Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-10-24
IDAHO STATE NEWS


the grip OF the law charged with ship
ping 212 boxes of prunes affected with /.
scale
sixty carloads per day is the rate
at which the Oregon Short Line Is
transporting Idaho potatoes to eastern
markets.
Fire destroyed the Central rooming
house at Pocatello, and for an hour
threatened to burn one of the best
blocks in Poeatellos business district
The first mile of the state highway
to be constructed in Idaho will be
made between Pocatello and Portneuf
and as an experiment will be built OF
sand and clay.
A contract was let last week for the
construction of a Carnegie library for
Caldwell. The specifications call for
the expenditure of S12,5OO, and work
will commence at once.
Peter B. Cantrell, cement worker
at Pocatello, shot his wife, perhaps
fatally, and then committed suicide
by shooting. He died within a few
minutes and without making state
ment.
The dry element Of Kootenai coun-
| ty has secured the required number
Of signatures to their petition for q
! special election and has filed the
same with the county auditor at
Occur d'Alene.
Roy Daley, who shot and killed +.
Shaw at the Gray ranch on Little
Wood river September %, 1918, has
been bound over to the district court
by the probate judge, on the charge
of involuntary manslaughter.
The Beaver River Power company.
through its branch, the Idaho Light
C Power company, which secured
franchise at Pocatello recently for
lighting, heating and power purposes.
will soon begin operations In that
city.
BY a stipulation entered into be-
tween the city Of Occur d'Alene and
the Kootenai Power company, the
power company has been given until
November 10 to file with the public
utilities commission its answer to the
complaints filed some time ago by the
city.
Martin Marshall who has been
working as a ranch hand near Home
dale, was arrested at Caldwell on
charge of larceny. 1t is alleged that
Marshall appropriated a suit of cloth.
es, a couple of guns and other articles
from rancher for when he had been
working.
Bingham county has the distinction
OF winning the prize in the potato
contest which has enthused the boys
of the state for the past year. The
Intermountain fair at Boise awarded
the boys club at Aberdeen the first
honors over competitors from all sec
tions of Idaho.
Brakeman Petty Of the Short Line
and a resident of Pocatello was seri,
ously injured at McCammon. While
switching he stumbled over a rail and
fell. In falling his right hand fell
across the track and was caught I'm.
der wheel, nearly the entire mem.
Der being crushed off.
Bears are reported more numerous
than usual in the neighborhood OF
Rathdrum. A short time ago John
Getter found that one had visited his
trap in the hills north of town and
escaped, leaving part of its foot. One
J Of the animals has been eating prunes
In N. Nelson's orchard.
All the property of the Crane Falls
} Power & Irrigation company is to be
offered at public sale on November
9th, in accordance with an order re.
Gently issued by Judge Dietrich in the
4 United States district court at Boise.
} The irrigation system is the one that
serves the Gem district.
r One day last week six of the tele-
: phone operators at Idaho Falls hand
ed Manager Meyer letter, stating
that unless The chief operator was dis
charged they would quit work at 1O
o'clock. Mr.. Meyers did not wait un
. til 10 o'clock. but discharged each Of
/ the disgraunted operators.
The federal grand jury has com
e pleted its labors at PocateIlo and the
members have gone home. Only one
indictment was returned against Vic
toriana Duran, Mexican, for selling
I liquor to Indians. Duran is in Gus
L tody and his case will be disposed oil
? this session of the federal court
There was big pow-wow and bar
becue at the Fort Hall Indian reserva,
ton october Is, on account of the Wis
1t to the Indians of the Rodman Wan.
amaker party Of New York. DR.. JOS.
! eph X. Dixon represented Mr.. Wan,
smaker and Inspector James Nc
Laughlin represented the president OF
2 the United States
What is now conceded to be one OF
the most Important conferences thai
has been held in Idaho for some years
took place 1t Boise, last week. when
q the committee appointed by Governor
n Haines to Investigate the eomDensa
!. tion of workingmen with a view OF
q drafting an act to be 1 ,esented to the
next IL. islature met 70 deliberate on
the Issue.
A large. quantity o. whisky and beer
n was discovered in a. haystack abou,
IT eight miles from IAaho Falls, last
n week. NJ. Mcguire was placed under
G. arrest upon the charge Of bringing
C liquor into dry territory. Mcguire
runs a small drug store at ElYa. close
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