Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-07-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

aud Huntington SO per cent.
The Prohibitionists of Idaho will
hold convention Tuesday. July 80
tprimary day., for the purpose of put.
ting in the field full ticket of candi.
dates for state offices.
Roy Mcpherson was taken to the
penitentiary last week from Occur
dAlene to begin serving an indeter.
inmate sentence of from one to fit.
teen years for burglary.
Governor Hawley last week appoint
ed dozen delegates from Idaho to at.
tend the twentieth National Irrigation
congress to be held at Salt Lake on
September 30 to October 8.
Settlers on the Idaho Irrigation
company project are to have an ex-
tension of five years on their deferred
payments II they SO desire. This is
the result of the unanimous action Of
the land board. --.
bloody cutting ARRAY took place
Mt Nampa. when George Wooley,
colored waiter. cut Mathew Scott, OF
the same occupation and colored, over
the eye with large butcher knife.
Scott will recover.
Two horses belonging to the ma
tional guard of this state were killed
near Huntington. Ore, when the floor
IN the stock car gave way and the
animals were precipitated upon the
brake rods of the swiftly moving car.
Unable to locate Ivan F. Talbot. the
electrical engineer who mysteriously
disappeared from his home In Boise
on July 3, Ernest Atwood. his brother
tn-law. who has been endeayoring to
locate him ever since. has given up
the search
Fire which started from an un.
known cause burned the sagebrush
over an area of approximately $50
acres in Curlew gulch in the Boise
military reservation and also burned
the brush of a large tract of land out.
side the reservation.
Young fruit trees and other nursery
stock is exempt from taxation. This
is the dictum of an opinion rendered
by Attorney General McDougall, in
which the subject treated Is one Of
great interest to every fruitgrower and
nurseryman in the state.
n oHtcpHtlutl NdliNu OpdhlSh JOO
was shot and Instantly killed by an.
other herder named William c.. Har.
din near Loon Lake, in Idaho county.
Both men were herding fop JEFF Mil.
lgan, and 1t seems that they had
trouble about getting their bands
mixed.
Two robbers, who are said to have
| driven into New Plymouth in an auto
mobile, broke into the store of the
| White Hardware company and stole
$500 from the cash register, and took
several hundred dollars worth of
merchandise from the cases and
shelves.
The biggest jewelry robbery ever
pulled off in Idaho, and one of the
| biggest in the history of the north
west. was committed last week when
lone bandit made off with $4,000
worth of diamonds and canoes from
the safe of the Larbghlin jewelry store
In Boise
The report OF G. L. Wayland, govern
ment postoffice inspector, for the fiscal
year ending June 80, shows that Boise
has made greater gan in the busi-
ness of its office than any other city
In his Jurisdiction, Idaho. Montana,
Oregon and Washington, except Bill
lngs, Mont.
The news comes from Wallace that
the offer made by August Paulsen,
Stanley Easton and the estate OF
Thomas l.. Greenough, of $4,000 In
settlement OF all their liability in CON
nection with the failure OF the State
Bank of Commerce last August. has
been accepted.
The matter of whether the old SOL
diers who are making their homes at
the Soldiers Home have a right to
vote or not has been decided by the
attorney generals office, and Assist
ant Attorney General Joseph II. Pet
erson holds that the old soldiers are
not quartered in an almshouse.
The special federal grand jury.
which has been in session at Boise.
last week returned indictments
against the officers and agents of the
Medbury Valley Investment company
Tor violation of section 213 of the re-
gised statutes OF the United States
relating to offenses against the postal
avs.
Boise will be host to the governors
of twelve western states, and perhaps
more. on the occasion of the Western
Governors conference. to be held In
that city on August |. 2 and 3.
Farmers and ranchers in Idaho are
being advised to hold on 20 their hay
and potatoes until the last minute be-
fore selling, as the crops in the east
are said to have been badly damaged.
Senator Borah has introduced bill
supplementing the three-year home,
stead bill. providing that the rights OF
an entryman under the old law shall
not be prejudiced by his failure to
elect under which act he completes HE
proof.
BENJAMIN Penn. the colored man
who shot and seriously injured Arthur
Lacey, another son of Ham. on the
Sells-Floto circus train between Boise
and Nampa on June II, will have to
answer in district court to the charge
of assault with intent to commit nun
der.