Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-03-27

TO determine Whetner or not Donus
should be issued to build new
school house resulted in favor Of the
fproposition. The new building will
cost something over $4,000.
BY reason OF his recent appoint
ment on the committee on public
buildings and grounds, Senator
Brady finds himself better cared for
In the matter of committee assign
ments than any other senator of short
service.
Because interests that wish to bid
on the Idaho-Oregon Light & Power
company when it is put up for sale
are not yet ready, the receivers sale,
scheduled for last week, was post
poned until May IS, by order of Judge
Dietrich.
The first Community banquet Of Pc
catello was held at the Commercial
club rooms, March II, with nearly $50
townspeople present. A number Of
live wires from surrounding cities and
few leaders from adjoining states
were present.
One-half the Idaho lands of the
Northern Pacific Railway company
are to be surveyed this year. This
action means that they will be placed
IN such a position that patent may
issue on them and they will then be
subject to taxation.
FRANKIE Greene, superintendent u.
the Mullan schools, died at the Provi,
dence hospital, after suffering intense
agony for three weeks from the IN
iuries he received when crushed un-
der a slab of rock in the Morning
mine at Mullan, on February 2S.
It is estimated that the cost of
hauling the crops of 1918 to the rail
road have cost the people Of Curlew
valley enough to grade the roadbed
Of railroad from Monument, Utah,
to Holbrook, Idaho, and this may be
} thought seriously of before long.
In dismissing the charge Of man
slaughter against DR.. G. G. Smith, an
osteopath, of King Hill, the last chap
ter in the famous starvation case" is
written. This case attracted great
deal of attention in southern Idaho,
1ue to the peculiar features surround
ing it.
A bill will probably be presented. at
the next session Of the legislature pro-
h1biting fishing In the reservoir at the
Magic Dam or in the backwater for
miles. The northern limit would be
Malad Hot Springs, and the southern
the diversion dam just below the
Magic Dam.
The traffic department of the Boise
Commercial club has taken the mat
ter up by petition to the officials OF
the Oregon Short Line, asking them
to change the name IF the road to
the Idaho Short Line, in as much
as ninety per cent of the mileage OF
the road Is located within the state oil
Idaho.
Secretary Childs, of the Idaho State
& League Of Commercial Bodies, has is
sued call to the secretaries of the
various allied organizations over the
state to meet in Pocate1lo on April 90
to discuss problems common to all the
organizations.
A complete atlas Of Canyon county
is being prepared. The compilation
Of the work will require about Is
months and viii include a complete
description of every parcel of prop
erty in the county, together with the
owners name.
Passengers arriving on the trains
from Riparia, says the Lewiston Trib
une, report the lower river orchards
now b bloom, the sight being a mos
welcome one to passengers coming
; from eastern sections, where but 8
] lew days ago they left mid-wintel
) conditions.
( All teachers Of the Caldwell publit
. schools making application for re
J. election have been retained by ths
school board to serve for the yea
1S14-16.
William NJ. Morgan, Of Moscow. on,
OF the best known Idaho attorneys
a long identified in public life, has an
e nounced his candidacy under the non
r. partisan judiciary law. as a primar,
Y candidate for position on the 81
preme bench to succeed Justice All
SHE.
According to estimates Of the Noun
tain States Telephone & Telegraph
company, in the plan for schedulin,
u the possible business of the future, i
will require 87t houses or apartment
; to make Pocatello a city OF 1900
within five years.
Once again the Mackay dam in tn
n Lost River just above the town o
e Mackay is under fire. This is tn
C key to the Big Lost River irrigation
q project. An enormous amount o
81 money has been expended in its con
struction and it is now contended tina
the dam viii not hold water.
To convey $4,000 acres of land t,
:, the forestry department Of the Uni
versity of Idaho is the purpose of
bin just introduced in congress. It
intention is that the government shal
deed the land to the forestry schoo
as an endowment