The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS

| hohI CouRLy VIII De lifted throughOu
With steel furniture.
In short time the new fire alarm
system installed by the Signalphont
company at Standpoint will have beer
completed, at cost OF $4,000.
The government dredge, now work
ing southeast OF Rupert, has demon
strated that system of making draiI
bitches to be a complete success.
The town of Priest River Is look
ing forward to siege of prosperity
que to the contemplated building o.
several lumber mills at that point.
According to advices received from
McCammon, old potatoes are selling al
that point and throughout the state OF
Idaho for so cents per hundred pounds
BY a great majority, the taxpayers
OF loaho rails are in favor of bond
ing the city for $4,000 to be spent in
building new waterworks and power
station.
Dee Brackenbury, suspected of the
murder of Warren Richardson, a
rancher Of Almo, Ida, who was shot
on the night of March 28 last, has
been arrested at KeIton, Utah.
w. F. Harris, who lived north of
Caldwell, was placed in Jail on the
charge of attempting to murder an en-
tire family-his wife's father and mo-
Their and her brothers and sisters.
Ten thousand dollars has been sub
scrlDed toward the expense of carry.
ing on the work of the law and order
enforcement league in the state to sup
press illegal liquor traffic in dry"
districts.
With SIS pharmacists registered and
authorized to engage in practice in
the state of Idaho, class of 81 last
week sought admission before the
board of pharmacy, 16 by examination
and Al by diploma or certificates from
other states.
Work on dry farming land near
Rexburg is beginning in good shape.
Several large engines are up on the
bench at work on the land and every
body is putting his land in condition
for large crops.
Two dozen Chinese pheasants have
been turned in the underbrush near
GrangeVille by the Grangeville Gun
club. The plan of the club is to stock
up that part of the country so that the
birds may become plentiful.
The Northwestern Engineering COM
pany of Emmett secured the contract
for the building of the Payette valley
extension from New Plymouth to EN-
NETT, distance of 10 miles. Work will
begin with the next two weeks.
The second local option petition to
be circulated in Bonner county has
been filed with the county audi
tor. This one contains no less than
1920 names Of residents of the county,
about So per cent of the voters of the
entire county.
Lewiston is to have a big factory
for the manufacture of Quaker Oats,
the famous cereal breakfast food. The
plant is expected to have a capacity
of $50 barrels per day, and the COM
parys investment will aggregate
about 100000
L. A. Ruel, recent conner from the
east, is building new ice plant and
cold storage in Nampa. He has re-
ceived carload of equipment for the
new enterprise, and work is being
rushed on the new enterprise that is
to cost about $4,000.
Mrs Irene Wilson, employed in a
Nampa restaurant as waitress, was
burned by the explosion of
gas heater for the coffee tank. She
attempted to light the gas and it ex-
ploded, the flames burning her about
he face, neck and hands.
There are now 300 men besides
teams, steam shovels and other con.
'truction devices engaged on the dam
If the Magic reservoir, located in a
canyon of the Big Wood river, to rush
t to completion. When completed
his dam will impound 100000 acre
eet of water.
Russell Newman is believed to be
he oldest man in Washington county, |
md possibly in the state. On the goth |
If March, 1910, he reached the hun
lred mark, and when last heard from |
vas in good health and as active as
le has been in years. His wife, Sarah |
Newman, is 81 years old.
Prospects are bright for a bumper |
ruit crop in the Payette valley. The |
ruit trees are said to be loaded with |
'uds, and in an exceptionally healthy
and the season is opening
With much pomise.
Frank H. Kewalk. a soldier, was
tabled by Tong Chung, chinaman,
Turing a quarrel in Boise Chung
sed an eight-inch dagger, and would
have killed Kowalk had not
he knife struck rib.
A first prize of $500 and a second
,rize of $225 offered by railroad Off
ials for best acre of potatoes raised
nywhere in the territory of Idaho rail-
Dads, should make the farmers of the
tate eager to compete for the prize.
Mayor Tweedy of Lewiston has re-
uested the resignation of Chief of
'o1ice Masters, and the latter has re-
used to comply with the request.
recipitating the long predicted war
etween the mayor and the head of
he police department.
Work on the Burley-Oakley extern
ion of the Oregon Short Line has
cen resumed after a lay-off during
he winter months.
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