Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-09-06
IDAHO STATE NEWS


ped and fell as she was leaving a
street car in Boise.
Governor Hawley has appointed
Hugh Wood OF Spencer, John Hanson
and Wesley Gibson of Roberts as COM
missioners of highway district No. j
in Fremont county.
Governor Hawley has been invited
to deliver an address at the first
meeting of the Idaho Development
congress, which convenes in Boise on
September 10 for two days session.
The branch of the oregon Short
Line from Ashton to Victor, forty-six
miles, will be completed in the latter
part of September or October, and
celebration will be held there at that
time.
The Salmon National Forest SER
vice has completed the new pack
bridge over the Salmon river, near
the mouth of Bis creek 1t is a cable
suspension bridge, six feet wide and
226 feet long.
A Congregational church with
twenty-nine charter members was or
ganized recently at Mccall, which lies
at the head of Long valley in Boise
county, and on the southern shore of
Payette lake
H. E. Page of jefferson, Ia. aged
81, died in the baggage room at the
Short Line depot at Pocatello. He
was stricken on the train while re-
turning home from trip 10 the Puget
Sound country.
When the public schools of that
section of Idaho open September 8
the pupils of seven towns in the.
Clearwater river valley and the Nez
Perez and Camas prairies will occupy
new homes valued at Sl25,000.
What is believed to be one of the
most important safety appliances for
locomotive boilers yet invented has
been patented by Richard J. Hogan of
Pocatello. 1t is claimed the device
will absolutely prevent explosions.
Coal of good quality has been dis
covered on a ranch on Mann creek,
about twelve miles from Weiser. The
vein at present is eighteen inches
wide and of fairly good quality. 1t
burns splendidly and throws out an in
tense heat.
The large pea crop in the neighbor-
hood of St. Anthony of which there
was over $1,000 acres, is coming in,
and the yield will average very close
to twenty-five bushels per acre and
the farmers are receiving $3.50 per
bushel for them. -5
Winter wheat is being harvested
in the st. Anthony section, and the
crop promises to be as large as last
year. both on the dry farm as well as
the irrigated lands. Crops of all
kinds look fine and the beet crop is
above the average.
Boise is to have polo tournament
this fall. The dates have not been
officially announced, but it has been
definitely decided that the tourna'
ment will take place during the weeB
between the Pendleton Roundup and
the Intermountain fair.
Within a short time Weiser will be
about the busiest town on the map,
and by long odds the busiest town of
its size in the northwest. And this
will bebecause of the fact that oper-
atoms are expected to be under way
In full blast on the extensive city i'm.
provements.
Former Governor GooGing and as
soc'ates have taken an option on the
Guyer hot springs near Ketehum. The
option covers $50 acres of land and II
the deal goes through the new owners
will build a summer hotel. a sanitar-
lum. and make it fine public bathing
resort.
Senator Borah's amendment to the
deficiency bill, bringing desert land
entrymen on government irrigation
projects under the provisions of his
bill, directing the patentirs of home
steads as soon as the entrymen COM
ply with the homestead law, remained
in the bill as it finally passed.
James Hawley, the trusty who mys.
teriously disappeared from the peni
Tertiary on August IL, and who was
apprehended by the city marshal OF
Umatilla, Oregon, has been returned
to prison and will have to serve a
year and three months because of his
attempt to escape.
Instead of shipping the spawn Of
eastern brook trout from Pennsyf
vania, the officials of the game and
fish department are conducting ex
periments with view OF procuring
the spawn from the Idaho horn east
ern brook trout in the hatcheries al
Hayspur, Warm River and Standpoint
libby Jack. a Lemhi Indian from
the Fort Hall reservation. was run
over and fatally injured by a string
of cars at Pocatello. Both legs were
broken, one arm nearly severed. eight
ribs fractured and he suffered a cut
on the head.
That the Oregon Short Line will
spend 100000 in betterments at Pc
catello at once is the latest report
Eight miles of new tack will be laid
new coal chutes will be built and 4
new freight depot, to cost 100000
will be constructed
The expense account of John It
Morrison. who was one of the candi
dates for the Republican nomination
for governor, was filed last week ir
the office of the secretary of state
According to the total as listed, Mr.
Morrison spent S975.34 to promote