Montpelier examiner., 1911-10-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS


The geological survey reports the
state of Idaho production of lead,
gold, silver, copper and zinc increas.
ed 100000 this year.
Three saloons in Boise were put out
OF business last week. when the city
council refused to allow their appli-
cations for renewals or licenses.
Standpoint was raided by the pure
food inspector last week, a slaughter
house and two meat markets being
production fell off 22.OOO,OOO pounds.
While on his way back to Portland
after business trip to Cheyenne, l..
G. Morrison dropped dead on a train
to consumption.
G. P. Jenson of Nampa has been ap
pointed by the governor to go as a
delegate from Idaho to the Interna-
tional Dairy exposition at Milwaukee
the latter part of October
William Montgomery, formerly an
employe of Keith G. Curran, contract
ors, was found dead in bed in a lodg-
ing house in Mountain Home Death
was due to acute alcoholism.
Indian Valley, the liveliest little in
land town in the upper country,
closed its most successful fair last
week. The fair lasted three days and
large crowds we're in attendance all
the time.
Jud Moore, an old pioneer Of Ada
county, and well known in Boise, was
painfully injured when one Of the
poles of hay derrick at the Davis
ranch, mile west of the city, fell on
him and the horse he was riding.
r. N Lyons, charged with high.
grading at Quartzburg, was captured
in Boise with the ore in his posses.
sion. Lyons threw the ore in an al
ley but it has been recovered and
will be used as evidence against him.
Boise a saloonless capital city and
Idaho the first prohibition state west
OF the Rockies" might be said to be
the slogan of the visitors in attend
ance upon the annual state conven-
tion of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union held in Boise last
week
Caught in the act of shoplifting,
and with the stolen goods in her pos
session, a prominent Boise society
woman was taken in charge by a city
detective, but the proprietor of the
store from which the goods were
taken declined to prosecute, accord.
ing to the Statesman
twenty-five shopmen at Montpelier
went out when the strike order was
issued last week. The shops at this
point are the second largest on the
system in Idaho. but the working
force has been largely curtailed dur.
ing the past summer, owing to slack
business on the road.
The grand jury at Wallace is said
to have returned eighteen different
indictments after probing into the af.
fairs of the defunct State Bank OF
Commerce. The deposits of the bank
at the time of the crash totalled an.
proximately $450.O00. OF this amount
Is per cent has been repaid.
Baton Daniels, the 3-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Daniels, was
burned to death in fire that de.
stroyed the Daniels home at Noun
tain Home. The child set its clothing
on fire while playing with matches,
and younger brother came near per.
ishing In an attempt to save him.
For number of years a great de.
poslt of gypsum has been known to
exist up Montpelier canyon, four
miles from the town of MONTPELIER.
but no effort has been made to de.
velop 1t on commercial scale until
last week, when a company with
100000 capital stock was formed.
Three more portraits of former
governors have been added to the
collection of photos in the gallery of
ex-chief executives in the state his.
torieal department. This latest add.
ton includes excellent photos of for.
mer Governors William H. Bum,
John B. Neal and John T, Morrison,
Settlers on Carey act projects pro.
pose to portect themselves. They
have organized what is to be known
as the Farmers Carey Act associa.
tion, with w. T. Stafford of Gooding.
president, and Charles Alexander of
Jerome, secretary.
eAdCLinR rules
and requirements have been laid
down by the examining board of EN-.
balmers this year than ever before.
The Board which meets in Boise DC.
tober 10, IL and II, will have at least
IL applications before it.
Charles Rowley, aged II, lies on
a cot in a Boise hospital with
broken back. He sacrificed his fu.
ture, possibly his life. to help com.
rade whose fingers were being
ground off in a machine at a gravel
pit. 1t is doubtful if young Rowley
will live.
Three men were killed and eight
injured on the Milwaukee logging
railroad twelve miles from Herrick.
when the brake on the locomotive
allied and the train ran wild through
he derailing switch. All the dead and
injured were foreigners.
A Pocatello bootlegger who had
been arrested and taken before the
'ity court for hearing, established
unique way of destroying the evil