Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-08-11
IDAHO NEWS

yon county.
The Lincoln county fair is to ba
held at Wendell, October 3, 4 and s,
sufficient money having already been
guaranteed for the cash premiums.
Miss Lora Arch, a girl of ahou. IL
years, of Kamiah, was bitten by a rat.
tlesnake. Remedies were used on the
finger, but it gradually got so bad that
amputation was necessary.
Establishment of a shirt factory az
the state p~enitentlary OF Idaho along
the lines of that maintained for some
time at the Nebraska state prison ia
recommended by Warden j. w. Shook,
Mrs. A. G. Carpenter of G%rangeville
died from ptomaine poisoning caused
by eating canned tomatoes. A hus-
band and seven little children, ranging
in ages from 10 down to / year, are
left.
The 2-year-old son Of Earl Dussing,
living near Payette, was drowned in a
lateral of the Noble ditch. The lad
was out playing in the road zeal his
home and In some manner fell in the
ditch.
Mrs. e. II. Hartman and daughter
and a party OF friends will spend the
summer at Island Park, Idaho. thirty
miles from Yellowstone National park.
arriving there August 8 from san
Francist o.
Fire thai originated from d smut ex.
plosion in a separator on the farm OF
William Mccormick, near Lewiston,
resulted in the obstruction Of the ma.
chine and three Stacks of wheat, con.
tanning about 1900 bushels.
September 4 will be the greatest
labor day in the history OF Boise, ac-
cording to preliminary plans which
We're laid at a special meeting of rep.
resentatives OF the unions OF that city.
Twenty unions will join In the celebra-
ton.
Another election to vote on the 10
cal option question Is being called fCe
at Salmon, and will probably take place
in November. About two years ago
Lemhi county went dry by a majority
OF So votes in a total vote OF about
1900.
One firm at Rigby since February
last has shipped no less than forty.
eight cars of potatoes to Greeley, Colo,
eleven of which went forward in one
week. 1t is said these potatoes are
r%e-shipped from Greeley as the regular
Greeley product.
For the balance OF this irrigation sea
son the amount of water from the
Boise river that will be allowed to
each acre will be six-tenths of a
miners inch. This is the purport Of
a decree rendered by Judge Davis in =
the district court at Boise.
Robert Stahl, a fireman on the Short
Line, running between Glenns Ferry
and Nampa, was drowned in the Snake
river at Glenns Ferry while in swim.
ming with a number OF other men.
Stah1, who was a good swimmer, was
evidently taken with cramps.
The sheriff of Lincoln count made
a big haul in the capture OF Oscar
Mckinley and Ed Greenstead, noted
korse rustlers who have been oper.
ating in Idaho, Nevada and Colorado,
during the last few years. The men
will be returned to Colorado for trial.
The potato crop in the n~eighborhood
OF Rigby will be the heaviest ever
marketed throughout this section, as
an increased acreage over anything
eVer attempted in the past was plant.
ed last spring, and the season has been
such as to give promise of a bumper
crop.
Herman Stutfelbeam, a prominent
Blackfoot man, member OF the com.
m~issioners Of Bingham county. had a
narrow escape from drowning at the
Terry crossing or the south fork OF
the Snake river near Heise, when he
ran his automobile into ten feet OF
water.
Inc plan to place an advalorem
duty on wool is not making a hit
with Idaho growers, who frankly ex.
press their dissatisfaction with the
manner in which tariff agitation In
panning out for western interests in
the special session of congress. saws
the Boise Statesman.
a. hAiilpbI RESISTANT man
ager of the Italian mine at Leesburg.
mas been arrested at Pocatelto on the
charge of having abducted the wife OF
Cnel Ierkill, a miner. It In alleged
that zerkill was cruel to his wife. and
that Philips bought a ticket for her
to Pocatello. sympathy for her being
his only motive.
A woman. Mrs. w. H. Smith, has a
contract for building a portion of the
northward extension of the Idaho
Northern railway. The concern which
has the contract for the entire fifty.
eight miles from Emmett to Smitb'a
Ferry, has sub-let three miles of
grading to Mrs. Smith.
Considerable interest is being man.
ltested in the bridge election to be
heid in Canyon county on August s TO
vote bonds for three bridges across
the Payette river, the bridges being
located at Fruitland, New Plymouth
and Letha.
A postal savings bank is to be