The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

II payette valley this season will
emount to 1000 cars.
idaho bee keepers are obtaining a
-snutation about the country second
XIV to the fruit growers.
The Camas Prairie railroad will in.
al shops at Lewiston to handle all
canning repair work on the locomo-
ives used on the line between Ripa-
IA and Grangeville.
4 special train Of forty carloads Of
snples was shipped from Payette on
4 ne 18th. Twenty-Five cars were con-
sIpned to Chicago and the remainder
3 other eastern points.
poisoned, so it is believed, by
candy. Josephine Kalahan, 2-year-old
laughter Of Herman Kalahan, was
,aken from train at Boise in a Sc
rous condition, but has since recov.
cred
ri deal has been closed by which
the West Coast Securities company
has acquired 450 acres of bench and
bottom land adjoining Lewiston on
tbe east, the consideration being
$4,000.
As the result of collision between
two freight trains at Crystal siding,
two men we're killed and two Sc
rously injured, the dead men being
Fireman Dan Fry and Brakeman Will
liam Linhorst
E. B. Fitch, better known as Ken
tuck," the father of "a children at
Gem, Idaho, had the top of his scalp
torn off in handcar collision. He
was unconscious for 10 hours, but is
expected to recover.
John Schultz, who lived on a tract
Of land known as "Old Genesee" and
was known as the Mayor of the Old
Town." died at Genesee from the eff
tects of fall from buggy while the
team was running away.
Plans are on foot In Boise for the
erection of a Y. NJ. C. A. hotel. The
idea of the movement is to provide
rooms for young men who are work
ing for salary and for those look
ing for employment in a new town.
A pumping plant has recently been
Installed by the Payette Heights Irri-
CATION company to reclaim about 1000
acres of land just above the town of
Payette. Should the scheme prove
successful, thousands of acres of land
may be reclaimed.
The prosperity of citizens and prop
erty owners in general in Idaho coun-
ty this year is reflected in the remit
lance of $1,3Z3.3S in taxes due the
state last week, being the first county
to send in it's per centage of cash due
the state this year.
What might have resulted in a SER
lous wreck was avoided on the Idaho
Northern at the bridge known as
trestle B, when workmen on large
steam shovel not far from the bridge
discovered that it had been burned
away, and notified surrounding sta
tons.
Alleging that her divorced husband
has kidnapped her 2-year-old daugh'
ter and that he left Omaha, Neb.,
in company with her unmarried sis
ter, Mrs. Annie Wallace is III Dolse
and will make an effort to have the
local authorities take up the search
for her husband.
The promoters of the Dry Creek IT.
rigation project have made public
statement that the reclamation OF w.
900 acres of desert land in township
10 of Ada county will be undertaken
as a private enterprise. Canals for
irrigating $500 acres OF land are al
ready completed.
W. H. Simons, alias Stone, who was
arrested in Boise October IS on
warrant from Lake Charles, La on
charge of embezzling the funds OF the
First National bank of that place 10
the amount of $4,000, will return to
his former home to answer the
charge against him.
Investigation into the freight wreck
near Crystal station on the snort
Line, Tuesday, in which two men
were killed, shows that the fireman
and engineer of No 1889 were asleep
and the crew of the train on the SD
ing was trying to lag the no'4ns
train by every device.
1t is rumored that Boise is to nave
team in the proposed new UNION
baseball league, which is to be com
posed of the towns of Butte, Helena
Great Falls, Salt Lake, Ogden ana
Boise. The new league is to be OF
ganized at a meeting to be he4u IL
Butte on November "a.
According to a decision named
down by the supreme court recent!
it is required of sheep owners 10 Iur
nish their help with good guns. Inc
decision was in the case of sheep
herder who lost an arm as the reSul
of the bursting of a gun and "a'
awarded $4,000 damages.
Douglas Reese, a bridgeman on the
Oregon Short Line, was seriously III
iured near Manson station. Inc
train had parted and the man nae
probably fallen, as he was found Vi
the bridge with his leg crushed an'
some minor injuries.
James King of Blaine county, VIM
has just been elected for the tnlr'
time county commissioner, underwear
an operation in Salt Lake hospits