Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-07-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS


The HALEY city council has reject
ed the proposition Of the Idaho State
Life Insurance company to sell the
present water system for $4,000.
The first arrest under the new
nine-hour law for women was made at
Boise last week, when the woman
manager OF a hotel pleaded guilty to
violation OF the act and was fined SO
and costs.
The four-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. D. Crabtree, living near
Cambridge. died of poisoning last
week. 1t is supposed that the little
one received the poison from eating
colored stick candy
Arthur Eakins, the man who is al
legged to have attempted to take the
life of Max p Splinter by cutting his
throat, at Splinters ranch about four
miles south of Nampa. has been cap
tured and lodged in jail.
Fifty dentists from various towns
in the southern part of the state
were in Pocatello last week in at
tendance upon the annual convention
Of the state dental society. Mayor
Turner welcomed the visitors.
A. Elgin, a young man, while riding
the carriage at a sawmill near Sand
point, attempted to put his foot on a
board, missed it and the saw caught
his foot. He was taken TO the hos
pital and four toes were amputated.
The long-talked of Boise, Butte and
Winnemucca railroad has filed arti
cles of incorporation with Secretary
OF State Clifford with a capitalization
OF $40,00O,0O0. the stock being divided
into 100000 shares at 500 each.
B. ]. Johnson, postmaster at Fish
erie, has received word from the gov
eminent that the postoffice would be
discontinued. Mr.. Johnson sent in
his resignation not long ago and no
one there seems to care to act as
postmaster.
Strawberries are being shipped in
large quantities from Twin Falls. A
carload was shipped to Kansas City
last week The first carload of
strawberries ever shipped from this
part of the state was sent out from
Twin Falls last year.
Ada county, of which Boise is the
county seat, on June 25 voted $780,
900 bond issue for good roads. The
city went overwhelmingly in favor of
the issue. The country vote in favor
OF it was not SO heavy, but substan.
tial majorities were given.
During the year 1912 there were
| 2,710 teachers employed in the public
schools of the state. OF these. $50
were male and 2,021 female. The
average monthly salary paiu the men
was 1921 and that paid the women,
S6S.SS. the general average being
S7S.04.
At the urgent recommendation OF
Senator Brady. the commissioner of
Indian affairs has recommended that
rigation lands on Fort Hall reserva-
ton be fixed at 80 cents per acre
| this year, one-half of what it has
been heretofore.
1t is announced that the Barber
Lumber company will spend $1,000
COO in Idaho in the next year in the
purchase of additional timber and in
construction of a railroad to its
present holdings. The P. & /. N. road
will probably be put in shape for
handling this traffic.
The Pocatello Tribune states that
the matter of the building of the cleo.
/ trio inter-urban line out of Idaho
/ Falls has again been taken up by in
terested eastern capital and the fran.
ohises and the right-of-way tracts
which have been permitted TO lapse
will be taken up again.
Five thousand dollars worth of beer
and whiskey, confiscated by the
sheriff of Bannock county since the
first of the year and held as evidence
in cases where convictions of viola
tons Of the. local option laws have
been secured, were poured into the
gutter one day last week.
Success crowned the efforts of the
well drillers working on the property
of the Union Stockyards Sales com
pany at Caldwell. when strong
flow of artesian water was struck at
a depth of PAT feet. The water is
cold and pure and the strike is hailed
with delight by officials of the com,
pany.
Following a complete shutdown fol
nearly seven years. the Barber Lum,
Der company, involved in expensive
litigation with the government at
lacking the title to 10000 acres Of
valuable timber lands in the Boise
basin, is preparing to resume opera
tons near Boise and in southern
Idaho.
With his throat cut four times NJ
P. Splinter. a rancher living fouI
miles south of Nampa, lies in a Local
hospital the victim of a night attack
made on him supposedly by Arthur
Eakin, man with whom he had pre-
viously had trouble.
The Grand Army Of the Republic O
the state of Idaho at is final DAYS en-
campment at Nampa administered /
rehuke and censured Governor John M
Haines for his delivery of an address.
before the members of the G. A. R. IL