Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-07-01
idaho STATE NEWS

The poSt0ffice at Nampa will be
raised from second to first class July
I, 1t is announced.
The state ordered commencing work
on the construction Of giant fish
hatchery with a capacity Of ten mil
lion eggs at Salmon a few days ago.
Forty acres have been secured by
the Wendell community which will be
developed for use as an aviation field,
fair grounds, bali park and tourist
camp.
A lone bandit who held up =. f.
Smith, cashier Of the First State
bank at st. Joe, and forced Smith to
give him 1922, escaped to the hills
afoot after locking the cashier In the
vault.
Idaho lambs are selling on the Chi.
cago market at as high as $3.50 per
hundred pounds this week. Good
Idaho spring lambs range from 60
to 20 pounds in weight OF the range
at this season.
Mrs. RuhT Bridges, aged thirty two
who was ~olhmitted to the Blaekfoot
asylum on March 7th this year, being
brought from Canyon county, died
Tuesday morning from drinking de.
Natured alcohol at noon Monday.
Increased flow of the Boise river
from 1920 second feet at 8 o'clock
Saturday morning to 1880 feet at
o'clock Saturday afternoon, was re-
ported Saturday night by ]. b. Bond,
manager of the Boise-Payette project
Scenes at Camp Brady, the summer
encampment of the First Idaho nation
al guard, Monday, recalled the time
men the Boise barracks was the home
Of the old regular cavalry. and the
sunrise gun" was the citizens alarm
clock.
A daily wage of 50 and board was
agreed upon as just wages at a. meet
Ing Of the board Of directors of the
Canyon County Farm Bureau at Cald
well Saturday. This will probably be
the prevailing wage paid to hay hands
throughout the Boise Valley.
Preliminary organization of the
Utah-Idaho Joint Stock Land bank
created to extend long term credits
ON agricultural real estate, is annunoc-
ed by the directors representing the
100 bankers of the two states who are
subscribing to the capital stock Of
$250O0O.
Reports have reached Rupert that
Raft river Is overlooking the bottom
lands and that several bridges have
gone out. In spite of this, it is said
that crops are unhurt and that pros
poets are good for the biggest crops
n the history of the dry farmers in
that section.
For the frs time since 1918 Jack
son lake reservoir is full, according to
rhe Idaho Falls office of the United
States geological survey This fam
Gus reservoir located in the Teton
mountains In Wyoming impounds wa
ter for iYrigating the crops on .thous-
ands Of acres in southern Idaho, sew.
eral hundred miles from the reservoir
Governor D. W. Davis will present
the flags, which were purchased by
contributions from the various COM
| mercial clubs OF the state, to the
commander of the battleshlp Idaho at
the review of the Pacific feet to be
held at Seattle July 4. Governors
from all western states after which
battleships have been named will be
present,
A. S. Emb, &c, l. W. w. leader was
sentenced to from one to ten years
in the state penitentiary at Wallace,
Monday, after having been found
guilty of criminal syndicalism, under
the Idaho law Saturday. On the wit
ness stand Ellbree declared he filed
the place of William D. Haywood as
supreme officer of tie 1. w. w. fol-
two months In 1913
Payette Is in the midst of active oil
development. The Idaho Oil & Gas
Co. as soon as the combination. was
completed with the local company at
once opened up commodious offices at
26 S. 9th ST., and brought in three
carloads of drilling machinery and
lumber which is now unloaded as.
sembled on the old cannery grounds
south OF the depot.
Something less than 100000 in pur
chases is announced this week by
the Reclamation Service, which has
again resumed the purchase of city
property that will be covered by the
American Falls reservoir, says Tht
Press Of that city. Some $4,000 Of
$4,000 in contracts win probably b.
announced the latter part of the montl
according to the o. s. Il. S.
Patents for more than 32,56s acre
of Salmon lands from the pniteC
States to the state were filed witt
Auditor @. G. Siggins at Twin Fall.
recently in accordance with the re