Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-03-24
IDAHO STATE NEWS

serve the maneuvers of the regular
army.
A. C. Robinson has assumed charge
If the office of state engineer in place
Of Dan II. Martin, who served dur
ing the administration of Governor
Brady.
The Burley Oakley line Of the Ore
yon Short Line will be completed In
the early spring and work will be-
gin on the BurleyKelton Summit cut
off as soon as weather permits.
Idaho is to be the only state In the
lnion, where the eastern farmer, WAC
inouires after lands in this state and
who desires maps of the lands, may
obtain them at cost from the state
Last week the Him Club Of Idaho
held their first annual meeting In
Boise. The enthusiastic and loyal
supporters of the University OF Hi
nois turned out in unexpected num-
bers.
The Jury at Caldwell In the case
against Thomas MurInago and Ger
bacio Mendoza, failed to agree. Inc
two men were charged with stealing
lO1 head of sheep from the Van Du-
sen Brothers.
Land to the east and south of Pay
cite. which was selling for SIS an
acre two years ago. has tripled in
value within the year, largely on ac-
count of the prospect of good irriga' 4
ton facilities.
The Roswell Canal company has
decided to lower the grade OF Its
ditch from point about six miles
from Caldwell where the Greenleat
road crosses the canal. A dredge Is
TO be installed at once.
1t is rumored that long inter-
urban line is to be established from
Payette to the surrounding farming
country Just as soon as the Telluride
Power company completes its system
10 the western part of the state.
It is estimated by John Sanchez,
, / Basque, who lives in Boise, that
bully 100 of his fellow countrymen
have gone to Mexico within the past
, three months to take part In the revo-
luton against the Mexican govern
ment.
The convention of the Washington
, County Pomona grange recently held
l at Weiser, proved the most import
ant in the history of the organization.
+ A number of very important subjects
directly affecting the farmer were in
Produced.
Caldwell has two electric railways
| with their terminal in that city-the
Boise and Caldwell, connecting with
the state capital, 20 miles away, and
the Caldwell Interurban, running to
The great government reservoir south
west of the city.
e. ID. Mclaughlin, young man
living near Payette, met his death
while hunting, his body having been
found hanging on a wire fence with
A bullet hole near the right temple.
| The young man had accidentally shot
himself while climbing through the
fence.
A movement is on foot in Nampa
to build a hospital. A special com
mittee of the chamber of commerce
has the matter in hand and through
a circular letter to the citizens of the
town soliciting assistance for the In
| stitution a very encouraging amount
] Is coming in.
1t is said that the leaders of the
Il. settlers who have recently been con
e. Quoting raids on lana contestants In
lie the Camas prairie country, and who
er are said to have employed Kentucky
night rider tactics, are actually mel
OF who were mixed up in the night rider
n. troubles of the south
e Further Investigations of the cir
y cumstances surrounding the death o.
e Grace Peerman, the 11-year-old cir
y. of South Boise, have served to estab
- fish almost beyond question the fac
- that she died as the result of poi
" soning caused by a headache tab
=, let given her by her mother.
ty A coroner's jury mas decided tina
m, the death of Myrtle Hanson, aged Ia
he at the trestle at Thornton was due Il
negligence on the part of the Oregon
Nv Short Line company in not fencing
va the right of way and placing warn
on Ing notices. The child was killed b.
I'd. 4 train while crossing the trestle.
in President Gooding of the Nationa
1t Wool Growers association has EN-
ployed V. O. Johnson, the Goodin
attorney, to present the case of tn
~ western sheepmen to the interstat
commerce commission, pleading for
l.. reduction of the freight rates ON woo
from all western. northwestern an
southwestern points.
Boise people will have an oppo
he tunity next fall to hear both Pres
at dent Taft and ex-President Roos,
1t welt, If plans now being laid by tn
as Commercial club are successful.
ty, After conferences with Presiden
ars Taft and Secretary Ballinger, Senate
OF Borah expressed the belief that tn
1at proposal OF the Oregon Short Line /
an furnish seed to settlers on the Sout
'st' Side Minidoka irrigation project wi
Inc be taken up
- The police of Boise are investiga
- Ing the circumstances surroundin
-, what looks like an attempt by SON