Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-05-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

will cost $4,000, is now Wen unuei
construction.
Fifteen carloads of lumber are on
the way to Hammett, q new town on
the Medbury irrigation project.
An unknown Italian laborer was
drowned in the Salmon river at the
head of the Salmon River Land Il IT.
rigation company's canal.
The knights of Pythias convention
and the musical festival will be held
in Blackfoot June 1917 for which
great preparations are now being
made.
The Salmon river has risen to the
highest point known in years, and IS
out Of it's banks in many places.
Damage to the low bench lands 10
feared.
In the Salmon river district scores
of cattle are going mad on the ranges
but whether from rabies or from
some other disease has not been de-
termined.
A maddened range COW attacked
and gored to death a valuable span
of horses near White Bird and when
eorralled battered her brains out on
the rails of the pen.
At least 100 automobiles are owned
| in Twin Falls and within a radius OF
three or four miles from the city
Dealers In this line report their in
ability to get machines to fill their
orders.
| Bingham county has just closed its
last saloon and now some petitions
are being circulated asking that the
city council provide an ordinance en-
abling the officers to abolish the slot
machines.
The gophers are playing havoc with
the irrigation projects at Mountain
Home, causing much trouble by reason
of their burrowing. An effort is being
made to exterminate them by means
Of poison
Bonds to the amount Of $4,000 have
been voted for the erection of a new
school building at Hagerman. The
structure as planned will be of brick.
two stories in height and contain
eight rooms.
Nearly $500 in cash was raised in
two days for the completion of the
west side road from Mountain HomG
through Bruneau to the new town OF
Rowland in the Gold Basin district
and on to Jarbidge.
Herman Newman was drowned In
the Clearwater river at Newman's
ferry while catching driftwood. 1t is
believed he slipped from the ferry
while grabbing a tie which was float,
ing by and lost his balance.
Experts on the science OF alfalfa
propagation declare the season is
three weeks ahead of last year, and
the first cutting of Twin Falls hay
this season will be superior to any
heretofore grown In that part of the
state.
Expension of the alfalfa feds In
Twin Fall county this year is esti
mated by the seed dealers to approx
mate $4,000 acres, there having been
imported altogether 1914 carloads OF
seed since beginning of the planting
period of 1910.
BY recent ruling of the supreme
court, now in session at Moscow, tho
old timber fraud indictments against
kettenbach ct all has been dismissed
This action leaves but the cases where.
In special indictments were returned
last fall for trial
The town of McCollum, being laid
out In Fremont county just north of
the Bingham county line and thirty
miles west Of Idaho Falls, promises
to be one of the best of the new
towns which have been laid out with.
in the past decade.
The Burbank cactus, of which SO
much was expected, has proven fail
nre IN Idaho. The Gurran brothers
have given 1t thorough test on their
ranch at Hagerman. One hundred
were set out and cultivated but the
sheep and other stock did not like
them.
As the first step In plan to devote
more time to enlaaging and improY-
Ing their blooded stock interests, the
. Butterfield Live Stock company of
Weiser has decided to decrease their
. holdings of range sheep, and after
bands.
In many respects the most important
Carey act project planned in Idaho.
has within the last few days been
brought to filing in United States
land office. It is known as the Boise
!. City project and consists of 10000
acres situated on the second bench
south of Boise.
Farmers of the Twin Falls country
are going into hay production more
heavily than ever before They have
paid out over $4,000 tbs season for
seed, and $4,000 acres are already
; planted. In many parts Of the tract
, the crop Is more than knee high and
!, OF excellent quality.
!. Tim Brown of Lorenzo was found
dead on the road between Roberts
and Mud Lake. The man had been
:. frightfully beaten with an axe, the
: head being almost severed from the