Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-12-29
IDAHO STATE NEW.

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rected that postal savings depar
ment be established at Miner.
John H. Stephenson of Boise he
been appointed to a clerkship in tt
state department at Washington.
The cinch of his saddle becomin
loosened. the saddle turned and tire
Archie Sloper of Boise to the har
frozen ground, causing severe injur,
The president has nominated tn
following Idaho postmasters: Eo
i Warning, Emmett; John NJ Ripass,
Rathdrum; Albert Langdon. Jul aetta
A fire which broke out under mys
FERROUS circumstances destroyed
building at Weiser occupied by /:
tailor shop. The nearby building.
were saved after hard fight
First degree murder is the charge
on which j. S. Clark must stand tria
in the district court at Boise for the
killing of Joe Morris, who was stabbed
by Clark during an alteration in
saloon on November %.
The case against Wilbur S. CLANCY,
former president of the Bank of Com
merce of Lewiston, charging him with
embezzling $4,000 from the bank, was
dismissed last week when called Tor
preliminary examination.
Over 1000 teachers are expected to
be in Boise, Janaury l to 5. to attend
the joint teachers insti- ne
counties of Ada. Adams, Blaine, Boise,
Canyon, Elmore, Owyhee and Wash.
ington, and the convention of the
State Teachers association
While attending a lecture in Twin
Falls, James W. Berry, business man
of that city. was suddenly stricken
with apoplexy. He was hastily car
! ried out on to the sidewalk in front
of the theatre, where he succumbed
before physician arrived.
Governor Hawley has received an
invitation from the management OF
the Kansas City land show which will
be held in that city from February II
to March 8, 1912. II is intimated this
governor will be appointed member
If the honorary advisory board.
Charged with the embezzlement OF
$4,000 of the funds of the posto eal
Elk River. in Latah county, traced
through the states of Washington
Oregon and California to Los Ange
les, George Loudin has been cartured
md will be brought back for trial.
1t Is believed that the great public
ity given the west, and especially
Idaho. through the numerous and
shows and the trip OF the western
governors will result in Idaho seeing
crater prosperity during the coming
year than has ever before been ex
perienced. !
Fourteen cases have beeen lodged
against Jacob Forch, q druggist oil
Nampa, and James Rice his clerk
harging them with selling cocaine
md morphine against the state law
while two alleged dope fiends are
being held as witnesses against the &C
cused men.
Farley Cherry of Sweet, Boise coun
ty, has been arrested, after search
of three months, on a charge oil
cruelty to animals. Cherry Is charged
with having entered the home of
woman in Boise county near Ola and
having maltreated a dog so that the
auimal died.
irene Stump, 1O-year-old daughter
of l.. II. Stump. fell into the Icy water
of the Little Wood river at Gooding
and would have drowned but for her
pet dog, large Irish setter, which
plunged in after the child She held
on to the dogs long hair and was
pulled to safety.
Through its secretary, the state hui
name society has paid over $76.75 to
the McCorkle family of Meridian,
hoping to alleviate their sufferings
after the destruction of their flock of
chickens and turkeys by the health
department on the ground that they
had tuberculosis.
HALEY is pluming herself, says the
Boise Statesman, on the positive pros.
poets of becoming the great health
and pleasure resort of southern Idaho
The greatest sanitary baths west of
Hot Springs. Ark, coupled with
magnificent hotel. is the definite prom.
Use given that city.
A special from Washington says the
secretary of the treasury has recon.
mended the adjustment of the Boise
and all other assay offices, claiming
they are unnecessary and do not pay
expenses. He shows the Boise office
last year cost $13.491 to run, its re-
ceipts being only 1892.
Finding that certsin portions of the
North Side Twin Falls tract, which
was thrown open at Jerome on De.
cember IA, were rocky, too high and
unfit to be classed as agricultural
lands. the state land board has or.
dered the lands In question with
drawn from entry temporarily.
The headquarters office of the
Boise forest reports 1900 pounds Of
pine seed collected this fall. To make
this amount of seed $500 bushels of
Dine cones were gathered. 1t may be
interesting TO note that each pound of
seed contains $4,000 individual seeds.
Premature nitroglycerine explosion
IS now the agency blamed by the of.
fcials investigating the case for the
TACT that Harry Bartons head was par,
tally blown away shortly after the
.0hbpry of the procary afora apd ,,0at