Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-11-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

meets this year at Boise during the
Thanksgiving recess.
1t is estimated that the apple crop
of Payette valley this season viii
amount to 1000 cars.
Idaho bee keepers are obtaining q
reputation about the country second
only to the fruit growers.
The Camas Prairie railroad will In
stall shops at Lewiston to- handle all
running repair work on the locomo-
tives used on the line between Ripa-
ria and Grangeville.
A special train OF forty carloads OF
apples was shipped from Payette on
the 18th. Twenty-Five cars were con-
signed to Chicago and the remainder
to other eastern points.
Poisoned, so 1t is believed, by
candy, Josephine Kalahan, 2-year-old
daughter of Herman Kalahan, was
taken from a train at Boise in Sc
rious condition, but has since recoV-
cred.
A deal has been closed by which
the West Coast Securities company
has acquired 450 acres of bench and
bottom land adjoining Lewiston on
the east, the consideration being
$4,000.
AS the result of collision between
two fright trains at Crystal siding,
two men we're killed and two Sc
riously injured, the dead men being
Fireman Dan Fry and Brakeman Will
liam Linhorst.
E. B. Fitch, better known as Ken
tuck" the father Of "a children at
Gem, Idaho, had the top of his scalp
torn off in a handcar collision. He
was unconscious for 10 hours, but Is
expected to recover.
John Schultz, who lived on a tract
of land known as "Old Genesee" and
was known as the Mayor of the Old
Town." died at Genesee from the ef-
fects of a fall from buggy while the
team was running away.
Plans are on foot in Boise for the
| erection of a Y. M. c. A. hotel. The
idea of the movement is to provide
rooms for young men who are work
| ing for a salary and for those look
ing for employment in new town.
| A pumping plant has recently been
installed by the Payette Heights Irri-
| CATION company to reclaim about 1000
acres Of land just above the town of
Payette. Should the scheme prove
successful thousands of acres of land
may be reclaimed.
The prosperity of citizens and prop
erty owners in general in Idaho coun-
ty this year is reflected in the remit
lance of $1,3z3.SS in taxes due the
state last week, being the first county
to send in its per centage Of cash due
the state this year.
What might have resulted in SER
ious wreck was avoided on the Idaho
Northern at the bridge known as
trestle B, when workmen on a large
steam shovel not far from the bridge
discovered that it had been burned
away, and notified surrounding sta
tions.
Alleging that her divorced husband
has kidnapped her 2-year-old daugh-
ter and that he left Omaha, Neb.
in company with her unmarried sis
ter, Mrs. Annie Wallace is III Dolse
and will make an effort to have the
local authorities take up the search
for her husband.
The promoters of the Dry Creek ir-
rigation project have made public
statement that the reclamation or TO-
900 acres of desert land in township
10 of Ada county will be undertaken
as private enterprise. Canals for
irrigating $500 acres of land are al
ready completed.
W. H. Simons, alias Stone, who was
arrested In Boise October Is on a
warrant from Lake Charles, La, on a
charge Of embezzling the funds of the
First National bank Of that place to
the amount Of $4,000, will return to
his former home to answer the
charge against him
Investigation into the freight wreck
near Crystal station on the Short
Line, Tuesday, in which two men
were killed, shows that the fireman
and engineer of No. 1899 were asleep
and the crew of tho train on the sid
! ing was trying to flag the moving
, train by every device.
: 1t is rumored that Boise is TO have
team in the proposed new UnioI
baseball league, which is to be com
posed of the towns of Butte, Helena
Great Falls, Salt Lake, Ogden and
Boise. The new league is to be or
ganized at a meeting to be held II
Butte on November "a.
According to a decision handed
! down by the supreme court recently
. 1t is required Of sheep owners to fur
I nish their help with good guns. Tht
) decision was in the case of sheep
]. herder who lost an arm as the result
Q Of the bursting of a gun, and wal
o awarded $4,000 damages.
d Douglas Reese, bridgeman on tn,
Oregon Short Line, was seriously In
iured near Manson station. TIL,
a train had parted and the man hal
Il probably fallen, as he was found Oh
d the bridge with his leg crushed AM
II some minor injuries.
e James King of Blaine county, VIII