Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-09-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS


annual convention October and 8.
The method adopted this season 81
shipping Emmett peaches in bushel
baskets has proven a profitable expert.
meat, It IL reported
Bears killed 100 head OF sheep at
the EgbeFt camp near briggs before
hunters slew two Of the bears, the rest
scurFying to the forest
II is planned by the Catholics to
erect q $50, 900 hospital on the east
side OF PocateIIo, Immediately adjoin.
ing the church On that side OF town.
A tax of IA mills On the dollar has
been levied by the Wallace city coun,
ell to provide funds for maintaining
the city government during the coming
year.
Miss Beatrice avery Is q candidate
for postmaster at Harrison, and her
candidacy is being backed by the Wo-
mems Democratic club Of Occur
d.Alene.
Up to date there have been issued
by the secretary Of state $3.50 auto
mobile licenses in Idaho. The regis.
tration this year far exceeds that Of
last year.
Bert Givens Of Nampa was painful.
" injured when q finger of his left
hand was caught between the chain
and the cog wheels Of motorcycle
and ground to pulp.
A novelty in tomatoes was grown
this year by Hugh EggIeston in his
garden at Emmett They are pure
white. Their eating qualities are as
good as the old fashioned red ones.
Samuel Tilden, the Indian police
man who on May killed William
Jackson, also an Indian, at Joseph, on
the Nez Perez Indian reservation near
Lewiston, must stand trial on charge
OF murder.
Mrs. William Brookshire. the IS,
year-old wife Of Short Line employe,
died at the Nampa hospital as the re-
| suit Of drinking chIOroform. There is
no known reason for the action of the
young wife.
Spectators at the fair grounds at
Blackfoot were given an unexpected
thrill when Aviator GertzOn's aero
plane crashed into q fence. Gertzon
escaped uniItjured but his plane was
demolished.
The socalled drainage district law
is valid and its passage was in COM
pliance with all provisions Of the con-
stitution. This was the substance of
the decision handed down last week
by the state supreme court
John Kaufman drove an auto of
the driveway Just across the river
from American Falls, and sustained
painful IL not serious injuries. The
car turned over I'VE times and landed
about $50 feet below the starting
point
A fire which promised for a time tt
destroy all OF the new buildings anC
yards of the Caldwell Union Stock
yards company was extinguished will
but slight loss, due to the prompt re
J, Spouse made by the local IRE depart
ment.
The state meeting of the Idaho Fed
i Grafton OF Women's clubs will be he'll
a this year at Lewiston, the second tim
in the history Of the federation tina
a meeting has been held in the nortt
The meeting was held at MOSCOW 81
years ago.
County Clerk Utter believes tina
the new registration law has save
Ada county fully $4,000 on the tw
elections this fall. Instead of the pr
mary election costing the county $40
900. as had been roughly estimate
= by the commissioners. the expens
was tribe less than $4,000.
The seventeen-months-old daughtt
n and equip plant at Caldwell In Ii
r near future for the manufacture
"a butter, ice cream and other dairy pr
a ducts, to conduct both wholesale an
a retail business in the same, and
M provide medium of exchange al
m market for farm products OF evel
kind.
One day last week at Pocatello nil
violators of the liquor Law entered
le plea OF guilty and received sentenc
os at the hands of the district coul
at Judge Bulge imposed a jail senten
IN in the majority OF cases, though ca
1t fines ranging from 500 to $3.50 al
N were imposed with suspended Jail Sc
fences for some Of the culprits.
Judge Dietrich took from the ju
at Boise the case of the United Stat
ne against w. D. G. Simpson and S.
s.. Simpson, officers OF the American ,
tic tional bank. indicted and on trial
by the charge of violating the fedel
he banking act. and Quashed the indi
leT ments. The court, however, holds
defendants to the next grand jury
One Of the most severe storms
many years passed over the Drie
g., section last week, doing cOnsideral
=. damage to grain and live stock. She
~ and cattle men hurried into the mo-
- tains to rescue their fiocks and hei
- from the SNOW. Some OF the retu
ing hockmasters report q depth
three feet where they found th
sheep.
The total amount OF taxes to-
~ raised in Canyon county for the Z
a.. 1914 will be 500, 1885, ACCORDING
~ the levy determined by the beard
A. commissioners. This sum represe
a reduction Of approximately 800.
over the taxes OF Canyon prope
owners last year.
aeh The county commissioners OF @
ere lake have fixed the tax levy Tor u
the ana county purposes az 81 .OS On g