Montpelier examiner., 1912-12-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS


! ing to c. K. Law, of Greenleaf, who
has been doing some experimenting
along this line.
The first Edison storage battery
cars to operate west of New York will,
within few weeks, be gliding over
the new Twin Falls electric scenic
route to the Shoshone falls.
Boise may be provided with a coun-
| try club as the result OF a quiet move
ment that is now under way. Several
prominent local business men are con-
| Ridering the country club idea.
The Payette-Boise Valley Spray
company have added an addition to
the building, which cost $1,000. They
sold this spring to the farmers In the
valley more than $4,000 barrels of
spray,
The State Society of Engineers Will
hold their annual gathering in Twin
Falls on the 2Sth of December. This
organization is composed of more than
200 CIVIL mining and mechanical en-
gineers.
Luring his sweetheart into the
depths of mine near Harvard, Jesse
| Dillman shot and killed Miss M. Liner,
Is years old, of Helmer, and probably
fatally wounded himself. Dillman is
in the hospital.
Joseph F. Carol, formerly boiler
maker for the Idaho Northern at
Nampa, arrested for bigamy on COM
plant of a woman claiming to be his
common law wife, now faces a more
serious charge. that of white slavery.
Antonia Barretia, a Spanish labor
er, was instantly killed at Boise when
the axle on one of the flat cars OF a
work train on which he was riding
broke, causing the car to crash into
The one on which Barretia was rid
Ing.
The Boise assay office will close on
June 30 next unless Idaho's senators
are able to insert and keep in the leg
lslative appropriation bill the item
aaking sufficient appropriation to
keep this office during the coming fis-
cal year.
The Commercial club, as we'll az
prominent Boise men, is putting up a
stiff fight to maintain the Boise as
say office. The outlook In Washing
ton at the present time is not con-
sidered encouraging, but the fight will
be carried right up to the end.
A Washington dispatch says Sen.
ator Borah of Idaho Is not in favor
of the proposal of Governor Hadley
or Missouri to call convention of Re.
publicans next summer for the pur.
pose of perfecting plans for reorgani4
cation Of the Republican party.
The supreme court In a decision
rendered last week declared unconsti-
tutional the act designated as Title
ID of the political code of the sessions
laws OF 1908, relating to the organiza-
tion of drainage districts, because of
the invalidity of = section thereof
One measure which the Twin Falls
delegation will endeavor to secure the
passage of will be a bill providing
for the regulation of the prices paid
for farm products. ETC., bought and
sold within the state, by companies
having more than one station open for
business
The Wilson Orchard company has
received a shipment of $500 yearlina
apple trees from the Hartley Nursery
at Emmett to be planted on the 160
acre tract just cleared on Eagle
Heights. This is to be one of the larg
est and finest orchard tracts in tho
community.
The HALEY Miner reports that there
is only one man at the Magic dam
and he will stay there all winter a.
watchman to look after the property
of the company. The force of men
that has been there all summer doina
repair work and making improve
ments was recently laid of.
Attempting to cross the Clearwater
river late at night in a high wind
r. M Campbell, a ferTyman of Aga
tina, a small town above Lewiston.
and an intoxicated Indian who goes
by the name OF Dixie" Leech were
drowned few feet from the landing
With approximately 5000 head oil
the finest livestock that has ever been
collected west of the Mississippi river
the Northwest Livestock show opened
at Lewiston on the 9th, with monster
NiOWAS NUN CF0Iy bGCLf0u OI Ind
states Of Montana, Oregon and Wash
ington.
A salmon trout 81 inches long and
weighing IL pounds and two ounces
was caught in Wood river on Decem.
Der 2. 1t was fished out of what is
called the back waters OF Wood river,
where the Malad and Wood rivers
meet, and was caught by two women.
The farmers in the Middleton sec.
tion are rejoicing over the fact that
they have no hay to sell, having sold
every ton they had for So. In this
section the hay. is generally bought
up early, and this year there was no
trouble to find buyers
The little 10-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Patrick Farrell, residing near
Idaho Falls. was killed near their
home in a most horrible manner.
While leading horse, he tied the
halter around his waist. The horse
ran away and the boy was dragged
to death.
An unknown man was killed by the
night watchman at McCommon a few
days ago. The man resisted the Of
ficer. who drew his gun and struck
the unknown. In some way the gun