Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-10-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

| Inc ldaho state medical society
held three-day session in Boise last
week.
The governor has appointed s. ].
Rich, Frank r. Gooding and Reilly At
kinson delegates to the public lands
convention.
Idaho club women will give the
work of securing a uniform divorce
law their personal attention at the
next legislature.
Rain cut down the attendance at
the state fair, but the exhibits were
voted the best at any state fair in
the history of the state.
Bettering the conditions of the
women of the rural districts will be
one Of the chief objects OF the Idaho
State Federation of Clubs at it's next
biennial meeting
John Brooks, a veteran of the civil
war and member of the local q. A.
r. post, died at Nampa last week.
Deceased was 80 years of age, and
death was caused by an attack OF
pneumonia
Ben Purcell an employee of John
Medley of Ney Plymouth, says he was
held up by two men about one mile
east of Crawford and relieved OF
$44.40, as he was returning to his
sheep camp.
mined to make a fight against high
taxes and extravaganza in public ex-
penditures, and to carry the fight to
the courts If they see any relief In
that direction.
Slick Merrill earned a decision over
Patsy McKenna after 10 rounds OF
fast boxing at Boise. Both men were
on their feet and both seemed strong
at the finish, but Merrill was given
the decision on points.
Just because the original maker OF
a note is released from Its payment is
no reason why the grantor of the debt
is freed from his portion of the oDli.
| cation, according to decision handed
down in the supreme court last week.
Plans are on foot, under the direc.
ton of Th"elmIIar. The people are
luiet and peacable but if any more
yould-be bad men from the outside
lave it under their bonnets that
hey can run the town unmolested,
hey will meet with much warmer
eception In the future. II lie to be
oped that this sad affair, with it's
ere ending, will teach a need, d
sson.
The verdict of the coroner's jury
'as that Edward Bacon came To his
cath by gun shot wound, the shot
eing fred by party to them un.
noWn.
Edward Bacon was quite we'll
nown in this vicinity and known
o be hard working, honest man.
some are of the opinion that he was
prompted by spirit of revenge
iainst certain parties with whom
had had trouble and that this
sr,e""a IN ax.;1.~1 'pVotlu.
X With the arraignment of seven OF
I|the indicted directors of the defunct
State Bank of Commerce and the
4 subsequent granting of twenty-one
\ days to each In which to plead, the
A first round of what now promises to
be long drawn out legal battle was
| concluded at Wallace on the 9th.
The Idaho Potato day for the Chi
cago land show is getting enthusiast
tic support from the eastern part OF
the state and there will undoubtedly
be enough of the Idaho tubers there
to make the day a success.
The state horticultural inspector
has declared that unless the practice
of selling infected and decayed fruit
by certain grocers and fruit dealers
| is stopped Immediately arrests will
! follow, and because of the prominence
of the parties involved a sensation
will doubtless result.
On what he declares are trumped
/ up charges preferred for the purpose
of ousting him from a rich mine In
which he Ia interested, Elmer e. Rod
gers, a mining man with interests In
the east, and also interested In the
development of properties in Idaho,
was arrested at Boise.
The biggest single bar of gold bull
lion that has left rle government as.
say office In Boise In a long time
was shipped to the Denver mint last
week. The big bar contained 1900
ounces of gold and weighed 118
pounds. The value 10 fixed at $23, 200.
For over 20 years, 500 settlers have
been living on farms aggregating 80.-
| 600 acres in the fertile Salmon river
country to which they had not the
slightest title, although they had
squatted on the land In good faith,
according to Frank 8. spotford, assist.
ant superintendent OF survey.
The arrival of the president In
Boise was announced to the multi.
tudes by the firing of the regulation
salute Of twenty-one guns at the Boise
barracks. The cavalrymen took a
commendable interest in the visit OF
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