Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-06-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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init between Atlanta and Rocky Bar
and the road will not be open to We
hicles for 10 days
The Hotel Heigho was formally re-
opened ut New Meadows las week
with q dinner and ball which was at
tended by about 200.
AT the regular meeting Of the Poca-
tello lodge of the Woodmen of the
World, held on June Is, it was voted
to invest $500 In Liberty bonds.
With the return OF many residents
who spent the winter at outside
points, the houses In Atlanta are all
occupied, and many families are NOV.
ing into tents.
George Steele, 63 years Of age, died
at his home in Iona last week after a
long illness. Mr.. Steele was one of
the pioneers of the section, coming to
Idaho from Utah in 1886.
Sale of $4,000 sheep and lambs and
sheep ranch and sheds at Payette by
O. M. Doubleday Of Boise to Lester
G. SeawelI of Payette for a price APP
proximating $45O,000 was announced
last week.
Shoshone county's total subscrip-
tiOn to Liberty loan bonds reaches
total Of S1,08000O. This is outside the
county's share in credit from subscripr
tons of railway companies. This is
over $50 per capita.
The state highway commission has
let contracts amounting to $163, 900 for
work on several of the state roads,
for the Improvement Of which the last
legislature authorized the issuance of
81 100000 in highway bonds.
Bannock county will receive nearly
81 900 as its share Of the state auto
mobile license tax, as under the pro
visions Of law passed by the last
session of the legislature each county
retains rs per cent Of the amount col
lected.
While attempting to pass between
two cars which were about to be
coupled, Albert Desanti, an employee
of the Short Line shops at Pocatello
was so badly crushed that he died soon
after being taken to the emergency
hospital.
Rev. and Mrs. b. w. Rice, of Cald-
well, are now riding in shiny. new
car presented to them both as a token
Of appreciation by friends and as
mems of charging their field of ser
vice, the machine being bought by
popular subscription.
"A coroner's inquest was held at
/ ~
Rose, who was shot and killed at the
sheep camp of Arthur Bell, near
Gray's lake, about ninety miles east Of
Idaho Falls, but the blame for the
shooting was not fixed.
Mrs. j. NJ. Spurgeon has served no
tice that the Canyon County hospital
at Caldwell viii be permanently closed
July /, she and her husband wishing
TO retire. 1t is believed that the public
viii get back of some sort of move
ment to retain hospital in the city.
Those in position to know declare
thar Idahos apple crop this year will
be 2,099,000 bushels, while the conn
marcial crop of the state is estimated
at 245,000 barrels of three bushels
each. Last year Idaho's total apple
| crop was estimated at 1,323.000 BUSH
els.
The Utah Power & Light company
has begun an action in the United
States district court for the eastern
district of Idaho against the Last
Chance Canal company Of Grace and
more than 400 other defendants to nd
Indicate the water rights In Bear river
and Bear lake.
j. III. Holloway, a rancher living
three miles below Bellevue, met with
d painful accident last week. Firing
a shot at stray coyote, the team with
which he was blowing became unman-
agable. In an endeavor to replace the
automatic revolver in his pocket, 1t
was accidentally. discharged, the bullet
passing through the knee cap.
The party of state officials known
as the aaying squadron" spent the last
three days of the past week In Ban
mock and Power counties for the pur-
nose of arousing interest In the war
situation. Meetings were held at Nc
Cannon Friday evening, at Lava Hot
Springs Saturday afternoon and at
soda Springs Saturday evening.
State Bank Commissioner Hit has
issued q warning to prospective inyes-
tors In oil stocks to exercise great
caution In making such investments.
There are several brokers In Pocatello
handling these stocks, but. according
to Commissioner Hitt. none of them
has complied with the requirements
OF the state ''blue sky" law, and II ID
proposed to bring all such concerns
to account.
Fully 5000 persons took part in a
celebration at Paul on June II, partici-
pated In by beet growers, sugar manu-
factnrers, Red Cross members and
other patriotic citizens. The occa-
sion was in the first place celebration
In honor of the big sugar factory
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