Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-04-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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1t is reported that the city council
of Occur d'Alene City has determined
to expend about $4,000 for the pur
chase of an auto fire engine.
Work is now progressing prepare
tory to paving the streets throughout
the business section of Caldwell
Twenty-six blocks will be paved this
spring.
At recent meeting of the Sand
point Commercial club, 1t was suggest.
ed that the name of the town be
changed to Grand Point. The question
is being seriously considered.
The spring of 1910 will be an epoch
maker in the fruit industry in the
vicinity of Parma. From $500 to 5000
acres will be planted within radius
of five or six miles of Parma.
The senate bill extending to Idaho
the provisions of the Mondell bill,
making 800 acres open to homestead
settlement, has been adopted by the
house committee on public lands.
The building of the Oregon Short
Line from Bull, its present terminus,
to connection with the main line at
Nyssa. Ore, now seems practically
assured within the next few months.
The seven-year-old daughter of Bert
Sans was drowned in a mill pond at
Emmett. The family live near the
place and 1t is thought that the little
one was playing near the edge of the
pond and slipped in.
What is believed to be a strong
movement for better roads in Bannock
county was launched recently when
the Bannock County Good Roads asso-
citation was formed in the Commercial
club rooms at Pocatello.
The Commercial club of Weiser has
raised over $4,000 for the fine new
hotel it proposes to build and is now
looking for hotel man of experience
and capital who will head the organi-
zation of the hotel company
The contract for the erection of the
Downey State bank has been let and
the work of excavating has already
commenced. The building will be
completed in ninety days. The bank
is incorporated with a capital of $685.
900.
A new sewer system is being in
stalled at Caldwell, embracing II
miles, covering practically the entire
townsite. Work on this has been pro-
crossing for some time, and the work
is over 60 per cent completed at
present
The Humbird Lumber company of
Standpoint will build line starting
from near Old Kootenat on the North
ern Pacific tracks and extending from
five to six miles in northern direc-
ton, to tap some valuable timber land
near North Spur.
A sale of 5000 acres of state land
under the Medbury project will be
held at Mountain Home in April, the
date to be determined later. Commits
sioner Day has compiled list of
tracts to be offered. appraisements
ranging from $40 to $50.
D. M Stokesberry, city clerk and
police judge of Emmett, was run
down by frightened team, the wheels
of the wagon passing over him. He
was badly bruised about the head and
face, had two ribs broken and APP
parently internal injuries.
Governor Spry of Utah has given
James H. Wallis, state dairy and food
commissioner, the assurance of his
hearty approval of the aims and pur-
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dairy commissioners to be held in
Boise, commencing April II.
The mystery of the many petty
thefts in Boise, which have been such
source of annoyance to the police,
has at last been cleared up, and it has
been learned that they have been
done by an organized gang of three
young boys, who are not yet Is years
old.
The articles of incorporation of the
Salt Lake & Idaho Railroad company,
subsidiary concern of the Oregon
secretary of state. This Is a cutoff
from Saline, Utah, to Burnley, forming
the final link of a direct route from
Twin Falls to Salt Lake City.
]. P Dunn, former county commits
sioner of Bonner county, and a
rancher of Moravia, will plant 10
acres of land to cabbage, which he
will manufacture into sauer kraut. He
expects to make about 500 barrels OF
kraut and has already contracted for
100 barrels to Spokane merchants.
A man hunt is the result of the at
tempted murder at Twin Falls, Ida.
recently, of John May, bricl
mason, by Charles NJ. Phelps, for
mer life convict of the Utah peniten
tiary, and an ex-convict of the Idaho
penitentiary. Authorities in half d
dozen states are watching for Phelps
Representatives of the Quaker Oats
company of Chicago have recent,
been In Pocatello comforting with the
Pocatello Commercial club and Other
representative citizens relative to es
tablishing a Quaker Oats factory In
that city.
Suffering from a temporary delu