Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-07-31
In THE GEM STATE

paAy mas served uOLlco on ILS patrons
and the general public that on the
first day Of August it would discon.
tinue its service in the city Of Pocas
tello.
Officials of the Oregon Short Line
have agreed to furnish the material
and the engineering work sufficient to
build spur line from the main line
to Cotton switch, four miles sopasTt
Idaho Falls.
George Reader. alias George Allen.
is in the county jail at Salmon, charg-
ed with the abduction OF Clara War
rem, girl IA years of age She is the
adopted daughter of John Warren, who
lives near Leadore.
The executive board Of the Lemhi
County Fair association have set the
dates for this years fair, September
%. "a and rs. A lengthy prize list
and strong programme of attractions
are being planned
J. Benjamine Hall, prominent at
torney and resident of Twin Falls
since the city was founded ten years
ago, has been adjudged mentally un
pital at Blackfoot. His mind is APP
parently hopeless deranged.
w. H. Scott, a former druggist at
Pocatello, who some time ago shot
a travelling salesman by the name OF
Fish in the arm over trifling dispute.
has been committed to the mental hos
pital at Blackfoot.
Edward Seco, whose brooding over
losing his position with a machine
company at Poeatello caused him to
threaten the proprietors q few days
ago, has been ad1udged mentalIyun-
balanced and committed to the Black.
foot sanitarium.
After terrorizing the countryside
west of Weiser by appearing in the
fields sans clothing OF any kind, Sam
Polls, Greek section hand, made
his way back into Weiser, and escaped
on an east bound train. His friends
believe he Ia demented.
Jack Phillips was run over and kill
ed by freight train near Montpelier.
Phillips has been resident Of. Mont
pelier for some time. He has worked
at various jobs In and around town
and recently took a position ON the
bridge and building gang of the Short
Line.
state Engineer King reports to
Governor Haines that the total expen-
ditures of his department for the
quarter ending June 80 was $500 Al
and for the corresponding quarter In
1912, as $7.49s.7O. The fees col
lected for the last quarter were g..
610.8O.
After a struggle against almost In
surmountable difficulties that ordinar.
lily would have discouraged q whole
company Of men, /. B. Perrine has
succeeded in making arrangements for
the completion of his electric scenic
railway loop between Twin Falls and
the Shoshone Falls.
Sheriff Stroud has returned from
the upper Lemhi valley, says 8 Sal
mon dispatch, where he found eyi-
dence that cattle thieves have been
operating on q large scale. About
seventy-five stolen cattle were found
in corral, up a creek eighteen miles
from Leadore.
The commissioner of the general
land office has approved the Snake
River Irrigation company project, Just
out Of Mountainhome. This puts an
other of the Idaho Carey act projects
squarely on its feet. The project.
launched in 1910, will include $500
acres of Carey act land.
The body of the 3-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. A, D. Boylan of Twin
Falls was discovered floating In an
irrigation lateral that runs along one
OF the principal residence avenues of
Twin Falls. 1t is not known how the
little one happened to get into the
lateral, as no one saw the accident.
The tenth annual celebration of the
hoswell-Parma Picnic association last
week drew the largest attendance and
was in every way the most successful
picnic in the history of the associa.
ton. Over 1000 people were present.
including parties from practically
every community In Canyon county.
Immediate needs of the city of
Twin Falls in the way of drinking wa
ter are taken care OF through an or
der issued last week by the public
utilities commission directing the Twin
Falls Canal company to allow the
Twin Falls Waterworks company to
connect a 16-inch main with one or
its canals.
Chester Mecham, the 13-months-oid
son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. j. Mecham, met
death by drowning in an irrigation
ditch which runs between the home
ind the barn at Twin Falls. II is
thought the little fellow was playing
by the ditch, or possibly crossing the
little foot bridge to follow his father
to the barn, when he fell In.
State Engineer King was in Poca-
tello last week, and opened the bids
for the construction OF the steep
bridge TO be erected on the south feRlx
Of the Snake river. H. w. Perha16 of
st. Anthony. formerly with the Man
eapolis Bridge company, secured the
contract. The cost of construction
Will be somewhat over $4,000.
4 man supposed to be M. f. MaIloy
OF Rupert, according to bank deposit
slips in his pockets, was found in the
Snake River canyon, near /. B. Per
rfna's RlIIa yaIraa -a..A --.. TT.