Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-08-21
IN THE GEM STATE

1880
fires. due to smut or some unkonwn
cause, in the vicinity Of Moscow one
day last week.
special election has been called
for August % when it will be decided
bv the people whether the Gooding
district shall be made independent
Word has been received in MOSCOW
Of the arrest of an Austrian, caught
IN the act OF placing matches in
wheat shocks in the Garfield section.
The creamery, cold storage plant
and Ice factory at Nampa was total
Iy destroyed by fire about midnight
Sunday. The origin Of the fire Is I'M
known.
Serious forest fires are reported
from the Big Creek country. A force
Of men, with six pack horses, has
gone out to help the rangers in that
district.
Idaho real and personal property
values shrank eighteen million dol
lars in value In the past year, judged
by the returns made to the state au-
ditor and the tax commission by the
county assessors.
Alexander Biebner of Avery, @. s.
Webb of Kootenai, L. H. OBrien Of
Boomers Ferry, Edwin C. Mohr Of
Occur d'Alene and George Harshman
Of Herrick, have been appointed seal
ers In the forest service.
George Clevidence is suffering from
broken ribs and bruises, the result of
an accident on the Gibbonsville hill.
The rear wheels of his wagon left
the grade as he was turning out to
make way for another rig.
Excitedly trying to tell her mother
| of the good times to be had at the
merry-go-round from which she had
just come, the 6-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Perpisch choked
to death while eating supper at her
home in Kellogg.
Good progress is being made on
the work of building the Intermoun-
tain railroad into the Boise basin,
according to one of the officials Of
the company who has just returned
from a trip of inspection and two
days visit at the camps.
The Roman Catholics of Pocatello
have decided to send request to the
bishop of the diocese to build a hos
pital which would be under the super
vision of their church. If the re
quest is granted the building will be
modern and well equipped and will
cost about $4,000.
One of the allegations tending to
show a motive for the crime charged
again Rev j. d. Crooks, who is held
pending a preliminary hearing to
answer for the alleged murder of his
wife, Eliza. Crooks, at Troy, is in con
nection with insurance policies car
ried by them.
Many mills of the Occur d'Alene dis
trict are installing new flotatio1
system that. seems destined to reyoiu
tionize methods in the district. Ths
system is said to have proved valu
able in recovery OF waste ore II
shines where numerous experiment.
have been made.
Another big building contract hs
been let in which the specification
call for the use Of Boise stone. TIL
building is the new passenger depo
to be constructed in the immediatl
future at Pocatello. The structure i
to be two stories in height and tn
! circumference is $50 feet.
Ralph Anderson, president OF tn
Payette-Oregon Slope Irrigation com
pany, was instantly killed when h
, came in contact with live wire car
ryfng 40 volts. He had been in poo
!. health for some. time, which is be
/. lieyed to be the reason he was un
/. able to Withstand the shook.
!. The price paid for early potatoe
f. o. b. Caldwell ranged from Sill
to $780,. the general average beini
approximately s1.25.. The total yiell
Y of the early varieties has been est
: mated at $50 sacks per acre, or 1890
pounds, returning to the grower al
f proximately SITS net per acre.
+ That the section tributary to Gale
) well is rapidly becoming a potatl
growing center Of Importance is BIZ
ing evidenced daily by the large nun
Der Of eastern buyers who are on til
ground, buying OF Independent grow
ers, and in the activity or the. Pott
to Growers association In dispatch
Ing its product to ready markets. !.
4 The discovery of Mrs. Lucy 4
Tibbs Of Three Creeks, Idaho, of a
old river bed and waterfalls OF
mighty river, lying north and adj,
: cent to the rim of the Great Basi
in Nevada. indicating the colunbi
and Humboldt rivers were once ON,
connecting the. Great Basin and tn
: Columbia plateaus, has just bee
7 made public
A window curtain coming into col
) tact with lighted lamp as a resu
+. OF sudden blaze started a fire whic
81 destroyed cottage occupied by v
+ L. Brown ut Nampa.
A company has been incorporate
to buy and operate thu Salmon not
v mill, and the plant viii be ready (,
10 business next month Sixty ranc
a. owners have taken stock in the ne
n. enterprise. and It Is believed IN
>, enough wheat Is grown in the valIs
near town to keep the mil busy.
The Idaho jewelers. associate
held 3 successful annual session
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