Montpelier examiner., 1912-11-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

| Teamsters are busy hauling in sup
plies for the buildings that will house
men and machinery at the upper falle
on Snake river some fifteen miles
northeast of Ashton.
Twelve delegates from Idaho have
been appointed by Governor Hawley
| to attend the annual conference OF
| the American Road Builders associa-
ton at Cincinnati, O., December to
6.
The Snake river extension of the
Caldwell Traction company's line will
be completed by January 1, according
to company officials. The new road
| traverses the thickly settled Deer Flat
section.
The apple packing campaign con-
Quoted in Nampa by the Nampa Fruit
Growers association closed last week.
A total of twenty-five carloads of extra
fancy and fancy apples composed the
entire output of the association.
AT a fire drill conducted st the high
school in Boise last week the build.
ing was entirely emptied in less than
one minute. These drills are held on
an average of once month, at an un.
expected time. IN all the buildings.
Extended improvements are being
made in the Twin Falls Oregon Short
Line yards in the way of additional
trackage, and quantity of material Is
on hand for the new bridge across
Rock creek to replace the present
structure.
| Approximately 300 families In the
newer farming districts of Sunny
Slope, Peaceful Valley and Homedale
will be given telephone communica
tlon by the first Of the year by the
Mountain States Telephone & Tele
graph company.
Governor Hawley takes direct Is.
sue with other trustees of the state
Industrial school at st. Anthony and
recommends the removal of Superin.
tendent hIumphries and others in
authority in his minority report. filed
with President o. o. Haga.
The Good Citizenship club of Boise
has asked the governor to request the
prison board to send the boy, James
| Whitaker, age IL, who recently MUIR
dered his mother, to an eastern spec
ialist, who is studying criminals and
the treatment of criminals.
Returns received by the clerk OF the
house of representatives show that
Burton l.. French and Addison T,
Smith, Republican, and E. L. Riggs,
Progressive, candidate for congress in
Idaho spent nothing during the last
ten days of their campaign.
Agricultural experts in each county
OF the state is what Dean Carlyle of
the University of Idaho hopes to see
| In the near future. This is one of the
recent moves on the part of the Col
lege Of Agriculture In Its efforts to be
of help to the farmers of Idaho.
The state game wardenship Is an
office that will probably be the basis
of lively contention when the tima
comes for handling out the jobs which
| are at the disposal of Idaho's newly
elected governor. Already there are
four known candidates for the office
Neal ODonnell was severely stabbed
by ]. w. Peacell during ar
alteration at Boise. ODonnell's most
severe cut Is a cash extending from
the left ear to the windpipe. The
tugular vein of O'Donnell's throat was
missed by about an eighth of an inch
| A question of decided importance to
Idaho Falls and every other municipal
ity owning and operating its own pub.
lie utilities has been put up to the
attorney general of the state for de-
cision. The case in question involves
the right of the city to sell power to
users within the corporate limits.
Having entered plea of guilty to
! the charge of horse stealing, William
Smith and Cecil Griffin were sent.
enced by Judge Stockslager in the the
Elmore term of the district court, to
from one to II years In the peniten.
tiary. The men were caught at Bliss
| with the horses In their possession.
| A Boise man has an antidote for
smallpox that possesses the merits oi
cheapness and simplicity It is to eat
an abundance of good, fresh garden
lettuce. The theory is that there is
enough morphine In the lettuce to kill
the smallpox germs In the body.
AS the result of q movement inaug-
urated by public spirited women of
Boise, worthy and needy mothers with :
dependent children will receive pen,
sions to enable them to devote their
entire time to the bringing up of small
children, instead of having to put them
in some institution while they work.
Suit has been filed at Pocatello by
the attorneys for newly organized
taxpayers league, to enjoin the coun'
ty assessor from collecting 40 mills
levy for the general fund of the city
of Pocatello and a 10-mill levy for
warrant redemption; also q suit
against the city treasurer TO stop pay
ment on certain warrants.
Boise school children are to be car
ried to and from school for half fare
| The reduced rates will go into effect
as soon as the city council can pass
and put into effect an ordinance
agreed upon by the council and Off
Gals of the street car company.
Guards at the state penitentiary will
probably eat Thanksgiving dinner In
their new home. 1t will not be en-
tirely finished at that time, but will
be so that they can move into 1t. War
| den Shook estimates that 1t will re-