Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-04-14
IDAHO STATE NEWS

In the city election, In ROcateHOs
electing the council and all the city
officers.
/ H. o. Hardness, one of the most
widely known citizens and early set
tiers of Idaho, died at his residence
in McCammon April S.
The district known as southern
Idaho" alone is larger than the state
of Indiana and contains more irriga
BILE land then any other state in the
country.
The record at the Boise baggage Of
fee of the O. S. l., shows an increase
of 1904 pieces Of baggage handled
during the month or March. 1911, over
that of March, 1910.
Two cars loaded with fruit trees
from Utah wsre received in Payette
last week. There were more than
100000 trees, mostly apple and
prunes, In the shipment.
In the most holly contested election
in the history of Preston, In which
the largest number of votes ever
polled were cast, the entire Republi-
can ticket was elected, in the majority
of cases by but a narrow margin.
| Earl DdteHldup u IColuOhe Va NSSf
was stabbed in the side and wrist by
William Austin after Austin had been
elected from Datemans home, which
he entered while in an intoxicated
condition. Dateman Is in serious
condition.
B. Wakefield is in q precarious con-
dition from the effects of having been
knocked out in the sixth round OF his
fight at HALEY by Carl Aune OF Phila-
delphia, He was unconscious for two
|, hours and little hope is entertained
, for his recovery.
New maps of the state, showing the
! newly created counties, towns, rivers,
railroads and proposed railroads and
irrigation canals Of the tsate, are pc
) ing prepared by State Immigration
0 Commissioner Rich. They Will be In
Q the form of folders.
!, The office of the register and re-
d ceiyer of the federal land office at
r Boise are busy places these days with
J. land applicants and 1t Is said that
d never before in the history of the Of
Is fee has there been such rush for
n land as there Is at the present time.
10 Had the Whitcomb temperance bill
o become O law half of Idaho, now
g "wet," would Immediately have be-
come "dry," for the measure provided
~ that LIQUOR or intoxicating beverages
20 of any kind could not be sold outside
" of incorporated towns, villages ana
- cities.
- AS rapidly as possible the Idaho
and SMshern railroad is completing plans
!. NortR obeFsa=Struction of the ssF5AR9:'H''
]. for the cons, long. .isIois
!. up the river, IVY says IAN Epamett CORE
!. spondent The first five miles Of con-
= struction is comparatively easy. The
q remaining six miles to Marsh is more
/. difficult.
n II the advice of the state game war
den Is followed out 70 a conclusion
1t there viii be various committees Of
ID sportsmen organized about the state
t, for the purpose of informing the DE-
.e partment whenever there is short
IN age of fish or an intraction of the
ID game laws.
le Manuel Silva, a rhnchman. stock
C, man and owner OF a butcher shop at
n Shoshone, was found guilty of boot
h. logging" in the district court of Lin
ot coin county after a trial consuming
n three days. He was sentenced to five
Of months in the county jail and to pay
ID a fine of $500.
ig The surveys for the proposed
N Owinza cutoff have been made and
re sent east, and 1t is now up to the
IN eastern officials of the Hartman sys.
N TEN to say when construction on the
cutoff shall comemnce, according to
e. G. Manson, the general superlT
tendent of the Short Line. I
The conditions for successful irrf.
cation in southern Idaho on a large
= scale are such that the United States
= reclamation service Is developing In
= the Boise Nampa- Payette project, one
:. :. of the largest systems OF reclamation
- ever undertaken. This project when
completed Is to cost some $11,000,0OO.
- The shawhan annexation bill, which
= would have permitted the improve
nlent of property near city. but held
:. for speculation, was vetoed by the
n governor on the grounds that in the
j. opinion Of the governor 1t was
- measure designed to benefit a few
~ cities and work an injury on the many
Id Anjel Uruchua, a Basque sheep
1T herder. brought to a Boise hospital
Of from near Vale, Ore, suffering from
a numerous cuts and bruises about the
head is dead. It is believed the man
D was beaten by an enemy. his head be
he ing a mass Of wounds.
I'd Fhe Aberdeen-Springfield irrigation
~ tract formerly known as the Ameri.
cau Falls tract Ia to have n state ex-
pertinent farm and station. Forty
acres of land adjoining the TOWNSHIP
has been donated for that purpose by
philosophical citizen.
George M. Payne. pioneer resident
OF Mountain Home and a newspaper
man known all over the west, is dead
at the age of n. Mr.. Payne journey.
ed from virgiania to California In
1852, and began publishing q news
,apar IN Maintain Homa In fSS7