The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-08-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS

tory of Charleston is now being har
vested.
Washington county has gained over
a half million dollars in property
valuation in the past year.
Mayor Fitzpatrick, Of Bonners Fer
ny, Is not opposed to the showing OF
the Johnson-Jeffries moving pictures
in that town.
An interurban electric road is pro.
jected which will connect st. An
thony, Parker, Salem, Rexburg. Sugar,
Teton and Ureford.
The Craig Mountain railroad has
| its tracks ballasted and is running
passenger trains that meet both trains
on the Camas Prairie line.
The numbering town of Welty,
few miles southwest of Standpoint,
and the home of the Dover Lumber
I company, has had its name changed
TO Dover.
J. NJ. Vaughan, one of the best
known pioneers of Bonner county,
ISet his death by drowning in the
Clarkfork river. He was nearly 81
years of age.
The Idaho supreme court has held
invalid the recently-enacted law that
sought to permit communities and
counties to bond themselves in aid OF
| railroad construction.
Ray Edwards, of Salmon City, was
attacked by an enraged bull, the ami
NAL hooking him in the muscles OF
the arm. throwing him in the air, and
| in the fall he dislocated his hip.
The water in the Boise river is at
the lowest stage it has reached in
the last Is years. 1t is feared that
! some of the farmers Z on irrigated
lands will suffer from want of water.
J. H. Wallis, state pure food and
sanitary inspector. has announced
that his department has decided to
| prohibit the sale of near-beer contain.
ing more than one-half of one per cent
of alcohol.
| The first arrest ever made in Idaho
| county under the migratory tax law
| took place recently, when John Cut
bert, a Salmon river sheepman. was
charged with trying to evade payment
Of taxes on 500 sheep.
Under a decision rendered by the
comptroller of the treasury the sec.
rotary of the interior is at liberty to
expend at will all moneys -appropriat,
ed by congress for the construction
Of the Fort Hall irrigation system.
While in the act of robbing the
Golden Rule store at Rigby, one rob-
Der was shot in the knee and two
others were captured. Three other
members of the gang escaped, but it
Is thought they will be arrested soon.
Unless it rains on the Idaho range
within the next few weeks, sheepmen
will sustain an enormous loss. Every
expense entering into the industry
has more than doubled in the last few
years. Hay has gone up in price, as
we'll as wages of herders and other
expenses.
grain yield Of the Lewiston country
places it at 5,OS1, 900 bushels divided
as follows: Wheat, 2,334,O0O bushels;
barley, 100000 bushels; oats SAT,
600 bushels. approximately 1900
| tons of timothy hay and seed, valued
at $4,000, will be raised.
D. Vendetta, young Italian study
ing sociological conditions throughout
the northwest. was drowned while on
fishing trip up the st. Joe river. In
the neighborhod of Pocono, he at
tempted to cross the river by walk.
ing across on log, but lost his bal
ance and fell into the water.
Cattle raising in the famous Brunei
country will soon be matter of past
history, says the Bull Herald. Such
men as Turner G Halves, w. r. Nc
MILAN and Z. L. Brockett have an
nounced their intention of selling off
their cattle herds and engaging in the
more profitable sheep business.
The big dam for the Idaho Irriga.
ton company for the Magic reservoir
on Wood river will be completed Oc-
tober l. The dam when completed
will be 100 feet high, and will store
| 1870, 900 acre feet when full. There is
already At feet of water held in stor-
| age, which will be drawn off this sum-
mer.
Jack Kenny, a prospector who lived
near Saltese, while working on a
chimney on his cabin, lost his bal
ance, fell to the ground and rolled
down the mountain, a distance of so
feet. He injured his spine paralyz.
ing him, and he lay there for As hours
before he was discovered and assist.
ance given.
Manager Stoneman, of the Weiser
Fruit & Produce Growers association.
states that he has ordered $4,000 ap.
pie boxes, as against 10000 ordered
| two years ago for orchardists of this
section. He says the thinning of the
apples insures a larger per cent of
big fine looking apples of the prize
winning variety.
An Italian, name unknown, was
drowned near Roberts He had I'M
dressed and was standing on a rock
preparatory to going in swimming
when he slipped into twenty feet Of
water. His body has not been recov-
cred
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