Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-03-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The body Of John Griffths, who was
killed by a passenger train near In
kom Q few days ago, was sent TO
Brigham City for burial.
Citizens OF Elmore, Ada and Can
yon county are to meet in Boise to
decide on the route through those
counties OF the IdahoPacifc state
highway.
OF the seventy-two Greeks who left
Boise at the beginning Of the Balkan
war, none have yet returned to the
home Of their adoption, and six lost
their lives during the war
The prizes won on corn by Ada
corn exhibit at Dallas, Texas, recent
ly, has given renewed enthusiasm tc
ranchers in. that vicinity to grow
corn,
Mystery surrounds the tragic death
Of William G. Bauer Of Butte, Mont,
who was found dead by sheep herd
er two and three-quarters miles south.
west Of Minidoka in lonely sage
brush waste.
The newly organized Civic Improve
ment club at Haley, which has on its
membership roll about fifty energetic
women, will take up the work of i'm
proving and identifying the city GEM
stery for their first activity.
Residents of the Gentle valley sec
tion of Bannock county will apply to
the board of county commissioners
for the establishment Of the rural
high school system in that locality.
In all probability it will be granted.
Home Industry week is to be OBJ
served by the clubwomen all over the
state April 13 to 10. Women will ask
specially for home products, first from
her home county, second her home
state and then in the northwest states.
Kootenai county, one of the largest
counties in northern Idaho, voted
dry" by 405 majority, according to
unofficial returns. Twenty-four sa-
looms, six Wholesale liquor houses and
one brewery must close within ninety
days.
Work upon the building of the up
per Snake river valley belt line
through Fremont and Madison coun
ties, Idaho, will be begun as soon as
the SHOWS melt and the seVenty-fouI
miles Of trackage will be completed
in the fall.
Mayor Theodore Turner and the
city council have petitioned the secre-
tary of the interior Of the United
states for the grant Of part of tbs
forest reserve lying on the bench,
just west Of the city, for city park
for Pocatello
E. P. Taylor, field horticulturalist
Of the University Of Idaho, has Is.
sued a circular to the fruit growers
of the state advising them to clear
their orchards of the varieties of
fruit trees which he calls ''drones
and boarders."
A large colony of Finlanders, COM
1rising about thirty families from the
Black Hills country of South Dakota,
have arrived at their new homes near
Springfield, where they have purcnas-
ed a large tract of land under the Alb
srdeen-Springfield ditch.
The production of clover seed has
developed into an industry of consid-
cradle Importance to the farmers
around Meridian during the past two
seasons, and it is predicted that this
years acreage Of clover will be fully
twice as large as last season.
An attempt was made at Pocatello
TO burn the residence Of Allen Trapp
last week, but the fire department
easily put out the fire. Fire had been
set in four parts of the house and
there is no question that the fire was
of incendiary origin. There is nc
clew to the arsonists.
William Pendry of Montpelier has
invented machine which he thinks
will solve the problem of a private
water system for farmers and citizens
Of small towns where they have NJ
water systems. The machine is very
simple, high pressure can be OBJ
tanned and it can be run at a very
low cost.
Professor ]. Wyley Sessions of Pc
catello, who is deputy seed inspector
Of the state, has received orders
| from Governor Haines that potatoes
from California must be destroyed o.
deported at the expense of the con
signee on account Of the infestatioI
of the California product with the In
| furious tuber moth.
The state board OF pardons by unan
lmous action denied the application OF
3. F. ('Barney') o'Neil, the convicted
president of the defunct State Bank Of
Commerce of Wallace, for full and
complete pardon, taking the stand thai
in justice to the public at large and t.
O.Neil himself he be not liberated from
The penitentiary.
A trunk being unloaded from q bag
gage car at Idaho Falls was droppe'
and a stream OF liquor poured forth
The trunk contained twenty-nin
quarts of liquor No one has cailet
for the trunk.
The recent indictment by the grant
jury at Boise of man who is al
legged to have set FIRE to some limbel
In the Boise forest through careless
uess in camping, win brighten man!
campers this summer into being NOR,
careful, Supervisor Grandiean Of tn
forest believes.
While working on a dam about threi
| miles soufh of Idaho Falls on NoyeYu