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


A sewer system to cost $26O'OSzSA
has been planned for Nampa.
The people of oBise last week voted
s5o 600 bonds for new school build
lngs.
Actual work is to be started this
var IN the home for feeble minded
to be built at Nampa.
The summer normal opened at
Roise last week with good attend
ance, ninety-nine enrolling
II is announced that the telephone
rates at Boise are to be increased
since the consolidation of the two
companies.
The Oregon Short Line contem-
mates building fine new passenger
station at Pocatello next year. The
depot will cost million dollars.
The Denver Laramie & Northwest
ern railroad. now fifty miles out OF
Denver is pushing westward and Will
IL is said, reach Boise next year.
The $4,000 viaduct at Pocatelio'
snanning all the tracks that cross tine
main street of the town, is about com
pletsd. 1t is third of mile long
Peter Fails committed suicide az
Aceouia by taking poison. He hao
been Respondent for number o.
wears because of poor health. He
leaves wife and four children.
The Cambridge Brick company has
inst opened the first kiln. There are
100. 900 brick in this kiln, and they are
pronounced of very superior quaLty
Nv all brick men who have Inspected
them.
The Lincoln county fair will be heid
at Wendell some time during the lat-
ter part of September, 1911. The busi-
ness men are at work arranging the
premium list and getting stock SUD
scriptions.
Edward Magill of Hamer. who was
shot in the abdomen by Hugh Whit
new in his flight from posses, and who
is being treated in Salt Lake nos
pital, is believed now to have cnance
for recovery.
The Oregon Short Line has COM
menced to rush construction oil us
line between Caldwell and Winnemuc-
ca. Two hundred men are at WORK
and rails are being laid at the rate
H of a mile day.
H The output of canteloupes from
Payette will be the largest in the MS
tory of the industry. The district
H has planted over $50 acres. The ship
H ments of canteloupe will aggregate
Il over 1875 cars for the season.
II A. F. Adams, one of the pioneers Of
II Camas Prairie died last week OF hem
II morrhage of the brain. MIR. Adams
II was one of the first of the permanent
II settlers on the prairie and was well
II known throughout that section.
II Standpoint will have a safe and sane
II Fourth If the orders Of Mayor Moody
are carried out to the letter. The
mayor issued orders to the chief OF
police stating that the use OF fire.
works, fire-crackers, etc, will be posi-
NJ lively prohibited.
u The south branch of the Oregon
Short Line railroad from Rupert to
Bliss is nearing completion. But ten
" miles remain to be built between
=, Wendell and Jerome before the branch
=. will be finished. The line altogether
will be seventy-three miles long.
nj During a quarrel because one TO
q fused to drink with the other, Ben
IT. Higgs, a rancher at Soldier, shot and
1d killed Joe Jones, camp tender. A
1t. bullet passing through window o.
to the saloon inflicted painful hesf
IT, wound upon James Campbell, aged 4
IN The road from Willow Creek L
Bellevue was formally turned owe
OS to the county and the business mel
JUS Of Bellevue last week. after $500 whicl
=" was raised to repair 1t had been 81
ar pended. All crossings have bee
20 bridged and the road is in excellen
- shape
ire A quick job was done by the Bots
it'll police department last week In al
aw resting and bringing to trial AlbeI
lad l. Law, peddlor, charged with issI
lss. ing fictitious check 1t took les
ing than half a day from the time the a
to fair was reported to the authorities I
Ish- land Law behind the bars.
du- This will be a banner year in tn
ana Payette district The apple trees ar
ner heavily laden and the orchardists al
IN now beginning to thin for the ia
ii'l- crop. large acreage OF young o
ue chards is coming into bearing thi
,l no year and the output from Payette wi
- be larger than ever before.
he The final formalities in the turnin
over to the Oregon Short Line railws
of several subsidiary companies
o,AI Idaho have been completed. Distri,
wv Judge Alfred Bulge of Pocatello h,
acquiesced in the dissolution Of Il
'us- corporation which formerly controlle
these little roads as independent line
Railroad traffic has been serious
h,a lmpeded lately between Tendoy al
ton Salmon by reason of the fast meltiI
most SHOWS of the mountains. which caus,
lie. the Lemhi river to ove rflow its BAN
and wash away the Toadbed. Ty
ow's bridges have also been swept awe
ects NJ H. Spangler. who plead
for guilty at Shoshone to the charge