Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-05-05
.IlAHO STATE NEWS

AohS h0NC bCCh RCAANSk~A 40 N~N
erection of new hotel at Blackfoot
at cost of about 100000.
The box factory at the Barber mill
started May i with enough advance
orders to keep the mill running I'M
definitely at full blast.
The boss BARRIERS of Idaho Falls
have decided to increase the price Of
a shave to rs cents, the new rate to
go into effect May 8.
A gang Of twenty-five prisoners from
the state penitentiary have been sent
to Whitebird, where they win work
on the north and south highway.
The public utilities commission is in
Pocatello to aid in settling the de-
tails whereby the city will construct q
municipal 100000 water system.
w. Ray Thompson was badly bruised
and shaken up when motorcycle on
which he was riding on the street of
Nampa collided with large dog.
Senator Borah has introduced bill
to appropriate $4,000 to equip and
maintain the United States sheep ex,
pertinent station in Fremont county.
1t is said that the employees of the
land department have been working
overtime for months in an effort to get
caught up with the business on hand.
A frolicsome calf caused a runaway
at Bancroft, valuable morse being
killed, part of the tongue Of buggy
entering the animals body near the
heart.
At Pocatello a driver backed his
team too close to the river, and the
entire outfit went into the stream,
with the result that that one of the
horses was drowned.
The Salt Lake-Y ellowstone highway
association is preparing an attractive
log book, descriptive of the scenery
and advantage in travelling this route
to the Yellowstone park.
County officials of Gooding have
been granted a raise in salary, the
clerk, assessor, treasurer and sheriff.
from $1,000 to $500. probate Judge,
from $500 to 5000; engineer, from 5000
to $500.
The Oregon Short Line announced
last week that it will place in opera
ton daily, except Sunday, a passenger
train on the Victor branch. The train
will leave Ashton at IL a. m. and will
arrive at Victor at 1:10 p. m.
The fish screen at the mouth Of
Dry creek, which flows into Camas
creek, has been taken out, the people
of the Dubois country making good
job of it, after raising a holler that
reached the ears of the governor.
Thousands of people of Caldwell and
the surrounding country on April 2S
witnessed the grand historic pageant
by the children of the Caldwell
schools, an event that preceded the un-
yelling of marker of the Oregon
trail.
Sale of Nampa's $4,000 issue Of 8
per cent high school bonds was CON
summated last week The bid accept,
ed was that of holman, Mattison &
Wood of St. Paul, Mimi, and calls for
payment at par and a premium Of
1851.
There are at present some 400 Ger:
tiicates of public land sale waiting to
be issued by the state land board, the
volume of such business the past -four
months being an increase Of at least
33 per cent over 1915 for the same
four months.
Rev. ]. w. Baker, colored preacher
has finally been sent to the state
prison, having been convicted on Feb
ruary 10, 1915. of being "guilty of as
sault with deadly weapon" upon the
person of Mrs. Roy Wroten, a white
woman of Doise.
The loan business of the state lant
board has been increasing, 2S1 loans
having been granted In 1916 up tc
April l. compared with S05 granted In
the same time in 1915. This is an in
crease of q per cent in this one item
OF the land Office work, and means q
per cent more correspondence.
Thomas Kelley of Idaho Falls is {
prisoner in the county jail, after run
ming fight across two counties with 9
posse of 200 men, and after he aban
doned a stolen automobile, severa
stolen horses, and attempting to, swim
the Snake river. His brother Charles
was supposed to have been drowned
in the river.
Mrs. Juan Aclecoa, % years old
wife OF a sheepherder on the Archa
bal-Cleveland ranch at Ten Mile, wal
drowned In the New York canal whel
a team of horses he was driving be
came frightened, and upset the bugg!
in the canal.
Fred Willetts shot his former wifi
from whom he was divorced, at hi
sons place of business in Idaho Falls
infiicting fatal wounds. then turnet
the gun on himself, committing sui
eide.
Dennis o'Mahoney reports the sail
of the Red Prince mining property
consisting of three claims. three mile
from Pocatello, to the Montana De
velopment company, for the sum o
forty thousand dollars.
Mrs. Minnie Green had q narrow e.
hcape from.death 1T PocatelIo, when 1
/ team belonging to George Smith. at
tached to wagon, ran away and col
iided at full speed with 3 telephone
pole. Mrs. Green was thrown from
the wagon and suffered serious In
juries.
Clarence z. Langford of Sod
Springs has been arrested and takeI
to Poeatello CHARGED with higamy. H