The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-05-06
IDAHO STATE NEWS

tain Home on April Is, $4,000 worth
of land was sold, the average price
being $21 an acre.
Telephone connections are now COM
pleted between Ontario and Fruitland
by the Independent Long Distance
Telephone company.
A crew of Oregon Short Line engi.
neers have completed the work of
making surveys and plats for a round.
house and repair shops in the west
part of Burnley.
Ninety thousand acres of land in
Blaine, Bingham and Fremont coun-
ties will be irrigated by the Big Lost
river project, which is to open up it's
lands on May l.
The entire lumber yard of the Hum
bird Lumber company at Standpoint,
the biggest plant in Idaho, has been
destroyed by fire. The damage is es-
timated at $750,000.
Three Greeks are lying in a Boise
hospital badly damaged as the result
of an explosion of dynamite at Rock
vile, on Succor creek, about fifteen
miles southeast of Caldwell.
The members of the Southern Idaho
Press club are to hold their spring
meeting at Bellevue soon, and the
HALEY Commercial club has decided
10 aid in entertaining the visitors.
The news comes from Pocatello
that Judge Alfred Bulge, of the Fifth
judicial district, has purchased a
home in Pocatello and will shortly
move his family there from Paris.
The grading On the Burley-Oakley
branch of the Oregon Short Line has
been completed, and the work of lay
ing rails is progressing as rapidly as
the manufacturers can supply the
steel.
Within the next sixty days the Pay
cite Heights Irrigation company eX-
poets to have the pumping plant in.
stalled and the ditch completed that
is to supply water to reclaim between
5000 and 1000 acres of fine land.
NJ. l. Lynch, register of the state
land board, has rendered his resigna.
ton to Governor James H. Brady, an
nouncing his intention to engage in
the practice of law, making a spe.
cialty of Carey act matters and irri-
cation.
HALEY has a strong man who Is to
become a rival of Frank Gotch, the
worlds champion wrestler. His name
is Saleen Arkoosch; he is a native of
Turkey, and he is to have his first
real try-out on the mat at Bellevue
few days.
The movement to recall Mayor
Tweedy, at Lewiston, promises to be-
come a fight between the advocates
of an open town and the law enforce.
ment element, with the churches Of
that city lined up on the side of the
mayor.
The county commissioners OF FIRE.
omnt county have let a contract for
the building of a bridge across the
river at Lorenzo The bridge will
let on tubular piers thirty-four feet in
length and will consist of two spans,
one being 1856 feet, and the other $50.
The American Woman's league is
planning to organize a chapter at
Moscow and is starting out to secure
a membership of 100, which will en-
title them to one Of the beautiful class
chapter houses to be built and COM
pletely furnished by the league free of
charge.
The North Side Twin Falls canal
system is now completed. The first
two miles of this ditch runs through
solid lava rock, and is lined, sides and
bottom, with cement. 1t is the finest
ditch in the west and the permanent
character of the construction work
adds to its value.
Work on the sewer at Payette is
progressing nicely, although the con-
tractor is handicapped by being I'M
able to secure as many men as he
would like. Laborers are very scarce
and ditch bosses are having difficulty
in getting enough men and teams to
clean out the canals.
District court opened at HALEY on
April 81. with a calendar that will
not disclose any very sensational
news, and with only six criminal cases
and forty-four civil suits. OF these
criminal cases one is for murder, that
of Onofre Aldereti, who had trouble
over in the Lost River section.
The Oregon Short Line has definite
w approved of a new line to extend
from Saline, on the main line of the
Southern Pacific system, to Burley, a
distance of IT'S miles, which, when
constructed, will shorten the line be-
tween Salt Lake and Portland and
other Oregon points fully seventy-five
miles.
Because some of the contractors en-
gagged in the public work at Twin
Falls are said to be working their men
over eight hours, the various labor
unions passed resolutions condemn
ing such practice and appointed COM
mittee to take charge of the matter.
Another new town which is fast
coming to the front in this state is
Pingree, half way between Blacktoot
and American Falls, which is on the
Mackey branch of the Oregon Short
Line. Over 100000 has already been
spent in sidewalks, paving and install
ing pumping plant
Mrs. Laura Z. Lcftus, who shot
and killed her husband near TROY,
after r violent quarrel, has been &C