Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-01-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

tenth annual meeting In Caldwell last
week.
Arrangements have been completed
by the Knights of Columbus of Boise
for the presentation of their annual
play, which will be given this year on
February /.
Sixty dwellings have been built At
Idaho Falls during the past year at
cost of from $500 to $4,000, an av-
erage of about $500 each, making
$4,000 in that line.
Work on more than 200 miles of ex
tensions and cut-offs in the state Of
Idaho to cost approximately $4,000,
BOO will be begun by the Oregon Short
Line as soon as the weather will per
nit
The Gem Irrigation district has con
tracted for a pumping plant to pump
water for irrigating 2s,500 acres south
of the Snake river. The land is all
in Owyhee county. The contract price
/ Is $864,00
The Idaho Society of Engineers will
hold it's annual meeting in Twin Falls
on February 16, II and IS, during
which time it is expected that the
majority of the 1875 members of the
association will be present.
Owing to the open winter, the WORK
of grading on the Ashton to briggs
line of railway, a distance of thirty
eight miles, is now practically com
pleted and this line will be in opera
| II Nfv
Pete Murphy, one of Inc four men
arrested at Ogden In connection with
the robbery of the Overland Limited
train, Janaury 2, was a resident of Je
rome up to December 81, when he left
saying that he was going 10 Butte
Mont.
Following drunken quarrel while
coyote hunting in the hills near Coke
vile, John D. Rice shot and killed his
companion, Richard r. Hunt. After tht
shooting Rice walked to Cokevillt
and surrendered himself to the au
thorities.
Patrols may be established in coun
ties of the northern part of the STATE
for the purpose OF being subject t,
call in the event of forest fires, l
proposed plans which are looked UP
on favorably by many of the rancher
of the districts go through.
The Oregon Short Line will doubl
track its line from Pocatello to Bliss
which will give it double track fror
McCammon to Bliss. The Montpelier
Paris branch line, distance of twelv
miles, will be completed and in opera
ton within few months.
. 1t is generally believed that the ed
ucational institutions of Idaho will b
provided for in appropriations by tn
} present legislature sufficient to affor
. them opportunity to pursue the eve
tenor of their way without having t
come before each legislature in tn
future.
The Snake river irrigation compan
has built a water motor plant on tn
west side of the Snake river one mil
from the town of Payette, which,
is believed, is going to revolutioniz
the methods of furnishing water fC
irrigation purposes at least along tn
, Snake river.
} The past year has been a bannt
year for the Bull Commercial clu
Handsome clubrooms have been fur
. ished at an expense of nearly $1,O0
The plans outlined for this year ca
: for an expenditure of considerab
/ money in advertising the resources
: the surrounding country
That the sanitary work of his d
partment has been carried on for
years with five years taxes and
surplus of $12,2S4 has accumulate
besides the $4,000 that was Apr
:. priated from this fund for predato
animal work, is shown by the six
annual report of the state yeterina
surgeon.
The president has signed a procl
nation eliminating 9,940 acres fro
L the Boise national forest, Idaho. r.
changes are the result of a caref
I field examination made by the I'm
y ed States department of agricultu
. in pursuance of a general plan (
: the correction of all national fore
boundaries.
Frank Rudolph, rancher of the Q
ton valley, came near losing his II
while he and his wife were on the
Il way home from a visit to RELATIVE
i The heavy snow causing the horses
e give out, Rudolph started on foot
q fresh horses, became lost in the dal
n fell over cliff and broke knee-cf
I and was almost dead when found
II a searching party sent out by his wi
who had rode one of the horses hon
The Idaho State Grange now b
1000 members in the state, the gre
Is est number being in Ada, Canyon a
IS Washington counties.
X With about three hundred repres'
i'd tative hardware men in attendan
lg the seventh annual convention of
te Idaho Retail Hardware and Imp
ment Dealers association was cal
to order in Boise on Saturday.
10 L. A. Snyder of Twin Falls has be
= awarded the $500 offered by the Sh
- Line for the best one-acre crop
!. marketable potatoes raised in Ida
while w. B. Gilmore of Payette c
ried off second honors, receiving 81
Residents of the town of Winch
of ter, which is but a little over a y
oh. old, are asking that the town be int
n porated.
lie The school census for the Caldv
ed school district shows that there