Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-06-02
IDAHO STATE'NE,VS


Twin Falls has three BANS eth a
total capital of 100000 and up sits
of over $1.50o,OO0
The Oregon Short Line bran Il rom
Burley to Oakley is now co.G,,;i ted
and train service will be put e. June
Is.
Some twenty contractors a. at
work on the grading Of the n. :.yar
road out of Burnley and the wo * will
be pushed with all possible spec t.
The indications are that the 3o'se
valley as a whole will prod, -
larger crop of fruit than ever before
Experienced and capable orchar,.ists
are not concerned at all.
The Kingman TowhsIre COMPANY Is
completing its organization wo X It's
week, and the embryo city on the =
railroad will soon make it's bow Ls
publ c, says the Nyssa journal
Farmers In the country adjacent to
Nampa are jubilant over prospects IL
their lines this season. Every part a.
the farm industry gives exceptional
promise for record productions
Charles P. Hartley of Emmett.
president of the state horticultural
board, is a bear" on the fruit situa-
ton. says the Boise Statesman He
can see but half a crop for Idaho this
year.
Addison T. Smith, private secretary
to United States Senator Hepburn,
has rendered to Chairman Charles l..
Hoffman his resignation of the off ce
of secretary to the Republican state
committee.
Pocatello is now raising $4,000 to
turnpike pole line road to Ross
Fork to connect with the macadam-
lied sand road. The pole ROAD VIII
shorten the road to Ross Fork and
will be a splendid automobile drive
way.
Boise will shortly have but one tele-
phone system. A merger of the local
business OF the Bell Telephone com.
pany and of the Independent com
pany has been practically completed.
lacking only the working out of the
details
isolated spot near the homestead
when accompanying his mother, Err
nest s. Hesse, a prominent civil engi-
neer of Boise. committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
near Moro station.
In an effort to curb vice, Kellogs
and Wardner have Joined hands in the
passage of a Joint liquor license
which. for mining towns, is almost
ray p1 ut ~ tn rhu mt nA rNIo
the closing hour at IL midnight, and
the opening hour at a. m.
hermit In that vicinity for years,
the body OF a man named Cunningham
was found at his cabin on a ranch
which he had worked In "a small way
about eighteen miles northwest Of
Mountain Home, last week. Death
was due to natural causes.
The buildings at Kelly's Hot
Springs, near Boise, were destroyed
by fire last week, supposedly of incen-
diary origin, causing loss to the
owner OF about $4,000 L. w. Dor
man was badly burned before he es-
capped from the burning building.
Mrs. Lydia Hester. aged 46, wife Of
P. J. Hester. wealthy retired capt.
alist, was almost instantly killed near
the ferry landing on Snake River
avenue, at Lewiston. She was thrown
from buggy, striking head first on
he macadam roadway. Her skull was
fractured by the fall.
In a shooting ARRAY at Jarbidge last
week, w. H. Connors of Twin Falls
was shot in the back and face by a
nan named Flynn, who shot Connors
n the back as he passed his (Flynn's)
.ent, and In the duel that followed.
shot him in the face. Connors will
'ecover.
Suit has been brought against the
Oregon Short Line by Jesse Richards
o recover $3.50 for the alleged killing
II two horses at Arimo, January 3,
$40. The company contends that the
were trespassers on railroad
property and that 1t is therefore not
Enraged. 1t is said, because his
wife refused to leave the home OF
William p. Neal. In Boise, Joseph B.
owner of Boise Mattress
actory, Is thought to have attempted
o burn the place down. He was ar
ested and booked on a charge OF ar
on.
The famous Dead OK Flat district.
ear Weiser. but across Snake river
n Oregon, will, before very long. be
ne of the leaders as a fruit producer,
nd already over 1000 acres at the
asst end Of the fiat are being planted
. fruit trees of many varieties and
Italia.
AT special election at Blackfoot to
ote upon bonding the city for the
ew high school building the measure
arried by ninety majority. This In
lres a $4,000 high school building.
lans are already adopted and con-
truction work will begin at once.
The work of listing the various de-
nquent corporations in Utah, Idaho
nd Montana was commenced by