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


oners committed to the city jail will
then be put to work upon the streets
of the city and in a measure pay for
their board.
The S-year-old daughter OF MIR. and
Mrs. Lew Alfred, of Pocatello, VINO
was sent on an errand at night, is be-
Heved to have attempted to cross on
a plank over the river in the darkness
and was drowned.
AS a result of the phenomenal sue
cess of ]. B. Frey, a Deer Flat settler
under the Payette Boise project, In
raising potatoes, there will probably be
some $4,000 acres set out to tubers
in that vicinity next season.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. McQuay and Ed.
Hanson are in Jail at Pocatello, while
Lynn Beacon is in the hospital as the
result of stabbing affray, when a
row between the married pair &C.
CURED in the McQuays room.
The proposed sale of 10000 acres or
timber land to the Barber Lumber
company by the state Of Idaho has
been held up as the result Of bid
which was filed without being accom-.
panied by the name of the filler.
Boise has lost again in the litigation
involving license money for the use
of its streets from the Boise Artes1an
Hot and Cold Water company, for the
circuit court of appeals at San Fran
cisco has reversed its former decision.
There is apparently strong posi-
billy that the real murderer of Scar
face" Sam Thomas at Mud Lake may
never be known, as Bill Williams and
Nose Johnson both fired on Thomas,
and neither will say which shot killed
him.
The body of Oscar Whitman, aged
20 years, was found behind the counter
in the Stoddards Hardware store at
Nampa, Idaho, where he was employed,
with a bullet hole in his head. In
dications are that he committed sui
eide.
]. B. Frey, of Deer Flat, this year
made $4,000 from fifteen acre patch
of potatoes He gathered 5000 bushels,
an average of 600 bushels to the acre.
He used the Idaho Rural variety and
got an average price Of so cents a
bushel.
Before a year has elapsed the L.
D. S. community of Idaho Falls ex-
poets to have one of the handsomest
amusement halls in the state, if not
the finest. The foundation work on
the $4,000 building has been com
MERGED
A Boise dispatch announces that the
Beaver River Power company, which
entered the local electrical field in
opposition to the Idaho Oregon Light
and Power company, has just sold out
to the Idaho Railway, Light and Power
company.
In vote taken at Shoshone on the
question of municipal ownership OF
the towns water system, which has
been offered for sale by the Kuhn
interests, the proposition carried four
to one. The price fixed upon for the
purchase is $4,000.
So serious has become'the car short.
age situation in southern and eastern
Idaho that the public utilities com
mission of the state has made that o
special business with the Oregon
Short Line in the hope that the con
dition may be helped
The result of the competition at the
recent Canyon county fair for the best
yield of oats per acre has just been
announced by the officials of the or
ganization. 1. l. Young takes tbs
premium with the magnificent showing
= Of 1853 bushels to the acre.
| The highest price, it is said, ever re
: ceived for cattle of certain kind any
y wher in the world was recorded in
Boise last week when a deal was
q closed whereby local stockmen con
y tracted to sell seventeen carloads oil
!. feeder steers at $50 head
4 There was not a single car avail
> able for loading potatoes in Idaho
8 Falls, on the Both, Notwithstanding
h the clamoring of the dealers and
d farmers, who have reached a stage
where they are skeptical of the re
e peated promises of railroad people.
n That the warning majority ant
e minority stockholders of the Idaho
s. Oregon Light and Power company Of
< Boise may reach settlement of theil
q differences out of court now seems
t, probable, for conferences have beer
e. going on in which advances have beer
n made by both sides.
II While searching two Spaniards
is police officers of Pocatello found !;
e number of rings, which led to an IN
n yestigation. The men were placed II
e. jail under supicion, and search of thei
n room uncovered a steamer trunk file
e with $4,000 worth of jewelry believes
e, to have been stolen.
a The state veterinarian visited Arc
lie last week for the purpose of killing
W eleven horses suffering from gland
y ers. These horses had been in qual
= antine for thirty days, and had bee
= thoroughly tested to establish tn
= presence of glanders beyond question
is L. L. Young, a Franklin distric
e. farmer of Canyon county, has bee
n awarded a special prize by the Car
Ill yon County Fair association for ha,
h ing produced the greatest yield pc
u acre of oats. Mr.. Young has a recor
ID Of IFS bushels to the acre OF tn
m Shadeland Wonder variety.
TrayeIino from tho iptor;o. - ~.