The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-10-28
IDAHO STATE NEWS
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uoutpelier, IL is claimed, has the
800 railroad payroll in the state
| inside Of Pocatello.
! rhe Idaho Falls Commercial club hal
Il .oae On record as being opposed 70 the
sstabIishment OF state railroad com
uission.
h new cooperative creamery is un
Il construction at Kimberly that will
y completed and in operation about
~ irst Of the year.
n 4 meeting Of the Payette Com,
.arciai club a resolution was unani
mousIy adopted against the railway
,ommission proposal.
that Boise win experience a coal
,bortage which may be very serious
\ tbe opinion of the majority of coal
dealers in the city.
fire of unknown origin destroyed
.syenty tons Of hay and a granary be
longing to e. E. stoessel, who lives
near Montgomery's ferry.
N Surveys are in progress for the dou
bIetracking of the main line of the
idaho division of the Oregon Shorl
line from Pocatello to Minidoka.
4 Touring mill with capacity OF
loo barrels per day and an electric
mower and lighting plant are two new
h Industries that Van Wyck will soor
have.
H Work will soon be begun on g
bridge across the Snake river al
DoWnards ferry, Lincoln county. The
xork is to be completed by Decem
Der !.
Lincoln county has one of the great
.st areas of irrigated lands of any
Il county in the state, the total approx
mating in the neighborhood of 100000
acres.
II II is learned that the total receipt!
from all sources for the Intermountair
State fair at Boise was $17,041.55
which was s3,23495 greater than thu
receipts in 1909.
The much talked of railroad com
mission resolution of the League 0
Southern Idaho, Commercial clubs was
efectually sidetracked for another
year at the Gooding meeting
There is on exhibition in Idaho FALL
a specie of lizard which is said to have
81 been discovered in a lump Of coal
The animal is of dull pasty gray ans
n SO far as can be noticed is withou
eyes.
Over one million dollars worth of ia
nous Idaho prunes were shipped cas-
N this season. Ten hundred and fifty
three cars of prunes were shipped cas-
from the Payette territory, from Aug
ust 10 to October 2.
With 100 delegates, representing
twelve of the commercial bodies O.
southern Idaho present, the League
Of Southern Idaho Commercial clubs
held its annual convention at Good
ing, the opening session occurring or
Monday.
Unless the owners of the dozen OF
more old shacks in Boise which the
n council condemned and ordered tori
down, commence operations this
u week, the city will tear the buildings
down and charge the expense against
the property.
William A. Simmons, alias VIII H
Stone, for four years bookkeeper a,
the Idanha hotel in Boise, has beer
arrested by the United States mar
shall at the request of federal authori
ties in Louisiana on the charge o.
enlightenment.
Work on the sixteen-mile extension
of the Pacific & Idaho Northern rail
way from Evergreen to Meadows l:
progressing rapidly. The grading II
about finished, the fourteen bridge:
On the extension are completed anc
ready for the rails.
Two thousand carloads of fruit haV'
been shipped this year from the terri
tory comprising Ada, Canyon ant
Washington counties in Idaho, and
small portion of eastern Malheur coun
ty in Oregon. This same territory il
1908 sent out 1900 carloads.
So incensed have the people o
Boise become over the report sent GU
from Washington, to the effect tina
frauds were committed in the census
count in that city, that the city coun
ell has passed resolution asking tina
complete recount be made at once
The state land board has passed
resolution that it is the sense Oh IN
board that the North Side Twin FAN
Land & Water company shall collee
no second payment nor interest iron
entrymen on that tract until waite
mas been available for one whole Il
Fgation season.
The Catholics are making rapl
strides in church building in ldahc
The $4,000 church at Occur d'Aleh
is nearly completed and work ma
been commenced on the Goodlh
church and the church at Salmon
Plans are about ready for ne'
churches at Jerome, MaCkay, ST. 10
and st. Maries.
F. E. Fileo, one of the owners G
the Twin Falls News, committed su
eide on October IL, using a carVin
Knife with which he inflicted the Ii
tai wounds. The act is supposed |
have been the result of worry owe
business affairs.
Dennis McInerney, who shot Peele
Foster, near Gilmore, some week
ago was found to be insane by con
mission of insanity. McInerney wa
injured on the top of his head som
years ago and is not mentally a