Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-06-12
IN THE GEM STATE


The senate has confirmed the nomi |
nations Of r. s. Story as postmaster
at Burley and Joseph F. Whelan, post, |
master at Wallace.
Strawberries and sweet cherries are
ripening in the lower valleys, the yield
OF the latter having been considerably
reduced by early uosts.
The present bonded Indebtedness OF
the city of Caldwell totals 1858, SSS,70,
according to the report for the fiscal
year ending May /, 1914.
1t has been definitely decided to
hold a Fourth of July celebration in
Pocatello, and general arrangements
committee has been appointed.
Contracts for the construction OF
silos have been let by half dozen or
more farmers in the immediate vicin,
ity Of Meridian the past week.
Robert Nance. representative Of
a Philadelphia clothing company, wal
taken from Leadore to Salmon by the
sheriff and is being held for an exam
nation into his sanity
Further steps are being taken by the
| Short Line to commence operations on
the new depot at Pocatello and all
preliminary work is being finished
as rapidly as possible.
The sundry civil bill reported last
week carries $4,000 to continue the
work on the Occur d'Alene public
building and $4,000 to complete the
public building at Idaho Falls.
The Bingham board of county COM
missioners have filed an appeal in
the case of the five deputies of Bling.
ham county whose salaries we're cut
by the board in their January session.
Crushed and mangled between the
skip and the shaft walls, after which
he fell 1900 feet to the shaft bot
tom, Andrew Finley, an employe OF
the Hecla mine at Wallace, was kill
ed.
Prospects for good crops in Idaho
are excellent, according to the week
ly report just issued by the Boise of
dee of the United States weather blu
reau. Little damage from frost is
noted
George Tracy has been returned e
the Oregon penitentiary. He wai
/
been in Weiser, his home, ever since
A few weeks ago he was taken III
for Bookkeeping.
During a heavy electrical storm, two
horses belonging to Oscar Carlberi
were struck by lightning and instant
ly killed while feeding in a pasture
on the Carlberg ranch four miles soutl
of Nampa.
A merchants association is being
organized in Salmon. The objects 0
the association will be to establish
credit rating system for Lemhi coun
ty, the collection OF accounts and tn,
advertising of the resources of tn
district.
A buckskin pouch containing golt
dust estimated to be worth $4,000 was
recovered by five Caldwell lads o.
Canyon hill, near the wagon bridge
over the Boise river. The find is evi
IDENTIFY the cache of some early da,
prospector.
The superintendent of schools G
Lemhi county states that the numbe
; of eighth grade graduates in tn
county schools as compared with las
year shows an increase of more tina
. $50 per cent, the figures being twenty
enc and seventy-fiye.
; Seven gallon jugs of whisky an
= three kegs of the same. spells of ser
:, eral raids made by the sheriff and hi
deputies in enforcing the local optic
and search and seizure laws in Car
yon county, were emptied into tn
| ct no
= we'll.
The official canvass of the vote b
9 precincts in the present local optic
. election held in Nez Perez county
4 made by the commissioners, disclose
+ The fact that in all hut few of tn
: twenty-four precincts in the count
9 the returns were incomplete, IRE
!. ular and inadequate.
r Quite number of farmers in IdaH
s are taking advantage of the dull Sc,
son between spring work and haydn
in putting up farm buildings of On
kind of another. With bumper crop
a now assured there will be a grea
O amount of building in the state du
d ing the summer and fall.
), The two-year-old child of e. w
e hanson feNl into Montpelier cree
: while playing along the bank Th
d child's eight-year-old brother happel
e ed to be near, and, with remarkab
o presence of mind. jumped in an
: saved the little tot.
G Pleasure seekers are rapidly takin
advantage of Bear Lake hot spring
this year. Large auto parties dai
and nightly visit the springs. part
q for the delightful. eighteenmile au
u ride along the lake and partly for II
u swim at the springs.
% At a meeting of the Progressiv,
3 of Lewis county held in Nee Per.
n it was decided to place no coun
p ticket in the field in that county.
While attempting to climb over
barbed-wire fence the 11-year-o
re daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charl
" Grimm, residing north of Nampa, hi
IL her right ear almost torn from b
II head. The child lost her footing
ar the lower wires of the fence Al
fell.
The budget recently made up /
the mayor and the city council sho1