Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The governor has issued proclama'
ton designing Thursday, February o.
as Apple Day.
The new church edifice built by the |
Latter-day Saints at Shoshone was
formally opened for services last
week
The president has nominated
James w. Pearson as postmaster al
HALEY and Roy B. Herndon as post
master at Salmon.
The senate on Tuesday Of last week
confirmed three Idaho postmaster:
James w. Pearson, HALEY; Thomas
j. Cox, Jerome; L. w. Rigsby, Rex.
burg.
Mrs. w. j. Miller, wife of con
ductor ON the Short Line, died in Pc
catello following an operation for ap
pendicitis. Her home was at Nampa
and she was in Pocatello visiting.
Senator Brady has introduced bill
appropriating $4,000 to build road
across the Targhee forest reserve
from Warm river to Yellowstone, link
ing the Boise-Yellowstone highway
with the Yellowstone park.
Irrigation problems that concern
southern Idaho are to be tackled at
| the maintenance and operation con-
ference of engineers on Idaho recla-
nation projects which is to be- held
at Boise, February 8, A and 5.
After Ike Cohen and Ed Warner
had fought ten of the fastest rounds
Of milling even seen in Boise, the rel
alive standing of the two candidates
for fistic honors was so close that
the referee called the fight draw.
Samuel Winters was inspecting Inn
provements around his trout lake,
near American Falls, when in some
way a large boulder Of some tons
weight was dislodged and pinned him
to earth by his arm, crushing it from
the elbow down.
The body of the man who commit
ted suicide by throwing himself in
front of Short Line train travelling
As miles an hour west of Nampa has
been positively identified as that of
Oscar Hammer, a rancher residing
nine miles from Ola.
Destitute and respondent, Mrs.
Wylie Rhoads attempted suicide at
Boise, inhaling chloroform, but her
condition was discovered by neigh
Dor in time to save her life. She
and her two children had been de-
serted by her husband
Through a payment Of $3S,340.67,
made last week by Harry L. Day, in
pursuance of his agreement to pay
Bank Of Commerce, of Wallace, prac-
tically in full, the receiver will be
enabled to declare a dividend of about
per cent.
A Pocatello dispatch says: Drs. o.
B. Steeley and W. F. Howard re-
ceiyed notice that they had re
signed" from the federal pension ex-
aiming board for this district, and
that in their places were appointed
Or. f. H. Poole and f. M. Ray, also
Of this place.
Congress will probably pass the
Borah-French bill which proposes to
settle the long-standing controversy
over the Marble creek lands in north
Idaho, and which also confirms the
} title Of the state to some 100000 acres
of lands acquired by exchange OF
school lands with the forest service.
The Y. NJ. G. A. building at Payette
: was destroyed by fire last week, caus
Ing loss of $4,000. The blaze Ii
supposed to have started in the base
| nd IN hau 6ttn IN thf
oarelessness of the janitor in build
ing up big fire in the furnace anC
leaving it while he went to breakfast
There was an average of 265 prls
oners confined In the state peniten
tiary every day during the past year
the average cost the state for thu
keep of each man being $185.90 fol
the year, or total Of s49,272.86.
: The HALEY city council has pur
chased a set of hobs on which II
/, have one OF the hose carts mounted
In order that the firemen may more
easily reach the scene of fire wheI
, the ground is covered with snow.
/, What promises to be one of ths
most successful meetings of engi
neers yet held in the state is sche
5uled to commence in Boise Februar,
q ), when the Idaho Society of Engi
a 1eers will start their fifth annual con
, Vention
: Responding to many requests from
( farmers who wish to do their owl
b pruning but have not the necessar,
: knowledge of methods the state hor
ticultural inspector is arranging II
give instruction to all who apply a
the Office in person.
+ The plan to construct a bridg
: across Snake river at Shoshone falls
d which has been under discussion b,
:, the people Of Twin Falls county TO
Q the past month or two, is now a cer
tainty, the question of financing tn
work having been settled
An unknown man was killed at
road crossing near Moss siding on TIN
Oregon Short Line, half way betwee'
, Nampa and Caldwell. when h
J crawled onto the track directly il
front of an onrushing eastboun
passenger train. evidently with til
deliberate intention Of suiciding.
A power permit has been issued t
Frank O. Nelson for the development
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