Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-07-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS

mer normal school now In session at
Moscow.
in 1911 there was paid out by the
lumber interests of Idaho the sum OF
SIS 900 for labor and the sum OF
$350,0I0 for supplies.
john M. Haines has filed his accept
ance of the nomination as candidate
for the Republican nomination for
governor with the secretary of state.
1t is estimated that at the present
time there are 100000 sheep grazing
Upon the hillsides of Idaho, which
yearly yield wool clip of 17000,000
pounds
r. p. Shawhan, state senator from
Canyon county, who was prominently
identified with the Roosevelt move
ment in Idaho, does not believe there
will be third party formed in this
state.
Large quantities of gold bullion are
regularly being brought to the assay
office at Boise and from present indi.
cations IL is estimated that the
amount this year will surpass last
years output by 100000.
The sugar beet industry shows that
farmers of Idaho the total of 206,-
367 900 pounds OF eeets. In this in.
dustry there was spent $1.147.65 for
labor and $393,S6S for supplies
Murder in the first degree Is the
charge that Ray Weaver, alias Wlr
son, the youth who courted Miss
Lena Speer of Rupert, must answer
when he is tried for sending poison
through the mail to the girl he
wooed.
Ted Schaefer, aged "a, was almost
instantly killed at the Erbes ranch.
on Eight Mile creek, when hay fork
fell from a derrick and struck the
young man on the head. His skull
was badly crushed He never regained
consciousness.
C. s. Mcconnell, city health officer.
and James II. Wallis, state food, dairy
and sanitary inspector. In a confer
ence last week, decided to use their
combined efforts to clean up places In
Boise which are not in the proper
sanitary condition.
In Idaho the highest wages In the
world are paid for mining Every
miner in the Occur d'Alenes receives
$3.50 per day of eight hours In Sho-
shone county alone there was paid
out to the miners in wages in 1911 the
sum of $i,640,000.
The paving question ir Idaho Falls
was settled last week by the council
voting solidly, over the veto for the
mayor, for an ordinance which pro-
vides for paving 100000 square yards
OF street In the unpaved portions OF
the business section of the city.
Six new railroad points will be
placed on the map with the compile
ton of the Idaho Northern extension
from Emmett to Smiths Ferry, the
locations of which have just been an
nounced. Track laying operations
have progressed as far as Montour.
A Chicago dispatch says that Colo
mel Roosevelt, unable to secure the
support of any of the eight Idaho
delegates to the Chicago convention.
will appeal to his partlsans In Idaho
to send new delegation to his Pro-
gressive Republican convention in Au-
gust.
Meridian voters have declared for
greater Improvement in its education.
81 facilities when the bond election,
to authorize the issuance OF $4,000
in school bonds, carried by a vote of
241 to 101 As a two.thlrds majority
a.. H.,
ity of 10.
The estimated amount of saw TIM
Der standing In Idaho is 60,000.000,000
feet AT the present scale OF prices 1t
will require $4S0,000,000 to market
this timber for labor alone, and the
additional sum of s120,000,000 will go
to the merchants and the farmers for
supplies.
When the state board of equallza-
tion meets in August 1t may find its
laborious task materially simplifled
and lessened by the employment of a
wonderful little machine styled the
"Brunsviga," which has been option
ally purchased by the state for use
at such sessions.
The sixth annual state FORMAL sum-
mer school opened at Boise, June "a,
for six weeks session, with an en-
rollment of 144 students II Is the
largest enrolment for the first day
in the history of the school. II is
expected that there will be regis
tration of fully 200.
II. A. Davis OF Boise has been ar
rested for his alleged failure to prop
erly spray the trees in his orchard
at Nampa. according to J. U. McPher-
son, state horticultural inspector. Da-
Wis has entered plea of not guilty
and 1t is expected that he will offer
a stubborn contest when the case
comes up.
According to figures of the Canyon
Commission company which 10
handling the bulk of the strawberry
crop about Caldwell. the total yield
will approximate 10000 or 10000
crates this year. To date more than
1000 crates have been handled
The candidacy of Chief Justice
Stewart of the supreme court for the
republican nomination as justice on
the supreme bench was formally an.
nounced last week when papers off,
eially placing the chief juBtice's name