Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-15
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The hotel and three dwellings az
Rocky Bar were destroyed by nrs
last week.
Boise is to have a Federated
Trades Council. IL plans now being
formulated are carried out.
gorge Allen If HALEY had his
right hand badly shattered by the pre-
mature discharge OF a gun while out
hunting,
The first carload OF prunes OF the
season was shipped from Emmett IN
September 2. The prure crop Of that
section this year is estimated at
about fifteen carloads.
Mrs. ". II. Hartman. widow Of
the ate railroad king. last week left
for her eastern home. after three
weeks vacation at the country home
Of W. S. Eccles. Island Park. Idaho.
Night warehouseman H. T. Peter
son OF the Oregon Short Line was
run down and killed by a train at
Payette on the Sin. It is not known
definitely how the accident happened.
o. l. Phillips. one of Middleton's
prominent citizens and fruit growers,
was painfully and nearly fatally in
jured last week by being KICKED in
the head by his family driving horse.
Ten thousand pounds Of luscious.
juicy watermelons and cantaloupes
will be consumed by residents and
visitors TO Mountain Home on Sun
day, September 10, which is melon
Day. in that city.
The number of young trout in the
streams Of Bannock, Bear Lake and
Twin Falls counties has been increas-
ed approximately 100000 during the
past fortnight as a result of the visit
of the state fish car.
The Anti-Saloon league. carried on
its feet with the sweeping victories
won in Bannock and Canyon counties.
has already launched a movement to
down the VETS" in Ada county. II
such a thing is possible.
John Reed, aged So years. a tour
list from Elwood. Neb, to Nampa,
was the victim of an accident in the
Pocatello yards that resulted in the
loss of his left hand. Reed fell under
q train when getting on.
At the local option election in Can
yon county on the 9Th, the county
again voted dry by a majority of 2,4O0
out of $500 votes cas- Nampa vas
the only town voting wet. An in
crease of the wet vote Is shown in all
the towns.
The first elephant that aver trod
the soil of Kamas prairie was exhib-
tied at Cottonwood last week by q
small circus, and the farmers from all
over the country suspended h~aresting
operations and came to greet the pio-
neer pachyderm.
Largely because she is the mother
OF six children, Mrs. C. L. Isbell of
st. Joe, Ida, has been made teacher
Of the Gordon school at a salary of
800 per month. At present there Is
but one child in the entire district,
besides those of the teacher.
The Long valley indictment return
ed against t~hirty-two ranchers resid.
ing in that section of Idaho, charg-
ing them with conspiring to deprive
a citizen Of his rights under the laws
of the United States. were quashed
In the federal court at Boise on the
18th.
Preston is to have u water system.
Birch springs were purchased from
the Cub River Irrigation company and
a survey Of the pipe line Is nearly
completed, when figures will be fur
nished Of the estimated cost and an
election called to decide the bonding
question.
A coroner's jury al Grangeville
found that Peter Mallick, a h~alf-breed
Nee Perez Indian, who was shot to
death in the county jail there. met
death at the hands of unknown per-
sons. 1t also exonerated the Jail
keepers on the ground that they werS
overpowered.
Bannock county has voted to re-
main in the dry column, following
one of the bitterest local option cleo
tons ever held. Despite the fact
that Pocatello, the county seat and
metropolis of the southeast part of
the state, gave a wet majority Of
$50. the drys won.
The Lower Salmon Falls power
plant located on the Snake river In
the Hagerman valley is at present be-
ing enlarged to take care OF the rap
idly growing business and the Q
territory being covered by the lines
Of the Great Shoshone q Twin Falls
Water Power company.
Heavy rains have fallen In the Snake
and Clearwater valleys and In the
Prairie regions. About Ave 9 cent
Of grain is still uncut, half Of which
ID barley, and this will discolor TO
some extent; the standing and shocked
wheat is bleaching slightly, but the
damage will be nominal.
n ]. How'd, who owns a fruit farm
on the slope. near Emmett, Is dis
playing a bunch OF grapes raised on
his place. They are Of the Tokay
variety and the bunch weighs two
and a half pounds. is IL inches lons