Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-08-10
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Silver City, by a big eastern concern |
is reported.
Instead of 532 men, as at first state |
ed, 100 will be summoned for examina- /,
ton for the selection of Bannock coun- |
tvs quota of 266 for the national |
army.
James Doyle was convicted at POca- |
tello last week of having held up and |
robbed Special Agent Knowles Of the |
Oregon Short Line at McCammon near
ly three years ago.
Twenty-four prisoners were par
doned, four had their sentences re
duced, II cases were continued and 10
applications were denied by the state
pardon board last week.
Nampa is becoming something of
headquarters for /. w. w. leaders.
Two or three promoters of this organ
ization have in the past two weeks
made known their presence there.
"Any prisoner who has served
term equal to the minimum time pro-
vided by law for the offense for
which he is incarcerated is eligible to
parole is an opinion rendered by the
attorney general.
The Idaho Non-Partisan league has
| purchased two light automobiles for
use in carrying campaign parties on
speaking tours to obtain a large mem
| bership of farmers to capture the
politics of the state, it is said.
State Horticultural Inspector Guy
Graham has issued warning to
fruit growers to be prepared to combat
the ravages of the codIing moth, which
has made its appearance in several of
the orchards of southern idaho.
The Pocatello District Epworth
League institute opened at Big Springs,
August >. The purpose of the institute
is to study how best to make the mem
bers of the Epworth league and their
work In the church serve the present
Il age.
idaho may be flooded with court
plaster containing lockjaw bacillus,
such as was circulated in Kansas and
Missouri, according to a warning is
sued to the people by DIR. Edward IT..
Biwer, secretary of the state board of
health.
A fire. supposed to be of incendiary
J origin, did considerable damage to the
| Rex mine at Wallace and communi-
} Gated to the shaft. The fire started
after the day shift had quit work and
burned a large quantity of mine tim
Der that were piled near the shaft.
Good prices for all fruits next fall
were predicted last week by Guy Gra-
ham, state horticultural inspector. He
t said the fruit crop was in excellent
|
r not had sufficient irrigation, which
E lack would result in understood fruit.
Frank Hahn, a wealthy stockman
Y of Council valley, western Idaho, his
I wife, their two sons, Frank and Joe
and daughter Elsie, are dead as the
= result of collision of the automobile
: Mr.. Hahn was driving with the pony
i train of the Oregon Short Line, two
$ miles west of Payette.
I After being absent frosn her home
I for nearly eighteen hours, Mrs. t. III
: Barr, of Pocatello, whose mysterious
J. disappearance resulted in a number OF
, searching parties being organized, re
turned of her own accord. She hat
wandered away while in deliriou:
condition.
A Pocatello dispatch says it is tht
purpose of County Attorney Lockhar
to proceed with second trial of DR.
= Allen N. Hansen, accused of a Grim
= inal attack ON young girl who called
: at his office late at night In the frs
trial the jury, after being out eighteen
hours, disagreed and was discharged.
One of the largest hauls of contra
band LIQUOR ever made in this state L
= reported by Sheriff Stevens of Elmori
county. In an old well, located in tn
brush along the Snake river south 0
. MountainhOme, fifty full cases o
whisky were discovered. The entir
consignment was removed from tn
novel cache.
. In order to secure samples of lamb
y quarters. believed to have caused tn
:. death of six persons in one family 1
:, Carey. DIR. Edward L. Biwer, seeretar
- of the state board of health, visite
that section last week. The death
occurred last winter in the Richard
family, when lambs quarters. a MOI
poisonous weed, was eaten.
Judge Fremont Wood, as referee
" the Weiser river priority suit invol'
ing the use of the waters of the We
- ser river and al its tributaries, ha
- made known mis- decision in the cas-
- He fixes tie duty of water at fiv'
y Fights of an inch to all users durin
the high water period and the duty
gradually reduced during the low WI
ter period to three-eights of an incl
before any later rights are cut.
:. Latah county will test the efficae
: of the law against criminal syndiea
-, ism in dealing with the 1. w. W., an
will round up and intern all di