Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-04-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Falls county, had his leg broken in a |
runaway
George G. Wentz, aged rs, is dead
at Salmon, where he had made his |
home for fOrty-eight years.
The business district of Council. the
county seat OF Adams county, was
swept by fire last week. Seven build
ings were destroyed.
w. A. Broadhead of HALEY was Sc
lected chairman of the new state
highway commission at it's first meeh
ing, held last week at Boise.
While driving a four-horse team to
a loaded hayrack, at Middleton, L. W.
Thomas was tipped OF in such a man.
ner as to fracture his right arm.
Acceptance Of the new power rates
for southwestern Idaho has been filed
by the Idaho-Oregon Light & Power
company with the public utilities com
mission.
Herbert Wing, former state engi-
neer, has been employed by Attorney
General Peterson to act temporarily
as an assistant In the attorney gen.
erals office.
While there is little cholera in any
section of the state, the government
agricultural workers want all traces
of the disease swept out and are
working to that end.
The 3-year-old child OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Williams was burned to
death near Riparia when their family
home was destroyed. The mother, an
invalid, was rescued with difficulty.
Gooding is now secure as the coun-
ty seat of the new county Of that
name. according to stipulations filed
pending by the town Of Wendall con-
testing for that honor.
Isaac Warren, a negro, was convict
ed of murder in the first degree for
the killing of William Jackson at Pc
catello last January and sentence
of life imprisonment in the state pen
itentiary was given the prisoner
President NJ. A. Brannon of the Uni
versity of Idaho has rendered his res
1gnation, to take effect July /, due,
it is said, to dissatisfaction with the
action of the conference committee Of
the legislature on appropriations in
reducing his salary.
The Payette business men have re-
Gently organized, in an effort to mar
ket for the farmers the products of
the lower Payette valley. They are
holding regular market days and offer
inducements to the people of the sur
rounding country to get real bargains
Miss Della Lundgreen, who was
raised in Idaho Falls, but has been
stenographer in the state engineers
office for two years, was the success
full bidder for transcribing the records
of Boundary county, against the bids
of several Portland parties.
Dean A. Wilson, a junior in the
Nampa High school, was the winner
of the gold medal in the essay con
test conducted under the auspices o
the Idaho society, Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution. His essay was EMIT
led Frontier Days of America"
A Shoshone dispatch says Mrs
Peck, mother of Francis Peck, com
mItted to the penitentiary few day
ago, died on Wood river, aged 5.
years. The mother was not appriset
of the trouble of the son. She wa
i'll long time from tuberculosis.
w. H. Colyar, who went under thu
alias of w. w. Reene while in Idaho
and who was taken back to Visalii
county, California, in February
charged with failure to provide 70
minor children, has been sentenced t
three years, after pleading guilty.
BY the consolidation of the Idaho
Oregon Light & Power company. tn
Idaho Railway Light & Power CON
pany and the Idaho Power & Ligh
company the costly competition tn
three companies have engaged in 70
the past two years in southern Idah
10 to cease.
April 1918 has been designated a
Home Industry week in a proclamS
ton issued by the governor. In tn
proclamation he urged that the wee
be observed by all citizens of tn
state and special efforts be made 8
that time to encourage the principl
of Ratronizing home industries.
That there is a big deal pendin
which, If successfully closed, mean
nothing more nor less than that th
money necessary has been raised fC
construction Of the Boise-Butte-Sa
Francisco railroad its entire lengt
from Butte via Boise to tidewater 1
San Francisco, is the information tia
comes from Boise.
AS the result of the arrest of Ma
garet Conway, and several witnesss
who are held in jail at Pocatello. Q
ffcers believe that the murder Of Z
]. White at Mackay over two veal
ago will be cleared up.
Walter Smith, youngest son OF OF
of the Oldest families of Pocatell
died Sunday evening as a result Of 9
overdose of strychnine taken Il
heart trouble with which he suffere
Restoratives failed to revive him.
The Idaho Traction company hi
fled with the public utilities commi
sion a new schedule Of passeng
rates, increasing from ~ cents to
cents a mile, to become APPLICABLE,
A approved by the commission, to Il
interurban lines in Boise and vici
u ity.
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