Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-07-03
IN THE GEM STATE

AANAN
The senate has confirmed the nom-
nation of Frank S. Heer to be regis
ter at the Boise land office.
Joseph Sullivan, rs years old, drop
ped dead on the lawn at his home,
three and half miles northwest of
Eagle.
The commissioners have already
expended $4,000 of the 100000 of
the bond issue for road building in
Ada county.
Working his first day for the rec,
Iamation service as carpenter at
Arrow Rock, Henry Stark of Big
Bend, Ore, fell 40 feet to his death.
The city council of Pocatello has
made an offer to James A. Murray,
owner of the Pocatello Water com.
pany, of $25O,OOO for the water sys,
TEN.
The city council Of Boise has made
an offer to the Barber Asphalt com,
pany for its plant, now in Boise,
agreeing to give $4,000 for the plans
complete.
The hog cholera is stamped out al
Carey, OF at least it has been check.
ed, and the farmers there hope there
will not be another outbreak of it, as
they are now taking all precautions
possible.
The Idaho Seed Growers associa,
ton, composed of Idaho farmers who
are raising seed, will have state
seed show and seed growers conven-
ton in Twin Falls, December /, 2 and
3 of this year
Mrs. George w. Davidson, wife of
rancher residing about four miles
north of Emmett, committed suicide
by shooting herself through the heart
with a 3S-calibre revolver. The cause
remains mystery.
state Horticultural Inspector Macy
Is sending out an urgent appeal to
friutgroWers to wage relentless war at
this time against the blight which
promises to be unusually bad because
OF the repeated rains.
The house of ]. K Toby, two miles
southeast of Kimberly, was struck
by lightning. The bolt struck the up
per part of the building tearing out
footwide plank, and then hit the
window sash, but no one was hurt.
Boys swimming in the Payette river
near Payette discovered the body of
child which had been cast upon a
small island near the city by high
waters The child was female and
apparently about five or six months
old
The latest development in the case
wherein Frank Cuneo and Manuel
| Moroni are held for the murder or
Dominick Sparani at Soda Springs are
that Cuneo accuses Moroni of having
killed Sparani while the latter was
asleep.
After wrangling for five years over
water supply and alleged violations
of contract by one side or the other.
and after much priyation and suffering.
on the part of the settlers, all parties.
on the Twin Falls north side tract
have adjusted their difficulties.
Frank Cuneo and Manuel Moroni
are held by officers of Bannock coun-
ty, charged with completely in the
Geath of Dominic Sparano, an Italian,
section hand, whose body was found,
near Soda Springs, partially covered
with einders, and with his throat
cut
According to figures recently pub
lished by the statistical department of
the Oregon Short Line Railroad COM
pany fifty families month is the av-
erage number coming to Southern Ida
no and taking up homes in the Snake
River valley and the Lost River val
ley.
Word has been received of the dis
coYery of big tungsten ledge in the
hills north of Corral by a shepherd
err The discovery has been kept quiet
and but little is known of the proper
ty. Ore was sent east for assay and
the returns are said to be most salts
factory.
The question of whether or not
Nampa will hold its annual harvest
festival this year, along lines which
have made the affair huge success
for the past two years, is now UP to
the merchants and citizens in general
of Nampa, and will probably be de-
cided within few days
The state supreme court has up
held the Idaho utilities commission in
denying the Idaho Light & Power
company the right to enter the Twin
Falls field occupied by the Great Sho.
shone & Twin Falls Power company
without certificate of public conyen.
ience and necessity from the commits.
sion.
Expressing himself as highly pleas
ed with the construction work on the
new line and with the tonnage and
transportation prospects of the terri,
tory tributary, President A. L. Mob.
Ter, of the Union Pacific and Oregon
Short Line systems, made a trip Oh
inspection over the Idaho Northerg
branch last week.
The sudden and mysterious disap
pearance from Nyssa of Henry Hin.
who had been employed on a ranch IN
hat vicinity, on June II, las aroused
the officers of Malheur county who.
after a thorough investigation, believe
I'LL was victim of foul play.
Recently the Commercial club OF
Rexburg took up a subscription among
the merchants sufficient to employ a
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