Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS

| The pOSIOUiCS uSpaAbAiSht heS ~
newed for ten years, beginning March
l, its lease of the postoffice quarters
at Wallace.
AS the result OF coal war now be.
ing started, number OF town in south
ern Idaho are going to get cheaper
fuel, it is said
DeForest Page, a Boise boy, wha
was arrested, with two Oregon boys.
and charged with branding and steal
ing two horses, was acquitted at Vale
Ore.
At a mass meeting held in the Club
of Commerce rooms at Idaho Falls,
action was taken toward adopting the
commission form of government foI
the city.
Miss Betty Ezell of Blackfoot has
been appointed assisting enrolling
clerk for the senate Miss Ezell for
merly was with the county clerks Of?
fee, BlackfOot.
DIR. B. B. swan, a dentist who was
one Of the well known men Of Noun
tain Home, was found dead In the
basement of his home, death being due
to heart failure.
The Oregon Short Line has notified
the public utilities commission 1t will
comply with the order of the commits
sion on its three-cent rate order ON
the st. Anthony branch.
Practically the entire site Of the
village of Hagerman is to be sold by
the sheriff of Gooding county on Feb
ruary is to satisfy three judgments
to the total of nearly $4,000.
D. w. Robb, formerly a clerk In the
office of the state auditor, against
whom an indictment on the charge of
embezzlement was returned by the
grand jury last week, was arrested
at Great Falls, Mont.
The Commercial club at HALEY has
appointed committee to take up with
Congressman Smith the question of
securing from the government herd
of elk for the proposed Sawtooth ma
tional park.
The county commissioners of Ban
mock coupnty rejected all of the bids
which we're submitted by local doc
tors for conducting the Office of coun-
ty physician, on the ground that all
bids were too high.
The Oregon Short Line Is wholly
exonerated from responsibility for the
accident in the railroad yards of
Nampa January IA, when J. w. Staples
of Glenns Ferry, an o. s. l.. fireman,
was fatally injured.
Several electric lighting companies
in Pocatello united last week in
demonstration of electric devices and
fixtures at the electric fair" Many
excellent machines for saving labor at
home and on the farm were shown
The electors Progressive party of
Idaho will be kept intact and remain
separate and distinct political unit
in Idaho politics. This was in con-
crete the unanimous decision of the
party leaders in conference at Boise.
Two men, Willis and Andrew Glib.
son, brothers, were killed when a huge
avalanche of snow, rocks and debris
swept down upon them in a canyon
near Franklin. The men wee cutting
timber when overwhelmed by the
! slide.
The Rev Arthur Saunders of the
t Episcopal church at Pocatello has
just issued a neat volume of history,
! bearing especially on Bannock county.
The history is written in the narrative
E form and deals with a number of the
/ pioneers.
d The board of trustees has decided to
0 build an additional ward school for
D the grades on property acquired re-.
g Gently on the east side Of Idaho Falls,
. and remodel the central building.
which is used at present as both
grade and high school for high school
purposes.
Fritz Healer, the 5-year-old son OF
Q Mr.. and Mrs. William Hezzler of
E Nampa, has lost the sight of his right
+ eye as result of an accident which
occurred while the boy and his 3-year-
old sister were at play, the sharp
/ point of a lead pencil being driven
: into his eye.
e The churches, fraternal organiza.
. tions and city and county govern.
. ments have decided to pool issues and
: form United Charities association
for the relief of the poor of Twin
Falls city and county and do away
with the present method OF indiscrim.
mate charity by individuals and as,
L soeiations.
In future competition among public
utilities in Idaho will be permitted
: by the public utilities commission and
regulated monopoly will not exist. the
commission having reversed itself on
Its prior ruling barring competition
from given electrical fields on the
grounds that it would bring about
i wasteful competition.
4 After two years of bitter conflict in
, courts and otherwise. the electric
4 power war waged in western Idaho
II and eastern Oregon was ended with
the sale of the holding of the Idaho.
!. oregon Light & Power company to
i the Priest interests, better known as
the bondholders of the Electric Invest.
ment company of Delaware.
State Treasurer Eagleson has de.
; cided that there Is no necessity of
I Idaho paying rent and is making ar.
: rangements for the removal to the
! capitol OF all offices connected with
I the state government which are nov
/ tnna tad In