Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-09-11
In THE GEM STATE

PocatellO has planned to spend
nearly $4,000 IN paving and improving
the city streets.
Ten carloads of choice horses and
mules were shipped from Caldwell
last week to the eastern markets.
The grand total assessed valuation
Of all the counties in the state OF
Idaho, exclusive Of personal property,
is 1891, 0s6. S95.2s.
Practically all the physicians Of
Pocatello have signed a resolution
agreeing not to prescsibe alcoholic
beverages unless absolutely neces.
sary.
A contract has been let for poles
to transmit power to Salmon from
the site on the Salmon river where
the new power company will build its
plant.
The l.. d. S. amusement hall, an old
landmark and the first Mormon
church built in Pocatello was de- 4
stroyed by fire of mysterious origin
on September 6.
Council is sending out a fine crop
Of watermelons and cantaloupes, and
it appears that there will be total
of from thirty to thirty-five cars Of
melons in the 1914 crop.
Robert Brandenberg, who has been
a familiar character about Montpelier
for the past several years, died last
week in the shack in which he lived
in Hufftown. He was about 60 years
of age
The registration at the teachers
joint institute of Ada, Adams, Ell
more, Blaine, Boise, Canyon, Good
ing. Lincoln, Owyhee and Washington
counties almost reached the one thou
sand mark.
Mrs. Davis, wife Of Mayor Ben
Davis of Bellevue, met with painful
accident when she accidentally
knocked a revolver from a shelf, the
weapon being discharged, the bullet
striking her in the right leg.
Prune picking and packing in the
Boise and Payette valleys is on in
full blast. The fruit is OF fine quail
ity, but the crop is about IS per cent
of the normal. The price is good,
tnouSn5 dpout tue SonAS os ~ was tss@S
year.
"a. ]. Mcintosh, 20 years Of age.
who was part owner of one Of the
restaurants at PocatellO, was
drowned in the Portneuf river while
bathing. 1t is believed he was strick-
en- with cramps. The body was re-
covered.
Henry B. Coonz, veteran conduc-
tor on the Oregon Short Line, met
death when he fell beneath the wheels
Of freight cars, while switching in the
yards Of Lakep0rt-the Payette
Lakes terminus Of the Idaho North
ern extension.
The body Of Mrs. Garfield Bond Of
Blackfoot, for which a diligent search
had been maintained for two weeks,
! was found September by Carl Brad
! ley and D. L. Ceilings entangled In
. a pile of brush in Snake river, about
= seven miles below Blackfoot.
4 The state game department will
i send to Blackfoot its exhibits and
aquariums of various kinds. The
q displays are sent at the request OF
the Southern Idaho Fair association
p and are to be shown at the fair at
Blackfoot September is, 16, II and
a. IS.
a Glenn Sheets, a 15-year-old boy,
10 was severely injured In a runaway at
Moscow, the boy being thrown
through a barb wire fence and the
wagon piling on top of him. His
flesh was torn from his right arm
VI and he suffered Commissions on the
head.
Mrs. e. j. Frawley, wife of a Boise
d attorney, was fatally burned as the
q result Of a gasoline explosion at her
y home, caused by a colored servant
using gasoline to clean the floors
= August Basso, a young man who
came to Mrs. Frawley's aid, was ser
"a iously burned.
d Superintendent Jewell of the Port
land fish hatchery, who has charge
ie Of the salmon seining operations a
ir Salmon, captured salmon last weel
m which bore marks showing that i
ir had been turned loose from a Port
nr land hatchery Ave years ago. TIL.
m fish weighed thirty4fve pounds.
IL Don ii. Bark, irrigation engineer
It has returned from attendance upoi
the convention Of the Western Can
adiaA Irrigation association held. a
A Penticton, British Columbia. MI
"a Bark was invited to attend for tn
n purpose OF making an address on tn
n Actual Problem That Confronts a
ID Irrigator"
is Pledging their candidates for stat
Ill and county office for statewide prc
IT. hibition and launching them on tn
political sea aboard a platform tina
is distinctly dry" the Prohibition
party of this state, in convention a
ne Caldwell, nominated q full tickle
az from United States senator down I
N. mine inspector.
10 The War Bonnet Roundup an
'n- Bonneville fair opened Monday o
!. Idaho Falls and viii continle fiV
lays. a
Harvest of grain is in nEdIress
the elevated regions 1of soutneaster
Ike Idaho. and third crop alfalfa is bein
lp- cut in the southwestern localitie
oil Conditions have haen Favarahfo fl