Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-04-22
IDAHO STATE NEW S.

with steel TuTnltuT6.
In a short time the new fire alarm
system installed by the Signalphone
company at Standpoint will have been,
completed, at a cost of $4,000.
The government dredge, now work
ing southeast OF Rupert, has demon
strated that system OF making dram
bitches to be a complete success.
The town of Priest River is look
ing forward to siege of prosperity,
due to the contemplated building OF
several lumber mills at that point.
According to advices received from
McCammon, old potatoes are selling at
that point and throughout the state OF
Idaho for so cents per hundred pounds.
BY a great majority, the taxpayers
of Idaho Falls are in favor of bond
ling the city for $500 to be spent In
building new waterworks and power
station.
Dee Brackenbury, suspected of the
murder of Warren Richardson, a,
rancher of Almo, Ida, who was shot
on the night of March rs last, has
been arrested at Kelton, Utah.
W. F. Harris, who lived north OF
Caldwell, was placed in jail on the
charge of attempting to murder an en-
tire family-his wife's father and mo-
Their and her brothers and sisters.
Ten thousand dollars has been sub
scribed toward the expense of carry
| ing on the work of the law and order
enforcement league in the state to sup
press illegal liquor traffic in dry
districts.
With 525 pharmacists registered and
authorized to engage in practice in
the state of Idaho, a class of 81 last
week sought admission before the
board of pharmacy, 16 by examination
and III by diploma or certificates from
other states.
Work on dry farming land near
Rexburg is beginning in good shape
Several large engines are up on the
bench at work on the land and every
body is putting his land in condition
for large crops.
Two dozen Chinese pheasants have
been turned in the underbrush near
Grangeville by the Grangeville Gun
club. The plan of the club is to stock
up that part Of the country SO that the
birds may become plentiful.
The Northwestern Engineering com
pany of Emmett secured the contract
for the building of the Payette valley
extension from New Plymouth to En-
NETT, distance OF IS miles. Work will
begin with the next Two weeks
The second local option petition to-
be circulated in Bonner county has
been filed with the county audi
tor. This one contains no less than
1900 names of residents of the county,
about 55 per cent of the voters of the
entire county.
Lewiston is to have a big factory
for the manufacture of Quaker Oats,
the famous cereal breakfast food. The
plant is expected to have a capacity
of ESQ barrels per day, and the COM
pany's investment will aggregate
about 100000.
L. A. Ruel, recent conner from the
east, is building a new ice plant and
cold storage in Nampa. He has re.
ceiyed carload of equipment for the
new enterprise, and work is being
rushed on the new enterprise that is
to cost about $4,000.
Mrs. Irene Wilson, employed in a
Nampa restaurant as waitress, was
seriously burned by the explosion of 6
gas heater for the coffee tank. She
attempted to light the gas and it ex-
ploded, the flames burning her about
, the face, neck and hands.
There are now 900 men besides
teams, steam shovels and other con
struction devices engaged on the dam
of the Magic reservoir, located in a
canyon of the Big Wood river, to rush
1t to completion. When completed
, this dam will impound 100000 acre
i feet of water
Russell Newman is believed to be
:, the oldest man in Washington county.
and possibly in the state. On the 10th
of March, 1910, he reached the hun
dred mark, and when last heard from
was In good health and as active as
he has been in years. His wife, Sarah
Newman, is 81 years old
Prospects are bright for bumper
fruit crop In the Payette valley The
fruit trees are said to be loaded with
buds, and in an exceptionally healthy
I condition and the season is opening
with much pomise.
:. Frank H. KeWalk, soldier. was
;. stabbed by Tong Chung. a chinaman,
during quarrel in Boise. Chung
used an eight-inch dagger, and would
:. probably have killed KoWaIk had not
the knife struck RIB.
Q A first prize of $500 and second
d prize of $225 offered by railroad off
h Gals for best acre of potatoes raised
# anywhere in the territory of Idaho rail
s roads, should make the farmers of the
: state eager to compete for the prize.
r Mayor Tweedy of Lewiston has re
d quested the resignation of Chief al
n Police Masters, and the latter has re
$ fused to comply with the request
d precipitating the long predicted wal
s between the mayor and The head hi
the police department. j
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