Montpelier examiner., 1911-04-21
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Rural free delivery will be estab-
lished at Greenleaf, Canyon county,
on June 1.
The contract for the building of the
new $4,000 school house at New
Meadows has been let.
The census bureau last week an.
nounced that the population of Mos
COW was 1870, against 2.4S4 in 1900.
Contracts have been let for finish.
ing the grade on the s. F. /. & M.
railroad between Caldwell and Home
dale.
Representatives from all the
Friends churches OF southern Idaho
attended camp meeting held in
Boise last week.
Notus, lying nine miles west of
Caldwell on the main line of the Ore
gon Short Line, Is experiencing a
small boom this spring that promises
much for the town.
Inc postoffice department has or.
dered the establishment of the
postoffice at lilo, Lewis county, and
the appointment of Miss Nellie Lin
der as postmistress.
Scottish Rite Masons of southern
Idaho met in Boise on Monday, Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday of last
week, degrees being conferred upon
an unusually large class.
AL Howard, the negro who attempt
ed to kill Mrs. Stella Wilson, colored,
at Boise, and then turned the gun on
himself, will probably recover. Mrs.
Wilson was not seriously hurt.
Horse rustlers have again made
their appearance in Boise, according
to stories which have come to the
authorities. Four horses were taken
from a corral in the capital city on
Sunday.
The League of Southern Idaho Com.
mercial clubs is planning a campaign
of promotion and advertising that is
expected to bring great results In the
way of settlers. home builders and
investors.
The definite announcement of the
Oregon Short Line of the location of
Its new road through Camas Prairie
places the present town Of Soldier
one and a half miles north of the
nearest station.
the Emmett Fruitgrowers' asso.
citation has joined with the North
western Fruit exchange end entered
into an exclusive contract for the
marketing of the fruit under its con.
troll for this season.
Indicted for fencing government
lands in Owyhee county, George c..
Riddell, Frank Riddell, Grant Rid
dell and Harry Riddell and Augustus
and J. Stone were fined $500 each
and J. A. Sewell $3.50.
A large force of surveyors is at
work on the Emmett bench setting
stakes on the Emmett Orchard COM
pany's land, preparatory to the set
ting out of fruit trees. The contract
calls for the setting of 10000 trees.
In his address at Moscow during
his recent visit to that city. Colonel
Roosevelt said that he first came to
Idaho twenty-slx years ago with a
pack train, which, he thought gave
him some claim to be known as a pio
neer.
Pleas OF not guilty were entered in
the Federal court at Boise on Tues.
day by Frank w. Kettenbach and his
nephew. William F. Kettenbach, on
the charge of abstracting s137 900
from the Lewiston National bank OF
Lewiston.
William Hogadone, a young man
about 27 years of age, living at Cam
bridge, in the northern part of Wash
ington county. committed suicide on
Thursday afternoon by shooting him
self in the head with a revolver Ill
health is supposed to have been the
cause.
The celebrated HALEY State bank
case, wherein Leo Cramer, Hugh Cra-
mer and Directors Cults and former
Cashier Coleman are charged with
accepting deposits when they knew
the HALEY State bank of HALEY, Ida,
was insolvent, is being tried at Sho-
shone.
In the event that the epidemic
among prairie dogs is not shut of
soon in the southern part of the
state, there will be no need of the
ranchers of that district banding to-
gether for the purpose of carrying on
war of determination against them,
as they are dying by thousands.
To test the constitutionallty of the
recent legislature to the effect that
the state has right to relinquish GER
tain lands and select indemnity lands
in lieu thereof. a friendly suit has
been filed In the supreme court.
Mr.. and Mrs Claude Kage of Cam
bridge are awaiting trial on the charge
of torturing their eight-year-old SON
Portions of the boys body and legs
are horribly burned and bruised from
severe beating, and he is now under
the doctors care at the county poor
farm.
Mr.. Keppener. who is an old man.
and his daughters son, about Il years
old, were seriously II not fatally in.
jured in runaway at Rexburg. Mr..
Keppener has five ribs broken and Is
not expected to live. The boys skull
| Is fractured.