Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-04-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

gress for Boise.
That motor car service will soon
be in active operation between Idaho
Falls and the several towns adjacent
In the very near future is a foregona
| conclusion.
North Idaho is second in the United
States in the production of lead. this
year, according to the annual advance
statement OF the United States geo
logical survey.
Indicative of interest in the move
ment for better educational facilities.
figures show that $25000O is to be
expended in northern Idaho this year
for school buildings
Work on the Burnley sugar factory
Is progressing very rapidly. Over 100
men are now employed on the build.
ing. and twenty-five carloads of ma
chinery have been received.
"Hamp" (J. H. Peacock, a printer,
aged 40, died at McCammon from
heart failure last week Peacock
had worked in "A number of printing
offices throughout the state.
been giving the police department CT
Boise all kinds OF trouble lately have
been escorted to the city limits and
shown the way out of town.
More than 21,040 acres of land in
the dry farming belt OF Ada, Boise
and Canyon counties have been added
to the enlarged homestead classifica-
tons of the interior department.
The comptroller OF the currency
has authorized the payment of sec
ond dividend of 10 per cent to the
creditors of the First National bank
of Salmon, which was closed last
June. -.
That Bonneville county will soon
have home for her officials is evil
denced by the act that the county
commissioners are already figuring on
such building, says an Idaho Falls
dispatch.
The Soda Springs Commercial club
is urging the county commissioners
of Bannock county to appropriate ST.
500 for the construction OF road
from Soda Springs through the Tin
Cup country.
The last of the work Of grading the
Salt Lake & Idaho railroad has been
completed. The roadbed Is now ready
for the steel for sthe entire sixty-flve
near the Utah line.
Mike Davis, who held up Mike
Ryan at Mountain Home and robbed
him of $3.50, must serve term in
the penitentiary. The sheriff heard
of the robbery and ran out in his
night clothes and arrested Davis.
William Martinsen of Idaho Falls.
who owns extensive ranch interests
near Grant, has been shipping bAled
alfalfa to the st. Louis markets and
has received price ranging from
$24.5O to $26 per ton for 1t there.
The village board Of Burnley has
had prepared an ordinance calling an
election for voting upon the question
of bonding for $4,000 to extend the
electric lighting and power station.
and put in water works and sewers.
Legal authorities In Adams county
have requested an opinion from the
office of Attorney General McDougail
as to whether the question of remov-
ing the county seat from Council to
some other city within the county
may be submitted to the people at
the general election this fall,
Notice of intention to circulate pc
titions for a vote on the question of
moving the county seat of Cassia
county from Albion to Burnley has
been published. and the petitions will
be circulated within a few weeks.
and the question will be settled at the
polls in November.
The interior department, notwith
standing the action of the attorney
general in Diminishing the criminal
suits against the Barber Lumber
company, says a Washington dis
patch, has recommended and urged
that an appeal be taken to the su
preme court in the civil cases against
this company.
After waiting nearly ten years for
water. the people of Dead Ok Flat
last week saw water lifted ITO feet
high at the rate of twenty cubic feet
a second and running in three of the
bitches, one fifty one eighty, and one
ITO feet lift. 1t is estimated this
section will now furnish homes for
from 500 to 1000 families.
Mrs Mary A Rich, widow of
Apostle Charles &. Rich of the Nor
mon church. prominent and
wealthy woman of that region, died
at her home at Paris, April IT, aged
seventy-five years General debility
was the cause.
NJ. A. Thometz received a check for
$974S0 for a single car of Idaho
Rural potatoes, last week. grown on
his ranch at Goodwin station, near
Hollister II. Landing of Kimberly
reports gross returns of 5000 per acre
ON his this years potato crop.
At the celebration of the official
opening of the Portneuf-Marsh Val.
ley irrigation project, April %. adj
dresses will be delivered by Cover
nor William Spry of Utah, James II.
Hawley OF Idaho and Joseph NJ
Carey of Wyoming and the officials
of the project.
Lee Crawford and Johnny Brass
field, the two Boise boys who we're
charged with the theft of horse
and who attempted to ride overland
In Npvada with THAR ntIIuder TO-