Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-10-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Of the Idaho State Medical association
was held in Boise last week.
Non-residents OF the state cannot
shoot deer in Idaho unless they pay a
$25 license fee instead of the 81 re.
quired by residents.
Lightning struck the Payne school
house, rendering the teacher uncon.
scious for a short time and doing pos,
sibly a hundred dollars in damage to
the building.
The october crop report issued from
the Boise weather bureau shows the
main crops of this state as comparing
favorably with the crops raised
throughout the United States.
The postmaster. at Idaho Falls re-
ports that the receipts of the postof
fee for the quarter ending September
80 were $1,526.71 greater than for the
corresponding quarter of 1913.
Crushed under the body of the
mother as she was thrown from her
buggy in runaway, the 5-months-old
son of Mr. and Mrs Luther v. Howell
was instantly killed near Idaho Falls.
The synod of Idaho of the Presby.
terrain church met In Idaho Falls the
fore part Of the week for a three days
session. About fifty preachers from
various sections OF the state were in
attendance.
For the first time in about a dozen
years Boise again has a night school
for the Chinese. 1t is held each even
ing with volunteer teachers, under
the auspices of the Interchurch Coun,
ell of Women.
Timothy Sullivan, sent to the state
prison from BSnnock county for lha
murder of a woman Of the under.
world, has been pardoned, evidence be.
| ing produced before the board Of par
dons showing his innocence.
After twenty-four hours delibera,
tion, jury in the state circuit court
at Rockland acquitted Mrs. Della
Marsh on a charge of second-degrea
murder in having slain Bernard C.
Linstrom, a merchant Of Portland.
Ore.
The work Of laying $3.50 feet OF
iron water mains at Nampa has been
completed. The iron pipe replaces the
old wooden mains, which have proved
inadequate to stand the pressure re.
quired for the city's fire protection
system.
Harry Dietrich, deputy game war.
den, and r. w. Limbert, taxidermist,
are making visit to owyhee county,
where they will take some game fop
use in the exhibition of the game de.
partment in the Idaho building at the
Panama exposition.
Eight carloads of beets a day are
leaving Kimberly for the factory at
Burnley, and this rate of shipment will
be maintained until the years esti.
mated crop of 220 cars is taken care
OF. There are some 544 acres of beets
planted In this district.
Fay D. Young, Boise banker. has
been in the hospital, suffering from a
locked jaw, which, however, his ply.
sicians state, is not case of tetanus,
but is caused from an infection of the
Jaw, due to some medicine injected
into decayed tooth to kill the nerve,
J. w. Hall, an employee Of the sugar
factory at Idaho Falls, met with a
serious accident. While working ha
suffered smashed finger and was
taken to the laboratory on the second
floor to have 1t dressed, when he faint.
ed and fell out of a window, breaking
| rib.
Despite the frost of early spring.
the prune crop in the Boise valley win
be but nine cars less than that of last
year, and that of the whole state fifty
cars short, while the rise in prices this
year will much more than make I'm
for the deficiency in production, 1t Ia
said.
An important ruling In regard to the
local option question was made at Pc.
catello when Judge Alfred Bulge made
permanent an injunction closing the
Apex resort building until such time
as the court believed 1t would be used
for some other purpose than for the
sale Of intoxicating liquors.
An estimate OF the budget expenses
for the city Of Pocatello during the
coming year has been made bv the
council and the mayor The entire
amount totals only s167.350, which,
considering the improvements which
are under way and have already been
executed, is regarded as quite low.
While the men were unloading a
carload of lumber received at Boise
from Seattle, they found a big wharf
rat which they promptly killed. The
rodents are known to be carriers OF
buDonic plague germs and they are
quite common in the east and on the
Puget sound where campaigns ara
eternally Waged against the pest.
That no mistake was made In NOV.
ing the La Grande, Ore, sugar fac.
tory down to Burnley is the belief of
officers of the Amalgamated Sugar
company, in view Of the present sue.
cessful run on which the plant has
been opened. The factory Is now Cd,
Grating to full capacity.
In approving the Ievies for the VA.
rious school districts of the county.
the Ada county board of commission.
ers fixed the levy for Meridian dis.
trict No. 80, with q property valua,
ton Of SI.sOS,71O, at 5 mills on the
ooAar-praetically the same as for
last year.
State Engineer Frank P. King died
at Boise hospital after an fitness