Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-03-18
IDAHO STATE NEWS


Boise.
Fire, starting from defective
stovepipe, destroyed the home of WV
ian Thorpe, six miles from Idaho City,
the loss being estimated at $4,000,
with no insurance.
Coyote Bill" DuBeck was arrested
at Boise on the charge of bootleg
ging" whisky on Sunday, the further
charge being made that DuBeck made
his own whisky" from alcohol, d.
luted with water and colored.
A dispatch from Occur d'Alene
says: Professor H. H. Barton has
announced his candidacy for state SUI
perintendent of schools. Mr.. Barton
has been actively engaged in school
work in Idaho for fourteen years.
To show to what extent grain is
grown in Fremont county it is bu'
necessary to state that there are
over $50 steam threshing outfits in
the county and several combined har-
vesters and threshers and steam
plows.
Oats averaging 100 bushels to the
acre and testing So pounds per bush
ell have been grown in the st. An
thony country. While this yield is
above the average, still fields of rs
bushels to the acre are common and
but little above the general averages.
Ten years ago there was not
bank in Fremont county. Now there
are IL. three of which are located in
st. Anthony, all prosperous and doing
large and increasing business. The
combined deposits of the IL banks in
the county is between $1,500,000 and
100000.
The supreme court of the state has
denied petition for rehearing in the
case of Darby & Scotland VS. Mayor j.
t. Pence and members of the Boise
council, seeking to compel the is
suance of a liquor license, and which
involved the right of five Boise sa.
looms to continue in business.
Work on Fremont county's new
court house has been carried on all
winter, and despite tie difficulties
encountered from bad weather and
the unusual cold the work of plast-
ering is now being done and it is
hoped to have the building ready for
occupancy in the early summer
The Laymen's Missionary Move
ment convention at Boise began its
session with the largest attendance,
considering the population of the field,
that has yet greeted the workers. The
registration in the city was POO more
than the combined membership of the
churches. Thirty-seVen outside towns
were represented.
Vic Travis of HALEY has gone to
the King Hill irrigation section with
his carload of work horses. Mr.. Ira
Wis will take contracts for breaking
up sagebrush land for the new set
tiers on that tract. and with ten
horses can make ten acres of sage
brush land as smooth as, lawn in ten
hours work at $40 per acre.
Bear river continues to cause trou,
BILE to the Oregon Short Line near
Montpelier, between Pocatello and
Granger, and trains are being de.
toured via Ogden. This is causing
but little inconvenience to the trav-
cling public, however, except those
whose tickets read to local stations
between Granger and Pocatello.
The Orofno Electric company is
making arrangements for a big out
put of fruit boxes this season. The
company has 100000 feet of logs,
and has contracted for another 1,O0O,.
900 feet to be delivered later.
The Caldwell Milling G Elevator
company has decided to build in
Payette this year an elevator and
warehouse for grain and feed The
elevators will have a capacity for 49,.
600 bushels Of grain and the ware
house a capacity for 10000 bushels of
grain besides room for feed and hay.
The HALEY Commercial club is in
receipt of the first installment of the
lot of $4,000 book pamphlets advertis-
ing that section. These books are in
every sense of the word a work OF art,
and are highly valued by the club as
being the handsomest work ever got
ten out by any town in the state
Ten commercial travellers were
marooned at Cottonwood because of
the snow blockade that closed both
the railroad and county highways of
travel. The prairie country is covered
with snow to depth of three and
one-half feet and the railroad cuts
were filled to a depth of ten feet.
Joe Tracy, ferryman at the Home
dale-Fargo ferry across Snake river,
lost his life by being knocked off the
boat while crossing with a four-horse
team and two men. The accident was
caused by one of the steering ropes
breaking, which in turn gave the
crank on the drum such velocity that
1t knocked him into the river
The town of HALEY, for the first
time, is getting along with only one
resident minister, although it has four
churches. The neighboring town OF
Bellevue. FIVE miles below, is in the
same predicament. only more so, as II
has four pulpits and no minister.
R. T. Tustin as promoter and J.
George Arkoosh as part owner of the
Comet group of mines about three
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