Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-02-14
IDAHO STATE NEWS

last September Wnile atASHlLnB from
a street car in Boise, has been
awarded $4,000 damages by jury.
Representative Farmin, of Bonner
county, did the feature shooting at
the Boise Gun clubs shoot last week.
He took ninety-six out Of possible
100.
To date 1850 carloads of potatoes
from Bingham and Bonneville counties
have been shipped east, and 1900 car
loads remain to be sent to the eastern
consumer.
At Bowman's camp of the Idaho
Northern railroad in the canyon near
Van Wyck, the crew has been COM
PEELED to discontinue the rock work on
account of deep snow and bad weather.
T. b. Stay, convicted of forgery, was
taken to the penitentiary from .Calo-
well last week. Stay, who pleaded
guilty to the forgery of several small
| checks. will serve from one to four
zen years.
The city of Nampa will save 1888
IN it's light and power bills during the
aext twenty-five months, due to the
new contract entered into by the coun-
Ill and the Idaho Railway Light d
| Power company.
AS a result of the recent action OF
the council in calling for competitive
bids for the city's light and power
contract, the monthly electric lignt
bills of the city of Caldwell will be
practically cut in two.
Reports received from the rabbit-in-
Tested districts of Lincoln county IN
iicate the wholesale destruction OF the
pests as the result of the paris green
campaign begun under the direction
Of the county commissioners.
State Engineer A. E. Robinson OF
Wallace has resigned, giving as his
reason that he had been verbally re-
quested to do so by Governor Haines.
The term of office of the engineer
would not have expired for two years.
John Tinsley, young miner, and
husband of but a few weeks, was
fatally injured near Wallace, when he
attempted to board q freight train on
the Burke branch of the o. w. R. &
N. His young wife witnessed the ac-
cident.
State Game Warden Barber has am
nounced the appointment of w, N.
stephens, former state game warden,
as chief deputy Of the department,
and R. G. West Of Moscow as assist
ant chief deputy for the southern end
Of the state.
Paul Cotton, dope fend, broke the
big plate glass window in the front Of
pharmacy at Idaho Falls because the
management Of the store refused him
laudanum, and after he had attempted
to break the show cases and had been
elected from the store.
DIR. Harvey W. Wiley, the former
chief of the government bureau Of
chemistry, who was making lecture
tour of the United States in the in
terest of pure food education, was
stricken i'll on his arrival at Idaho
Falls and has left for home.
That the average daily overdrafts
for the State Bank of Commerce of
Wallace for four years prior to its fail
dre were $116,663 or $16,669 more than
the capital stock of the bank, was the
testimony at Occur d'Alene of l.. c.
Wilson, receiver Of the bank.
At a meeting in Boise of members
of the Sons of Jove, an organization
of electrical workers numbering 5000
members in America, one of the prin-
cipal speakers was John A. Upper, a
pioneer in electrical development, who
installed the first arc light in Salt
Lake.
Members OF four Pocatello .women's
clubs have mailed protests to the Ban.
mock county members OF the legisla.
ture asking that they oppose the bill
introduced by Col H. v. A. Ferguson
and known as house bill No. IA, eff
fecting the property rights of married
women.
Sam Poulous, a Greek, confined In
the jail at Pocatello, awaiting trial on
charge of murderous assault, is
alleged to have murdered six prison
guards in his native country and as
sisted in the escape of many prison
ers. Cablegrams have been sent to
the Greek government.
]. D. Browning and L. R. Martineau
Of Salt Lake have fled two surety
, bonds aggregating $4,000 with the city
council as a guaranty of good faith in
carrying cut the provisions of an cleo.
trio street railway franchise and an
electric lighting franchise recently
hgranted them at Pocatello.
IN one of the shortest opinions
! handed down by the supreme court
: Of the state in many years, the Ore
gon Short Line Railroad company is
J compelled to pay the sum of $3.50 to
: Delbert w. Lott Of Rexburg for the
4 loss of two horses at a crossing in
r The northern part of Rexburg.
: Seventy-four carloads of Idaho pota.
toes in two special trains, the largest
|, single shipment of potatoes ever
i known in the west, passed through the
i Pocatello gateway on February from
Bingham and Bonneville counties far
the eastern and southern markets.
Senator Perky Of Idaho, introduced
bill providing new method under
which arid public lands may be irri.
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