Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-07-11
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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seleeraphic dispatches from Washing
ton.
Ada county cast S,s42 votes in favor
II the 100000 good roads bond issue
ii recent election, and but s16 IN OPP
position
Martin A. Barber a pioneer Of
idaho. died in Lewiston on June rs.
aged 81. He lived in Boise number
u years.
Charles la Francois was killed
while unloading logs from fiat car
near Boise. He leaves a widow and
seven children
]. w. Pettinger, convicted of fail
ure to eradicate san jose scale from
his orchard near Nampa, was fined
800 and costs.
Marshall Dexter, who died at his
nome in LDng valley last week at the
age of Sc years, was one Of the pho
neers of the valley.
The rain during the past week in
Long valley will insure bumper crops
for the dry farmer as the winter
wheat was in need of moisture.
o. H. Eakins. who is charged with
making murderous assault on Max
P. Splinter, a rancher, four miles
south of Nampa, June %, has been
held for trial.
Rainfall this year amounted to al
most twice as much as the normal
rainfall for June. according to the
records al the Boise office of the
United States weather bureau.
Members OF the state land board.
without taking official action, have.
decided tp make a personal inspec-
ton Of the timber it is proposed to
sell to the Barber Lumber company.
Charged with threatening to kill
Charles u. Miller, near Boise. Mrs.
Matte j. Alexander was arresteA.
Miller declares that Mrs. Alexander
took a shot at him with revolver.
Word comes from the Boise and the
Payette valley districts that the
farmers pf those sections will lose
practically all of the first cutting Of
hay on account of the continued
rains.
A local option election will be held
in Bingham county on Tuesday, July
the Sth, sufficient number of sign
ers to the petition having been Sc
cured to order the call for the cleo
ton.
The Middleton Ditch company has
crew OF men at work repairing the
dams on the Boise river near Lindar
station and cleaning out the bitches
to insure good flow Of water during
the rest of the irrigating season.
Marcus Harris, vice-president of
the B. Harris company Of st. Louis.
woolbuyars, has closed a deal with
prominent woolmen of Soda Springs
and vici nifty by which he practically
cleans up the clips of southeastern
Idaho and what is known as the tri-
angle country.
Decisions made by the state board
of parddns will free Edward Hayne.
i former president of the Boise State
bank, who was convicted of giving
/ false reports to the bank examiners,
and n. s. Sage. convicted cashier or
the State Bank of Shelley. Hayne is
serving a sentence of from six months
to two years in the state prison.
/ Game Warden Barber is enthusiast
tic over the outcome of his expert
ment with steel-head trout. Recently
i he secured 100000 fish eggs from the
/ fish commissioner OF Oregon. He
t placed them in the Warm river hatch
/ cry and says they are Matching out at
the rate OF $4,000 day.
Autoists travelling in Idaho will be
interested to know that a new bridge
has been built over Big Lost river a
mile and half below Powell station.
This connects the roads in all direc-
tons from that central point where
water conditions have been SO uncer-
tain anu road conditions a guess.
The financial statement prepared by
the auditor of Canyon county for the
fiscal year shows the grand total as
sessed valuation OF the property in
Canyon county to have been sl2, $685.
1854 on the 40 per cent basis) total
exemptions, s1s3.262, leaving a total
valuation Of taxable property of
| S12,510,62494.
AT meeting of county commits
sioners and assessors of Clearwater.
Latah, shoshone, Kootenai, Bonner,
Nez Perce, Lewis and Idaho coun-
ties, held at Occur d'Alene to devise
ways and means to tax approximately
100000 acres of unsurveyed grant
and scrip lands In northern Idaho
held by the Northern Pacific railroad,
committee was named to petition
the state tax commission to take up
the question with the department or
the interior.
The fftieth anniversary of the crea-
ton Of the territory of Idaho by the
proclamation of Abraham Lincoln and
the founding of the city of Boise will
be ce ebrated in connection with the
RainTpakers' carnival at Boise this
year.
W. A. Matthews. who fieeced Idaho
bankers out of $4,000 and disappeared
last April from Boise, where he had
prompted the Overland are. Insurance
company, is now in Detroit, Mich, and
II lis charged, he has added bigamy to
ms ether ofenses, says the Boise