Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-05-06
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The Payette Driving Club & Fair
association has been planning to hoi0
big district fair on it's grounds near
Payette next fall.
At the state land sale held at Noun
tain Home on April rs, $4,000 worth
of land was sold, the average price
being $21 an acre.
Telephone connections are now com
pleted between Ontario and Fruitland
by the Independent Long Distance
Telephone company.
A crew of Oregon Short Line engi-
neers have completed the work OF
making surveys and plats for round
house and repair shops In the west
part of Burnley.
Ninety thousand acres of land In
Blaine, Bingham and Fremont coun-
ties will be irrigated by the Big Lost
river project, which is to open up Its.
lands on May l.
The entire lumber yard of the Hum
bird Lumber company at Standpoint.
the biggest plant in Idaho, has been
destroyed by fire. The damage Is es-
| timated at $1b0s0UO.
Three Greeks are lying in a Boise
hospital badly damaged as the result
Of an explosion OF dynamite at Rock
Vile, on Succor creek, about fifteen
miles southeast of Caldwell.
The members of the Southern Idaho
Press club are to hold their spring
meeting at Bellevue soon, and the
HALEY Commercial club has decided.
20 aid in entertaining the visitors.
The news comes from Pocatello'
that Judge Alfred Bulge, of the Fifth.
judicial district, has purchased a
home in Pocatello and will shortly
move his family there from Paris.
The grading on the Burley-Oakley
branch of the Oregon Short Line has
been completed, and the work Of lay
ing rails is progressing as rapidly as,
the manufacturers can supply the
steel.
Within the next sixty days the Pay
cite Heights Irrigation company ex-
poets to have the pumping plant in.
stalled and the ditch completed that
Is to supply water to reclaim between.
5000 and 1000 acres of fine land.
M. !. Lynch, register of the state
land board, has rendered his resigna-
ton to Governor James III. Brady, an
nouncing his intention to engage in
the practice of law, making spe.
cialty of Carey act matters and irri.
cation.
HALEY has a strong man who is to-
become a rival of Frank Gotch, the
worlds champion wrestler. His name
Is Saleen Arkoosch; he is a native of
Turkey, and he is to have his first
real try-out on the mat at Bellevue
in few days.
Tweedy, at Lewiston, promises to be-
come a fight between the advocates
OF an open town and the law enforce
ment element, with the churches Of
that city lined up on the side of the
mayor
The county commissioners of FIRE.
omnt county have let a contract for
the building of bridge across the
river at Lorenzo. The bridge will
set on tubular piers thirty-four feet In
length and will consist of two spans.
one being 1856 feet, and the other $50.
The American Wopan's league Is.
planning to organize chapter at
Moscow and is starting out to secure
a membership of 100, which win en-.
title them to one OF the beautiful class.
chapter houses to be built and COM
pletely furnished by the league free OF
charge.
The North Side Twin Falls canal
system Is now completed. The first.
two miles of this ditch runs through
solid lava rock, and Ia lined, sides and
bottom, with cement It is the finest
ditch In the west and the permanent
character of the construction work
adds to It's value.
Work on the sewer at Payette is
progressing nicely, although the CON.
tractor Is handicapped by being I'M
able to secure as many men as he.
would like. Laborers are very scarce,
and ditch bosses are having difficulty
n getting enough men and teams to.
clean out the canals.
District court opened at HALEY on
April q. with calendar that will
not disclose any very sensational
news, and with only six criminal cases.
and forty-four civil suits. OF these.
criminal cases one Is for murder. that
of Onofre Aldereti, who had trouble
over in the Lost River section.
The Oregon Short Line has definite.
ly approved of a new line to extend
from Saline, on the main line of the.
Southern Pacific system, to Burley, a
distance of ITS miles, which, when
constructed, will shorten the line he
tween Sat Lake and Portland and
other Oregon points fully seyenty.fye
miles.
Because some of the contractors en-.
gagged in the public work at Twin
Falls are said to be working their men
over eight hours, the various labor.
Unions passed resolutions condemn
Ing such practice and appointed q COM
mittee to take charge of the matters