Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-05-02
IDAHO STATE NEWS

salmon dinner will be served.
Congressman Smith and French
have returned from their trip to
Europe, being members of a congress
sional party.
-Four boys fishing In Snake river,
some miles below Bliss, discovered
the body of j. A. Burke, who had been
missing since January 20.
The National Park Lumber company,
with sixteen yards located in various
towns In southeastern Idaho, is locat-
Ing its headquarters in Idaho Falls.
The election for the $1,000 bond issue
for general road purposes in Camas
county, and the separate issue of $4,000
for state highway work carried by a
large majority.
AT the Methodist church at Pocatello
on Sunday, a soldier service was held
at which number of the recent ar
rivals from overseas were the speakers
and most interesting service resulted
Ernest Rust, arrested in Ogden,
waived a preliminary hearing and was
bound over to the district court,
charged With stealing an automobile
from j. II. Anderson of Blackfoot, two
weeks ago.
Cyclone" Workman, Idaho wrestler,
with a reputation as an expert mat
grappIer in the northwestern, states
was recommitted to the Blackfoot
Ia CT fa,
in month.
By vote of 1901 for, to 100 against,
Moscow highway district No. voted
$375,000 in bonds for road improve
ments. The district includes the city
of Moscow, the villages of Viola and
Joel and the county surrounding these
points.
Surveyors have established camp
on North fork, says Salmon dispatch,
from which point they will make a
survey for road over the Gibbonsville
hill, to connect the highways on each
side of the divide through to the ma
tional forests.
Clint Jones, confessed moonshiner,
and Edward Jones, his son, who were
arrested after moonshine still was
discovered in their house nine miles
above Council on Hornet creek, posted
bonds in the necessary sums and were
released pending trial.
Pocatelfo Elks are planning an ex-
eursion to Soda Springs, the county
seat of Caribou county, on May III.
About one hundred members of the
local lodge plan to join the outing,
which is being arranged merely as a
get-acquainted outing.
The prospects for fine fruit crop
We're never better at this time of the
year in the Payette valley than now.
The crop of prunes and apples is so
heavy that much thinning will have to
be done to reduce the amount to
weight that the trees can bear.
After consultation with the pro.
batiOn officers and with the city
police officers relative to enforcing the
"urfew law, Mayor Hays of Boise APP
pointed Mrs. Herman Milleman for
night duty with special reference to
the enforcement of the curfew law.
A. B. Beau, present mayor of Po-
catello, was beaten by final returns
by w. p. Whitaker by 1856 votes. The
democrats M sde clean sweep in the
council and elected Pat Phelan, re-
turned soldier, over Laura Cough,
present clerk, by more than 1400 votes.
Great results are being accomplished
in the state of Idaho in putting over
the Victory loan which is now in pro-
gress. The first three days of the
drive people of PoeatellO subscribed
more than $265,00O for bonds, and the
total number of purchasers was 2095.
Mrs. H. L. Allen of FRANKLIN may
lose her right hand as the result of
blood poisoning. About two weeks ago
sire accidentally cut her hand while
opening a jar and, though the wound
was healing we'll for time, it was
later infected and blood poisoning
set in.
Beginning Sunday, May II, Boise
will hold week of music" in which
citizens of the city will be given an
opportunity to participate in a singing
project, which it is hoped will assume
such proportions as to be an annual
feature of that city much as the Rose
festival is at Portland
Tariffs have been filed with the pub
lie utilities commission by the railroad !
increasing rates on APP
pies from points in Idaho to eastern
points, effective May 81, which has
the effect of increasing apple rates to
points east of Chicago from $1.10 TO
S1.25 per hundredweight.
William Pharis. % years old, was !
shot and Instantly killed at Pocatello |
by his brother, Mike Pharis, &c years |
Did, police say. After being taken into |
custody the latter was said to have
being the slayer and to have |
said that the shooting resulted because
his brother had insulted his wife.
There are no evidences of red spider
activities in the Boise valley prune |
according to w. b. Tucker. |