Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-07-02
IDAHO STATE NEWS

1t Will cost nearly $lVU,UuU 10 Opel-
ate the city of Pocatello next year,
according to the budget drawn up by
the city fathers.
1t is feared that Bob Lumpkin, an
employe of the Canyon Canal COM
pany, has been drowned in the Pay
cite river, near Montour
AS a result OF being tossed from a
horse he was riding near his home at
Centerville, Benjamin Koppes, aged
81. died at Boise hospital
In accordance with the unanimous
vote of something more than 1900
people who enjoyed Nampas grand
"songfest" last week, this affair is to
be made an annual event.
A ffty-ton oil flotation mill is be-
ing added to the smeiter equipment at
the Lost Packer mine in Custer
the same district are being actively
worked
The lead mines at Gilmore, are in
creasing their output, owing to the
rise in lead prices. The Wilhert
mine has reopened and figures on
shipping 1000 tons of concentrates
per month.
The Wilson dance hall at Pocatello
was destroyed by fire on June
%. Two persons who discovered the
fire claim they were awakened by an
explosion. The loss is partly cover
ed by insurance.
Cherries in carload lots are being
sent out of Payette for the eastern
markets This is the first carload
shipment ever made from this point.
Three cars have been sent out and
others will follow.
Increasing business on the Inter-
mountain railway has made necessary
the addition Of another passenger
train between Barber and Centerville,
connecting at Barber with the Ore
gon Short Line service,
A report comes from Northfork,
down the Salmon river, that an organ
lied band of horse thieves is operat-
ing just over the line from that sec
tion in the Bitter Roots. Stock own
ers are rounding up their horses on
that range.
Mrs. Josephine Baird Of Rockland
died at hospital from burns she re-
ceived a few days before. While
burning trash In her yard Mrs Baird
fell In the burning heap. Her cries
brought help, but not before she was
terribly burned.
The skeleton of man was found
lodged on a gravel bar in the Snake
river few miles south of Idaho Falls
last week. 1t is believed that the
skeleton is that of George Neal, who
disappeared from his home in Idaho
Falls last September
The indictment brought by the re
cent Ada county grand jury against
William Howell, Ada county commits
sioner was made null and void by ths
supreme court when 1t handed dowr
a decision ordering him discharged OF
a writ OF habeas corpus.
The first case of state free travel
ing library books to be sent through
the parcel post was mailed from
Boise. last week, to Grangeville
Heretofore freight has been the pre-
Yailing means used In the transports
ton of the states books for rura
communities.
r. Rogers is being held in Pocatell
IN the county jail as a result of stall
bling fracas at American Falls, as
result of which Clyde Croos was fata
IL injured. Both men were drunk an
the best of friends. A pocket knit
was used and Croos was stabbed fou
times, one thrust In the abdome
proving fatal
An Emmett correspondent saws tn
prospects for a large fruit cropp II
creases nearly every day Last wee
the Model Fruit farm had a larg
quantity of peaches on the marke
which found a ready sale at rs cent
per crate of four one-gallon basket
Aprtcots are also coming in, as al
raspberries
William Kneebone met with a ser
GUS accident while hauling wool fro
the Gonding ranch on East Fork
the siding near GimIet While goin
down small hill the king-bolt G
the wagon broke, releasing the reae
pole. Mr.. Kneebone was throw
from the wagon and sustained
broken cOllarbone.
An investigation at Pocatello show
that the average wage paid girl ste
ographers is $12 per week, withol
board or lodging: lady clerks ave
age 81 per week, without board I
lodging: laundresses 81, without boar
or lodging: mattresses from So to ;
week, with board; domestic ser
ants from So to IS, with board an
lodging.
From messenger boy for the Yves
ern Union to president of the Par
mount Picture syndicate, with a So
AIRY of 100000 per year, is the bri
story of the rise of w. w. Hodkinsc
of New York, who, accompanied /
his wife, is spending few days visi
ing old friends in Poeatello, whel
he was formerly located as prophet,
Of a motion picture house.
"scotty" McCregor, carrying
Bible, was shot by w. A. Flower
he was looking into a window at Il
Flower home at Twin Falls. The BIZ
let passed through the left leg an
lodged in the right foot This neig
borhood had been annoyed for mar
months by the window pepper.
Twenty-six auto loads of Idaf
a..