Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-06-26
In THE GEM STATE

Mrs. Hepworth OF Little Lost river.
President Wilson has nominated Z.
w. Cotton to be postmaster of Malad
city.
One of the biggest Fourth Of July
celebrations ever held i'll Blackfcot is
planned for this year.
David Malcolm, Scottish laborer
employed on ranch near Emmett,
suicide by shooting. He had been
sick and became Respondent.
What was probably the first grain
harvested in that section this season
was a field Of barley cut by A. A.
Beasley near Meridian, last week.
With force of 100 men on the
various crews working on the track
laying of the Idaho Northern extern
sion the work is progressing rapidly.
Ill health is given as the cause for
the suicide of Bingham Mathews.
aged so, living near Idaho Falls, who
blew off the top of his head with
shotgun.
The building formerly owned and
occupied by the Bank of Nampa,
Ltd, which failed last September, has
been purchased by the First National
bank of Nampa.
Carelessness in disposing Of Gig.
arctic caused a fire which destroyed
the barn of j. M Swigart, near Mani
pa, the stock being saved, but several
sets of harness being destroyed.
The annual joint teachers institute
of the counties of Twin Falls. Cassia
and lMinidoka, and probably Fart OF
Lincoln county. will be held in Twin
Falls from September to II, inc1us-
I've
Southern Idaho has already shipped
1900 cars Of hogs this year, and it is
estimated that there will be 5000 cars
for delivery this fau This will bring
about $14,000,00O to Idaho swine grow
ers.
Governor Haines has announced the
appointment of Ray b. Hurd of Pay
cite a member of the state board Of
veterinary medical examiners to sue
coed DR.. Noble, whose time has ex-
pred
G. H. Hodges, parole violator from
the state penitentiary, was brought
back to Boise last week from Hunt
ington, Ore, where he had gone to
elude the officers after passing two
bad checks in Boise.
Edward Jones, aged "a, ranch
hand from Samaria, died at a hospital
in Ogden as the result of injuries re-
ceived four days previous when he was
crushed under a falling hay derrick
while at work in the field
Mayor Theodore Turner of Pocatello
formerly state auditor, and prominent
in the business, political and social
life OF Pocatello and state, is being
prosecuted in an effort to GUST him
from his office as United States com.
missioner.
The Jones Bros, who have a large
ranch east of HOLSTER, last week I'M
earthed the skeleton of large mann
moth in one of their fields One, of
the molars of the animal is now on
exhibition. 1t measures about eight
inches in length and four inches in
width
Orders have been received at the
Boise federal building from President
Wilson to close all the offices in the
buildings Saturday afternoons from
June Is to September Is, and the or
der is in effect. 1t will mean that all
the federal employees will be given a
half holiday once a week.
HINbi1o
Nampa, John McKenty, over 20 years
old, suffered a stroke of paralysis,
| and laid helpless in the scorching sun
for several hours before his plight
was discovered by a neighbor. Nc
Kentys left side was paralyzed, but
1t is believed he will recover.
Brigham Matthews of Woodville set
tlement, about eight miles south of
Idaho Falls, committed suicide June
10. He went to the orchard and sat
down under tree, and placing the
muzzle of a shot gun to his head
| pushed the trigger with a stick, the
charge blowing the top of his head
off
The senate has agreed to the
amendments offered by Senator Brady
to the Indian appropriation bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the erection
and equipment of the buildings for
the sanitarium for the Indians at Fort
Lapwai, and $4,000 to purchase stock
and implements for the Fort Hall In
dams.
The Big Lost River irrigation pro
Ject is at last on the high road to sue
cess after its many tributions. Every
Indication now points to the upbuild-
ing OF the finest irrigation system in
the state, with at least 100, 900 acres
of the best farming land and a VIA.
ter supply certain and adequate for all
| purposes.
Walter A. Grant, the Pocatello boot
logger, convicted of arson In the at.
tempted burning of the home of G ID.
smith, the prosecuting attorney of
Bannock county, in spirit of revenge.
and sentenced to a term Of twenty.
five to fifty years in the state peniten-
tiary, met defeat in the supreme
court, in decision on his appeal
Employees of the Utah Light a.
Power company plant one mile south
OF Idaho Fails saw the body OF a bow.
apparently eight years old, swept over
the spillway one day last week, and