Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-07-14
IDAHO STATE NEWS

bulss, there DelHB Hol even u POI Auo
or a Fourth of July Grafton.
Crop conditions in the Bull country
never have looked more favorable
than at the present time. The alfalfa
crop is unusually heavy.
On July Bird. Idaho celebrated the
twenty-first anniversary of her ad-
mission into the sisterhood of states.
The state was admitted July 3, 1890.
Two additional postoffices in Idaho
have been designated as repositories
for postal savings funds St Anthony
will begin to receive deposits on July
"a, and Weiser on July 81
Thieves entered a clothing store
at Bull, taking fifteen mems suits,
number of shoes and other wearing
apparel They cut out the glass In
the front door. slipping the lock.
Depositors in the defunct State
Bank of Commerce of Wallace, which
closed its doors May II, will realize
their first dividend in the next two
weeks, according to Receiver w. o.
Pierce
Sawmills in eastern Washington
and northern Idaho arc sending an
average of 80 cars of rough dimen
sion Lumber monthly to British Co
lumbia and other provinces in west
ern Canada.
That northern Idaho is having one of
the most prosperous years in its his
tory is the opinion Of State Immigra-
| ton Commissioner Rich. who has
returned from trip through portions
| of that section.
! Becoming entagled in the harness
while unhitching horse, Jacob
Schlectes, aged So, was killed near
Mountain Home the horse dragging
! him over large field, tramping and
kicking him to death.
The deal between the Bell and In
! dependent Telephone companies
whereby the Bell company takes over
in its entirety the plant, business and
good will of the independent concern
Mt Boise, has been formally ratified.
The first hill climb to be given in
the state of Idaho will be held July
81 at Shoshone falls. five miles from
he city of Twin Falls. The climb
will be under the auspices OF the
Twin Falls County Automobile club
Convicted of murder in the first de-
gree at Occur d'Alene for the muir
der of John Billings, Fred Gruber.
whose execution was stayed by an
appeal to the supreme court, has Just
been resentenced, to be hanged on
August 25.
1t is said that the vast holdings
Of the Washington Power company
Of Spokane in Kootenia county, val
ued at from 100000 to S. 600, 900,
could be sold at public auction by
the officials of that county because
Of delinquent taxes.
State inspectors caused a stampede
at Boise among dairymen when they
raided nine diaries, under the direc-
ton of State Pure Food Commission
or Wallis, arrested as many dairy.
men, and Immediately afterward con-
victed seven of them.
i Considerable interest prevails, not
only among nurserymen. but among
orchardists, irrigation project settlers
and the general public as well, In
the annual convention of the Idaho
Nurserymens association to be held
July IS at Emmett
The grading equipment for building
the Oregon Short Line branch thirty
miles northwest from Richficld is bo-
ing sent across country to High Prai-
rio. A trainload of nearly 100 horses
and construction equipment was sent
from Denver via Laramie and Mont
pelier.
H. J. Bartel, living near American
Falls. is figuring on 5000 bushels of
wheat from his dry farm this year,
IN average of 20 bushels to the acre.
Abe Shaw has 220 acres OF wheat
In tho dry farm section that gives
promise of yielding about 80 bushels
to the acre.
The dry farmers around Cambridge
are exceedingly jubilant over the pros.
poets for bumper crop. The rains
throughout May and June assures the
biggest yield since this land was set
led. In many instances the yield on
dry farms will surpass that on irri-
gated land.
r. L. Mays. recently connected with
the railway station of the Oregon
Short Line at Gooding, in the capacity
of clerk, and Miss Billy Brown,
also OF Gooding. are under arrest at
the Salt Lake county jail, charged
with the larceny of railway tickets Of
the Oregon 0hort Line.
The body Of Dan Miller, a natural
izen Austrian, who was drowned In a
peculiar manner while taking antisep-
tics from Boise to a construction
camp up the Boise river in order to
save the life of his employer, was
found July 3, just two weeks after
his tragic death.
Grading for the government rail.
road from Barberton to Arrow Rock,
for the Boise irrigation project. will
be finished as far as Gooseneck,
where bridge is to be be built across
the river, by the end of July, and the
rails will be laid in August
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