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

capacity OF 500.
There have been more fine homes
built this season in Caldwell than ever
before In its history.
The electric railroad Is now assured
for Hagerman, giving the town and
the productive valley what It most
transportation.
Stephen Sullivan, laborer, aged
%. was almost instantly killed by
falling from gravel wagon which no
was attempting to board at Boise.
The boosters for good roads are go.
Ing 10 put every candidate on record
as to the proposed legislation which
they desire at the hands of the next
legislature.
Extensive plans to make the poul'
try show to be held in Boise, starting
December rs, the greatest exhibition
OF its kind ever given In the north.
west. are being formulated.
II plans now being made are car.
ried out, Boise will soon have a studio
for the manufacture Of moving pic
lures. Several men In and about the
city have become interested in the
scheme.
Edward Bruce, aged is, was acct.
dentally shot by his 12-year-old
brother at Mountain Home, and 1t Is
feared he will not recover. The boys
were handling a gun which was sup
posed to be not loaded.
The Weiser freight office of the
Oregon Short Line handled an excep
tlonally large amount of freight dur
ing the month Just ended. Among
other shipments were lao cars of
stock and 80 carloads of apples.
The largest catch of coyotes on rec
ord is reported from the Boise ma
tional forest reserve by Frank l.. Brit
tenstein, the forest service trapper in
that district. Mr.. Brittenstein trap
ped "A coyotes during October.
@. G. Smith, who was elected
mayor of Caldwell in 1906 and served
two years, died at his home in that
city on November 1. Mr.. Smith was
one of the business men of Caldwell
and had an extended acquaintance in
central Idaho.
Harvey G. Bostwick, an ex-police-
| man of Boise, who was convicted of
assault and battery on the person of
his wife, was given the maximum sen
tence by Judge White of the municipal
court, 5000 fine and a sixty-day Jail
sentence being imposed.
According to the report of the state
| engineer of Idaho, which report has
been verified by actual experience,
the ordinary flow of Snake river is
ample in ordinary years for all the
needs of the Twin Falls projects, both
north and south sides.
Contracts have been let for the con.
struction of a branch of the Oregon
| Short Line, from Montpelier, Idaho,
west five miles to Ovid, and south
four and half piles to Paris. This
line Is being built for the transporta.
ton Of agricultural products and live
stock.
A man convicted OF drunkenness at
Caldwell was fined SIS. He not having
the cash nor the disposition to work,
the judge decreed that he should be
| put upon Vi VI eau anu WdlCl
for four or five days.
The fall meeting of the presbytery
| Of Idaho of the limited Presbyterian
church, which comprises southern Ida
no and eastern Oregon, was held at
Parma on Tuesday, October 25. About
30 delegates were present,
| The preserving plant of the Ken,
meth Gordon Preserving company OF
| Lewiston has resumed operations af'
ter three days shutdown on &C,
count of a fire which resulted in con,
siderable damage to its stock.
John J. Mulvihin. a well known cit
lzsn of Cabinet, was killed by bul
let from a Winchester. The gun was
accidently discharged, the bullet shat
tering the left wrist and entering the
left breast and piercing the left lung
Boise valley will establish a reputa
ton this season as being the best in
the country for growing alfalfa seed
The crop this year is larger and bet
ter than ever before. James Motlow
living mile west of Caldwell, got
SO bushels of clean seed off of twenty
acres.
The Lewiston. Sweetwater Land &
Water company is now preparing the
land for planting 100 acres of add
tional orchard next spring. The dis
trict established by this company five
years ago now covers 1000 acres anC
has been practically all sold in five
acre tracts.
Already the government has unuer
taken the work of reforesting the vas
acres of Idaho timber which was burn
ed out in the recent fires and thou
sands of trees will be set out. This
work will be carried on as fast as pos
sible, and it is probable that all of the
district will be replanted.
William Armstead Goulder, the pic
neer newspaper man of Idaho, dice
at his home in Boise on October %
at the age of 50. Mr.. Goulder came
to Pierce City in 1869 and engaged il
placer mining. He was one OF thu
best known writer's in the state
While on her way to the church fo
her wedding, Miss Mary Caves o
Weiser come near meeting her dealt
in runaway accident. The carriage
in which the bridal party was ridin!