Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-01-28
In THE GEM STATE

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non.
Idahos electoral vote for Harding
and Coolidge was delivered to
Vice President Marshall on January
Is by Lieutenant Harry O. McDougall,
the state messenger.
Earl Venable of Payette, who re-
Gently resigned the position of private
secretary to Senator Borah, probably
will join the White House STAFF after
March 4, it is announced.
Petitions have been received by the
public utilities commission from the |
Washington Water Power company tor |
permission to construct power lines to |
tie city limits OF st. Maries.
A. A. Amos, former member of the |
Boise police force, who was implicated |
in the robbery Of three Cinnamon
about midnight of December 81, plead
I'd guilty at Boise last week.
Dog race enthusiasts met at Ashton
last week and perfected their organ
ization to handle the big annual race
which will take place this year Feb
ruary %, Washington's birthday.
Arrangements have been made be-
tween the Bull independent highway
district and the county assessor for
the collection of automobile licenses in
and around Bull for the assessors.
Don Stevens, a Spaniard, was shot
through the leg, three miles west OF
Shelley, and Jesus Pieras, a Mexican,
/, is in the Bingham county Jail, sus-
/ Of box
| A third trial in the case of III. r.
Ramseyer, charged with murder in
connection with the fatal shooting of
]. r. Abel, a neighbor, in a contro-
versy over ditch water rights, is being
held at Twin Falls.
The federal power commission nas
issued advertisements announcing the
application of the Idaho Power COM
pany of Boise or permits to build
power projects at Twin Falls and on
Upper Salmon falls.
by providing for state inspection of
hay leaving the state, Idaho is taking
a further step toward perfect pro-
duction than any state in the Union
says ]. Vining Taylor, secretary of the
National Hay association.
Lyndon G. Dell, a railroad man in
the employ of the Oregon Short Line
in Nampa, committed suicide at his
residence by shooting himself through
the right temple 18th revolver.
There is no known reason for the act.
There were 43, 1876 acres in potatoes
In Idaho in 1919, as compared with
2S,341 acres in 1909, representing an
increase of 52.4 per cent. The aver
age yield in 1919 was 1859 bushels
per acre, as against 1862 bushels in
1909.
General denial is entered to the
claim that the increase in the freight
rates from 1918 to the present time I:
costing Idaho growers and shippers
$26,0O0,O00 annually by Joel l.. Priest
general agent for the Oregon Shor
line.
A pamphlet is being prepared which
will show that the work of the Uni
versity of Idaho extension division, II
cooperation with the county farm
; bureaus has added $6,716000 to tn
profits of Idaho agriculture In the 1fs
, two years.
. Citizens of Twin Falls on Januar
a is paid tribute to the memory 0
: Michael Bishop, member of the ia
: nous lost battalion" whose body wa
: the first of an American service ma
( who died in France to be returned
: Twin Falls.
; The city Of Pocatello is being sue
= by Mrs. Muir and A. Muir. Mrs. Mui
some time ago fell into ditch. a
: legged to have been dug and not pro.
erly protected by the city. She a
: leges that she has suffered a physics
breakdown since the accident.
The capture of Louis Gong, a forme
!. gardener of Boise, In Seattle last weel
: On the charge of selling a Chinese gi
into slavery, was brought about
D, Miss Mu, a Chinese welfare wOrke
d who visited Boise few weeks ago I
look into the particulars of the case.
8 The Idaho Sons of the America
u Revolution have finally announced II
award of the medal given in northeI
u Idaho for the best historical essa
u This year the theme was THE Ian
Ing Of the Pilgrims" Miss Rita TayI,
of the Wallace high school. was awar
- ed the special Tiffany design medal.
The Idaho Assessors associate
;. completed it's annual convention
Boise, January 49, Resolutions we
passed urging the secretary of stat
as head of the department of law g
40 forcement, to call on sheriffs of Il
n various counties to properly perfOT
their duties. The Macarthur bill pen
or ing In congress was Endorsed.
ne Victor Olson, aged 81, met death
ed shelley In a peculiar manner. a hig
bower electric light wire from [