Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-04-07
IDAHO STATE NEWS

as its actual cash value this year re-
gardless of all consequences. This
is the dictum OF the state board OF
equalization.
The survey has been made for the
new town of Lowell Park. The new
town is located at the junction of the
Oregon Short Line railroad with the
Rupert-Bliss cutoff.
All indications point to a banner
year ON Camas prairie The heavy
snow of the past winter is sure In
dication and guarantee that the
grain yield will be far above the av-
erage
The fame of Camas prairie as
health resort is rapidly spreading
over southern Idaho, and many inquir
les have been received by local physi
clans asking regarding accomoda-
lions.
A blind man of Boise, who sued
his wife for divorce, charging cruel
ty, was denied degree Of divorce.
but the court ordered the wife to
pay $40 a month in support of her
| husband.
After losing five bear dogs and
coming within decidedly close mar
gin of death in a bear fight himself,
H. C. Armstrong, living fifteen miles
back in the hills from Boise. came
into town with the pelt of the animal.
Work has been started on the inter.
urban line east of Idaho Falls. 1t
will be 33 miles in length and will
cost approximately $750.000. The
line will branch, one terminus being
at Popular and the other at Goshen.
Authorization for the building of
the long-planned Raft River cutoff,
destined eventually to connect the
Lucin cutoff with the main line of
the Oregon Short Line at Burnley, has
been made at the Hartman offices In
New York.
The federal grand jury which for
two weeks had been probing charges
here, Thursday night returned eight
secret indictments directed, 1t is re-
hably stated, against the night riders
who terrorized settlers In the Camas
Prairie country.
To wrestle with a burglar whom
she succeeded in frightening away,
and then fire three revolver shots at
his fleeing figure, is the exciting ex-
perience Mrs. ]. H. Stonehouse, a
prominent lady of Weiser, went
through one night last week.
There is a great deal of activity in
Nampa relative to the good roads
proposition within the city limits.
The thoroughfares leading into Nam
pa from the various communities
have been improved by dragging the
work being done by farmers.
One year ago the assessors in the
various counties of Idaho placed a
valuation of $42,OO0,00O on the farms
of this state. This was done for the
purpose of taxation. This year the
farmers will pay taxes on the same
farms at a valuation of $400,000,000
The work of relaying all that part
of the Idaho division of the Oregon
Short Line with 90-pound steel. not
already equipped, was commenced
Monday lind will be completed in
about ninety days The new rails will
replace the 70-pound rails now in use.
For the purpose of forming a COM
pany to take whitefish from the lakes
|, in the northern part of the state
eastern capitalists are now in Boise
While scores of individual fishermen
have been making living in this
manner, this is the first company tc
invade the field.
After coming from Argyle. Fla, tc
. Moscow, arriving March IA. and be
= ing arrested the next day lettering
about the University of Idaho by
Sheriff Brown, who charged her witt
, insanity, Miss Augusta M. Hunt
. whose mysterious actions created &
sensation, has been discharged.
. There are hundreds of stopovel
/. tickets being deposited at the Namps
I passenger depot every day and since
!. the special rate began on the 10th Of
. this month there have been not less
|. than 500 tickets deposited for layovel
4 privileges. AS high as 80 In one da,
. have been deposited.
The president has issued an ordel
postponing until 1912 all advance pay
ments due from settlers on the Soutl
i Side Minidoka irrigation project be
5 cause of hardships they endured las
7. season. and the Oregon Short Lin,
II has agreed to furnish seed to thes'
n farmers upto the vaiue of $4,000.
E A colony OF cougars infesting tn
'e North Fork region In the vicinity o
e Big island. 40 miles above Ahsahka
II Idaho, la decimating the deer In tina
= locality, according TO r. B. Hibbs, .
a Lewiston, who hes been hunting an
trapping In that section.
A dispatch from Wallace says: Ri
mors to the effect that north Idah
c assessors, while meeting In Spokane
q laid plans for percentage valuation
u in the face Of the governors instru:
le tons to the contrary, are denied b
y John Dolan, county assessor Of Shs
shone county.
It Is probable that the Socialis
n ticket for the coming city election d
er Boise win not be printed on the ba
iii lot. The ticket is outiawed. II is SAX
4. owing TO the fact that the party faile
"a TO comply with the charter regulation