Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-10-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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north fork joins the main Payettt
| river.
| ]. e. Roberts, prominent ranchei
of the Rigby vicinity, is dead from IN
| juries received when a horse fell with
him a distance of thirty feet down q
dugway.
| Suit has been FLED in the district
court in Nez Perez county to enjoir
the appearance of the Peoples Tick
ct" ON the official ballot at the Novem
Der election.
| Considerable interest is being taken
In the three-cornered fight for the Pc
catello street railroad franchise. The
successful company will have an op
| portunity to control the power fielG
of southern Idaho.
| A number of citizens of Caldwell
have formed permanent athletic or
| ganization. The object of the organ
,ization is to secure the use of gym
nasium for the business and profess
sional men of the city.
The courts have decided that DR.. F
T. Carey, Gooding physician, must
pay damages amounting to $4,000 fol-
malpractice in the treatment of the
| young son of G. s. Osborne for blood
poison instead of asteomyelitis.
Arthur Stenhouse, formerly of Salt
Lake, committed suicide at Boise by
swallowing a large dose of cyanide Of
potassium. Dependency, believed tc
have been partly caused from drink
is the cause attributed for the act.
Twelve thousand spring lambs were
shipped out of Montour, the new towr
on the Idaho Northern extension, the
past week. They came from the Coun
Gil country and brought So per head
which is considered an excellent price
After exhausting two special ven
Tres, jury was secured in the fedora
court at Pocatello to try President
King of the defunct National bank al
Salmon. He is charged with making
false reports to the comptroller of the
Ecurrency.
At meeting of the trustees of the
State Industrial school at st. Anthony,
held in Boise, it was decided to post
pone action on the matter of the re
cent investigation OF charges of bru'
tally and Encouragement until No
vember 18.
r. F. Miller was shot and killed
by his oldest son, Sam Miller, at Gar
field Bay, on Pend d'Oreille lake, 20
miles from Standpoint. 1t is claimec
the elder Miller was abusing his wife,
and when his son interfered drew his
pistol, the younger man firing first.
Nick Carlson, now in jail at Poca.
tello, charged with having shot and
robbed President Carl Valentine of the
Farmers and Traders bank of Poca.
tello, on the night of July 4, Is
said to have virtually admitted he was
a member of the Hugh Whitney gang.
When the Canyon county voters en-
ter the polling places on November 8
they will be handed ballot three feel
wide and two feet long. The names
of k1 candidates for county and state
offices, together with eight constitu
tional amendments, will appear on tht
ballot
Columbus day was appropriately
| celebrated in Pocatello on the 18th
by the italian society known as the
| Christoforo Columbp society by
parade and programme in the Wood
man hall.
According to 9 census bulletin just
issued there we're 185.546 malos and
140,0 4S. females in Idaho in 1910, OF
1925 males to each 100 females. In
1900 the ratio was 1865 males to each
100 females.
That the ranks of the pioneers OF
Boise valley and Boise basin are fasl
thinning was demonstrated when only
about 100 of the trail blazers of the
country appeared in the Pioneer
parade at Boise.
Charles Harris, travelling sales
man, was run over by a locomotive In
the railroad yards at Pocatello, but
escaped with only slight injuries. That
he was not instantly killed is regarded
as miraculous.
/ Annie Mitchell, an aged negress. has
been committed to the state Hospital
/ for the insane at Blackfoot She
IS said to be nearly 70 years of age
and claims to have resided in Boise
/ more imam AZ years.
Edwin Van Deusen, who was con
nected with Van Deusen Bros. in the
/ sheep business, passed away after
hort illness at the home ranch, Il
miles south of Emmett. The cause OF
| his death was erysipelis.
] The system of corporal punishment;
| followed in the Idaho industrial train
ing school at st. Anthony was brand
ed before the members of the board
] of control in final session of its inves
i LEGATION of that institution. by the at
! torney for the people, as "damnable
| Infamous and a disgrace to the name
of idaho
The arc lights at Pocatello have
been turned off by the power com
pany, and the city is in darkness. 50
far as the city streets are concerned
The power company declares that tbs
standard of prices set by the city wal
too low.
Idaho's state fair closed in Boise
Saturday night after a week featured
with fast races, the display OF fine
stock, horticultural and agricultural ex-
hibits during tho day and the Rain,
makers festival at night. The fair was
the largest in the history of the or
ganization and the sta.e.
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