Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-09-30
In THE GEM STATE

were shipped from Payette valley last
week
An apple orchard of ten acres bes
longing to Payette orchardist
promises to net him about $1,000 an
acre this season.
Baled hay is bringing So to 1926
at Kimberly, and several producers
report sales in the stack at 81. Grain
is selling at 81 to $1.10.
The Killion Brothers sawmill, To-
Gated In Navarro canyon, burned to
the ground and a small area of the
forest surrounding it was also de-
stroyed.
Charles Denney of Swan Lake was
accidentally shot and killed by
brother with a new revolver which
they had just purchased. He is II
years old.
The body of o. A. Kennedy of Shell
ley, who disappeared several months
ago, was found on the Alfred Chris
Jensen ranch, adjoining that owned
by Mr.. Kennedy.
The crews working on the Twin
Falls-Oakley project have been tenn
porarily laid off. The ditch work is
well up and attention will be given
to work on the big dam.
The Payette Vinegar company 10
getting ready for making apple cider
The making of apple butter has al
ready commenced and in a short time
mince meat will be given considerable
attention.
The enterprising citizens of Parker
have organized a creamery company.
This new institution will be of great
benefit to the surrounding country, as
much Of the cream now marketed is
sent to Salt Lake.
Harrison Hughes, charged with
horse stealing, escaped from the Ada
county jail in sensational manner,
having by ruse got the jailer in a
cell and turned the key on him.
Hughes was recaptured later.
A movement for the establishment
of rest room" has been started at
Standpoint The place will be fitted
up so that unemployed men, visitors
and strangers may find rest and
amusement during leisure hours.
Parties wno have recently return
ed from a trip to the Magic dam and
reservoir, twenty-five miles north
west of Richfeld, report that all the
earthwork on the dam will be in
Ae
The tax levy for Fremont county
will this year be 1920, according to
the assessor, but there will be an addi-
tional levy of " Of / per cent owing
to the expense incurred in building
the new steel bridge over the South
Fork.
During a thunderstorm, lightning
struck the high tension wires from
the Swan Falls plant at Nampa, burn
Ing the fuses and insulation in and
around the transformer house, and
causing the city to be In darkness for
time.
Senator Weldon B. Hepburn Of
9daho, one of the Republican mem
bers of the senatorial committee
which is to investigate the election
of Senator Lorimer of Illinois. was
the first member OF the committee to
arrive in Chicago.
The mill, warehouse and elevator
at Kimberly, are full of grain and the
farmers warehouse is filling rapidly,
and 1t looks as though there will not
be room enough for all of Kimberly's
crop, which Is by far the largest In
the history of that section.
The report comes from near where
Bull Dog creek enters into the Pay
cite river that this year the bears are
more numerous than for many sea-
sons past. AS many as $50 sheep
have been killed and the sheepmen
have killed seventeen bears.
Harold Martin, aged 10 years, only
SON of Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Martin OF
Standpoint. was dragged to death by
pony which he was riding. While
riding he fell off and his foot caught
in the stirrup and. being unable to
extricate himself, was fatally injured.
NlNA SGlflCc Will ,D6
held October "a and rs for Forest
rangers at the following places in
Idaho: Boise, Challis, Emmett,
Grangeville. HALEY. Idaho Falls.
Kootenai. Mccall, Mackay. Oakley,
Pocatello, Salmon, Standpoint. st.
Anthony. Weiser.
Since the forest Ares, all sorts OF
game can be found in the territory at
the headwaters of the little North
Fork of the Occur d'A-ene. The tim
Der of that area is not burned and
the animals have taken up their
.haunts there. There is large num-
Der Of deer, bear and cougar.
Brooms manufactured from corn
grown in Idaho will be seen upon the
markets in the northwest. DON Burris
of the Idaho Industrial institute at
Weiser has 140 acres OF broom corn
which probably will be bought by a
manufacturer in Spokane.
Thomas Ranahan, of Boise, pio-
neer Indian fighter and scout, attend
ed the reunion of the Beecher Island
scouts at Wray, Colo. There are now
but IA pioneers living who participant
ed I'm the famous Beeeher Island fight,
in which 81 men were pitted against
1900 Indians
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