Montpelier examiner., 1912-12-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The pumping plant irrigation pro-
!ect which is to furnish water for
1000 acres near Wilson In Owyhee
county will be completed by the first
of March.
One of the most daring hold-ups
attempted In Boise In some time was
pulled off one night last week when
gang of local young toughs assault
ed and robbed Poek Yam, China
man,
John Carey, a rancher who lives on
Black creek, last week brought to
Boise the skins of twenty coyotes
which he has trapped during two
weeks time. The price paid for the
twenty skins was SIS.
The Boise Commercial club has
started what is classed as mon.
partisan" movement in favor of the
appointment of Governor James H.
Hawley to be secretary of the inter-
ior under President Wilson.
Democrats of Ada county and the
southern part of Idaho ratified the
election OF Woodrow Wilson to the
president of the United States, by
giving monster smoker and Dutch
lunch at Boise on December g.
The coroner's jury at the inquest
over the body of John Rose of Wei
ser, who was killed ON the aiaA
Northern extension, rendered er-
dict that the deceased came to MIS-
death through his own negligence.
While gang of men we're blowing
stumps out of new road, Adolph
Weisner, sawyer at camp 10, near
Porthill, was struck In the head by a
piece of a stump and sustained q
fracture of the skull and lost his left
eye
Nampa farmers find It quite profit
able raising turkeys for the market.
A large number of the birds were
sold forA the Thanksgiving market
from the reports of buyers in the
city One of the dealers handled over
thousand.
The second trial of B. F. O'Neil on
the charge of making a false report
of the condition ot the State Bank
of Commerce of Wallace, will not be-
gin before January 20, and possibly
not till January %, and Judge Dunn
will preside.
Practically every county in the
state has an applicant who wants to
be appointed insurance commission
er. The greater part of these applica-
tions come from men engaged in the
insurance business in the smaller
cities of the state
The estimates of secretary of the
treasury sent to congress recon-
the Boise assay office; surveyor gen.
eral office, $20,500; continuation of
construction of the Idaho Falls pub.
lie building, $4,000.
F. K. Weymouth, supervising engi-
neer ON the reclamation work in
southern Idaho, states that the con.
crete work at Arrow Rock is going
along rapidly. The concrete is at pre-.
sent up about 33 feet and about 5000
yards have been placed.
John Tyree, foreman on the Skill,
ern sheep ranch near Filler, who had
been in custody, charged with having
shot and killed his cousin, George H.
Bowen, while the two were riding
back to the ranch from Filler, was
acquitted at his preliminary hearing.
The High school students of Merf-
, dian have leased % acres of land
laying along the railroad track and
are to cultivate vegetables and flow.
ers on 1t next spring In an attempt to
beautify the now barren land border
ing the tracks OF the Oregon Short
Line.
Senator Borah OF Idaho and Repre-
sentative LaFollette of washington
are preparing and will introduce .
bill amending the homestead law BY
reducing the amount OF cultivation
! required to one acre at the end OF
the second year and three acres the
third year.
The amendment to the constitu-
tion which provides that the county
treasurer shall be ex-officio tar col
lector and that the assessor shall be
relieved of the collectorship, which
was adopted at the recent election, is
not operative until after action has
been had by the state legislature.
The secretary of the treasury re.
commends an appropriation Of $55,000
for the benefit of the Lapwai In.
dians; irrigation Fort Hall lands, $40.
600; support of the Fort Hall In,
dians, $4,000; support of the Ban.
nocks, $4,000: support of the Occur
d'Alene, $4,000; Nez Perce agency.
$4,000.
The widow and children Of Ted
Shaffer, the young man who was kill
ed ON ranch near Boise last sum-
mer, have brought suit for $25,000
damages against the owners of the
farm or which Shaffer's met his death.
B. F. oNeil. former banker, will be
retired on the charge of making
1alse statement of the condition of the
Wallace State Bank of Commerce
April 2S, 1909. at the first session of
the district court after January l,
1913.
sweeping recommendations for
changes in the marriage and divorce
laws OF the state are made by Judge
Davis Of the Third judicial district in
report prepared for the supreme
court. The judge advises drastic
changes but comments at length ON
conditions with regard to divorce.
G. Kerns, aged 21 years, q cook for
the track laying crew on the Idaho