Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The new High school building at
Emmett is nearly completed and a
portion of it ready for occupancy.
The completion of the wagon road
from Mountain Home to Atlanta is
now matter of early spring fulfill.
ment.
| Feed for stock because of the long
winter is becoming very scarce in the
vicinity of Emmett. Hay in the stack
is bringing SIS and SIC per ton in
that locality.
The Weiser Commercial club has
taken on new life, many new mem
bers having been added and more
| genuine enthusiasm and general in
terest prevailing than ever before.
In Bonner county the "wets" will
contest the local option petition on
the grounds that great many of the
signatures attached to the petitions
are forgeries.
Commissioners are closing the
dance halls throughout the Occur
d'Alene districts, because of COM
plants of mothers of young girls
lured into them.
On recommendation of Congressman
Hamer, board of pension examining
surgeons, has been established at
Twin Falls, with Dr. w. T. Pike and
H. w. Wilson as members of the
board.
Judge Fremont Woods at Boise has
called for special grand jury in Ada
county for January 81 to begin the
probe on illegal combinations in re-
straint of trade said to exist in that
county.
VIM. McMurphy, an old time resi-
dent of the Occur dAlenes, while suf-
fering with melancholia, attempted
suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor. He is in the hospital and out
of danger.
Nampa merchants have organized
a protective association, intended to
prevent the accumulation of bad ac-
counts, and whose secretary will col
lect the names of people who Gail to
pay their debts.
Canyon county is in receipt of S..
1913 IS of state school funds. This
amount makes a total for the year of
4 $15,54S. rs The amount received for
the January, 1909, apportionment was
$3,423.7 TO-
Three young women of Payette have
confessed that they placed croton oil
in coffee served at a banquet recently,
which made many participants in the
feast exceedingly i'll, and. caused a big
sensation in the town.
A cut in freight rates on potatoes
of Utah and Idaho, in carload lots,
has been announced by the Oregon
Short Line, amounting to cents per
one hundred pounds It will go into
effect within sixty days
If the plans of the farmers union
of Idaho and Nez Perez counties are
carried out, practically the entire
grain business this year will be
handled through warehouses conduct
ed by the farmers organizations.
1t is the opinion of a number OF
fruit growers in the neighborhood OF
Caldwell that peach and cherry buds
are not injured by the cold weather.
The prospects never were better Tor a
fruit crop than at the present time.
Potatoes for the entire United
States are eventually to be supplied
by Idaho, in the opinion of E. H
Grubb of Carbonate, Colo, who ana
lyzed the spud situation quite thor
oughly during a talk at Twin Falls re
Gently
Ursel Bigeler accidently shot him.
self through the breast while fooline
with pistol, the ball passing through
his body and coming out under the
left arm, but it is believed he will re
cover. The accident occurred nine
miles from Rexburg
The state of Idaho has announced
its policy of leasing all state lands
situated within forest reserves for
grazing purposes, disregarding the at.
titude of the forest service, which has
in the past prevented the state from
receiving any revenue from this
source.
M. W. Kellogg, who was arrested at
Caldwell recently on warrant charg.
ing statutory crime, had his exam
ination few days ago. Owing to the
girl denying her previous statement,
the prisoner was discharged The
girl was then placed under arrest on
a charge of perjury.
At a great mass meeting of citizens
held in the Boise Commercial club
rooms, says the Boise Statesman, rep.
resentatives of every interest buried
the Ratchet in the cid fight of the
Intermountain Fair association and
joined together to boost for the next
state fair and carry it to a success.
Twin Falls citizens have arranged
a seemingly suspicious money making
scheme, in the proposition to take
hold of and develop the hot springs
at Kitty Wilkins ranch and operate
hotel there for the accommodation
of the passengers in and out of Jar.
bidge.
: That Twin Falls will have militia
company is now an assured fact. the
adjutant general having forwarded
the necessary blanks to the men hav.
ing the matter in charge with inctruc