Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-03-26
5!lAH0 STATE NEWS.

The body Of Dan Brown, drowned
near Emmett six weeks ago, has
oeen recovered.
Much the greater portion OF the
state highway between Nampa and
Meridian has been completed.
A map showing Caldwell as the
center OF great agricultural section
has been prepared and printed under
direction of the Commercial club.
At the suggestion of the state live
stock sanitary board the governor has
issued a proclamation for the purpose
Of protecting Twin Falls county from
infected hogs.
The University OF Idaho debate
team won q unanimous victory at
Moscow over the Agricultural college
at Logan, Utah. The question debat-
ed was that Of permitting railways
to pool their earnings.
Entering q plea of guilty immedi-
ately after being indicted at Pocatello,
Peter Swensen, 6S years old, was SEN
fenced to Is months at McNeils
island, for running an illicit still and
making counterfeit money.
The justices of the Idaho supreme
court have appointed Mrs. William
Balderston state law librarian, to
succeed Mrs. Minnie Priest Dunton,
who presented her resignation, to be-
come effective on April /.
The body that was found in the
Snake river, near Payette has been
fully identified as that of John ].
Lane Of Tunkhannoch, Pa, who was
drowned January 20, 1915, while work
ing on the bridge near Nyssa.
State banks will be in position
to take advantage of the federal re-
serve act when the laws passed at
the Thirteenth session of the Idaho
legislature go into effect, in the opin-
ion of State Bank Examiner Hit.
Fred Barrett, alias Frank Jenkins,
apprehended by the sheriff's depart
ment and held at Shoshone on a mi
nor charge, is found to be wanted in
Monroe county, Tennessee, whence he
is alleged to have escaped six years
ago.
The Twin Falls North Side irriga-
ton project applied to the land board
last week for permission to substitute
a sliding scale of water rights for the
present fiat rate of $50 per acre for
land as yet unsold, or which may be
resold.
Using the same tactics he had puF.
sued in handling the Kings Hill ap-
nrnnFfofinn hill hn
mitted the Gem irrigation distict ap-
preparation measure to the secretary
of state with the amount practically
cut in two.
The fight against hog cholera In
southern Idaho to prevent the ruin of
most profitable industry, carried on
comparatively between the producers,
the state and the federal government,
has been productive Of results during
the past year.
Fred Gossett, one of the prisoners
who escaped from the county jail at
Caldwell while awaiting sentence fol-
lowing his Conviction on a charge OF
serve from six to fourteen years in
tn6 penltenLlary.
Voters OF Pocatello have left nc
doubt as to their desire for a new
school. At special election, held to
decide whether or not the city should
be bonded for $125,OOO for high school
purposes, the bond issue was carried
by a vote of Sal to 20.
A Caldwell firm OF horse buyers
has given out the information that
in the past four months they have
put into circulation as the result Of
their purchase. and resale of horses in
the market there the sum of three
hundred thousand dollars.
The small son of John Schlager OF
Canyon Creek was badly injured by
the explosion of a dynamite can
which he had placed in the stove.
Two fingers and the thumb of the
right hand were taken or at the first
joint and he also received a bad cut
over the right eye.
A link connecting the east and west
Idaho Pacific and north and south
Idaho central state highways, which
intersect at Twin Falls, with the ma.
tional highways of Nevada, will be
completed when the work begun last
week on the road between Twin Falls
and the Nevada state line is finished.
Announcement that no special SEES.
Bion of the legislature would be
called, is made by the governor. He
said he had ceased to consider such
proposal since deciding to sign the
appropriation bills, and viii not issue
call for an extraordinary session If
the appropriation bills work out any.
where near in accordance with his
ideas. .FA@
The first car of freight other than
that for the railway company's own
use, was shipped to the Boise basin
last week by the Idaho Tntermountain
railway.
A new turbine water wheel was in.
stalled at the HALEY Electric power
plant last week and viii add a third
or more to the efficiency of the light
and power system.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Boise
win realize this season the great
benefit which the storage dam at Ar.
row Rock is to be to them. The
great dam will be able to store water
two years before 1t was anticipated il
would be near enough completed It'd
do SO.
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