Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-02-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS


at Fruitland are suffering with the
measles
Boise has been asked to participate
in a gigantic parade to be held at the
exposition at San Francisco the sec.
ond week in September.
So far as we have heard, the top
notch received for potatoes this sea
son was obtained by Bert ,Senter OF
Armon on a car of Russets. The car
brought dollar hundred.
The village fathers at Star have or
dered all dogs that are not muzzled
tic be shot This applies to the ann@
mails of the ranchers that stray into
town as we'll as the town dogs.
In the few days that the new muz
cling ordinance has been in effect at
Caldwell, the police have ended the
lives of II dogs The animals are
killed If unclaimed after 4S hours.
Three persons were badly bruised,
one injured seriously, when the car OF
Tex Riley, a prosperous rancher liy-
ing near Mountain Home, overturned
on a grade about six miles below
Glenns Ferry
The governor has appointed twenty.
five delegates from the state of Idaho
| to attend the tenth annual convention
of the Navy League of the United
States to be held in San Francisco,
March 25-27, 1915.
Ernest Coffelt, who shot Angelus
| Golanages at Glenns Ferry was taken
to Mountainhome and lodged in the
county jail, Golanages is not expected
to live, though there is still posi-
bility that he may recover.
The rural carriers of Canyon coun-
ty met at Caldwell on February %
and perfected a county association.
There are % rural carriers in this
county-the largest number in any
county in the state, it ID said.
Carlton D. Holt was painfully in-
jured while breaking in horse on his
ranch near MERIDIAN. He had a rope
twisted around his fingers and when
he was suddenly jerked up against
the fence, one hand was badly torn
McDermott people are neryousiy
awaiting the possible development OF
a mad mule scare. This comes about
through the visit of rabid dog tc
that vicinity early in the week. a
. frisky young mule was bitten by the
cur
Howard Blaser, the infant son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Blaser OF Port
| $o1 10 unp nf whom
: ing cough. This is the first dealt
!, from this disease which has been re
! corded in that section for severa
years.
John Obs, age 50, who resides abou
five miles from Occur d'Alene, sui
j, fered serious burns one night las
week. While coming down stair
carrying a blanket and lamp he al
parently tainted dropping the lamp
: which exploded.
Caldwell enjoyed a holiday Wednes
:. day of last week when PRACTICAL,
: everyone owning or being fortunat
: enough to borrow a shotgun partic
pated in the annual rabbit drive he'll
under the auspices of the farmers c
a the Deer Flat section.
i The Y. NJ. G. A. at Pocatello has TO
!. three years held fourth position /
' membership of the railroad associt
r tions Of the world, but at present is i
. third place, being excelled by Phil:
i delphia with membership of 2,61l
i and New York, 1888.
Y Appropriation of ten thousand do
n lars for the Boise public building
G. authorized in senate amendment
|. the sundry civil bill reported to tn
senate. This, with the funds on han
will be ample to make the desired a
dition to the building.
On December IS the shipments
!" wheat from American Falls passe
the million-bushel mark and tlrel
- have been constant shipments sint
e. that time. until the total will be nea
lie ly 100000 bushels. A much larg'
lg acreage will be planted this spring.
II After a 40-mile chase in which {
~ automobile was pitted against hor
al and buggy, and not until the fugiti
u had reached Oregon soil, Sheriff G.
IL Froman took into custody DIV
es Campbell, charged with issuing wort
w less checks to two Caldwell busine
eF firms
Thirty-nine carloads of hors
bought by the French government Il
!. Caldwell last Sunday for Europe. T.
horses In demand are what is des
:. mated as middle class They must
- from fifteen to sixteen hands hi
- and must weigh from $50 to IA
~ pounds
Letter Meth of Middleton is cutti
down his old apple orchard and W
Ice plant prune trees in its stead.
G. Meth is enc of the most success
AN ranchers in the valley and has ma
Ing money out of his orchard. but
I'M, trees were getting old and have I
been bearing heavily the past t
years.
Proposed advances in passenl
yea rates and a raise by the Salt La
IN Route on hogs shipped into southe
ION California, have resulted In a det
ces ion by the public utilities commiss
ehe to appear before the Interstate &C
ION merce commission in the interes:
this state.
the That Joseph Quay came to
lied death on the night of February Is.