Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-08-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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While driving q load Of hay down
q steep hill, near Cambridge, Wal.
lace Coffee, 10 year old, fell off and
was s~erevely injured, but 1t Is be
lieyed he will recover.
Six counties in the northern tier
are responding literally to a call for
financial support to build a home at
Lewiston for the Children's Home
Finding and Aid society.
The Conway hotel at Star was de.
stroyed by fire Wednesday morning,
but most of the furniture was saved.
1t is thought that most OF the loss
was covered by insurance.
The body of Louis 0dick, the boy
drowned heal Caldwell, has been re-
covered. THE body was quite badly
discolorcd and cramped up and 1t
was evident that the boy was seized
wits 9ramps.
The E,ayette Valley arilroad has Sc
cured u contract from the govern,
ment to carry mail over its entire
line from Emmett to Payette. Mai
is now carried daily to Letha and
Falk from Emmett.
Owyhee county mining properties f.
are producing well and d number OF \
mines have a large force Of men
steadily at work. so that bullion re
turns and payrolls maintain good
business and trade conditions.
The board Of commissioners of Cas-
STA county has closed its session as a
beard Of equalization. and has left the
assessment roll in much the same
condition as it was when turned over
to them by the county assessor.
Exclusive of the Boise river stor-
age, the great Boise irrigation pro
ject was "a per cent completed. and
the storage unit was 3.6 per cent
completed by the end of June Of this
year, according t. an official report.
A movement was set On foot at a
meeting of the Boise Police Benevo-
lent association last week, to secure
some property and build a real home
for injured, aged or decrepit patrol
men who are past the period Of &C
tive service.
Because Mack MCLEAN, colored.
snored, as he vas enjoying a siesta
on u %lounging couch at the Court
ney Colored Gentlemen's club in
Boise, Ed Caldwell, also colored, at
tackled him with a knife, inficting
severe wounds.
Detectives are searching for the
person who placed a threatening let
ter, demanding 800, on top of a post
home OF G.. r. Carlson, a well known
rancher who lives two miles. south
west of Meridian.
The Caldwell Commercial club and
real estate dealers are making pre-
parations for an extensive campaign
Of advertising of the city. The most
important work is the arranging OF
four different exhibits, II for Des
Moines, Omaha, Lincoln and Cald-
well.
Francis Fox, who conducts a board.
ing house at Wallace, was shot three
times and beat over the head until
unconscious by Jack Dillon, a miner,
the shooting occurring without warn.
ing and apparently without cause.
Fox is in the hospital and Dillon in
iail.
Idaho county Is the first to file with
the state board of equalization a
complete abstract of its assessments
Of property for the present year. The
report shows the assessment for 1911
to be $8,285,416 an increase of 81.
crease.
The actual work OF consolidating
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company system and the Independent
system in the district including Ada,
Canyon and Washington counties. Is
under way, but the real consolidation
In Boise will not be completed for
two months or longer.
Boise is expected shortly to come
into ownership of 100 acres Of land
up Boise canyon by the good grace
of Uncle Sam, and 1t is said that a
great quarry located on this land will
furnish the municipality with as fine
a grade of pavement rock as was
ever used in the northwest.
Mrs. Mary e, Hartman, widow of
tae late railroad king. E. II. Hartman.
Is expected to arrive from New York
early next month with her children
to spend a few weeks on a ranch near
Island Lake, northeastern Idaho, a
few miles west of the Yellowstone
branch of the Oregon Short Line.
Two freight rains collided near
Downey, the crews having a narrow
escape from death. Both engines were
: demolished n both engineers and
. tiremen were slightly injured.
The Smithsonian institute will soon
be enriched with the skeleton of a
huge prehistoric animal excavated
i from a sand hill five miles west oil
' Montpelier. The finders believe they
have unearthed the skeleton of q
mostodon.
: T.. H. DeBord became suddenly in.
sane in Boise and when an officer was
called attempted to kill the represen
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