The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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Nampas new city hall, erected at {
cost of $4,000, has at last been com
pleted and is being occupied by the
city officials.
w. d. Harris, who lives two and a
half miles west of Burley, has made
several hundred gallons of fine mo
lasses from cane grown on his land
this year
A shipment Of eleven carloads OF
cattle and two carloads of hogs was
sent out from Grangevil.e by buyers
who have been in that section buying
for several weeks.
Some miscreant has succeeded in
poisoning, in a certain section O.
Boise, during the past week, nine dogs
and fifteen cats, several of the ami.
mails killed being very valuable.
The Idaho exhibit for the national
horticultural show will consist of a
carload in all and will be the finest
exhibit of Idaho fruits ana grams
which has ever been shown in the
| east.
| The Grangeville Light & Power
| company has rendered a proposal to
the city council to increase the light
ing system of Grangeville at lower
rate, provided a five-year contract is
made.
The farmers of Camas Prairie coun-
try are engaged in digging the potato
| Drop, the acreage this season being
unusually large. Because of the pro
longed drought the yield is far below
the average.
Joseph Westerberg of Rexburg,
13-year-old schoolboy, was accidentally
shot by a companion while they were
out squirrel hunting. The bullet STRUCK
the boy in the temple, death result
ing few hours later.
A full carload of apples, containing
$50 boxes, has been shipped from
Payette to Council Bluffs, Iowa, to be
exhibited at the meeting of the Ma
tional Horticultural congress, which
meets there next month.
The meeting of the Second District
Federation of Clubs at Shoshone last
week. proved to be one Of the enjoy.
able annual gatherings of this fedora.
ton, Nine clubs of the district were
represented by twenty-six delegates.
The auction sale of Carey act lands
was held at Springfield on Thursday
Water rights sold at prices ranging
from $15 to $50 per acre. Probably
the purchasers secured the best value
for their money that can be had today
in Idaho.
Prof. F. D. Farrell, director of the
southern Idaho agricultural extension
of the University of Idaho, has an.
nounced that four movable schools OF |
agriculture will be held simultaneous
ly at Weiser, Meridian, Wendell and !
Idaho Falls.
Present indications point to the |
unpreventab-e freeing of all of the
priscGers now in the state peniten- |
'tiary who committed crimes before |
the indeterminate sentence law went |
into effect, but who were sentenced |
under that law.
John Amestoy was in charge of a |
pack train, eight miles from Malad,
when the animals became frightened |
and stampeded. He was thrown from
his horse and dragged a considerable
distance, sustaining injuries which
may result in his death
Reports show that not more than Is
per cent of the grain crop of central
Idaho has passed from the hands of
the farmers. The yield in the country
handled by the Lewiston buyers is es-
timated at 100000 bushels, includ-
ing wheat, barley and oats.
That the Citizens State bank Of
which has been closed for
the list ten days, will be taken over
by the Standpoint First National bank
is the statement of w. G. Cruise, state
bank commissioner, who has audited
the books of the two banks.
The preparations for the good roads
convention, which will convene in
Boise on October %, are well under
way and this meeting promises to be
huge success, as there will prob
ABLY be eighty delegates present from
the associations within Ada county.
The Clearwater ferry, which has
been in operation since the early COS
when Lewiston was a small mining
hamlet, will be moved half a mile far
her up stream, affording a landing
for the north side on the Weaskus
.ract, viii the south approach will
De on Holbrook island.
Guilty of manslaughter was the
verdict of the jury at Occur d'Alene
the case of Russ ludlow, charged
with the killing of Sam Crone on
March 20. Crone and ludlow were
leighbors. living near Hayden lake.
The boats of the Open River Trans.
company will be placed in
erVice between Portland and Lewis
on as soon as the stage of water is
avorable for navigation.
Sc billion board feet of lumher
'aiced at about s15,OOO,OOO, was de.
'troyed in forest fires in the national
oFests OF Montana and northern Ida.
10. Inc tota, area burned over in
MS one district was put at 1850 o0n
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successful raid of the "blind
lgs OF Standpoint and the county in
eneral was pulled off Friday when
'herin Merritt and his deputies, as.
listed by the police force con6soo+,,.