Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-08-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS

ed marriage licenses by the county
clerk at Pocatello one day last week
The mother is 35 years old and the
daughter is IT,
Since the open-house plan for the
swimming pool at the Pocatello Y. M.
G. A. has been in practice, approx
mately 600 boys q week are taking
baths at the local tank
Judge Lawrence Hansen of Rock
Creek was elected president of the
Twin Falls County Jeffersonian club
at its regular annual business meet
ing held in Twin Falls last week.
Mrs w. L. Brigham. 48 years ofsager
died of heart failure at her home near
Tyhee. She was working at her sew
ing machine when she expired. Her
husband and nine children survive.
Three Of the four Basques who
were arrested at HALEY for selling
liquor without license, pleaded gull
ty and were fined $3.50 and costs. The
fourth Basque decided to stand trial
Mike Bagiad, a Greek section hand.
was struck by the pilot beam Of 10
connective near Pocatello and instantly
killed. He was reported to be walk.
ing away from the train and evidently
did not hear it coming.
Though eight different parties have
been in communication with the sec
rotary Of the Nampa Chamber of Com
nlerce with regard to the establish
ment of canning factory there, no
definite action has been taken.
Mrs. George, the wife of rancher
living about two and a half miles
northwest Of Star, met death while
she was assisting her husband IN TAX
ing the casing out Of a well on their
homestead. A bar slipped and struck
her.
On Friday, August 20, people of Poe
atello will assemble in general cele-
bration attendant upon the opening OF
the new Short Line station, which was
erected at the cost of $350,000, and
which is nearing completion at thin
time.
Theodore Turner and Harry Var
Slooten, United States commissioner
of Bannoek county, have been notified
by the department of the interior that
they have been exonerated of al
charges of irregularity or overcharge
on final proof matters in land cases.
There is a great deal of trouble this
GUNNER over the scarcity of water in
Wood river. All water taken from
Wood river under decree granted
since 1884, has been ordered shut of
because of its scarcity. Below the
Glen bridge there is only 1000 inches.
Ross b. Carter, aged rs years,
assistant professor of zoology
at the University of Idaho, at Mos
COW, Idaho, is at a Salt Lake hospital
with fractured skull and a fractured
right thigh, the result Of the overturn-
ing OF an automobile, in the Utah cap
ital.
On complaint of Bessie Mcdonald,
negress, a Pocatello officer arrest
ed Coal Oil John Williams, negro.
for beating Miss Mcdonald. After
taking gun from Williams and pro-
ceeding to the stating, Williams made
dash for liberty and was shot in the
right leg.
The Lemhi county commissioners
are having survey made of the pro-
posed state highway through Lemhi
county from Challis to the Montana
line. The Montana part of the road
has been built, and q survey made of
the road from the Montana line to
Gibbonsville.
The city clerk of Pocatello last
week made out warrants for the city's
bills and the total cost for running the
city for July was $9,6O411. One OF
the large items was the pay for volun.
teer firemen. In the past month tho
city has had a great number of fires.
and the damages are heavy.
During the year 1914 the Idaho ship.
ment of wheat aggregated 4,575 car
loads; oats 1923 carloads; barley, l..
229 carloads; potatoes, s,776 carloads;
hay. 3,199 carloads; beets, 5,331 car
loads; making a total shipment OF
farm products from this state last
year of $4,000 carloads.
The latest thing in the line of build
| ing activity in Pocatello is the def
mite announcement that E. G. White
and D. w. Church will build new
two-story business block. The walls
will be constructed for a four-story
building, and the building will be LOG
feet and lao feet in dimensions.
BENJAMIN Barrus, part owner of a
threshing machine operating neal
Burley, was mangled to death in tn
cylinder of the thresher when, as he
attempted to dislodge a bundle Of
| grain with his foot, his body was
drawn into the machine up to his
shoulders.
An automobile belonging to w. L
Elliott who resides near Boise, wat
entirely destroyed by fire. only the
right front tire being saved 1t is un
derstood that the engine stalled and
that the driver investigated the trou
BILE with a match which touched of
the gasoline supply.
Deposits in the 125 state banks o.
Idaho on June %. 1915, totalled SIS,
944, 498.41, according to an abstrac
prepared by State Bank Examiner
Hit, showing the condition of tbs
state banks as a whole. The same
statement showed that the banks hav,
made loans aggregating $14,215, 972. 40
The state Of Idaho would be none,
ahead IL it would employ an attorne,
to be continually af WASHINGTON a