Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-08-23
IDAHO STATE NEW

patch.
The steel gang on the Central Idaho
has passed Soldier and that town now
has railway communication with the
outside world
Louis Matheson, a well known far
mer of Turner. was gored and tram
pied to death by an enraged bull, in
lane near his home.
The total full cash value OF real
estate and improvements and personal
property in Washington county, as
compiled by the board of county COM
mssioners for 1912. is $S623.576.
The body OF an unknown man was
about half mile below Eagle. by a
ancher. The body was badly decom-
posed and the clothing was unrecog-
nzable.
There were 374 mines producing
gold. silver. copper, lead or zinc in
Idaho in 1911, compared with AIT In
1910, or these 217 We're placer
mines, many OF which made very
small outputs.
Stockmen in adjoining states and
Canada who attempt, to ship 'scabby'
sheep into Idaho will find their er.
forts blocked by a quarantine proc
lamation issued last week by Gov
ernor Hawley.
Senator Borah has introduced a bill
creating a commission to investigate
expenditures OF the reclamation SER
vice and report TO congress II set.
tiers are being charged excessive
prices for land.
Approximately $4,000 has been ex.
pended in building construction and
improvements In Caldwell. during the
present building season and as mucn
more is planned and will he com.
pleted before the year closes.
Ben Beagle, well known old
timer of Salmon City. committed
suicide at Three Forks recently. He
was a brother Of Perry Beagle. who
was a member Of Whitmans party
that crossed the plains In 1S43.
Railroad activity this year has great
ly aided in the development of Cald-
Wtlt anu lllDuldly tCiIiIoly. Ho
completion of the Caldwell-Nampa ex-
tension OF the Boise and Interurban
has made Caldwell the supply point
for a well.settled territory
The broadcast and most comprehen-
sive plan OF road building ever pro-
mulgated in the west, had its concep-
ton at the meeting of the Idaho State
Automobile association at Montpelier.
The plan contemplates the expendi-
ture Of about $5,000,000 in Idaho.
CORTLAND Argabright, a rancher of
Garden Valley, was severely injured
when he fell from a haystack. where
he was working, to the ground. AS
he alighted near a horse which was
tied to wagon the animal kicked
him in the head, rendering him UNI
conscious.
A meeting of committee from the
State Bankers association, together
with others who are interested in ag-
riculture, was held last week in Boise
for the purpose Of discussing agricul-
tural extension work in the public
schools of Idaho Ians were made
for giving publicity to the movement
throughout Idaho.
A board of inquiry has decided that
Conductor w. H. Sellers, Pilot Nick
Nelson and Engineer u. NJ. Jacobs
were responsible for the acct.
dent to the stock train on the Idaho
Northern railway on July 90 when
Luther d. Evans of Boise, brakeman.
was fatally injured.
The new townsite OF Malvern locat-
ed on the Payette river, about five
miles above Horseshoe BEND, has been
surveyed II is the intention to open
the townsite in short time, and
fight will also be made at the coming
election to win the county seat fight
to be waged in Boise county.
An unknown man. who was found.
by the roadside about an eighth of
mile from Higgins ranch ON the mesa,
says the Boise Statesman. died be-
SIRE he could be brought to town. Dr.
G. r. Shawhan was summoned at
once and found that the man.
from appearances, was dope fiend
Word comes from Filler OF the death
by strychnine poisoning of little Laura
Harrison, aged years, al the home
Of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Il. A.
Harrison, near that place. The little
one, alone with a little 11-year-old sis.
ter climbed unnoticed into chair at
the cupboard and got hold of the
poison.
H. C. Ceker, ex-secretary OF the Po-
catello Commercial club completed
six months sentence for embezzle-
ment of the clubs funds last week and
was re-arrested on charge Of big
amy. The warrant charges that he
welded a Pocatello girl on November
II, 1911, when he had wife and two
children in England.
Orchards in Washington and Adams
counties are in good condition and
large crop of apples. peaches and
prunes will be harvested this fall.
There are about $500 acres of youns
orchards in Adams county, and these
trees are all in fine shape.
A. b. Brautigam committed suicide
by shooting himself in the mouth with
a revolver, at the Waller ranch on
Big Flat. Deputy Sheriff O'connell.
who had been summoned to the ranch
by a report that Brautigam had run
amuck and was terrorizing his wife
and family. found the body.
School teachers from nine counties,