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


fracture of q coliarbone.
While talking to a friend on train
near Caldwell, Carl Schoonorer was
stricken with heart disease and fell
forward dead.
A bottle placed In the rapid waters
Of the Snake river at Nampa. Idaho.
travelled the eighty miles to Weisar In
three days.
Frank w. Weeks, who was connect
ed with theatrical company and who
was taken III with pneumonia at Rex
burg. Is dead.
A car containing 42.2SO pounds OF
iour was sent from Idaho Falls to
Portland. Ore, consigned to the Port
land Touring mills for the Belgium
The state game warden estimates
that 5000 deer have been killed In
the state within the past year, and
that $50 elk and 100 head OF mountain
sheep and goats were slaughtered.
Charles Oxman, who has confessed
to numbering a man at Los Angeles
while committing robbery, claims he
was born at Mullan, Idaho. and that
his father was Methodist minister.
J. Downey, aged so years. committed
suicide at Pocatello by drinking three
ounces of poison. It is said he had
heen drinking and In a At of despond-
ency took acid In his boarding house.
The 2-year-0ld son of William Gil.
bert OF Eagle, died from burns sus
tanned Monday when he fell in tub
OF scalding water. The boy fell back
wards into the scalding tub while
watching his mother scrubbing.
From Arimo comes the news that
the w. D. Kay elevator, which was
burned recently, is being rebuilt by
large force of men and that it viii
soon be ready for receiving grain In
large quantities.
Word comes of the death of Win.
liam Scott, formerly Of Pocatello, who
passed away at Los Angeles. Mr..
Scott had suffered a general break
down He was So years OF age. He
was well known to IdahoaRs as TN
Gle Billy"
Fred M. Coleman, deputy state treas
urer. is now in the state penitentiary
under sentence of two and one-half
to ten years at hard labor for the
embezzlement of state funds to the
amount Of $4,000. Coleman entered
plea Of guilty.
Chief of Poleice T. b. Losiuer OF
Fort Hall Indian reservation, Deputy
Sheriff Robert Obey and an Indian
named Pizier were all wounded in
pistol battle at Idaho Falls. Losiuer
and Pizier were both shot through the
body. All will recover
John Lane, abmajor general Of ar
| tillery under General Robert e. Lee
in the civil war and pioneer of the
northwest, died at his home in Lewis
ton. He was a son of General Joseph
Lane, former United States senator
and first governor of Oregon
Will Davis, colored, attempted to
murder Lillian Banks, also colored, at
Pocatello by shooting her four times.
Although bullets penetrated vital or.
gans, 1t is thought the woman will re
cover. Davis tried to kill himself be.
4 AOAS UCAub Tut 1hAiCu
/ Idaho may lock arms with Oregon
and Washington and, on January /,
1916, go over into the prohibition col
umn. This is the plan OF the dry"
advocates of this state, who have rails.
ed In it the most momentous political
issue in the history of this state.
i B. B. O'Neil, known as Big Bar.
neye O'Neil, was released from the
Idaho state prison on Christmas. His
release came as Christmas gift from
the board of pardons. Governor John
NJ. Haines went to the state prison
and personally delivered the pardon.
During the second week in Janu.
airy the dairymen and swine breeders
will meet in Boise for their annual
conventions. As In many cases, the
interests of the two are identical, and
their problems the same, they have
decided to associate in their pro
gram.
Three million dollars has been
spent in the stores and hotels OF the
state and in transportation by the
hunters within the year ana there liz
S1,000,000 worth of food value secured
from the game that Is killed and the
fish that are caught In the state with.
in year, according to the report ot
the state game warden.
bill has been introduced to In.
crease the appropriation for the Occur
'Alene public building from one hun.
dred thousand dollars TO one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars. the
increase being needed to erect an
adequate building to accommodate
the postoffice, land Office and federal
court.
The Oregon Short Line Railroad
company Is ordered and directed
within twenty days by the public utll
tiles commission of this state to dis
continue the charging Of more than
cents per mile for passenger ser
vice on either one-way or round-triu
tickets on any and all of its branch
lines within this state where a higher
rate than cents Ia charged.
There viii be no regular train sarv
ice on the new line In tho upper Snake
river valley loop of the Short Line. ii
10 announced. Regular service win b.
resumed In the early spring, although
] intermittent freight and passenger
, service will be carried on this winter
by the construction department.
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