Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-10-24
idaho STATE NEWS

Public utilities are to be given q
'hgher assessment this year, the state
board of equalization has decided
Potato harvest is on in Canyon and
Twin Falls counties, and reports indi-
cate good crop and good quality.
A pure food and western products
show, with state welfare exhibit, the
second week in April, now seems as
suEed.
The assessment rolls of PocatellO
improvement district No. %, just com
| pleted, carries expenditures aggregat-
ing 100000.
The Payette river Is the lowest ever
recorded, and it's waters are now be-
ing distributed under the direction of
a watermaster.
| Gem county will hold fair Sep
TENDER IL, is and 10. according to the
decision of the fair committee of the
Emmett Commercial club.
A fine crop of timothy hay has been
harvested In the irrigated valleys of
Boise county, and the outlook for a
good seed crop is promising.
A campaign is to be waged at POca-
| tello during the week of September 8
to 16 to raise $4,000 to pay off the
| Indebtedness of the Y. NJ. C. A.
The second cutting of alfalfa is now
all up. 1t was secured in first class
condition. The third crop, under fri
CATION. Is growing luxuriantly.
Fireworks for the state fair this
fall have been assured by the action
of the board of directors. They have
set aside 1900 for that purpose.
Kid Davis and Alfred Douglas en-
gagged In a pistol duel on the streets
at Pocatello. Both emptied their re-
vOlvers and Douglas is In hospital.
Just as he was disposing of his last
bottle of whisky to a thirsty customer,
so officers say, Tom Clark was arrest
ed at Parma on charge of bootleg,
ging.
Conservative estimates place the
Emmett fruit crop at 1875 carloads OF
peaches and 80 carloads of prunes.
There Is a shortage of help to harvest
these crops.
Less than a year ago w. G. Bloomer
bought the p. D. Lambert eighty-acre
farm, mile northwest of Rupert, for
$4,000. He recently sold the place for
$4,000 cash.
Valuations on business lots in Ada
and number of other southern Idaho
counties were advanced by the state
hoard of onuoIf1otioD ovor rotrrDo
made by the assessors.
In an effort to stimulate the mem
bership campaign of the American le-
giOn, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, one of the founders Of the
organization, will visit Idaho.
Due to cool, rainy weather in the
Jackson lake country and to econom-
ical methods of irrigation adopted by
the farmers, the water supply is last
ing much longer than was. expected.
James Talbot was fatally injured in
an automobile accident north of KIM
berly Sunday morning. He died short
ly after being brought to a hospital.
Internal injuries about the chest and
abdomen caused death. He was about
35 years of age.
Benjamin Franklin Rogers of Boise,
decorated by General Pershing with
the distinguished service cross for ex-
traordinary heroism while on duty
with the Fifth regiment Of marines,
was discharged last week at the Salt
Lake naval recruiting office.
The state board of equalization de-
cided that agricultural lands in the ir-
rigated portions of the state have been
assessed entirely too low and changed
the assessments fixed by the various
county assessors so that the increase
will total almost $12,O00,000 for the
entire state.
Goo ling county will have one-day
fair on Saturday, September IL, in
Gooding The event Is new venture
md is being launched by the county
arm bureau. Contests and exhibits
by both the members of the boys and
girls clubs of the county and by adults
will be held.
Information has been received in
Boise that part of the body of an I'M
known man was found in Pen Basin,
40 miles from Cascade, by a sheep
man. Mystery surrounds the grue-
some discovery, for there was nothing
found in the mans clothing which
would identify him.
About 200 persons took part in the
rabbit drive on the Seaman ranch,
three miles from Rupert. More than
1000 of the pests We're destroyed. The
mild winter of 1918 and the present
dry season is the cause of the Jack
rabbits coming into the Minidoka pro-
ject in such large numbers.
The Southern Idaho Sheepgrowers
association, recently organized with
headquarters in Pocatello, which Is
composed of all the leading sheepmen
in southeastern and southern Idaho,
has gone on record as absolutely refus-
ing to pay more than $3.50 ton for
hay In the stack, based on a 5l2-foot
measurement