Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-12-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

posltory
The report of the Idaho state dairy
association convention has been
printed by the state bureau of immi-
grafton.
Governor Hawley announces that
be may call a special session of the
legislature, to meet in February or
March, for the purpose of enacting
revenue law.
Mrs. j. c.. Basor, &C years Of age,
died at her home in Meridian, after
four years of illness. She had been
q resident of that city for more than
twelve years
A delegation of woolgrowers from
Idaho and Utah reached Washington
on Wednesday to discuss with west
ern members of congress the ques-
ton CT probable legislation reducing
the tariff on wool
The Oregon Short Line has com
piled with the request of the Mont
pelier chamber Of commerce that
double daily service be maintained
on the new branch running south
from there to Paris.
Slick Merrill won a decision over
Birdleg Collins at Mountain lone
in ten rounds of boxing. The men
put up as fast an exhibition as the
authorities would allow, and Merrill
clearly outpointed his antagonist.
John Bailey, living near Nampa,
from 40 acres harvested a crop of
1000 sacks of potatoes. The land on
which these were raised is known
as the Lakeside Orchard tract" and
lies south of the Deer Flat reservoir.
Declaring as unconstitutional sec
ton 2 of the law known as the "Irri-
cation act" passed by the state legis-
lature last March, the supreme court
has handed down decision at Lew
iston affirming the ruling of the dis
trict court in Canyon county.
The Twin Falls & Southern Idaho
Poultry association announces that it
will hold it's fourth annual exhibit
ton at the Bull opera house Deem
Der IL to 16, inclusive. Judge Col
lier, the foremost poultry judge of
America, will score all birds.
Leo Cramer, formerly vice-presi-
dent of the Idaho State bank of
HALEY, must serve an indeterminate
sentence in the state penitentiary:
This is the edict or the supreme
court of Idaho in an opinion affirm
ing the decision of the lower court.
| Advertisements which the Chicago
land show is printing in newspapers
throughout the middle west call at
tention to the fact that enough pota-
toes for 100000 people are given
away daily at the land show, the po-
tatoes being the gift of the state of
Idaho
Some 100000, the balance of the
price that the Idaho-Oregon interests
were to pay for control of the Boise
Valley Railway company, was paid
over last week to the holders of the
Boise Valley stock, and the road
passed into the hands of the Idaho
Oregon people.
That the orchardists in northern
Idaho have solved the problem of get
ting the maximum benefit out of their
water supply and that practically all
loss by percolation, evaporation and
seepage has been saved to use on
the fruit trees of the district, is the
belief of experts.
Bud Jones, a local character, was
arrested at Mountain Home, charged
in. He will plead guilty. The pen
atty is from one to fourteen years in
the penitentiary. Jones is said to
have been intoxicated when he com
mitted the crime.
DR.. Louis A. Ruehl, former vice
president of the United Breweries as
ISOLATION, and his wife. Mrs. Augusta
Ruehl, were exonerated of the charge
of being fugitives from justice from
Idaho and discharged on a writ Oh
habeas corpus in the superior court
at Chicago, last week.
Because the demand for trained
forest rangers is far greater than the
supply, the University of Idaho has
decided to put in a pre-digestet
course for young men who want tt
go into the government forest ser
vice and serve in the, vast forests
of the northern part of the state.
The Emmett Telegram declares
that the extension proposed by the
Pittsburg G Gilmore line is in real
ity the extension of the Chicago
Northwestern, reaching out for Pa
cific terminal via the Salmon anC
Snake rivers to Texas City, Wash.
and thence via Pasco to Portland.
Sold into slavery in Mexico afte
being captured when he entered tina
country believing it was the United
States, held for ransom and wheI
freed barred from entrance to thi
country, Louie Lung Fong, a Chimes
lad Is years of age, son of a Bois'
) Chinaman, has at last reached Boise
William Odell, widower, sixty-fiv'
years old, killed his son David at Pos
Falls and shot the thumb off Bel
Stellman. All the men had beef
drinking, and when a quarrel aros
over a trivial matter the elder Odel
was attacked by the others.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of Rolf Johnson, the 15-year-olt