Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-08-26

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been appointed to the United States
naval academy at Annapolis by Sena
tor Borah, subject to examination.
All power sites on the Snake river
not previously filed upon are with,
drawn from entry by the department
of the interior by the confirmation OF
the power Withdrawals Nos. n and
lit.
Report reached Boise this week that
a surveying crew, presumably belong
ing to the Oregon Short Line, had
been running a line from Dixie to
Boise via Blacks creek.
A hotel and natatorium are to be
constructed near the hot wells at Ar
tesian City Building for the hos
| telry are to be erected at once, and
later on the same block the natator-
ium.
Nampa is to have a grand street
carnival beginning Monday, August 30,
and continuing the entire week. The
big event has been arranged under
the auspices of the chamber of com
merce.
While working on the house of his
son-in-law, A. H. Christianson, at
Kuna, on Tuesday afternoon, Charles
Lilliquist fell from the roof, sustain.
ing injuries which resulted in his
| death.
| The Northern Idaho Press club,
with memberships from the six north.
ern counties, Latah, Nez Perez, Idaho,
Shoshone, Kootenai and Bonner, was
orpanized at a meeting held for the
purpose at Moscow.
The city council has ordered signs
announcing speed limit eight miles
per hour" nailed up at the four boun,
daries of Boise? Any scorchers VIC
lating this ordinance will be arrested
and fined the limit.
| The outlook in Emmett and that
part Of the Payette valley for a bic
| fruit crop this year is very promising
Those who have confined their efforts
to the fruit industry are very much
gratified with the prospect.
John Holm, an old pioneer prospect
or of HALEY, was buried by cavern
at the War Dance group Of mines
main dump for the purpose of sorting
out the zinc ore and was working by
himself.
| Busy times In the fruit industry in
this vicinity are predicted by every
horticulturist OF Nampa and the sur.
rounding country and early in tho
season there will be a campaign OF
prune and apple picking such as has
never been seen here before.
Eight-year-old an Stephens, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Stephens, residing
two miles south of Filler, was crushed
fatally last Saturday when five hun
dred pounds of hay fell upon him.
While in the garden last Saturday
the S-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. M.
j. Macaw of Twin Falls swallowed
number of peas and in some manner
got some of the peas into its lung pas
sages, causing 1t to choke to death be-
fore help could be obtained.
The newspaper field of Idaho Falls
and Bingham county will be invaded
| by a new publication, a Democratic
newspaper, to be called the Weekly
Tribune. The new paper will be ed
tied by Arthur A. Allen.
L. H. Tyrrell was fatally crushed
under the wheels of his own thresh.
ing engine, ten miles southwest Of
Moscow. Idaho, last Saturday.
Ralph Vale, living near Snake river,
caught a sturgeon weighing 400
pounds. 1t was 10 feet, inches in
length and weighed when dressed 200
pounds. The fish was brought to the
Independent meat market and dis.
posed of. The purchasers got $40
worth of oil out of the head.
All peach buds were not lily affect.
ed by the cold weather last winter on
the Twin Falls tract, and the 1910
yield of this luscious fruit, in spots
which escaped the severe frost, is
/ bountiful beyond the contemplation OF
the most optimistic horticultural en-.
| thusiast.
State Federation OF Labor, the state
board of prison commissioners pre-.
sented a communication setting forth
the position of the board on the EN-.
ployment of convict labor. It was to
the effect that 1t will be employed in
road building and not in competition
with free labor.
The Baptists of Idaho are planning
a statewide rally and convention to
be held in Boise. September 1923.
This will be the annual state conven'
ton of that denomination, and in ad.
dition the Baptist Young Peoples
union state convention, a rally for
the women and the laymen in the
John Doyle, the miner found dead In
the cavern of his mine, was buried
/ close to his claim near Salmon City.
Owing to the state of the body when
found and to the fact that there are
no wagon roads in that neighborhood,
this course was rendered necessary.