Montpelier examiner., 1912-05-31
IDAHO STATE NEWS

"A
will be voted in Latah county for the
building of a new court house and
Jail.
The election in Twin Falls county
on the local option question failed to
change present conditions, the voters
deciding that the county should re-
main dry"
Arthur Hodges, formerly a promi.
nent business man of Oregon, has
the honor of being elected the first
mayor of Boise under the commission
form of government.
A letter asking for an Idaho exhibit
at the New York land show, to be
held November is to December 2,
1912, has been received by the gov,
ernor from the nations metropolis.
Governor Hawley has appointed
thirty-six delegates from various
parts of the state to attend the North
western Development congress to be
held in Seattle, Wash, June to 8.
Arthur B. Cults, the convicted de-
faulting cashier of the Idaho State
bank of HALEY, has been sentenced
to serve an indeterminate term in the
state penitentiary of not less than six
months nor more than ten years.
While playing near an irrigating
ditch, the three-year-old daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Schaub, living near
Nampa, fell into the water and was
drowned. The body was found a mile
below the scene of the accident.
From present indications it appears
that when the Western Governors as
socaton meets in Boise the first
week of next August nearly all the
chief executives Of western states
who are members will be in attend
Rnce.
James NJ. Bishop. who came across
the plains with his wife and six chill
dren and settled in Albion in 1879,
died on the 18th at Ray, after an i'll
ness of two days, at the age of 80.
His body was brought back to Albion
for burial.
Another effort is being made to or
ganize an irrigation district to in
clude 10000 acres surrounding the
town of Sunnyside in Elmore county.
A petition for the organization of the
district has been prepared and is now
being circulated.
When asked by other senators IL
he would enter into an agreement to
bring about an adjournment by June
15, Senator Borah said: There will
be no adjournment II l can prevent
1t until the three-year homestead bill
is finally passed"
Rev. David NJ Hand, pastor of the
Baptist church at Moscow, has been
arrested on the charge of having
wronged 17-year-old girl, member
of his church. The pastor, who has
wife and four children, Indignantly
denies the charge.
There are twenty-three potato clubs
in the state. Most of the clubs have
been formed in rural schools and il
is evident that many of the girl stu.
dents have joined in with the boys
in a combined effort to promulgate
the starchy vegetable in Idaho.
Sixty-five hundred pounds of dan
delions were gathered by forty-four
three dandelion stations at Boise one
day last week, where they were cart
ed away in great wagon loads to the
river The greatest number gathered
by any one individual was 800
pounds.
Mrs. Nellie Bennett Stuart of Twin
Falls has received word that the su-
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lower courts in case in which she
was plaintiff against John Douglas
Petersen, concerning patents on the
Remington pump gun. Her late hus.
band, A. L. Bennett, was one of the
inventors of the gun.
Phenomenal crops are assured this
year in all the orchards of Washing
ton county and the Weiser valley &C,
eording to reports being received
from all sections.
A report from the office of the sec
retary of war shows the total cost of
Boise barracks to date to be 1898 .049,
of which 330.190 has been spent on
buildings and S63221 on the water
supply. The land has been apprais.
GU anu 10 eslinidleu HOW 10 Ue WOTLn
$S20,66S.
Despite his effort to make the jour.
ney from Salem to Boise on horse.
back with as little attention as pos.
sible, Governor Oswald West of Ore
gon will not cross the state line into
Idaho at Weiser without formal re-
ception, If plans of the Commercial
club reach maturity.
The annual convention of the Sew
enth Day Adventists of southern
Idaho and eastern Oregon com.
menced at Nampa on Sunday. The
conference will last ten days, attend.
ed by about 100 church dignitaries
from all over the west and lay mem.
bers of this section.
A meeting of the former residents
of Indiana, who live in Boise, was
held in that city last week, at which
time a Hoosier society, with a char.
ter membership of nearly So was or.
ganized. The object of the organiza.
tion Is purely of a social nature.
Hanging on a ledge so narrow that
he could not move an inch, suspend
ed 800 feet in air. Fred whipple. a
rancher on the Boise river. near
, Mountain Home, was rescued after
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