Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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railroad through that section.
A new high school building is now
under consideration by the school
board and the citizens OF Nampa.
Three 'holdups and one burglary,
by the same two men, oc.
Cured at Pocatello one night last
week.
At the teachers institute at Poca
tello 1,274 teachers are registered.
eleven southeastern counties being
represented.
John Reese, a miner employed at the
Morning mine at Mullan, lost his right
eye by the explosion Of blast which
he had fired in one of the slopes.
Word is received from Atlanta tc
The effect that George Gay, stage driv
or from Rocky Bar to Atlanta, was
rhot and fatally wounded by N. 4
Mcleod.
George Levy, convicted murderer
and alleged white SLAYER may be
brought back to Idaho and lodged IN
The state prison to complete his life
sentence.
The Noble ditch headquarters at
Payette is soon to be voted on to see
If 1t can be moved TO New Plymouth
which will be closer to most OF the
stockholders.
The people of Nampa are
cooking forward to the reopening OF
the local plant of the Utah-Idaho Su-
gar company, which it is thought will
be effected next season.
Seed collecting on the Boise national
forest is progressing well and 1t Is
believed that the amount collected will
be the banner yield in southern Idaho.
Some 5000 pounds is promised.
The three candidates for governor
Of Idaho have agreed not to WELD the
Ratchet on any of the bills which the
club women OF the state roose to
present to the next legislature. should
they pass.
The public schools of Idaho Falls
are closed for ten days on account OF
the teachers institute at Pocatello
and hundreds of boys are in the po-
tato fields digging potatoes at from
$3.50 to So a day and board
1t is probable Senator Hepburn died
without making a will Search has
been made among his papers, but no
trace of a will was found. The search
will be continued, but Mrs Hepburn
is of the opinion there was no win.
The Lyons coal mine, located south.
west of Nyssa, has again resumed
operations. Several years of active
work have been spent developing this
prospect. A new shaft is now being
sunk and new machinery is being in
stalled.
The fire season has closed, and the
forest rangers report only two fires
during the entire summer. These
burned an area of about 80 acres of
timber land and about the same of
grass land. The entire timber loss
was not 500.
Samples of gold ore which assays
1870 to the ton, from find on Castle
Creek, in owyhee county. are being
displayed in Nampa. The find was
made few miles from the Golden
Crown mines, which are owned by
Nampa people.
The Cottage hotel of Shoshone,
which was closed by the state inspec.
tor of hotels July %, burned to the
ground last week. Lack of fire extin-
guishers, fire gongs and fire escapes
were the grounds on which O. H. Wallis
closed the hotel
Electric storage battery cars, the
irst ever used west OF New York city,
representing the latest inventive eff
forts of Thomas A. Edison, will be used
on the new Snake River Scenic rail-
road now being built between Twin
Falls and Shoshone.
Potatoes are money making propo-
sition in Idaho. Dr. Sicily, former
mayor of Pocatello. bought block OF
rough sagebrush land under the city
ditch on the east side of Pocatello,
and he estimates that he will clear
s4OO on his potatoes grown on 1t this
the first year.
The extension department of the
college Of agriculture at Moscow will
conduct a series of farmers institutes
and movable schools OF agriculture
from November to March Is. Forty
three Institutes and 16 movable
schools will be held, reaching prac
. :icaliy every part OF the state.
!, While moving hay derrick. nea,
Jerome, |. N. Callins' team became
frightened and ran away. In passing
: under the power lines OF the great
: shoshone & Twins Falls Power com
pany the derrick struck and broke .
wire carrying $4,000 volts, which fell
upon Calm, causing instant death
G. B. Marlotte was fined $25 for shir
n ping infected fruit to Boise from
8 caldwell. 1t was found the fruit wa
! diseased from moth and scale an,
b came from Narcotics orchard. On
Q hundred boxes of the apples wer
l. seized and destroyed.
The contractors are actively an
n gagged in laying bitulithic having q,
; the principal streets OF Pocatello a
g the rate of one block per day. Tb
contract calls for nearly 80 blocks a
!. this kind of paving. and 1t Is expecte
3 the job will be completed in the mex
II 80 days.
a Farmers in the vicinity OF Idah
= Falls are having hard time securin
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