Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-10-10
Idaho STATE NEWS.

Blaine county farmers have applied
for more than 10000 pounds of Dick
low wheat.
f. NJ. Duffield threshed 30 acres of
alfalfa seed recently near Bull that
produced 215 bushels.
DedicatOry services were held Sun
day in the PocatellO Congregational
just been paid for.
Franklin county farmers have raised
$4,000 in stock subscriptions for q
reservoir TO be built at Glendale for
late irrigation purposes
Electrical workers of the Idaho
Power company at Pocatello are out
on strike for an increase in wages
and better working conditions.
Fifty-nine bushels of marketable
peaches were picked and sold from
four young trees on the b. F. Rad
cliffe ranch five miles northeast of
Bull, this season.
Ii is estimated by the Canyon
county farm bureau that the damage
to potatoes by scald in Canyon county
this season was 100000, as II result
of the shortage of cars.
Where orchards We're given proper
attention and timely sprays were APP
piled, the apples are excellent. but
where these precautions were neglect
ed there is much wormy fruit.
OF community shipment of Bon
signed TO the Spokane Union Stock
yards, seven head topped the Spokane
market. Six head averaged STAG each.
The federal employment bureau,
which has operated in Boise for more
than Il year with f. II. Hasbrouck in
charge, will discontinue business ON
October 10, because of lack of funds.
| The executive committee of the Ida
no Industrial Training school ut ST.
Anthony has closed contract for the
Installation of plumbing in the girls
dormitory at the school at cost OF
$4,000
October, throughout the Burley Sec
ton was ushered in with what the
farmers term "million-dollar' rain
Moisture is what is needed to put the
soil in first class shape for the fall
glowing.
One thousand cars of Jonathan APP
pies must be moved from the Payette
section in the next ten days, and I'M
less cars are available at the rate of
100 daily the apples will be a total
loss il is declared
Madison and Fremont county stock
men are making careful study of
the possibilities for obtaining fall, win
ter and spring range. They have a
committee investigating the situation
in Texas and New Mexico.
The law requiring automobiles car
rying passengers and freight to take
out licenses, and exempting machines
on star routes, is held constitutional
| and not class legislation by Judge
ReddOch in decision rendered at
Boise. -
A twO-year experiment in the use
of sulphur on alfalfa fields is being
started in Canyon county through CO.
| operation of two farmers with the
county farm bureau and the soils spe-
cialist of the university extension
| division. ~
John Fleming, who was sentenced
] to death in 1908 in Lincoln county,
when he was convicted of having muir
dered man, and whose sentence was
] committed in 1911 to life imprison-
ment, now wants the state pardon
board to free him.
| While at work in brick yard two
miles north of Pocatello, John Cate
an employee, was electrocuted by com.
ing in contact with an uninsulated live
wire. Mr.. Cate was so badly burned
before being rescued that he died be
fore reaching hospital.
Mangled beyond identification, the
body of an unknown man was buried
at Blackfoot by the county. The mar
was walking outside the rails on the
Mackay branch of the Oregon Short
Line, eight miles north of town, anC
was struck by freight train.
Seven farmers of the Dietrich trac
raised between 30 and 40 acres OF
Melted Gem potatoes this year. Abou
30 acres are eligible for certificatior
on passing the last bin Inspection. Tn,
andy soil of this tract is claimed t,
be some of the best in the state fol
raising seed potatoes.
Most of the injury to orchards
caused by field mice in Idaho is don,
by the meadow mouse. Meadow mic,
sometimes increase in enormous mum
bers and inflict heavy lamage by grid
ling fruit trees, A campaign for tn,
determination of this pest by poison
ing has been launched.
For the purpose of properly LISTING
state lands in the title of the state
l.. ii. Nash, land commissioner, will z,
TO Washington soon and oversee tn
conveying to the state of Idaho O
more than 100000 acres which tn
state is entitled to, hut which ha