Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-06-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Wallace Is to have $4,000 freight
depot, to be erected by the Northern
Pacific railway company.
Mary L. Snyder has been appointed
postmaster at Ustick, Ada county, sue
ceeding e. e. Everett. resigned.
Betting on results of the games has
been prohibited by the authorities Of
the Idaho Falls baseball club on its
grounds.
Idahos first Chautauqua will be-
held in Boise July to IL, under the
auspices OF the Idaho State Chautau-
qua association.
Dead Ok fiat, near Payette, is to be
watered by water which will be pump
| ed from Snake river to height Of
forty-two feet. The area comprises
10000 acres.
The municipal authorities of Wal
lace have decided to postpone paving
the business section of that city for
another year, in Difference to wishes
of property owners
The Idaho supreme court has held
Invalid the recently-enacted law that
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counties to bond themselves in aid of
railroad construction.
Sixteen women of Middleton have
begun work to secure for Middleton
a $2500 public library and rest room,
under the same conditions that those
for Payette and Caldwell are to be
erected.
The acreage planted to wheat in the
dry farming district tributary to
American Falls this season is the
largest in the history of this indus.
try. with crop prospects never more
promising
An electric city and interurban
street railway line is being projected
at Twin Falls, work on which will
begin before fall In addition to a
city service, the line will extend to
the Shoshone falls.
| James Owens, the 19-year-old STEP
son of James Donnely of Bonners
Ferry is thought to have been
drowned in Cow creek, tributary OF
the Kootenai river No trace of the
body has been found.
Stella o. George, handsome young
girl. daughter of E. D. George, station
agent of the Oregon Short Line rail-
way of Preston, has mysteriously dis
appeared, and her parents fear she
has met with foul play.
Miss s. Belle Chamberlain, state
superintendent of public instruction.
has issued leaflets urging the teach
ers of the state to be present at the
National Educational association gath
ering which is to be held in Boston
Few towns in the state have expert
snced more substantial and permanent
growth in the last year than has Sho-
shone. New business houses and resi-
dences have sprung up on all sides,
and vacant house or room Is I'M
known.
Until few years ago government
land was to be had within a few miles
of American Falls, but this time has
passed and but very little vacant land
is to be found within a distance OF
Is to 20 miles; then only in scattered.
places.
The county commissioners of Bon,
ner county have acted favorably upon
a petition asking for the construction
of a road from the south approach of
the Pend d'Oreille county bridge to
Peterson's spur, a distance of about
miles.
Bonner county has just completed
a wagon road from Priest Lake to-
Coolin at cost Of $4,000 and it is an
ttcipated that the government will
shorty expend $4,000 to deepen the
waterway between the two parts of
Priest lake.
The state officers of the Idaho
Christian Endeavor union are making
plans which when perfected will re-
suit in the eighteenth annual conven-
ton OF the society, which meets this
year at Weiser June 24-26, the best
ever held in the state.
Actual work on the extension OF the
Pacific & Idaho Northern from Ever
green, its present terminus, was be
gun on June 8, when a crew of four
teen men, under Engineer French
took the field to locate and cross sec
ton the rou.e to Meadows, sixteen
miles.
7. Chenowerth, one of the oldest
residents of the Middleton valley
made mistake which came near
costing his life when he mistook the
carbolic acid bottle for another bottle
of medicine from which he was &C
customed to take regular doses. He
is now out of danger.
People of Twin Falls and Lincoln
counties will JOIN in flag raising.
celebration at ShoShone Falls, June
II. The celebration is for the pur4
pose of giving many settlers the OBJ
portunity to see these wonderful falls
and thus arouse interest in HAVING
better roads built to 1t.
Harry B. Kay, aged "a, whose home
Is in St Joe. Mo-, but who until re-
Gently was cashier of bank in PasaD
dena, Cal, committed suicide by
shooting himself in a hotel at Poca.
tello on June 8. He was en- route