Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-09-23
IN THE GEM STATE

236 last term.
The increase in the public school
population of Twin Falls, as compar'
ed with that of 1909, is over 300.
Twin Falls county's expense for the
primary election is estimated 10 De-
when all bills are paid, approximately
So, 900 to $4,000.
The valuation of Canyon county is
$8,916,O00. On this amount levy
of $3.50 on each 500 has been made
by the county commissioners. This
is the highest levy ever made in the
county.
Governor Brady and James H.
Hawley have been invited to speak
at the sixth annual convention OF the
League of Southern Idaho CONNER
cial clubs, to be held at Gooding Oc-
tober II and 10.
N. w. Vernon was drowned in the
ditch which runs through the mIh.ary
reservation at Boise. Mr.. Vernon,
who is an invalid, went out for
stroll, and it is supposed tainted and
fell into the ditch.
L. H. Durham, prominent Michf-
gan sheepman, has accepted the ap-
pointment rendered him by the Idaho
Intermountain fair management, and
will be the official judge of all the
sheep which are exhibited.
The residents of Big Jam district,
un the north fork of the Occur
d'Alene have no place to send their
children to school this fall. The Big
Jam school house was burned in the
forest fires on Graham creek.
The postoffice at Boville and Post
Falls, Ida, each of the $1,100 fourth
class rating, will be advanced Oc-
tober to the presidential class,
which gives the president authority
to appoint the postmasters.
William Sheave, while out shooting
grouse near Wallace, was surprised to
see great bear rise up from behind
log. The first shot from Mr..
Sheave's rife cut the jugular vein of
the bear killing 1t instantly.
The last three weeks have witness
ed much activity in the Twin Falls
country among the sheepmen who
have been cleaning up the seasons
work. Four carloads of wool went
out of Twin Falls in one day.
Regardless of the fact that the re-
cent fire drove hundreds of families
from Wallace and rendered scores OF
them homeless, the first days enroll
ment at the public schools shows an
increase of about 100 pupils over that
of last year.
James Hewitt Of Bonners Ferry,
while riding home from Porthill, car
rying sickle over his shoulder, met
with serious accident. The horse
threw his head up and one of the
knives entered Mr. Hewitt's eye, de-
stroying the sight.
Greater preparations are being
made this year than ever before for
Idaho's state fair. A 50-foot extern
sion has been added to the grand
stand, which will seat 1000 people.
This brings the total seating capacity
of the stand up to $500.
The selling of whisky continues In
Standpoint Notwithstanding that it is
dry" territory. Ed. Murphy, who
claimed he brought in a bottle of
whiskey from Trout Creek, Mont,
was fined $50 in probate court, and is
in jail for 25 days in lieu of his fine.
w. Fl. Dennison, resident of Sand
point, has disappeared, and his
friends fear that business troubles
have unbalanced his mind, or that he
has met with foul play. He left mis-
home for Spokane, August 25, and
disappeared shortly after arriving in
that city.
w. w. Gates of Wallace has start
ed profitable industry. In the ten
days that he has had his newly in
vented mink trap out, he has caught
fifteen live mink. He has had an offer
from a Cincinnati breeder Offering
him $40 apiece for all the live mink
he can forward.
Falling through a vestibule of a
day coach as the train was travelling
at ordinary speed one mile west of
Caldwell, the 4-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Mills of Pittsburg,
Kan, miraculously escaped death.
The girl was found beside the track,
but slightly injured.
ACtdnd CCuCIS lWSlNe-yedT-OlU
boy, was instantly killed at the G. M
Dewey ranch near Burley. He was
riding on a hay derrick, which was.
being moved by his father and an
other man from one stack to another.
when the boy fell from the crosspole.
upon which he was sitting and was
crushed by the weight of the derrick
passing over his body.
The presence of CHAMBERS among the
horses in Genessee country has occa-
stoned considerable alarm among the.
horse owners of the Lewiston-Cl
country. One farmer has. lost horses
valued at $4,000.
A box of apples was recently pick
ed from an orcharl on Bud Gigelow's
place, near Emmett which for size
and quality will equal those of any To-
cality. Forty-two apples filled the
box They were of the Alexander va.