Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-12-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Four cars OF horses were shipped
from Caldwell one day last week to
the Seattle market.
There are 1891 Indians in Idaho,
according to figures compiled at the
Office OF the state immigration bu
reau.
The number Of farms in Idaho re-
porting dairy cows on April Is, 1910
was 23,116, but only 16,442 reported
dairy products In 1909.
GoSernor-elect Haines has am
nounced the appointment of Col. l.. V.
Patch, of Payette as adjutant general
of the Idaho National guard.
The school district embracing Bon
ners Ferry defeated bond issue for
$4,000 to build new schoor build
ing, at an election held last week.
The boxing bout at Twin Falls be-
tween George Kelly and the Battling
Dane resulted in victory for the
Dane, who put Kelly out in the tenth
round
The total lumber of sheep of shear
ing age in Idaho on April 10. 1910, was
2,110, 900, representing an increase Of
IA per cent as compared with the
number on June 1, 1900 u,965,000).
jury composed entirely of women
heard the evidence submitted in a
petty larceny case In Boise. This is
the first time In Is years that women
jury has sat on a case in Ada county.
The Oregon Short Line has put
into operation the newly completed
Teton branch of It's system, running
from Ashton to briggs, both in FREE
mont county. distance OF almost 40
miles.
Reductions OF SIS per acre are to be
made In the rates for furnishing wa
ter to land on the land around Noun
tain Home embodied in what was the
Great Western Sugar Beet company
project.
or the 1891 Indians in Idaho. there
are 1921 males and 1870 females,
and only hail of the entire number
are citizens of the United States.
Adults in the grand total number
2,473. and the children 1913.
The state OF Idaho will probably
ask for a receiver to take charge Of
the irrigation systems in southern
Idaho known as the Kinghill and the
Kinghill Extension projects. repre-
senting an estimated value OF
$1,500,000.
The coroner's inquest over the body
OF Charles Vaughn, who was shot and
instantly killed in a restaurant at Po-
catello, resulted in verdict to the
effect that his assailant, Joe Cecilino.
fired the fatal shot with murderous
intent and without justification. !,
The action of the Idaho Traction
company In taking up the three and
one7half miles of track between Nc
Dermot and the new line junction
point is bringing out considerable pro-
test from Nampa business men and
farmers who will be directly affected.
Senator Perky has been assigned
to membership on six senate conn
mittees as follows Civil service,
education and labor, expenditures in
the department of justice, geological
survey, industrial expositions and
transportation routes to the seaboard.
Under the decision OF the Interstate
commerce commission, Boise jobbers
will no longer enjoy monopoly of
the trade in Odds Ferry. Weiser and
Payette, Idaho, and Ontario and Vale,
Oregon, but will be obliged hereafter
to meet competition from Baker City.
Adeline Hansen Trainor, the young
girl wife held at the state industrial
school at st. Anthony. was ordered
released from that institution follow
ing the hearing upon a writ OF habeas
corpus before Judge J. M. Stevens Of
the Sixth judicial district, at Black
foot.
AS result of stabbing ARRAY
that occurred In the Trestle creek
camp of the Tri-State Cedar company,
Charles Rainey is in the hospital with
an ugly cut in the breast, just above
the stomach, and Murdo Mckenzie,
the man who did the stabbing, 10 in
Jail at Hope.
After having found F. ]. Robinson
and Fred D. Meilcke guilty of steal
ing chickens from the chicken coop
of Ernest Avery, of Boise, the first
jury of women empanneled in Ada
county within the past Is years Of
fered to pay the fines of the men 1t
had Just convicted.
]. C, Buchanan, charged with the
murder Of Thomas Fisher last fall,
whom he shot during brief quarrel
over hayrack that he had borrowed
from Fisher, was acquitted by jury
at Twin Falls
Walter Willis, under sentence from
fifteen to thirty-five years for murder
in the second degree. and Mike Maley.
sentenced to serve term In the state
penitentiary for cattle stealing, at
tempted to saw their way out Of the
county Jail at Pocatello, but were
caught.
Dave Stahl, well known resident
Of Gbbonsville. died last week, aged
70. He came to Lemhf county in the
eos, and in 1874 was elected sheriff
of the combined counties of Lemhi
and Custer Since 1879 he lived in
Gibbonsville.
Mrs Myrtle Biwer OF Chicago has
caused the arrest of her former hus-
band, DR.. Edward T. Biwer, a Boise
physician. and his second wife. with
whom he eloped from Chicago two
years ago. Both DR.. Biwer and his
second wife are held on statutory