Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-09-18
IDAHO STATE NEWS

the unsatisfactory wooden mains Of
the municipal system.
The contract providing for Chau.
tauqua course for Twin Falls has been
accepted. To secure this system TWEEN
ty-five citizens OF Twin Falls guaran-
teed the sale OF zoo tickets at $3.50
each
Damage was done to the extent of
about 81 900 and five men we're pain
fully burned when an explosion Of
gasoline started stubborn fire in
cleaning and pressing establishment
in Boise.
The prune market has advanced
slightly and the outlook for disposal
of the Idaho crop is brighter, This
year it is estimated that but from 400
to 500 carloads will be shipped as
against the usual 800 carloads.
Pat Haggerty is dead at Burke as
the result of bullet wound through
the left lung. Mike Murphy, an old
time resident of Burke, is under ar.
rest, charged with the shooting, which
was the result Of an extended quarrel
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project as well as throughout Cassia
county is falling far short of expecta
lions this year. Fields which had
been estimated at 40 and so bushels
per acre are turning out from 20 to
80 bushels.
Idaho will not have so great a yield
of potatoes as in former years, from
the reports from different sections.
There is about the same acreage of
potatoes in Idaho this year as there
was last, but fewer potatoes are found
to the hill.
Harold, the S-year-old son of r. A.
Gould of Bull, narrowly escaped death
by falling from a buggy and getting
his head caught between the wheel
and the guard, the wheel scraping an
ugly wound in the scalp, nearly pene.
trating the brain.
Some idea of the value Of the clover
seed crop of the Kimberly district may
be formed from the statement that a
| carload of alsike is worth $4,000 and
that within the past two weeks SIX
cars have been billed through the Kim
berly freight Office.
Some time during the latter part OF
this month, probably September "a,
the land department OF the state of
Idaho will relinquish to the govern.
ment several thousand acres of land
now contained in the Twin Falls North
Side irrigation project
More than 100 cars Of peaches have
been sent out from Emmett and most
of the growers have received their
money ON delivery of fruit at cars.
About forty cars Of prunes have been
shipped and it is estimated twenty-five
more will be sent out.
The contract between the Nampa,
Meridian Irrigation district and the
United States government for the con-
struction of a drainage system for the
district, for the watering of 44,06O
acres of project lands within the dis
trict has been approved.
Exhibits Of grain and fruits grown
in the Twin Falls country to be dis
played in the irrigation section at the
Ninth International Dry-Farming Con-
gress and SoiS Products exposition,
to be held at Wichita, Kansas. October
to 9, are being collected.
Governor Haines has appointed
Warren Truitt Of Moscow to seat on
the state supreme bench to I'LL the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Chief Justice James r. Ailshie. He
takes his seat at once and will serve
till January |, when he will be sue
ceeded by the man chosen at the polls.
The present European war has tenn.
porarily delayed closing negotiations
for the financing of the Butte, Boise
& San Francisco railroad. The road
when completed will give an outlet
from the northwest territory to tide
water at san Francisco, connecting
Boise. Butte and the California me-
tropolis by rail.
The people OF Starks Ferry have
just lately constructed a new port
able schoolhouse for the benefit OK
the pupils in the higher grades who
cannot be accommodated in the es-
tablished building. This new school
house is SO constructed that 1t can be
easily moved to the upper part OF the
district or else to tha lower end.
Boise is anticipating tremendous
revival of business as a result Of ths
operations of the BoisetPayette Lun-
ber' company, recently incorporated
! there. 1t is capitalized at $1,000, 00O
i and includes in its directorate repre-.
sentatives of the Weyerhaeuser, tha
Musser and the Moon lumber syndi-
cate, the largest and most powerful
on the continent.
!. Waving all of his statutory righta
4 and within few hours after his ar
d rest at Boise on the charge of embes
q cling $3.50 from Bissinger G Co. hide
O dealers, Eugene Henle had started
Q serving an indeterminate sentence oI
h from one to fourteen years In the
If state penitentiary. He was In thS
penitentiary before his wife had bear
notified Of his plea of guilty. y
An extra force Of clerks WIN Be IS
Q quired in the Blackfoot land office q
D. the result OF the recent passage q
n congress Of n measure allowing agE1
n cultural entries On phosphate land, ca,
e settlers waving all right to the gov
eminent so far as the phosphate dep0a
It's are concerned.
= A company 10 being organised at pa
eatello for the purpose OF CONSTRUCTION
and operating a cnld sEOraeA naanR