The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-12-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Occur dAiene, is dead from heart
trouble.
A fire visited Elk City recently, de.
Btroying something like $4,000 worth
Of property, which carried about ST..
600 insurance
The $4,000 school house addition at
Mullan has been finished and is oc-
cupied. 1t was formally opened by a
special program Friday evening.
Idaho bear the proud dist,nc-
ton Of having the greatest per cent of
increase in population within the last
ten years Of any state so far reported
That Boise now has the lowest
death rate on record in proportion to
its population. that of Sc per cent per
1000 inhabitants. is the report of the
rtty health officer
The number of teachers employed
in the schools of Idaho in 1909, was
2,1o4; in 1910, 2,23S were employed,
the average salaries paid for male
teachers being SS67s, and for female
teachers, s65.04.
James Routes. Greek laborer from
Pocarello, is at q Salt Lake hospital
in serious condition, from a stab
wound under the heart. Routes was
hurt in a fight in the o. S. l.. yards
at Pocatello.
Earl Maupin. b ,rtender in a Boise
saloon. narrowly escaped death or ser.
ious injury one night recently, when
a woman. supposed to be his wife,
fired a shot at him. The bullet
whistled by close to Maupin's head.
Senator Borah has introduced bills
authorizing a new public building at
Nampa, to cost. including site. not ex-
ceeding $4,000; also a bill authoriz-
ing a new public building for Twin
Falls. to cost not exceeding 5000 coo.
Rupert is soon to have a splendid
electric lighting system. The wires
will be placed underground. The work
is not completed. but the necessary
material is on hand and the installa-
ton win be finished before the ground
freezes.
That the gigantic dam OF the Boise
project will probably be located about
Arrow Rock, eighteen. miles above
Barberton, is the statement Of Arthur
P. Davis. chief engineer of the recIa-
nation service in an interview in
Boise.
The search for the missing Boise
banker. Corbin. who has been lost in
the mountain wilds of Fremont county
near the line of the Yellowstone Park.
has been abandoned by his friends
and the guides and soldiers have been
called of
In answer to statements being cir
culated that Harry Orchard is TO be
pardoned, Governor Brady is quoted
by the Boise Statesman as saying:
Harry Orchard is in the Idaho peni-
Tertiary and should. in my iudg-
ment, will remain there the rest of his
life"
If General L. V. Patch's efforts are
successful, Payette Heights may be-
come the home of extensive grape cul-
ture in the next few years. On his
twelye-acre farm which overlooks the
city from the east he has started a
small vineyard of the luscious Tokay
grapes.
Sarah White. negress and cook at
the Academy of Idaho dormitory, at
Pocatelio. was shot and instantly
killed by her jealous and drug-crazed
lover, Tom Haines, train porter rum
ming out of Pocatello. Haines then
shot himself, but it is believed he will
recover.
Since the bounty was placed on
coyotes, wild cats and other animals
by the state in 1905, following is the
complete number of the animals which
have been killed up to the present
time: Coyotes, 4o.252; cats. 2.7S2;
lynx, 81; foxes, Is; wolves, 90; max.
ing total of 1921.
Showing a substantial growth in
the school population and a provision
of state funds to meet the advance
needs OF the schools OF the state, are
statistics which have been compiled
by State Superintendent S. Belle
from the reports which
have been received from the county
superintendents about the state.
James McReynolds of Bonner eoun,
ty, serving ifteen-year sentence for
forgery, has been granted a condi.
tional pardon. He is never to touch
another drop OF intoxicating liquor as
long as he lives.
Eugene H. Grub of Carbonate,
Colo. the potato expert. will spend a
week in Idaho during the institutes
which are to be held in weiser. Me.
ridian, Wendell and Idaho Falls. from
December 18th to Path, inclusive
After serving seven years in the !
Arthur Good, who muir. !
iered Emma Audrey, his eonsort, al |
Wallace has been paroled. Good was |
convicted of murder in the first de- |
gree and sentenced to life imprison. |
nent
II the efforts of the state game war. |
len prove successful. 1t is probable |
hat the operators OF at least one of /
he cyanide mills on Crockett river I
will be prosecuted on charge of hav- |
ng polluted the stream TO such an ex-
ent that thousands of fish have been |
liIled.
John Fleming. convicted of the muir.
Ter of Frank Langford. in Lincoln
ounty, will probably neevr be execut.
ID. the prison board having become