Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS

About twenty passengers on train
on the Wood river branch we're snow
bound for two days when the train
was stalled in a cut three miles from
Picabo.
George N. lift, a former resident OF
Pocatello. consul at Nuremberg, Ger.
many, has been promoted to consul
at st. Gall, Switzerland, with an in
crease in salary.
Suit has been filed against the Utah
Power & Light company for $4,000
damages by the estate of Steve Gil
bert. who lost his life last June while
at work in the company's power plant
at Idaho Falls.
The report of the secretary of the
Pocatello Commercial club shows
that 80 per cent Of the business
houses are members of the club, and
that there are nearly 800 members in
good standing.
Governor Haines has denied the
requisition of Governor Stewart OF
Montana for the return to that state
of Charles F. Thomas, wanted at Mis-
soula for child desertion, which is a
]. A. Givens, vice-president, and C.
L. Robbins, director of the Bank of
Nampa, Ltd, which was closed BY
the state bank commissioner Septem
Der 81, 1913, are charged with violat
ing the state banking laws.
The HALEY Electric company has
filed articles of incorporation for rec
ord The capital stock is $4,000
Fred w. Gooding of Shoshone, Frank
R. Gooding of Gooding and John R
Hart of Haley are stockholders.
A carload Of material for the in
terror work on the new st. Charles
Roman Catholic church at Haley has
arrived, and another carload is ex-
pected, when the work will be COM
pleted as rapidly as the weather will
permit.
A trades school maintained in con.
nection with the city schools or sep.
arately, is the solution which Judge
Dunbar of the juvenile court sug-
gests for the idlehess of the Boise
boys and girls between the ages OF
IA and IS.
William ok and Harold L. Hart.
vigsen have been named as members
Of the police force at Pocatello to
succeed H. Willard Green and ]. E.
Campbell, resigned. Green resigned
because his record was brought up
before the grand jury recently in ses
sion.
The announcement that the state
highway commission, in the extension
of the proposed state highway from
Boise to Payette, has planned the
same to run so as to leave Emmett
"off the road" has produced a strong
spirit of protest in the Emmett sec
tion.
Witnesses were unable to appear
upon behalf of the shippers and petit
tionsyE ,ivipR on the Hill City branch
of the Oregon Short Line On account
of the road being blockaded with
snow and the Idaho Public Utilities
commission continued the hearings
until February %.
Work on a 100000 passenger sta
ton at Pocatello will start ON or be
fore May / and the station will be
completed before 1915. Money hal
been appropriated for the station ant
the plans are ready. This was this
assurance given the public utilities
commission last week
Idaho Falls has greatly increased
In productive output during the las
year. From August 1, 1912, to June !
1918, there were billed from there
1857 cars of potatoes. From Angus
l, 1913, to February /, 1914, there
have been moved from Idaho Fail
: 1,573 cars Of potatoes.
Oregon Short Line officials hav,
given assurances to the public utili
: ties commission that work on a 5000
900 passenger STATEN at Pocatell,
y would be started ON or before May /
J. and that the new station would b.
rushed to completion to be ready 70
the heavy passenger traffic of 1915
Governor Haines has Issued
requisition on Governor Johnson G
California for the return to Idaho c
G. e. Lore, who is under arrest in Lo
Angeles. He is wanted for maxim
e a false report last April to the ban
e commissioner ON the condition of tn
t. Bank of Nampa, Of which he wa
l. cashier.
IS John L. Cox, the young man who |
e serving a term in the penitentiar
e under conviction of having robbie
n his companion of silver watch O
e. the streets of Roise while both me
a. were drunk, was permitted to atten
n his mothers funeral last wee
t through the clemency of Governo
daines
James A. Pinney, one of Boise
leading business and public mel
a three times mayor of that city an
is pioneer of Idaho, died at his HON
r February 5. Death was due to quic
N pneumonia. He was one of the frs
ID white settlers at Florence, Idaho, an
e, established the first mercantile bus
ness in Idaho City.
Idaho women are finding many u
+. usual occupations which are provln
:. highly lucrative. Mrs. Robert NJ
= Glosky of the Snake River kenne!
no near Caldwell, has been engaged
10 raising fancy dogs for two years, al
a., 10