Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-03-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS

$4,000 church in the near future.
The $4,000 bond issue for the pur-
pose of extending the water system of
Caldwell was carried by good ma
jority
Senator Borah has introduced in the
senate a resolution looking to the
amendment of the constitution so as
to permit woman suffrage.
The new bridge across Sand creek
about a mile north of Standpoint, has
been completed. 1t is SIS feet long.
and cost the county $4,723.
The farmers living between Cald-
we'll and Roswell are formulating a
campaign which they hope will bring
an electric road down the valley.
The Columbian club of Boise, one
of the powerful factors in the civic
life of the community for the past if
teen years, is to have building of it's
own.
During the month of January the
Malad creamery paid to the farmers
$1,000 for cream, which shows the
possibilities of the dairying industry
in that valley.
There are now $50 men waiting at
Miner to finish the work on the big
ditch. Twenty days work with the
concreting machines will complete
that part of the work
strong organization consisting of
twelve or fifteen of the most substan-
tial farmers residing in the vicinity
of Tendavis has been effected for the
purpose of putting in an alfalfa mill
at that point
The Mesa Orchard company of In
dian valley has started to haul the
lumber for It's seven mile flume. With
the completion of the fiume the big
canal will be ready to deliver water
to the orchards.
Fire, starting from defective chin.
ney in Priest River. swept away
dozen business blocks and threatened
to rae the town. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000. Help was sum.
moned from Newport, seven miles dis.
tant.
The Commercial club is considering
the desirability of a system of sewer
age for HALEY. The committee has
unqualifedly Endorsed the proposition
for sanitary and other reasons, and
suggested that bonds be issued for
that purpose.
DR.. Paul P. Taylor, who has been
testing cows for tuberculosis, has ex-
amined nearly 100 head in the Cald-
we'll neighborhood and has found but
one with the disease, and that one was
a blooded animal brought by her
owner from Iowa.
Preparations for the great Laymen's
Missionary convention to be held in
Boise March 10-11, were discussed by
the Presbyterian brotherhood at big
meeting held in Boise. Arrangements
were perfected for a large prelimi-
nary laymen's convention.
The continued cold weather and
snow is causing considerable anxiety
among the stockmen in the Emmett
locality Feed is getting very short
and the price is high. In few days
many will be out of feed. Many stock
men will meet with heavy losses this
spring.
Harry Reel, convicted at Boise of
the crime Of burglary with the use OF
explosives, has been sentenced to the
state penitentiary to serve an indie
terminate sentence of not less than
ten years. Fred Harris, one of his
alleged partners, was convicted at last
term of court.
The Boise Statesman says the
Pittsburg & Gilmore people have COM
ha
river. with Boise as the objective
point, and r4ght.of-way for eighty
four miles up the river to Challis and
Clayton has been purchased and con-
tract let for the grade.
It is stated that the Weyerhauser
Lumber company who were the pur-
chasers of the Pacific & Idaho North
ern railroad, running from Weiser to
Evergreen, seventy-six miles, will
build large sawmill plant in Weiser
this summer.
Placing a 32caliber revolver against
his head just above his right temple.
Lee Haskins, a switchman in the Ore
gon Short Line yards, at Pocatello,
blew his brains out. Haskins left no
farewell, and the motive for the act
is uneXplainable.
A Mullen man has invented a pro-
cess for the concentration OF seaweed
into liquid form SO as to place 1t on
the market at such price that it will
be in reach of farmers all over the.
country. 1t is claimed tlat the article
is a great fertilizer.
Oyster growing in Payette valley is.
the latest thing to be taken up which
may add to the industries OF the state.
A farmer in that section is construct
ing a reservoir for the purpose of
growing oysters on a large scale, says
the Twin Falls News.
Weiser will soon be dry town.
BY operation of the local option law,
the saloons close as their licenses ex-
pire. The one wholesale house in the
city closed February Is, its license