Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-01-12
IDAHO STATE NEWS

of the Sons of Veterans organized in
the state for years will be inagurated
at Payette on Saturday, January IL.
The people of the city of Lewiston
closed the year 1911 by voting to
bond the city for a large sum for pur
poses of paving a residence street.
Four carloads of ties have arrived
in the Caldwell yards for the Nampa-
Caldwell extension of the Boise Val
ley railway, and are being distributed
along the right of way.
w. S. Brainard the postmaster at
| Wardner whose funds were reported
/ S6,S76 short by Postoffice Inspector
John Fullinwider, has been arrested
on a charge of embezzlement OF pos.
tai funds.
The entire legislation drafted by
the special revenue commission to be
submitted to the legislature is based
on the full cash value plan of assess.
| ing all property in the state on its
full cash value.
The dead body of Richard Atherson
was discovered in his homestead cabin
|
store by neighbor. On examination
1t was determined that death had re-
suited from heart failure.
The effort of few of the teachers
| of Canyon county to withdraw from
the joint institute at Boise and have
an exclusive institute of their own
was voted down at a meeting Of the
| Capunu nountv foanhare
Contracts for the planting of 5000
acres of sugar beets on the Minidoka
and adjoining projects are being pre-
pared and will shortly be presented
to the farmers and business men OF
hurley for their signatures.
An additional building for the state
school for the blind and the deaf at
Gooding is about ready for use, the
contractor being required to complete
it by the first of February. He may
have it ready before that time.
Twenty-Five men and five teams
have been busily at work at the state
penitentiary hauling in from the river
to the ice house the 800 tons of ice
which will be needed to carry the in
stitution through the hot months next
summer
Good roads was the chief theme of
the talks at the luncheon given by the
Boise Commercial club and the Ada
county commissioners to the county
commissioners of the state, who held
their state convention In Boise jan
uary 4, s and 6.
The great influx of farmers from
the country to spend the winter
months has overcrowded the house
capacity of Bull and at the present
time there are eight new residences
under course of construction, varying
in cost from $1,000 to $4,000.
While the complete report for the
past year has not been received from
several of the companies 1t Is estimat-
ed by Major Woodson Jeffreys of the
state adjutant generals office, that
the Idaho militia will have at least
800 enlisted men at the next inspec-
ton.
The special revenue commission APP
pointed by Governor James II. Haw-
ley to draft legislation to be present
ed to the session extraordinary of the
eleventh legislature, has placed to-
tai of twenty-nine revenue bills and
FIVE constitutional amendments In the
hands of Idaho's chief executive.
With view of preventing the pre-
valence of tuberculosis and other con-
tagious diseases among cattle in Ida
no, a quarantine proclamation has
been issued by Governor Hawley,
making clear the procedure to be had
In cases where cattle are shipped from
other states and Canada into Idaho.
The state has, according to the CEN
sus reports, 725 manufacturing estab-
lishments operating under the fac
tory system, which give employment
to an average of 5000 during the
year. and pay In salaries and wages
IS, 900.
Idaho has constructed and has now
in course of construction canal sys-
TENS which will irrigate approximate.
ly 100000 acres of agricultural
lands. The aggregate length of the
canals, when all completed, will be
$4,000 miles.
Former Governor James ii. Brady,
originator and guiding spirit of the
Governors special train, has returned
to his home in Boise after travelling
over 10000 miles, making two trips
across the continent and visiting ev-
cry western state.
Idaho contains by natural endow-
ment enough of natures products to
supply practically every want OF man.
and is 80 situated In a barricade of
mountains that It's inhabitants are
protected from cyclones. devastating
storms and scorching winds.
Features OF the four-day session
of the Idaho Society of Engineers.
which convenes in Boise during the
latter part of February, are being de-
,ided upon, and the surveyors, drafts
men and engineers will have a con-
tinual round Of entertainment.
Postmaster William s. Brainard OF
Wardner was found to be short in his
cash $6,876, when Postoffice Inspec.
tor John Fullinwider of Spokane
dropped in on him at Wardner to go