Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-07-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS


Twelve additional surveying parties
are to be put to work surveying gov
eminent land In Idaho.
Forty square miles Of richly tim
bered land near Wallace was swept
by fire last week. The loss is about
100000
Several fires were caused by light.
ming at Preston. The meeting house
Of the Latter-day Saints was one OF
the buildings injured.
Arthur Moore, young farmer, and
the team with which he was working
in a field, were killed by lightning
during a thunderstorm near Dayton.
Elmer Newell, the 1S-year-old SON
Of Photographer E. A. Newell OF
Meridian has evolved wireless tele-.
graph station, which works. All of his
apparatus he has constructed himself,
except the receiver and spark coil.
While driving with load of grain
to his fathers stack, Arthur Moore,
aged 81, son of G. ]. Moore, of Day.
ton, was struck by bolt of lightning
and instantly killed. The team which
he was driving was also killed by the
same bolt.
Fruit experts claim that so per cent
more apples will be shipped this year
than were sent out from Weiser two
years ago, when the crop was consid-
cred a record breaker. The yield of
prunes will be about the same as it
was two years ago.
AS a result of the electric storm
which passed over Preston, Idaho, the
First ward meeting house was par
TALLY consumed by fire and the barn
of G. P. Parkinson was totally de-
Stroyed Both buildings were struck
by bolt of lightning.
| Orchardists of the Weiser section
are jubilant over the outlook for the
bumper crop of apples and prunes
this season. Many of them have been
busy thinning the apples ON weir
trees, in some cases removing SO per
are jubilant over the outlook for a
remainder a better chance.
About 100 members of the Church
of the Brethren of Drunkards attend
ing the conference at Weiser, of the
district of ISaho. Washington and
Oregon. Twenty-one elders of the
church were present.
The reclamation service has author
lied the construction of a telephone
| line from the Jackson lake dam site
to Ashton, Ida, at cost of $500. in
order to facilitate Sthe work Of con-
struction on the dam.
The small fruit season Is about over
at Caldwell. The crop has been good
with the exception of dewberries, the
vines having been injured to some ex-
tent last winter. The strawberry crop
was excellent and brought good
prices.
The business men OF Emmett and
surrounding locality have put up
$4,000 to purchase the right-of-way
and terminal grounds for the extern.
sion of the Payette Valley railroad
that is building to that city from New
Plymouth
Farmers at Grangeyille are becom.
Ing worried over the labor situation
and several threshing machines that
were to begin operations will be kept
In the sheds unless there is an influx
Of laborers soon. The wages are from
$3.50 to $500 per day.
The civil suit of some years stand.
ing which has grown out of the al.
legged illegal transactions of the Bar.
Der Lumber company and involves the
title to $4,000 acres of timber lands
In the Boise basin, will be filed on an.
peal In the United States circuit court
this week.
William Cline was seriously injured
at Deadwood as a result of missed
MOLE explosion. Mr.. Cline was work.
ing In tunnel. and after firing
round of holes, he waited two hours
before returning, when the explosion
occurred, decorating his face and
breaking his jaw bone.
The American Falls, Rockland q
southeastern railway has been incor.
porated and capitalized for 81 500 900.
Inc local residents subscribed 500.
700 and get preferred stock for this
amount
The Seven Devils canning factory
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now handling Is tons of peas daily.
Two hundred'acres of peas have been
planted to supply the factory for the
season.
Feser Van Deberger, an old pio.
heer OF the Salmon river valley. died
at Whitebrd.
Grain, fruit and root growers in
Latah, Nez Perez, the south half of
hootenai and the northwest half OF
ldaho counties in Idaho, where mo.
dern tillage is practiced, say in re.
ports to the commissioner of the Dry
fa1ming congress. there is every fndi.
Gallon of large yields this season.
It is said that the board of county
comm ssioners has refused to grant H.
censes to any OF the saloon men OF
Atlanta, owing to the number of incen.
diary fires and disturbances which
nave occurred at that place during the
past 60 days.