Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-10-14
In THE GEM STATE

Gilmore Is COupl6LSQ, anu Ju6 hIob
train ran over the track last week.
A mountain goat weighing between
300 and 400 pounds was shot by Don
Road last week on the cliffs of the
Lemhi range.
The development of the coal fields
adjacent to Idaho Falls is about to be
undertaken on a larger scale than
ever heretofore.
Harry L. Crane, one of the men who
met death when the plant of the Los
Angeles Times was destroyed, was
formerly resident of Boise.
The Gilmore & Pittsburg railroad
has taken over the United States mail
contract from the stage line, between
Salmon and the Oregon Short Line
for term of four years.
William Jones, one of the prominent
business men of Boise and owner OF
the Oxford hotel, died suddenly Oc-
tober !, death resulting from stroke
of apoplexy. He was so years OF age
and a pioneer of the west.
Idaho Falls and the surrounding
communities are beginning to be
large shippers of honey. This is
product that is practically all profit
to the owner of bees as their feed
during the seasons costs nothing
A young MAJ named Silas Carey
who with a companion, was beating
his way from Boise, fell off the train
at Nampa, the wheels of the car pass
ing over one leg. crushing it SO bad
ly that amputation was necessary.
The Oregon Short Line will con-
struct a branch line of railroad ex-
tending from Montpelier station by
way u the town of Ovid to the town
of Paris, 9.5 miles, the whole being
located within Bear Lake county.
A Tacoma dispatch says; Miss Alice
True. a South Tacoma girl, left this
city for Idaho, where, with a bulldog
and a saddle horse, she will live ca a
lonely claim near DIETRICH for 80 days.
She purposes to prove up" on the
land.
Crop conditions in the upper Snake
river valley are more than sattsfac-
tory. Especially does this apply to the
potato crop While the acreage is
not so large as last year, the yield.
quality and prices obtained more than
offset the difference.
Attorney Edwin Snow, on behalf OF
Secretary of State Robert Lansdon.
has filed a petition in the supreme
court for writ of review against
the state canvassing board, asking
that the certificate of the state poard
of canvassers be set aside.
The unusual sight Of apples placed
in great piles covered with canvas
and tarpaulins is seen in the various
orchards in the Boise valley. The
apples have reached the state where
they must be picked and the apple
boxes are not forthcoming.
The good roads movement is being
carried out extensively In the country
tributary to Idaho Falls. In addition
to the road work done and under con-
strnction, contracts have been let for
nine new reinfDrGed concrete bridges
over canals and creeks near that city
Few people realize the size and i'm
portance of Fremont county outside
of those in that section of the state.
Embraced within its lines there are
100000 acres of land, two-thirds OF
which is fine agricultural and grazing
land, the remainder being principally
timber.
Edgar M. Heigho, president OF the
Pacific & Idaho Northern railroad.
must stand trial on the charge of
manslaughter for killing Mrs. Sylvia
Riegleman, mother-in-law of ]. w.
Barton, prominent resident of Wei
ser, by soaring her to death on the
night of August 4, when Heigho Is
alleged to have called at Barton's home
and precipitated quarrel, says the
Boise Statesman.
Mr.. Sewell, in charge of the Idaho
Falls Electric Railway. says that the
greater part of the right of way for
the road nas been secured and that
the contract for the construction WORK
is now on his desk, says the Idaho
Falls Register.
Building operations to the extent OF
81 lit. $50 have been completed with
in the past twelve months or are now
under way in Idaho Falls. The figures
include public work and business build
ings, private resisences built and i'm
| provements on same.
Dick Adams. q prisoner in the state
penitentiary at Boise, sent there from
Blackfoot, died at the st. Alphonsus
hospital at Boise last week from ty-
phoid-pneumonia.
Two thousand people were present
at the laying of the cornerstone OF
the Masonic Temple at Twin Falls,
Governor Brady delivering the prin-
cipal address.
DR.. G. e. Noble state veterinarian.
has announced the formation of the
Idaho Association of Veterinary Grad
yates, and that this body will hold as
first annual convention in Boise dur
ing the Intermountain fair. October ~
and 10.
John Curren of Hagerman valley
threshed out 300 bushels of alfalfa
seed from thirty acres of alfalfa, an
average of ten bushels per acre. This
was his second cutting, his first having
yielded him two tons of hay per acre.
This alfalfa seed is worth SO ner bush-