Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-18
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Santa Rosa orchard last week
shipped the first straight carload of
cabbage ever shipped out of Payette
valley.
At Grandview, south OF Mountain
Home, on the river, the farmers are
all busy blowing. There is no frost
in the ground and the weather is ex-
cellent.
The state has lost its case against
Roy Lee. the Boise manager of Swift
and Company, charged with selling
butter which had not been properly
labeled.
A petition is being circulated at EN-.
NETT, asking the county commission
ers to call an election to vote bonds
for bridge across the Payette river
at the Vanderdasson farm.
Washington county will be dry May
l. Several of the saloons in Weiser
will go out of business before that
time, their license expiring before the
time fixed by law for the local option
law to go into effect.
The orchardists of Washington
county are arranging to protect their
orchards from the late frosts by the
use of smudge pots. They are laying
in a large number of them, to be used
in case of an emergency.
One hundred and fifty head of cat.
tie that had been fattened ON alfalfa
hay were shipped from Weiser last
week to the Tacoma Cold Storage
company. They were two-year-olds
and averaged 1.400 pounds each.
Secretary Ballinger has withdrawn
temporarily approximately 1890
acres of lands along Bruneau river,
Idaho, and approximately 28,440
acres along the Salmon river in Me-
vada and Idaho for water power.
The track laying machine on the
Pittsburg & Gilmore railroad has left
the new town of Leadore and is rum
ming rapidly down the Lemhi valley
toward Salmon City, laying an aver.
age of two miles of track per day.
The farmers and dairymen at EN-
NETT are OF the opinion that golden
opportunity for an experienced butter
maker is being wasted. The building
and equipment is there and all that is
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charge.
Benjamin F. Halves, one of the
earliest of the pioneers of the state
and one of the best known men of
, Ada county, is dead. Mr.. Halves was
born in Claysville, Ohio, in 1912, COM
: ing overland from Ohio to Florence,
T Idaho, in 1862
: I'D pacrynI xybn
victed of "boot-legging." and given a
: fine of $50 and committed to Jail in
Caldwell, until paid, made his escape
from the county Jail one day last
: week but was captured about FIVE
miles west of town.
Where work Is done at the request
!, of an owner of a town lot, improving
the street in front of the premises, a
contractor has lien upon the lot for
the work done and the material man
]. for material furnished, according to
n an opinion handed down by the SUI
, preme court
f Joseph C. Clark, sentenced from
: Canyon county to seven years for
q manslaughter; Albert Allen, sen
4 fenced from Kootenai county to nine
!. years for grand larceny, and A. Leon
of Ada county, sentenced to three
> years for forgery, have been granted
J. pardons by the state board
: The outlook for building operations
in Weiser this season are better than
last year, which was the banner year
in the history of the city Five or six
e business blocks are already arranged
l. for, plans drawn and arrangements be
e ing made to begin work on them as
S soon as the weather will permit.
+ Potato culture is fast taking front
s rank in the country tributary to Hey
b burn, the soil being especially adapt
s ed to their successful culture. Sew
s eral carloads were shipped from Hey
i burn during the fall and winter bu
the greater portion of the crop ii
still in the hands of the growers.
This has been the longest winter
ever experienced in Washington coun
ty. Usually the winters are short anf
= !, mild here, but all rules have beer
= broken this winter. Sixty days ago
y or December 4, the first sleigh ap
: peared on the streets of Weiser, AMI
: slelgh1ng has been continuous since
The state board of pardons ha.
granted pardons to two life-tern
prisoners, Arthur Goode, sentenced
. from shoshone county, having his sen
d tence committed to twenty-one years
i while Lorenzo P. Sly, sentenced from
y Iatah county to life Imprisonment
! has been granted a complete pardon
i The recent opinion of the supreme
II court in the Marble creek case If sus
D tanned upon appeal will upset the for
n est service policy within the state O
Idaho, according to a declaration mad,
by member of the land board.
S The hay and grain market at Bots
y shows decided advance, dealers be
u ing obliged to pay SIS for baled alfal
x ia and $40 to $12 in the stack Loos
u timothy is selling there at $16 per tol