Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-01-28
IDAHO STATE NEW S

Mora, station on Jne Snort ldhe' II
miles east of Nampa.
The saloons of Caldwell had clos
ing out" sales last week, disposing of
their stocks prior to permanent clos
ing.
The Sunnysfde Orchard company of
Weiser will plant 200 acres to apples
in the spring, using mostly Jonathans.
Rome Beauty and Winesaps.
A telephone line from the electric
power dam on Salmon river to the
Sunbeam mines on Jordan creek is
now completed and in operation.
More than 500 rabbits We're killed
in a big drive by eighty men and boys
in the Deerflat country, three miles
south of Nampa, inside of three hours
There has been over $4,000 instru-
ments filed in the clerks office In
Canyon county since 1903. During the
past year there has been 5000 instru-
ments filed
The power plant, the power site
and the business of the Idaho Power
& Transportation company of Idaho
Falls has been sold to the Byllesby
company of Chicago.
The Automatic Cattle Guard com
pany has received the shipment of ma
chinery from Chicago and is now at
work installing the same in its fac
tory near the Great Northern at Sand
point.
The total assessment of all rail
roads in Idaho is $21 $50 261.30. The
railways constitute about % per cent
of the assessable property of the
state The Oregon Short Line heads
the list with s12S5S.
Mrs. w. S. Finley of Mackay had
narrow escape when fumes from
gasoline caught fire while she was en-
gagged in cleaning a dress. She was
painfully. but not seriously burned
about the face and hands.
Enraged when disciplined for insub-
ordination, "Tuscarora Bill" Heaton,
an inmate of the Ada county poor
| farm. stabbed Superintendent Evans
in the right arm, severing an artery.
Evans having a close call from death.
The police of Boise are hunting high
and low for Wong Cow. alleged leader
of the Louie tong Chinese, who muir
derously assaulted Fong Shue, local
and wealthy Chinese merchant, now
lying in danger of death at the hos
pital
Four hundred thousand eastern
brook trout eggs have been shipped to-
Standpoint for the fish hatchery there.
from St Roundsburg, Pa When the
eggs are hatvhed. they will be dis
tributed among the northern counties
of Idaho
The state treasurer last week re-
ceived payments of state taxes by
counties as follows: Idaho. $23,-
1924; Bear Lake, $16,222 54: Ere
mont, 201o7 Is. Cassia county is
the only county in the state which
had made payment in full.
John Thornly, a McCammon boy,
while out hunting near that place. ac-
cidentally shot himself with shotgun
and is in a serious condition In at
tempting to Jump a ditch. he dropped
his gun. which was discharged one OF
the loads entering his right hip.
Except for a crew for maintenance
and repairs, the sugar factory at Ida
no Falls has closed. The factory has
cut this season some $1,000 tons Of
beets. some 5000 or 5000 tons of
which We're for other factories. The
price paid per ton this year was $3.50.
Joe Rogers, a we'll known miner of
Con, has been found frozen 10 death
close to the Maxwell cabin in the Mar.
shall Lake district. MIR. Rogers went
in the first of the year to work on
several claims he owned there, and
his death was the result of exposure
The Mountain Home Commercial
Jordan school district came UP to
club is to be rehabiiitated. At a meet
Ing 1t was learned that the club was
In debt to the extent of 5000, but that
the amount due from delinquents was
more than sufficient to wipe out this
deficit.
That the city of Boise will be the
base of operations for all the work
connected with the construction oil
the Boise-Butte railroad, is the author
tive statement made by E. Fl. Nc
Auley, member of the city council
, and one of the incorporators of the
. company
The Idaho State Odd Fellows home
has been definitely located at Cald
, we'll on an eighteen-asre site which
is to be handicapped next year. In
+ auguration of construction of the
building will not be undertaken unit
after the next meeting of the CRANE
/ lodge in October, 1910
AT banquet given by the Roya
Neighbors lodge at Payette after tn,
installation of officers, rs of the ladie,
who partook of 1t were seriously poi
> soned. 1t is believed the poison wa,
, croton oil. A rigid investigation will
be made.
The county commissioners have is
sued an order which will probabl,
Danish dance halls from Wallace ant
. Burke forever. This action came a
= a surprise to the proprietors of resnrt