Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-02-03
IDAHO STATE NEWS

IDCHS5 III thlShhSS'
A Boise valley railroad conductor
was fined $40 at Nampa last week Tor
having blocked the street with his
freight cars.
There are 100000 children N the
state. OF that number Canyon coun
~ has $500. as against 1900 in 1909.
a difference of lao in favor OF lslo
Three conventions were held In
Boise last week, the State Horucut
tural association, the county commits
sioners of the state and the assessors
of the state.
Secretary Ballinger has set apart
an additional 34,560 acres in town
ships s and north, range ] east,
Idaho, for entry under the S2Oacre
homestead law.
The demand for residences In Boise
is lust as strong as 1t was year ago.
and there is every reason to peileVe
that home building will advance over
the mark set in 1910.
Reliable estimates fix the total area
devoted to corn culture within ra'
dius of Culdesac at not less than D.
900 acres and the total output for the
last wear is Appropriated at 225,OOO
bushels.
Half a thousand delegates from hve
intermountain states will attend the
second annual convention of the In
ter Mountain Good Roads convention
to be held in Pocatello on June ~, 70
and "a, 1911.
Bitter opposition has broken out
among citizens of Bingham county
against the division of that county
along the line indicated in the Dill =
now in the senate committee or along
any other line.
The state tax levy for 1900 was
S245. 900, of which amount Ada coun-
ty paid little more than $4,000. Ada
county was valued at $4,92S,S2S, eA-
elusive of railroad, telegraph and tel
ephone property.
Patrick Lally, section boss at Gil
more. was badly injured by falling
from snow pillow while bucking
snow. The engineer saw him fall and
brought the train to stop. Lally was
dug out with shovels.
A Genessee dispatch says: Experi-
ments in crop rotation" among the
farmers in the surrounding agricul-
tural districts during the last three
years have proven so successful that
summer following is practically
thing of the past.
A special meeting of the Pomona
Grange is to be held at Star on Feb
ruary Z. The Boise Valley Pomona
Grange meets regularly each quarter,
but the recent activity in grange
circles has brought out an interest
| for special meeting.
| Mike Mclaughlin, for twenty-five
years resident of Pocatello, is dead
} from dropsy and asthma. He was
born seventy-two years ago in ire
: land, and came to America when q
t little boy. For over a score of years
:. he has resided in Pocatello.
That identification of the main
line of the Oregon Short Line Rail-
D road company, from Ogden to Poca-
: tello and west to Huntington, Ore, Ia
one of the probabilities of the imme-
: date future, is the belief of men who
+ are acquainted with the affairs of that
! company.
That the amount of advertising
Idaho has received through the hold
ing of the annual fairs in Boise is In
: = itself enough to justify an appropria-
ton of $1,000 from the state for the
I further carrying on Of the exhibition.
= is the position taken by the president
of the association.
The city health officer of Boise Ii
~ commencing a campaign for the bet
=. ter protection of foodstuffs exposed
!. for sale in stores and markets. Ht
in states that he will make an effort tt
a have all such foodstuffs displayed
only under covers which shall reduce
re- the danger of contamination.
ir V. C. Sherwood, a Twin Fall
w rancher, drives team whose harness
lie are ornamented with over 400 cellu
he loid rings AS the rings cost from q
ri. cents to SO cents each, Mr.. Sherwoot
es figures that they cost him over $500
tie but declares nothing is too good TO
er Twin Falls farmer.
IN. The most extensive corn grower
re- in Nez Perez country are Wrenn
Crozier, three miles east of Genesses
as They had 160 acres planted to Whit
a Dent last season, which produce
he forty-three bushels to the acre, an
Id. there are numberIess farmers VIII
en- raised from fifteen to thirty acres.
ar. The most disastrous flood in the hi
"a. tory of Pocatello swept down throug
a. the east portion of town on Thursda
So flooding all the business houses alon
North and South First avenue, fillir
tSo cellars and covering yards with debr
-ne in the residence district on the ca
$50 side.
Inn
IN Mike Teslich, who on August !
arv last, suffered the loss OF an eye as I'll
LOFT. result of an explosion while blastir
,is. rock thirty-five miles west of TN
nth Falls, for the Twin Falls-Salmon Ri
err Land and Water company, b;
sued that company for $4,000.
IN. Fred w. Jordan, former state sen
mn, tor from Lincoln county, will not hai
to serve three months in tha noun