Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-07-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

burg the WORK on the NAoAC NAOS0
project goes merrily on.
Otto Ohims. an old resident, who
now makes his home few miles east
of Weiser, was seriously injured in
runaway accident last week
william Mellor has filed suit for
$40 900 damages because of a broken
arm sustained in January when ne
fell on an icy sidewalk in Payette.
The charge Of completely in the at
tempted murder of her husband, on
which Mrs. Max P. Splinter, OF Nam
pa. was arrested, has been dismissed.
Al electric light pole was struck
by lightning just as bus load OF
people on their way from Paris to
Fish Lake were passing. One Of the
horses was knocked down, but was
not killed.
The compressor and engine rooms
Of the American Development Min
ing & Reduction company at Gibbons
Vile were destroyed by fire that
is believed to have been OF incendi-
airy origin.
Mr.. Parks, working under the sn-
pervision Of the agricultural depart
ment of the University of Idaho, has
been in Bear Lake county for few
days in search of alfalfa weevil, buT
without success.
Movements are under way, original
Ing in Twin Falls, to have the great
Bruneau Carey act segregation can
celed and the proejct turned over to
the federal government to be worked
out by the reclamation service.
The total of fruit shipments from
Payette valley is estimated in cars
at: Apples, 697; prunes, 260; peach
es, 100; melons, 90; pears, 10; max
ing a grand total of 1,0S7 cars of
fruit and melons for the season.
The last Al cars of fruit shipped
from the Payette cold storage which
had been held all winter were in ex-
cellent condition and brought into this
community $4,000 to the growers
over and above freight, icing charges
and commission.
Captain Hazard & Co. of st. Paul,
Mimi, have a force of 25 men at
work on the Clear Lakes power plant
southwest of Wendell. Work is be-
ing pushed on building pen stocks,
| divert dam, installing head gates and
other necessary adjuncts.
Speeding home from work at a
high rate of speed on gasoline mo-
tor car, the entire force of the Rich
field section crew was more or less
! injured when their car collided with
a cattle guard fence which had blown.
across the track.
The people Of Menan are very anx-
ious to assist the people OF Grant in
securing shipping station at that
| point side track has already been
built, but the railroad for some rea-
son will not allow the people to ship
their produce from that point.
The little five year old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Morg Williams fell on d
load Of hay at their ranch near Ma.
lad, and the wheel passed over the
left shoulder and side The child died
in about three quarters of an hour
4 from an internal hemorrhage
The Westlake fruit farm, near EN-
NETT, owned by Arthur Richards, has
sold its entire crop of prunes to the
Earl Fruit company Of New fork at
a minimum price of $425 per carload,
t. o. b. Emmett. This is an advance
of $25 per car over last year from
the same firm.
Glenns Ferry was the scene of a
holdup last week when three bandits
entered the liquor department of the
Glenns Ferry Mercantile company,
| ordered HARRY EuaD. +ba I,o.4o,,5,,.
and two customers to hold up their
hands, lined them up against the wall
and looted the cash drawer.
1t is reported that Peyton Gordon,
special prosecutor of thes department
of justice, who was chiefly instrument
tai in the conviction of William E.
kittenbach and George H. Kester, the
two Lewiston bankers, has Quilted the
service in huff because of the par
don OF the bankers by the president.
Word has reached Boise of the ar
rest in Norfolk, Va, of William A.
Matthews, said to be one of the most
successful swindlers who ever oper.
ated In Idaho, man who in the past
year beat the leading bankers OF
southern Idaho out of $4,000 in a
bogus insurance scheme, it is alleged.
One of the early results of the ere.
alton of state tax commission in
Idaho will be the adding to the as.
sessment rolls for taxation of $50.
100000 worth of fine timber land in
north Idaho owned by the Northern
Pacific railway, the Potlach Lumber
company and other big corporations
At the request of Senator Brady
Secretary Of War Garrison and Gen
eral Wood, chief of staff, win visit
Boise about August or 9. to lool
over Boise barracks and determine
dennitely whether to continue tina
post or recommend its abandonment
The immense warehouse OF the
Gooding Fruit and Produce Growers
association at Gooding was entirely
destroyed by fire July 13. The loss
was practically covered by insuranc,
and viii be light. It will be rebuilt
IN time for the storage Of crops thi.
fall