Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-12-23
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Senator Borah has introduced bill
appropriating 100000 for a public
building at Caldwell.
Practical irrigation in this state has
developed until it embraces 5,O03,SSS
acres, With canals aggregating 10,491
miles in length, constructed at cost
of $90,000,000
Mike Kluver, a pioneer of eastern
Latah county, shot himself at his
home in Deary. He left letter In
which he gave his constant ill-health
as the reason for his deed.
The new steel bridge to be built over
the Salmon river at point near Chai
lis. for which the county voted bonds
at the last election, is to be built at
point about a mile below the present
bridge.
At Sugar City the sugar factory has
closed down, having completed the
shortest but most successful run IL
the history of this institution. Tbs
reason for so short a run was the lacs
of beets.
Within a few days the waterworks
system for Meridian will be in work
ing order, and the long-expected Inn
provement, giving the town pure wa
ter and fire protection, will have be
come a reality.
Ludwig s. Gerlough of Boise, who
graduated from the University o.
Idaho in June, 1909, has passed the
Rhodes examination. The scholarship
is for three years, and carries with II
the sum of 1880 yearly.
]. Fred Gasser, aged 20, son OF G.
H. Gasser, who lives two miles north
east of Bull, committed suicide by
hanging, at the home of his sister, Mrs.
H. T. Miller, in Buhl. Dependency
over failing eyesight was the cause.
A movement is on foot among the
Commercial clubs of Idaho to petition
the governor and legislature for an an
nual appropriation of $4,000 to be
uesd by the immigration bureau In al,
yertising the resources of the state.
The jury brought in a verdict of nd
damages in the suit brought by H.
Elliott Of Columbus, Kan, for $4,000
damages against the Montana-ldahd
Stage company for alleged injuries IL
an accident on the Redrock-Salmon
road.
The supreme court has rendered
decision adverse to the practice OF
lumbermen in running great quantities
Of logs down river by foods artific'
tally produced by splash" dams, thus
damaging lands of settlers along such
streams by covering them with debris
and logs.
Bill Borskos, the Greek accused Of
murder for the shooting OF Spiro Bud
ures, near Owyhee station, has beer
: discharged from custody, 1t appearing
the shooting was accidental. The ira
. gedy has so peryed upon Borskos
, mind that 1t is feared he will become
/ insane.
! After is years experience, during
which natural selection has worked oui
! a desirable sized ear of corn, the ex
4 pertinent station at Gooding Is now
I able to get 100 bushels of corn from al
Q acre. where during the initial years O
: the experimentation, but few bushelI
a could be obtained.
j, Idaho, according to the merchants
Is gaining an enviable reputation
r throughout the country for the excel
II lent variety of cider which is made II
!. this state.
y There are under the ~ differen
Q Carey act projects in this state, 1850
IS S33, AZ acres of land which is now be
. ing, or is designed In the near futur
, to be, supplied with water
:. = With the opening of the first posi-
: office sub-station, Boise has taken an
other step forward as city. Tn
town has grown so large that nun
Der Of sub-stations have been deeme'
L necessary.
- The estimated cost OF construction
d of the Carey act projects 30 far under
D taken In this state aggregates tn
" enormous total OF $75,667 $40, of whic
n amount $17,562,5S have been expend
y ed to date.
"a The estimates of the secretary O
u the treasury show an increase froI
u $3,400 to $6,050 recommended for sa
% aries at the Boise assay office. but
reduction in the wages of WORKINGS
% from $500 to $3.50.
y It is stated that the Gilmore
. Pittsburg Railroad company ha
opened western offices In Portland
= and that the Salmon-Lewiston sectio
= of the line will be placed under cor
! struction in the spring.
- According to Don Bark, government
irrigation expert In Boise. there
every indication that pumping Sta
ton will be placed on the Snake rive
= at Weiser for the purpose OF irriga
~ ing land in that vicinity.
= The Idaho Northern 10 making
new survey. That railroad now mas
n. gang of surveyors running a new SUI
vey between Marsh and Horseshoe
"a Bend. It Is the plan to make 1t twent
10 feet higher than the former one.
ID Frank ]. Curran, aged twenty-fiv
n years, sons of former Detective Harr
T. J. Curran of Salt Lake. ended his lif
IN at Pocatello by taking cyanide of p
IN tassium. 1t is believed that he becam
re- respondent over the death Of his VIII
about year ago.
- The unusually large number of dee
v. in Lemhi county this season Is sal
=. | ~ he due IN the racenf forest fires