Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-11-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS

tnresnlng machine, ran away.
The board of education has been
advised by the contractor that work
on the new high scholo building al
Poeatello will be completed during
the coming week.
In celebration OF the nfth anniyer.
Sary of the organization OF their as.
ISOLATION, the old volunteer fremen
OF Boise entertained members and
their families ons night last week.
B. J. Nordyke, a pioneer OF Idaho.
died at Boise last week at the age
of So. He had been a mining man
for years, spending most of his time
at the Atlanta or Rocky Bar camps
The ladies Of the Methodist church
OF Meridian enriched their aid society
treasury to the extent OF about $3.50
with the election day dinner and the
entertainment given on barbecue
day"
c. s. Moody, adjutant general of the
National Guard of Idaho, and repre-
sentative-elect from Bonner county to
the next legislature, has announced
his candidacy for speaker of the
house.
At meeting of the Pocatello Rife
club held last week, a number OF new
members were added and steps were
taken to obtain from the government
the first installment of rifles and am.
munition.
The Oregon Short Line has fled
with the public utilities commission a
new tariff providing for an increase
OF demurrage charges from SO per day
to IS per day after cars are held four
days or longer.
Members OF the Boise Valley Cow
Testing association are planning for
thorough survey OF the first six
months achievements at a dairymen's
meeting to be held in Meridian Fri
| day, November II.
Water right costs on the Boise pro-
| Ject will be announced IN the near fu.
ture, and will be between SIS and $50
per acre, declared Chief Counsel VIII
r. King Of the United States reclama-
ton service at Caldwell last week.
A picture of Company G mem.
bers, taken at Nogales. has been re-
ceived by the Caldwell Commercial
club, framed and hung in the club
rooms. The picture is neatly labelled
at the base with the names OF the
boys.
Although blind, John A. Carver, a
former student in the blind depart
ment of the Utah school for the deaf
and the blind, has been elected pro-
bate Judge of Franklin county. Idaho.
He will take his position upon the pro-
bate bench January 1.
Inability OF the European govern.
ments to procure transports is seri-
ously hampering the shipment of
horses across the Atlantic ocean, &C.
cording to statements Of the French
agents who have Just concluded an in.
spection at Caldwell.
The Parent-Teacher association will
meet at Deer Flat November %,
when swings will be put up and Inn
provements made to the grounds.
Dinner for those participating in the
work Will be served on the grounds
by the ladies of the association.
J. w. Musser announces that he Is
getting along 5plendldly with his pro-
ject to build an interurban railroad
from Preston to BlackfOot. The pro.
1ect is known as the Pocatello Trac.
tion & Interurban railway and will
traverse wonderfully fertile coun-
try.
w. II. Esterbrook and Vivian A.
Thorne have given an option on the
Benner group Of silver mines, TWEEN.
ty-eight miles north OF HALEY, to a
Occur d'Alene mining company which
10 interested in a number of the rich
galena mines there. The price Is
S15O.0O0.
J. L. IVie, a Blackfoot farmer. il
expected to undergo treatment which
viii safeguard him against rabies. A
horse owned by Ivie contracted rabies
, from some dogs. In an effort to save
. the animal, the farmer worked abou,
its head, and II Is feared his hands
became infected.
B. F. Shawhan, who has been man.
aging the Kings Hill irrigation pro
ject for the state, reports that, as a
. result OF a recent conference with Sec
. rotary Franklin X. Lane, he believed
the prospects of having the tract tax
!. en- over by the federal government
: were very favorable.
Two to three feet Of Ice throughout
J. the cave for its entire length of about
Z one-quarter of q mile was found By
: Frank F. Sponord, assistant super
: visor OF surveys, as q result OF the in
vestigation he made Of the cave locat
; ed about twenty-five miles east of Du
, bois, Fremont county.
;. Arrangements are under way b,
the Pocatello lodge OF Elks for wha
+ Is designated as a barn dance" Il
; be held in Antiers hall Thanksgivin,
eve. The hall will be deliberately dec
!. GRATED with all sorts Of harvest prod
ucts, and an old-time husking bee vii