Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-04-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS


senate the nomination of Darwin A.
Utter to be surveyor general of Idaho.
Mr.. Utter is the incumbent.
Filthy conditions in the unloading
pens at Glenns Ferry form the gov.
ernments basis for suits aggregating
$4,000 against the oregon Short Line.
Nampa citizens object to being tax.
ed for the building of three bridges on
the Payette river. at Fruitland, Letha
and Plymouth, and will ask the courts
for relief
The citizens of HOLSTER and sur
rounding community are to have their
own telephone system, which will be
connected with the Mountain States
companys line.
N. A. Just IS years old. a ranch.
man of Shelley, died at a Salt Lake
hospital last week of pneumonia. Mr..
Just was stricken with the disease
three weeks previous.
Oakley school bonds sold at 51s per
cent to Keller Bros. at Denver last
week There was keen competition
on the bonds which were voted to
build a $4,000 school house in dis
trict No. 2.
The State Bank OF Mackay, at
Mackay, in Custer county. has been
merged with and taken over by the
w. G. Jenkins & Co. bank at Mackay,
leaving that city with only one bank
ing institution.
Resulting in a loss of approximate
ly $4,000, three buildings at Nez
Perce, the Nez Perez hotel, the John
Nezbit meat market and residenceand
the M. d. Demoud residence. were
burned to the ground.
According to information given out
by Oregon Short Line officials, about
1915, has been asked for in the
way of improvements to be made In
the yards and on other of the COM
pany's property at Pocatello.
The wife of Fred Gilman, rancher
near the King Hill grade, is much
worried over the absence of her hus-
band, and she fears either accident or
foul play. The missing man was last
seen in the town of King Hill.
Suffering from the hallucination
that she is mind reader, that she
knows just what people are thinking
and that some man has been saying
evil things of her. Miss Grace Pad
dock of Boise Is to be sent to the asy-
Ium.
Friends of Lewis Hooker, so years
of age, are inquiring his whereabouts.
Mr. Hooker, who has been living at
the P. B. Johnson ranch, one-half mile
west of Twin Falls, left there on Sat
urday, March Q, without giving notice
of his departure.
II the people in the vicinity of Pay
cite will agree to grow 100000
pounds yearly of dewberries, currants.
cherries and raspberries the Baker
Preserving company OF Denver Will
build plant in Payette and agree to
take all the fruit raised.
1t Is claimed that HOLSTER, In COM
pany with the great Twin Falls-Sal-
mon River tract. of which 1t Is the
capital, Is on the threshold of a pro-
gressive movement that may assume.
within the near future, the proper.
lions of an old-time boom. 3.
Pocatello has an excellent chance
to get on the route of the Glidden
tour this year. All that is necessary,
according to President Theodore Tur-
ner, of the Idaho State Automobile
association, Is concerted action by the
motorists of the southern part of the
state.
That narrow gauge railroad will
be built this year by the Short Line
people from Mackay to Clayton via
Round Valley and then up the Salmon
river to Clayton Is generally believed
In Challis. This would mean great
activity among the mines OF Custer
county.
The irrigated tract OF the Portneur
Marsh valley company last week pass.
ed from the suppositious stage into
that OF reality when. with impressive
ceremony, the main headgates of the
company's system were raised, allow.
Ing the water of the Portneuf river to
flow through the canals.
I'm goin to start kickin' that
dawg aroun'," Is the battle cry of H.
S. Ashby. horticultural inspector OF
Ada county, following his experience
at farmhouse near Eagle Monday.
when he was severely bitten by dog
which attacked him unawares, says
the Boise Statesman.
The body of L. n. Vilhauer, hard.
ware man, who. committed suicide.
was found on the lawn at the capitol
building grounds at Boise. A bullet
hole was bored entirely through his
head from 38 caliber revolver He
Is supposed to have been rendered de.
spondent by misfortune.
The decomposed body of man. evi.
IDENTIFY George w. Burns of Boise, was
found floating In the Boise river at
point near the Soldiers home al
Boise. II is not known in what man,
ner Burns came to his death, whether
by accident, murder or suicide.
Proceedings looking to the extradi-
ton of Bernard F. o'Neill. former
president of the State Bank OF Com.
merce at Wallace, have been be-
gun at Vancouver, B. C. o'Nelll Is
accused of having issued fraudulent
reports, and of having embezzled more
than $4,000
Oscar F. Anderson, a ranchman OF
Hagerman, disappeared from his
bo,ca ~, ~ ohnut EahrY1ary ctuno