Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-08-18
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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moving a piano, it being feared he
will not recover.
The crop OF prunes in Idaho this
year will be 25 per cent smaller than
last year, but the farmer will lack
only 5 per cent of receiving the same
money for his this years crop.
Through arrangements made with
D.. e Burnley, general passenger agent
Of the Oregon Short Line, southern
Idaho is to increase its exhibits N the
east. That section OF Il Gem state
now has an exhibit of its products in
Chicago.
It. is expected that the Paris branch
of the Oregon Short Line will be turn
ed over to the operating department
in thirty days, according to an an
nouncement made last week. Trains
are now running over the branch ON
alternate days.
The Goose creek reservoir, three
miles southwest of Oakley, Is going
ahead with 300 men on the job. This
is intended to irrigate 40 900 acres OF
land known as the Twin Falls-Oakley
project. and this land joins right up
against the town of Oakley.
Farm lands in Blaine county jumped
in value in one year, according to he
sworn statements of the auditors OF
that. county, from 1913 in 1910 to
$1S.42 this year. The total value Of
the farms jumped from 1892 ASP last
year to $3,455,379 this year.
While toddling at his fathers side
crossing a bridge at Kellogg, crossing
the main 1ume of the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan Mining company, three-year-
old Sula Tanti slipped through the
railing, ten into the poisonous waters
of the deep fiume and was drowned.
S~hoshone county's assessor found
forty-nine pianos in that county and
assessed them at $7,745, or $15S
apiece. He found twenty-six automo-
biles and assessed the bunch at $1S,-
ATS, or an average price of $5lS each.
He also found $125 worth of ice in the
county.
Elijah Pinkham, a m~iddle-aged man,
has been arrested and lodged in the
Jail at Albion on a charge of attack
ing Mrs. William Arr, whose home is
neal Marshfeld, east of Burley. Mrs.
Arr fought off her assailant and mott
fed the authorities who arrested
Pinkham.
A long contemplated plan to extend
the Cache valley branch of the oregon
Short Line from Preston through the
Gentle valley in southern Idaho, may
be carried out. Considerable land has
been opened in the Gentle valley re-
Gently and it will soon be a great crop
producer.
Scattered for fifteen feet along the
track, the head and legs completely
severed from the trunk, the body OF
an unidentified man was discovered
about a mile west of Kuna. The
body was apparently that of an Ital-
ian or Greek laborer about rs or 80
years of age
The value of all the assessable
property in Shoshone county is given
at $9,727, 291.07. This is compared
with $6,327, 479.22 last year, showing
IN increase of SO per cent for the year.
This is the smallest percentage of in
crease shown by any county that has
yet reported.
The sheriff at Caldwell is anxious
to ascertain the whereabouts of P. A.
Perry, who has been conducting an
auction book store in that city for the
past six months and left for parts un-
known several days ago., having bilked
Caldwell business men out of between
$4,000 and $4,000.
That the total yield of all small
grain products in five or six counties
of the north central portions of the
state this year will be In excess of
n previous crop eve harvested
there In the history Of Idaho, is the
statement made by those who are in
a position to know.
Portland Whitney," alias A. e.
Love, famous owe the northwest as
a criminal of notorious character, who
for years had been a terror to the
northwest police, but who has been
confined for several years in the Idaho
state ~penitentiary, has been given a
full pardon, owing to Ill health.
Governor Hawley has issued requi-
sition papers for the return Of Roy
Armstrong and John Doe, horse
thieves, captured at Laramie, Wyo.,
while attempting to make away with
a carload of stolen Idaho horses, the
property of Dick Gray and other
stockmen residing in the vicinity of
Twin Falls.
Sensational charges are made
through affidavits filed in the federal
court at Boise, in support of a motion
! to grant a new trial to william F.
kettenbach and George H. Kester, the
J Lewiston bankers, it being charged
that attempts had been made to tam
per with the jury, and also that the
verdict was not recorded In the court.
Neff Pratt, the man who killed DR..
: A. b. Murphey at Salmon. and then
:, tried to commit suicide, is still living,
though not yet considered out of dan
ger. He has never yet expressed the
: least remorse, although he talks freely
of the incident. :.
Hi Henry, owner of coal deposits