Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-02-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS

been appointed as clerk for the In
terstate commerce commission.
There are no prospects of getting
water on the Twin Fall-0akley tract
this year, as there will be no EFFORT
made to store water this season.
There has recently been an In,
creased demand for irrigation district
bonds in Idaho from eastern capital
lists who are seeking Idaho securities
for investment.
The treasury department has &C.
cepted the site for the new federal
building to be constructed at Occur
dAlene, the price to be paid for the
same being $4,000.
For the quarter edning December
81, 1910, the receipts of the Payette
postoffice were $3,271.44, an increase
over the same quarter of the proceed
ing year of $557.43.
Between Glenns Ferry and the Ore
gon line along the Snake river are
thousands Of acres of land which viii
be reclaimed by means of water
pumped by electricity.
Governor Hawley has named John
e. Wood as timber inspector for dis
trict No. 2. This district Is one which
includes the Occur d'Alene lake and
all streams tributary thereto.
Indications are that there will be
an increase of building activity In
Weiser with the approach of spring.
although there has been considerable
building all through the winter.
Miss May Wallis, aged "a years,
daughter of James H. Wallis, state
pure food commissioner and clerk Of
the house, was badly beaten and rob-
bed Of $14 in silver by footpad In
Boise, one night last week.
w. B. Gilmore, who won second
prize in D. E. Burley's potato contest
this fall, made another record OF note
: From one acre of corn he raised 157
, bushels and 81 pounds. Gilmore has
been farming near Payette.
A large proportion of the Weiser
merchants and a few professional
, men have formed a Merchants Pro
] tective association for the purpose
of making credit ratings of all per
> sons doing business in the town.
q The Emmett irrigation district.
Y which was organized last fall to take
= over the property of the Canyon Canal
8 company and to furnish water for the
y well-known Emmett bench, has voted
e bonds to the amount Of $1,1O0,0OO.
/ Representative Hamer has favor
}, ably reported to the house a bill
= which recently passed the senate pro-
viding for the sale of timber on pub
Il lie lands that was killed or seriously
il injured by forest fires last summer.
Flood damage at Preston last week
is estimated at $4,000. Bridges, cul-
/ verts and dams have been washed out
and many irrigation bitches and res
Il eryoirs broken. A mail carrier lost
81 sack of mail in attempting to cross
II Mink creek.
4 Those who have not yet settled
q with the Idaho Northern railroad for
= the right-of-way across their property
in Emmett, and east of town; have
). been notified that condemnation pro
= ceedings against them will be inau.
gurated at once.
10 w. H. Powers, who was arrested al
a Weiser on information that he was
IN wanted in Waurika, Okla, to answer
II. to charge of murder. will fight ex
Is tradition, on the ground that he has
n. already stood trial on the same charge
D. and was acquitted.
le N. G. Garman, who recently SOLD
in the aurora Orchard" at Payette II
ne James N Hill of Schuyler, Neb., fol
in $4,000, has made statement aftel
Sc all returns are in that he has made
ry a profit of $500 an acre for all acre
,e, age in bearing orchard.
III, The house Of representatives ha
en- passed bill heretofore passed by tn,
go senate granting leave of absence b
homesteaders up to May Is, 1911. TIL
M bill also extends until that date tn
NJ time in which homesteaders shall b.
tie required to establish residence.
nj News of the drowning OF tire
sn' children has been received from Al
=, bon, Oneida county. While fording
p swollen stream a sled containing tn
-, - families of Del Dalton and Ezra Al
. derson was overturned. Two of tn
10 DalUOu clllOFen anu the AnQofHO
we child were those drowned.
~io One of the most enthusiastic an
on successful sessions of the Moveabl
Ale Schools ever held in the inter-moul
nd. tain states. in the opinion of the Ii
ex. structors participating and the farm
al ers attending, was concluded in Twi
tic Falls last Saturday, says the Twi
Falls News.
To John u. McPhearson of Goodin
md has been selected by the state boar
led of horticultural inspection for til
md position of state horticultural inspe
at tor. Mr.. McPhearson is but 26 veal
of age, and Is said to be the younge
is man who ever occupied the positio
and of state inspector.
/ The price of coal in Twin Falls hi
and been reduced one dollar ton. tt
by demand by the public tor modera
charges for fuel has been grown
ever since prices were curtaild
Boise, Pocatello and Salt Lake oy
an, month ago.
,ea, The lifeless body of Mrs. Cynth