of S2,780,000.
The construction of the greater
Twin Falls-Bruneau project for the
reclamation of 5000 acres of land
in Owyhee county is assured accord
ing to latest reports. The undertake
ing will be the greatest in the history
of irrigation and will mean the ex,
penditure of more than $20,000,000.
Two days after he was pardoned
from the state penitentiary where he
had been serving time on sentence
of life Imprisonment for murder in
the second degree, Lorenzo P. Sly
filed suit for divorce in the Ada eoun.
" district court, alleging that his
wife, Ada Sly, had deserted him
In the last Is months probably up
wards of a million dollars has been
invested in buildings in Gooding.
Civic improvements have kept pace
with the development along building
lines Already there are about 10