Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-03-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

awarded the contract for the erection
of the new $4,000 school building at
Mora
A convention of the law and order
forces in the state will be held in
Nampa on the 23d and Gath of this
month.
Large acreages will be planted at
Meridian this spring in commercial
orchards and of these winter apples
will greatly predominant.
A hotel of thirty rooms, either of
brick or concrete, financed by Sand
point parties, will be built at Lake
side Place on Lake Pend d'Oreille.
The postmaster at Medley has been
directed to turn over his supplies to
the postmaster at American Falls on
March 81 and close the Office at the
former place.
Professor H. H. Barton, of Occur
d'Aiene, has made his announcement
as a candidate for the office of state
superintendent of public instruction to-
succeed Miss Belle Chamberlain.
The gun club at Idaho Falls is to
be reorganized. he former gun club
was one of the most prominent in the
western country and numbered in it's
membership some of the best shots in
the country.
1t is stated on very good authority
that the new branch road OF the Ore
gon Short Line railroad will be built
from Ashton this season and that bids
a1p DIV al for FOVs tho.
construction work.
The woolgrowers of Shoshone and
southern Idaho report their losses in
sheep as normal or about the same
as the average winter; but the cost
of feed for the long winter has borne
heavily on ali the woolgrowers.
About 1890 acres of land in Idaho
have been withdrawn from all forms
of disposal tor irrigation purposes
The area will be used in connection
the Boise river. The dam is part of
the Payette-B Boise irrigation project,
Frank Livermore of Mud Lake,
charged with grand larcency by the
Pierres, who came into notoriety
| through their sensational trial for the
murder of their father some weeks
ago, has been convicted at st. An
thony of petit larceny.
Judge Dunbar at Boise imposed a
fine of $3.50 and costs on both Henry
Bolzel and Oscar Nelly, charged with
stealing merchandise from the re-
serve stock of the Falk Mercantile
company. Both young men pleaded
guilty to petty larceny.
Where a homestead entryman fails
for a time to properly establish resi-
dence, but makes an effort to comply
with the law before a contest is in
stituted he is entitled to retain his.
claim, according to a decision handed
down by the register and receiver of
tie Boise land office,
More than 100 snow slides have oc-
Cured along the road between Clay
ton and Bonanza, 1t is said. One slide,
at Five Points, near K. d. Williams
place, buried the road under sixty
feet of ice, logs and snow. The slides
resulted from ten days steady rain
in the upper country.
The jury in the case of the state vs.
Louie Moon, charged with assault
: with intent to murder Fong Shue, a
Boise Chinaman, and a member of a
. band of alleged Ratchet men, returned
verdict of guilt of assault with a
: deadly weapon after being out more
than twenty-four hours.
Superintendent Langford of the
South Sunbeam mine, at Sunbeam,
was buried beneath fourteen feet of
snow in a slide, and 1t. took rescue
party more than an hour to recover
his body. Langford was unconscious
when dug out OF the Slide, but revived
, and is now out of danger
With the object of determining more
definitely the right OF a railway com
pany in crossing the public domain
when withdrawn for reclamation pur
poses the Minidoka & Southwestern
and the Utah Construction company
have instituted a suit in the Twin
Falls county district court.
Two students were badly hurt In
). one of the fiercest class rushes evel
q held on the campus at the University
I of Idaho at Moscow. The freshmen
g defeated the sophomores. and John
v son, a sophomore, stole the cane aftel
n the rush, and was badly hurt wher
;. the "freshies" captured him. Louch, {
freshman, suffered a broken shoulder
II James H. Wallis, state pure foot
h commissioner, has succeeded in sc
S curing the promise of Secretary VIII
o son of the department of agricultur,
to send two or three of the men OF nj.
department prominent in the pur,
food work to the convention o
t food officials of the intermountail
/. states which convenes at Boise Apri
L. IL and IL.
E. Construction work on the propose.
= extension of the Idaho Northern iron
d Emmett the present terminus, t
S, Smiths Ferry, distance of sevent,
e miles, will be commenced as soon q
weather conditions will permit, ac
cording to authoritative information
James Beard, the bartender of Arce
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