Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-02-23
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Hunt at Boise, has been bound over
to the district court for trial
DR.. Frank T. Cary of Gooding, con.
victed of illegally selling liquor. has
been fined $500 and sentenced to
three months in the county Jail.
Arthur T. Engh, operator for the
Oregon Short Line at Buhl died at
n Salt Lake hospital last week from
appendicitis. Engh was 80 years of
age.
A straw vote taken at the Lincoln
banquet at Boise showed that 1874 OF
those present were for Taft; 58 for
Roosevelt. and La Toilette sup
porters.
/ With the voting of 100000 in bonds
Tor a high school building fund in
Gooding the question of the location
Of the structure is the next important
consideration.
Idaho will be largely represented at
the annual convention of Elks at
Portland this coming June. North
Idaho is making great preparations to
participate in the festivities
Willie Whiting, aged 20 years, was
stabbed to death at Harrison. The
bheriffs office is searching for Everett
Black, aged Is years, who lives on
Half Round bay, lake Occur d'Alene.
j. U. Mcpherson, the state horti-
Culturist, has returned from the south
eastern part of the state where he has
been holding some very enthusiastic
schools for the agricultural and horti-
cultural devotees of that section.
Sheepmen in the vicinity of Idaho
Falls are jubiant over the outlook
for this year. They believe that con
ditions are such that 1912 will prove
the best year that wool growers in
Idaho have had In their business for
some time.
Railroad rumors are to the effect
that the Oregon Short Line Railroad
company will begin active operations
on their new extension from Elva up
through Fremont county not later
than June, at which time grading will
be started.
| Self-confessed yeggmen, George and
Harry Lester, brotehrs, pleaded guilty
ht Boise to the charge of dynamiting
and robbing the safe in the postoffice
at Kimberly, Ida, and were sentenced
TO serve terms in the federal prison
at Fort Leavenworth.
While under the influence of too
much liquor, George Hutton, employed
| in Boise, believed himself the muir
ierer of Governor Steunenberg. He
asked repeatedly If the officers who
had arrested him wanted him to kill
another Steunenberg."
Boise was captured by storm when
200 members of the Associated Boys
clubs of Idaho and eastern Oregon
gathered there for their annual SEES
sion last Friday. Saturday and Sun
day Representatives from almost
every town in the district were pres
ent.
The Twin Falls County School
Trustees association will convene in
Twin Falls for two days session
February 1920. The gathering will be
an important one and many prominent
educators from over the state will
give addresses on various pedagogical
subjects.
Reports from Jarbidge state that
the big camp is Disguised with their
mail service since 1t was changed
from Buhl to Deeth. New, and that the
mail carriers are meeting with serious
difficulty in transporting the mail
over the mountain trails, owing to
ynoWstorms
Because an unexpectedly large
withdrawal of funds from the bank
was made by depositors who wished
to purchase liquor licenses, following
The recent wet election in Idaho coun-
~, Is the reason ascribed for the clos
ing of the Elk City bank, at Elk City,
short time ago.
H. G.. King, president of the First
National bank of Salmon City, was ar.
rested last week under an indictment,
charging him on nine distinct counts
with making false entries and falsify.
Ing his reports to the comptroller OF
the currency, which was returned by
the federal grand jury.
Carl o. Carlson, the Oregon Short
Line fireman who was killed near
Mountain Home, February 6. met his
death through his own carelessness
Ind not through any negligence or
carelessness on the part of the rail-
road company. according to the board
which Investigated the accident.
A daily average of forty-five car
loads OF hay were loaded on the Twin
Falls branch of the Oregon Short
Line last month. The hay Is being
Whipped to all parts of the United
States, some going into the New
England states and some as far south
IS Florida.
Roscoe Hughes, well-known
roung man of that section, committed
,uicide last week at the home OF his
lister, near Weiser. shooting himself
n the head. Worry over business
md domestic affairs is believed to
have caused the tragedy.
George S. Loudon, the postmaster
bf Elk River in Clearwater county,
who was recently convicted of en-.
bezzling almost $4,000 OF the govern.
nent's money while In that capacity,
has been sentenced to eighteen
.ionths' imprisonment and fined $4,-
1888
Two banks in Idaho, one at Elk
City. Idaho county. and the other at
Latah county, were closed
by order of State Bank Commissioner