Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-06-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

A resident of Burley drove his auto
mobile from that town to Ogden, Utah.
40 miles, in nine hours, one day last
week.
The total membership of the EN-
met schools this year is S0S, with a
class of fifty-two to enter the high
school next year.
The Twin Falls County Sunday
School association will hold its an
nual convention at Murtaugh. Idaho,
June z. 8 and 9.
A widow living at Caldwell broke all
records at the local postoffice last
week by buying SLIGO worth Of money
orders payable to herself.
The potato yield this year in Idaho
is going to be better than for any
other season in the history Of the
state, according to all reports.
The pure food inspector pounced
upon insanitary places in Occur
d'Alene one day last week, and as q
result four kitchens and eating houses
were ordered closed
There is an abundance of water for
irrigation purposes everywhere in the
state. according to Don II. Bark, head
of the government irrigation investi-
cation work in Idaho.
The Idaho Falls Register says that
the new warehouse Of c. w. & M.
Co, in that city, is the largest ware
house building in the state of Idaho.
having capacity OF three hundred
cars.
The drainage district, comprising
about 1900 acres between Nampa and
! Caldwell, as proposed over a year
ago and which has been promoted dill
ligently, seems on the verge of reali-
cation.
The president has set aside 100
acre tract near Weiser for a rife
range. The location Of the range is
about three and a half miles north OF
the city and an ideal spot for such
purposes.
Work was resumed Monday on the
Bliss end of the Bliss-Rupert cutoff.
A crew of 150 men was moved in on
| Saturday evening, and with the help
of tracklayer the gang laid a mile
of steel on Monday.
Thomas Price OF Blackfoot has been
arrested for selling whisky contrary
to the local option law. Before Black.
foot went dry Price was operating a
saloon. Since then he has been osten-
sibly selling soft drinks to his patrons.
Interstate roads, connecting the
capitals of all the western states. will
be one of the important matters to
come before the second annual con-
vention of the Intermountain Good
Roads convention to be held in Po-
catello, June 22-24.
While two young men were making
the descent down the Devils Ladder at
Shoshone falls, to the natural cave
below, a large rock loosened by their
efforts rolled down into the cavern,
hitting one of the boys on the head
and inflicting severe injury.
More general interest in the matter
of good roads seems to be taken this
spring than for years past. The agi-
tation of the subject is bearing good
fruit in more systematic road work
and much less waste through misdi-
rected efforts, says the Boise States
man.
In view of the prospects for an ex-
cellent berry and fruit crop, the EN-
NETT Fruit Growers association has
selected j. w. Tyler as a representa-
tive to solicit market for the pro-
duct. He will visit Butte and other
Montana points, as well as places In
Idaho.
In order to take care of its rapidly
growing business the board of d.
rectors of the Bank of Idaho, at Boise,
have announced that the capital stock
of the institution would be increased
from 100000 to 100000. giving the
bank a combined capital and surplus
of over $250.000.
Bitten in the right leg just above
the ankle by a rattlesnake, James G.
Borland of South Boise used heroic
efforts to rid himself of the poison.
Borland cut away the flesh about the
wound, and fastened to doctor. He
has suffered but little inconvenience
from the wound.
III ln6 case OI ~. -. JONES anu EilAd-
beth Jones against the city of Cald-
well. in which Mrs. Jones was award
ed $3.50 damages for injuries alleged
to have resulted from a fall on the
sidewalk, the supreme court has re-
yersed the decision of the trial judge
and ordered new trial.
Idaho is still doing a land office
business II one may Judge from fig
ures given out at the office of the
state land department. Up to April
IL, 1911, the date of the last regular
report, there had been segregated by
the state under the Carey act a total
Of 1,176,393.07 acres.
Plans for the opening Of the Chau-
tauqua in Boise on June 20 are adj
yancing In manner most pleasing to
those in charge of the program, and
there is every indication that this year
will far surpass any other in the his
tory of the Chautauqua in this state.
Two prominent citizens OF Reubins
last week settled their differences in
! a. gra.