The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-08-26
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itory OF postal savings bank funds.
Albert r. Stephens Of Boise, haa
been appointed to the United States
naval academy at Annapolis By Sena-
tor Borah, subject to examination.
All power sites on the Snake river
not previously filed upon are with
drawn from entry by the department
OF the interior by the confirmation Of
the power Withdrawals Nos. ~ and
III
Report reached Boise this week thai
surveying crew, presumably belong.
ing to the Oregon Short Line, had
been running a line from Dixie to
Boise via Backs creek.
A hotel and natatorium are to be
constructed near the hot wells at Ar
tegian City. Building for the hos.
telry are TO be erected at once, and
later on the same block the natator-
ium.
Nampa Is to have a grand street
carnival beginning Monday, August 20,
and continuing the entire week. The
big event has been arranged under
the auspices Of the chamber OF com.
merce.
While working on the house Of his
son-in-law. A. II. Christianson, at
Kuna, on Tuesday afternoon, Charles
Lilliquist fell from the roof, sustain
ing injuries which resulted in his
death
The Northern Idaho Press club,
with memberships from the six north
ern counties, Latah, Nez Perez, Idaho,
Shoshone, Kootenai and Bonner, was
organized at meeting held for the
purpose at Moscow.
The city council has ordered signs
announcing speed limit eight miles
per hour" nailed up at the four boun-
daries of Boise? Any scorchers yio-
lating this ordinance will be arrested
and fined the limit.
The outlook in Emmett and that
part OF the Payette valley for big
fruit crop this year is very promising.
Those who have confined their efforts
to the fruit industry are very much
gratified with the prospect.
John Holm, an old pioneer prospect
or of HALEY, was buried by cave-in
at the War Dance group Of mines
some days ago. He had leased the
main dump for the purpose of sorting
out tho zinc ore and was working by
himself
Busy times in the fruit industry in
this vicinity are predicted by every
horticulturist of Nampa and the sur
rounding country and early in the
season there will be a campaign OF
prune and apple picking such as has
never been seen here before.
Eight-year-old an Stephens, son OF
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Stephens, residing
two miles south of Filler, was crushed
fatally last Saturday when five hun
dred pounds of hay fell upon him.
While in the garden last Saturday
the 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. M
J, Macaw OF Twin Falls swallowed a
number of peas and in some manner
got some of the peas into its lung pas
sages, causing 1t to choke to death be-
fore help could be obtained.
The newspaper field of Idaho Falls
and Bingham county will be invaded
by new publication, a Democratic
newspaper, to be called the Weekly
Tribune. The new paper will be ed
tied by Arthur A. Allen.
l.. H. Tyrrell was fatally crushed
under the wheels OF his own thresh'
ing engine, ten miles southwest oil
Moscow, Idaho, last Saturday.
Ralph Vale, living near Snake river
caught sturgeon weighing 40C
pounds. 1t was 10 feet, inches in
length and weighed when dressed 900
pounds, The fish was brought to the
Independent meat market and dis
posed of. The purchasers got SIC
worth of oil out of the head.
All peach buds were not lily affect
ed by the cold weather last winter on
the Twin Falls tract. and the 1910
yield of this luscious fruit, in spots
which escaped the severe frost, is
bountlful beyond the contemplation OF
the most optimistic horticultural en-
thusiast.
At the session of the Montana
State FederatiG2 Of Labor, the state
board of prison commissioners pre-
scented a communication setting fortf
the position of the board on the EN-
ployment of convict labor. II was tt
the effect that 1t will be employed ir
road building and not in competition
with free labor,
The Baptists OF Idaho are planning
a statewide rally and convention Il
be held in Boise, September 2O-2S
This will be the annual state conven
ton of that denomination, and in ad
dition the Baptist Young Peoples
union state convention. a rally fol
the women and the laymen in the
John Doyle, the miner found dead IL
the cave-in OF his mine, was burieC
close to his claim near Salmon City
Owing to the state OF the body wheI
found and to the fact that there are
no wagon roads in that ueighborhood
this course was rendered necessary,
The voting precinct of Goodinl
would make a pretty fair sized county
! In some of the eastern states. Thi!
! precinct is 2IXl0 miles. containing pa
Sruare Miles II COVerS almnst saynr