Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-10-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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to the perpetator ot the deed.
Apples are showing up well. with an
estimated crop of 1000 cars. High
prices prevail I'm commercial districts,
ranging from $1.50 to 81 bOx-
Forty thousand trout. reared to nm
gerltng size IN state hatchery. have
Just been released in the waters of
Silver creek by state employees.
Potatoes Indicated ~ per cent OF
normal condition on October l and
estimated number of carloads 600,
compared with a movement of 7723
cars i'm 1918.
Road projects involving $T,iS6,-
622.9l doomed large in the September
report of w. ]. Hall. state commits
| sioner of public works ut the cabinet
meeting last week.
The central Idaho and eastern
Washington teachers institute, at
tended by 1000 teachers from seven
counties in the two states, was held
last week in Lewiston.
If congress will pass the Mondeu
soldier land reclamation bin. the gov
eminent will expend In Idaho $3T, as
600 in building new irrigation projects
and extension of old ones.
Wallace Scott. aged SO, pioneer
north Idaho banker and business man,
died at Grangerville last week Heart
trouble superinduced by old age was
the direct cause Of his death.
A saving of approximately S5oO0
during the six months period ending
September 30 was claimed Friday by
the state department OF agriculture In
Its report to Governor Davis.
Between two and three dozen bears
have been captured or killed this fall
in the vicinity of Ashton and neigh
boring villages. Most of the bears are
black ones. with few brown.
Tentative plans made at the time
of the state meeting of osteopaths in
Boise a few weeks ago for a free
clinic have materlallzed and the clinic
is now In actual operation in Boise.
AS the result of an automobile acct
dent, ]. II. Often of Paul is in the
Burnley hospital severely Injured in
the back, leg and head. aud Earle
Danley, aged L. has three broken ribs
AdOlpho Ramerez was arrested AT
Payette on description furnished by
the Ogden police. II Is charged that
Rnmerez stole gun and watch be-
longing to Pedro Munez, near Ogden.
All the departments under the com.
missioners who form the cabinet OF
Governor ID. w. Davis are well within
their appropriations, reports read at
the regular cabinet meeting this month
show. ~ td tfl N#fff
Timothy Regain died az Boise last
week at the age OF, &c. The death of
his son, Lieut.. John NJ. Regain. on
the battlefield In France u year ago
undoubtedly shortened the days o. Mr..
Regan.
Everyone In Idaho win be given an
opportunity to contribute to the Roose-
welt Memorial Association funds. With
that object in view an organization
Is now being perfected In all parts of
the state. 4.a
A federal commission is conducting
hearings to determine whether the
Nez Perez Indians will be competent
to manage their own affairs upon the
expiration of the government trust pc
riOd next summer.
2 Il. ID. Davis. n young rnncher near
Caldwell, stuck pItchfork into his
forehead directly above his left eye,
and Is not expected to live owing to
complications setting in In the form
Of spinal menengItis.
1t costs $3.50 year to educate
pupils of rural schools In Canyon
county, and $3.50 TO educate those
enrolled in the city schools, according |
to figures prepared by the supe.in-
tendent Of schools for Canyon county. |
With the advent OF the rainy season
In southern Idaho, farmers In that sec
tor have made good progress with fall |
blowing. and the soil Is IN splendid |
condition. according to the weekly |
crop report of the department Of agri-
culture.
Owners of Gull apples are baEn- |
harding the state agricultural office
with pleas that they be permitted 10
ship out Of the state under bond the
100 cars Of fruit which state laws
are leaving at the mercy OF the by-prO-
ducts men.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Albert Harkelrode OF Buhi
three years ago appears to have been
solved by the finding OF human bones
on an island in the Snake river.
Whether or not there was foul play
in connection with Harkelrode's dis
appeara. .ce has not as yet been deiec-
mined. ffe5tft3s
Charters Of 500 Idaho corporations.
ranging in size and importance from
the Boise Railway company to the
smallest mining concerns in Idaho.
were last week declared forfeit TO the
state ct o'clock p. IN. November
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