Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-06-30
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Emmett church people will stoutly
oppose the opening Of moving picture
shows on Sunday.
DIR. Nelson, a Washington physi-
clan, is after permission to construct
a $4,000 sanitarium in the Hepburn
park
George Cornell of Shoshone county
has been appointed as superintendent
of Hepburn park at a salary of 500
month
An unknown man, whose name Is
believed to have been Allen, shot him
self in the head with rife at the
Davis ranch near May.
BY vote of almost eight to one, the
$40. 900 fire bonds were carried by the
people of Boise in one of the daietest
elections ever held in the city.
The northern Idaho extension from
Emmett to Smiths Ferry, near the
Payette lakes, will bring a demand
for large number of laborers.
Samuel Weeks has received the APP
pointment of new presiding elder over
the Palisade ward in the Rigby stake
of Idaho. according to official report.
Haying is on In full blast in the vi
cinity OF Nampa, ana there seems to
be a shortage of help to put up the
crop, as several farmrs are looking
for hands.
The Western Idaho rsress associaA
ton will meet at Nampa on July 10
and Is. There will be a good pro
gram and the election of officers Will
take place.
alberta peaches, one peck to the
tree, will be the crop harvested by
Sam Nihart from his beautiful three
year-old 25-acre peach orchard just
west of Bull.
Ranchers of Washington county are
busy harvesting the first crop OF al
falfa. The present warm weather iS
welcome to farmers, as the backward
spring held back the crops somewhat,
The third drowning in the Boise
river within two week was recorded
on the 18th, when man, whose name
is not known, was dragged into the
stream near Boise, In a buggy by q
frightened horse.
The Paris branch of the Short Line
is practically completed and a freight
service Is already open to the public
On the Burley-Kelton and Richfeld-
Taft branches work is being pushed
with all possible speed.
Daniel Page, farmer living near
Idaho Falls, was struck by lightning
and killed. Failing to return home
after going to the field, a searching
party composed of neighbors went out
and found his body beside a ditch.
Those who know of agricultural at
airs covering periods of significance
are persistent in the assertions that
not since the first year of the sugar
factory at Nampa have crop condi-
lions been as ideal as at this time
Five hundred dollars, dead or alive.
Is the reward which has been placed
by the state on the heads of each OF
the two robbers who shot and killed
Conductor William Kidd on an Ore
gon Short Line train in Fremont
county.
Ruben Scott, wounded near Hamer.
by Hugh A. Whitney, the notorious
bandit, drove a carriage shortly be-
fore the shooting for a fishing party
at Hamer, and hearing the outlaw
was in the vicinity, went out alone in
search of him. when he was shot.
Friends Of Grace Loughran, former
| superintendent of schools of Bannock
county, now fugitive from justice.
and charged with Ascending with
certain school moneys, believe she is
protecting the really gully party by
making it appear that she is the
| criminal.
II the Idaho senators dominate LIE
Idaho delegation to the next Repnb-
lican national convention, that delega-
ton will ont suppot LaFollette SEN.
ator Borah. progressive and Senator
Hepburn regular, will stand by taft
Is against LaFollette, says a Wash
ington dispatch.
Protests signed by almost every
settler about the Payette lakes and q
score of communications on the sub
iect have been received by Governor
Hawley and turned over to Register
Jenness of the land board. against
the proposal of turning the Payette
lakes into a mammoth reservoir.
A summer school is to be maintain.
ed at Nampa this year for the benene
Of students who failed to make their
grades during the past school year
This is the first year that such q
school has been planned for that town
The secretary of the interior has
awarded the contract to Nancy Bro
hers of Boise, for the enlarge
nent of the man south side Boise ir
rigation project canal. The work In
wolves the excavation of about 1900
cubic yards of material. The contract
price is $4,000.
The recent legislature set asids
SIC, 900 for the purpose of paying
back salaries to the national guard
but the governor cut down the appro
priation to $1,000 It is said tina
about $4,000 will cover the actual in
aebtedness of the state to Its soldiers