Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-03-10
IDAHO STATE NEWS

point daily.
Jack White, the colUred porter who
stabbed William Taylor, also colored,
in a barber shop fight in Weiser. was
acquitted by jury in the district
court.
A movement is on foot to establish
an alfalfa mill at Rupert, which Will
assist in absorbing the immense crop
of alfalfa that is grown around that
section.
A series of motorcycle races from
Boise to Caldwell and return Is being
planned by the Boise motorcycle club.
The club plans to hold the races on
Memorial day.
The senate bill for the sale Of burnt
timber on public lands. on motion Of
Representative Hamer Of Idaho, was
passed by the national house of rep
resentatives on Wednesday.
Rev. ]. A. Shaw, pastor of the Bap
list church at Weiser, has resigned.
He will remove his family to North
Yakima, Wash, where he will serve
as pastor at large for the entire Yak
ina valley section.
B. B. Corliss, of Boise, a creamery
man of many years experience, mas
Just received notice from the United
States patent office that his patent
for condensing milk and other pro
ducts has been allowed and patents
ordered issued.
u. s. G. Evans, former cashier OF
the Farmers Trust bank of Kendrick
charged by the bank officials with
embezzling $4,000 of the banks
funds, has been bound over to the
district court, having waived prelimi
nary examination.
Peter Stanley, Spanish gypsy liv
ing in South Boise, ran amuck and
after chasing his wife from their tent
with a gun. attempted suicide, taking
a weak solution Of carbolic acid,
which failed to cause death. Stanley
was landed in jail.
A new creamery has just been
erected at Rupert, and is now in full
operation. 1t cost completed, $4,000
This is an industry that this country
is peculiarly adapted for and 1t prom
ises to grow into one of the principal
industries on the tract.
The spring term of court will con-
an unusually lengthy calendar will be
taken up. There are 81 criminal
cases and about As civil cases ON the
list. Most of the criminal cases are
for violation of the local option law.
To forestall all possibility of rabies,
jected when he was bitten by dog
believed mad, five miles south of
Idaho City Monday, Harry Mead,
aged Is, son of H. l.. Mead, miner,
has been sent to the Pasteur institute
at Chicago.
Senator Hepburn Of Idaho on Wed.
nesday made futile attempt in the
senate to reduce the annual expendi.
ture for the maintenance Of national
forest reserves from more than Eve
million dollars to one million dollars,
by introducing an amendment to the
agricultural bill.
Idaho will get square deal in
the matter of her public lands" This
In brief is the message President
William H. Taft sends to the Gem
State through Senator Kerns, one Of
the committee sent by the legislature
to Washington to plead for justice
from the federal government.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the lower court in award
ing ChIrles Nav $12,5OO damages
against the Coast Lumber company,
for injuries which resulted in Nav
losing his eyesight This Is the heav-
lest award for damages for personal
injury ever made in the state.
If plans which are now under way
materialize, the various fire fighting
organizations of this state will meet
In Boise within the next six or eight
weeks in conjunction with the state
land board, to outline plans for pre-
venting forest fires in the state in
future.
The sundry civil bill carries the fol-
lowing Idaho items: For the pur.
chase of sites and commencement of
work on public buildings: Occur
d'Alene, $4,000; Idaho Falls, $20, 900;
Moscow, $4,000: Twin Falls, site.
$4,000; Lewiston, completing build
ing, $4,000.
Engineers have completed measure
ments of the Crane creek "run-off"
which furnish conclusive evidence of
the abundance of water in the stream
for all lands possible to be irrigated
from that source. Crane creek emp
ties into the Weiser river about 70
miles east of Weiser.
Two sets of stereograph views have
been purchased for use in the public
schools of Payette. Each set con-
tain 20 dozen views of industries and
products of various countries. A set
Illustrating Egypt and set illustrat-
ing the industrial development of ia
pan were also purchased.
Three Payette school boys who
started for Alaska with a 22-calibre
rifle, a revolver and a butcher knife.
with the intention OF engaging in the
fur trade, have returned to the mar
entail roof after two days and nights
III the open.
Jack White, who stabbed VIM. Tay.
Tor, another colOrad mon 4. - a.