Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-12-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS


local farmer realizing $140 per acre.
The first installment Of refunding |
bonds offered to buyers by the Nampa
& Meridian irrigation district was sold
last week.
The Second Idaho regiment was
given an enthusiastic reception by the |
citizens of Idaho ON its return from
six months duty on the Mexican Dor
der.
One hundred thousand bags of beet
seed were raised at Idaho Falls this
year for the United States Beet Seed
company. Pea seed raising is also
profitable there.
Purchasers OF articles of clothing
from the Idaho guardsmen will lay
themselves liable to arrest and fine
of $300, or six months imprisonment,
or both a fine and jail sentence.
Idaho is one of the states which will
be greatly benefited by the 640-acre
| homestead act which has been passed
during the present session of congress
and which il now before the president
for his signature.
The Second Idaho regiment received
genuine Christmas present, check
for 5000, presented by Timothy Re
/ gan, pioneer business man of Idaho,
to go toward paying the troops the
money due them from the state.
Rinaldo Aristedemo was convicted
of the killing Of Faba Favero, an at
tractive young Italian woman, who at
the time OF the murder was living with
her husband in Pocateilo. The jury
recommended Life Imprisonment.
l Wy
builder and railroad executive, died at
Cleveland, o., last week. from pneu-
monia. His last engineering feat was
the supervision and construction Of
the Pacific & Idaho Northern railroad.
During a melee in q pool hall at Po-
catello, Harry Mantis is said to have
drawn a revolver and fired at Steve
Andrus, proprietor of the hall. after
the two men had engaged in a rough
and tumble fight but the bullet went
wide.
An order became effective last week
by which the freight service on the
Malad branch of the Oregon Short
Line becomes daily, instead OF only
three times q week, as heretofore. This
Improvement will be greatly appreciat-
ed by all shippers.
The state land department will sell
$500 acres of state school land in the
north end of the state next month.
This will be the first school land sold
In the Panhandle country in three
years. The appraised value ranges
from $40 to $25 an acre.
James Wright, an employee of the
Boise-Payette company. died at Boise
from an accident which occurred three
days previous while he was aiding cut
ting down a dry tree. The tree fell
and struck a live one, aplintered on
and fell back, striking Wright on the
head.
] The secretary of the Pocateilo rail
! road Y. M. G. A. received a wire last
week from q. B. Calvin, president OF
i the Union Pacific, informing him that
an appropriation of $1,000 had been
! made for the purpose of remodeling
the present building and constructing
a much needed addition.
! Sydney Smith, on trial Mt PocateilC
] for the murder OF Charles Rawlins. 9
4 Pullman porter, was found guilty Of
: voluntary mansiaughter. The men be
Z came involved in a row over a game
d of craps" and during an exchange o.
! shots which followed Rawlins wal
], shot through the left lung and killed.
i The Idaho Mining association
> through Secretary RavenaI Macbeth
= has announced that It will do all In I'll
b power to assist the federal govern
!. ment in the prosecution of Frank A
Palmer, who is reported as having
been arrested in the east in connec
ton with an alleged Idaho mining
= swindie.
= IN order that the overdue payroll TO
the officers and enlisted men of tn
Second Idaho regiment might be pal
3 without further delay and give eth
men spending money for Christmas
Governor Alexander il said to hav
guaranteed the payment of $1,000 t
: the Boise banks, soon after the legis
= lature conyenes.
Governor Alexander has announce
"a that the members-eiect of the stat
= board of prison commissioners ha
" decided to name Frank E. Dekay Q
: Blackfoot az warden OF the state per
- itentiary to succeed Warden job
10 Shook, who has presented his resigns
q ton to the board of prison commits
sioners, effective January /.
The highways designated by tn
state highway commission for the 81
q penditure OF the 81 100000 which tn
state legislature win be asked to 81
propriate are as follows: Idaho-P
cfic $685.. 122. Yellowstone Park, ss7
439: Sawtooth Park. 1926, 592; Tdah,
Montana. s125. 900: Idaho-Uta s2s
:. SAT; North and South, $685.. 600: Levi
. and Clark. 1000: North Phcffr
800 900: Panhandle. s165, 900.