Montpelier examiner., 1912-09-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Nyssa. His death Is attributed To
heart failure.
Willis Stevenson, a rancher living
near HALEY, shot and killed n man
named Templeton and then surren.
dered to the sheriff, telling him that
the shooting was accidental.
The Emmett school board ordered
the public schools closed for week
so that the children might work In
the fruit-packing plants. This action
was taken because OF the scarcity of
labor.
Reports from every section OF the
state are to the effect that crops
throughout the state of Idaho this
year are in splendid condition, ana
that the harvest will be the heaviest
yet recorded.
Senator Borah, in an address at No
of plan whereby the government
would be enabled to take up the rec.
lamation Of the Black canyon irriga.
tion project.
man named Richards, living on q
homestead six miles from Nampa,
committed suicide by shooting him
self. Richards, who was 35 years Of
age, was employed on ditch work by
The government.
A fight over the hand of q fair\
lady resulted in Jack Carpenter,
prize fighter, being stabbed In, the
haaE hU Hd
boy, at Boise. Carpenter was nos
dangerously injured.
Six cities and towns OF southern
Idaho will participate In the annual
choir contest, the first of which Is To
be held at the Nampa theatre Thurs.
day evening, September rs, the first
day of the harvest festival
The aggregate number of bushels
of wheat, barley and oats in Latah,
'Nez Perce, Idaho. Lewis and Clear.
water counties, according to the re-
port by Mr.. Greenburg, chairman OF
the state grain commission, is $500.
175.
The efforts put forth in behalf OF
the mail clerks whose headquarters
were changed from Boise to SaIs
Lake, short time ago, to keep them
at the capitol, have proved unavail
ing and they received official orders
to move on the 18th.
Careful observers Of conditions on
Camas Prairie estimate that there m
total acreage planted to fall wheat
this season Of over $4,000 acres, and
they assert that the total crop plant
ed this fall will be more than double
that of last year.
c. H. Martin of Standpoint has been
chosen as the candidate for governor
on the Progressive ticket. But two
vacancies are left on the state ticket
the third party refusing to nominate
for auditor and justice of
the supreme court.
The big touring car belonging to
Slick brothers of Boise was badly
damaged at Nampa, when a freight
rain. backing in the local yards, ran
INTO the machine and dragged It about
80 feet down the track. The pas
'engers in the car escaped injury.
The Idaho Development congress,
at the session in Boise last week,
pledged itself to work for the adver-
tisement of the state at the San
Francisco, San Diego and Lewiston
It recommended that
the work be divorced from politics.
L. L. Young, one of Nampa's pros
porous farmers, is harvesting between
ten and fifteen thousand bushels of
potatoes, which are Of exceptionas
quality, and which he intends to ship
east as fast as they are taken from
the ground.
conflagration broke out In the
business section of HALEY, resulting
N loss of $4,000. The postonics.
together with the store In which 1t
was located, was destroyed. A drug
store In the same building was also
Work Is progressing on the parish
louse which is being built under the
supervision of the Episcopal church
u Nampa, 1t will be completed by
he last of October. The parish
louse Is to serve the same purpose
Is Y. NJ. C. A. building.
q. Nable and Joe Cransalis. two
iexican sheepherders, because invol-
ed in an alteration in Pocotello. and
result Cransalis has two stab
'ounds in the breast, inflicted with
pocket knife, while Nable. is suf.
ering from a bullet wound through
he heshy part of his leg.
A prominent sheep owner from
Thurman reports that the range In
he upper country is good and that
he shipping is about over, The prices
aid for sheep, he said, were excel
ent, but the sheepmen of this COM
nunity will not get rich this year ON
ccount OF the very poor lambing.
Fire Quilted the Pintsch gas plant in
'oeatello and caused damage esti.
mated at $4,000. The machinery In
he generator room is a total loss.
he Oregon Short Line cars must be
harged with gas at the Ogden plant
ntil repairs are made.
A solid train of 33 cars OF Idaho
heep, shipped by the Wood Live
tock company of Spencer and con-
lgned to a Chicago firm, left Idaho
n the 14th. This company is ship
ing out train load each Saturday
nd the aggregate will reach 1870
ars