The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-08-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS
sohn y Baird. Publisher

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willis driving a load Of hay down
= steep bill. near Cambridge, Wal.
l&cm Coffee. 10 year old. fell on and
waa sersveiy Injured. but IL liz be,
lievsd he viii recover,
AtE counties Ia the northern tier
are responding literally 60 call tor
snaneiai support 70 build home az
lewiston for the ChlIdren's Home
Finding ard AID society.
The Conway hotel at Star was 40.
atFoysd ny Ore Wednesday morning,
but most Of tho furniture WAS saved
II IL thought that most II the loas
waa eoysFsd BY insurance.
Ths body OF Louis odlck. the boy
drowned near Caldwell. has been 70
covered. The body was quite badly
alsc0lored and cramped up and II
was evident that the boy was seized
with cramps,
The F&yetts Valley ariiroad has ae-
cured contract from the govern
mant 10 carry mall over It's entire
ilne from Emmett 10 Payette Mail
10 now carried daily 10 Letha and
Falk from Emmett
Owyhee county mining properties
are producing we'll and u number OF
mines have large foree 81 men
steadily ~ work. 80 that bullion re-
tnfns and payrolia maintain good
business and trade conditions,
The beard Oh commissioners OF Cas-.
STA county has closed it, session as a
beard d equalization. and has left the
assessment roll In much the same
coalition as Il was when turned over
70 them BY the county assessor.
Exclusive OF tho Boise river ator
age, the great nolse irrigation pro
iset was ~ per cent completed, and
the storage unit was SO per cent
completed BY the snd Of June OF this
year. according 70 an official report.
A movement was set on foot at a
meeting Of the Boise Police noneyo.
sant association last week. 10 secure
some property aud build d real homo
Tor injured. aged or decrepit patrol,
men who are past the period Of ac.
live service.
Because Mack Mccisan. colored.
anorsd. AZ be waa enjoying q Hioata
ON icungIng couch at the Court.
asy Colored aentlemen'a ofub In
Boise. I'd Caldwell also coiorsd, at.
tackled him with 4 knife, innicting
severe Wounds
Detectives are searching for the
nerson who placed threatening let.
tor. demanding 500. on top OF post
beside q mail box IN front OF thg
home Of q. II Carlson. we'll known
rancher who lives two miles south
west o. Meridian.
Ths Caldwell Commercial club and
real estate dealers are making pre-
paFationa Tor an extensive campaign
uf advertising Of tho city. Tho most
Important work Il tho arranging Of
four different exhihits one for Des
Moinea, Omaha. Lincoln and cald
we'll
Francis Fox, who conducts board
Ing house at Wallace. was shot three
times and beat over the head unit
unconscious BY Jack Dillon, minor
tha shooting occurring without warn
Ing and apparently without cause
Fox IL In the hospital snd Dillon II
Jail.
Idaho county Ii tho first TO hle with
the state board OF equalization 1
complete abstract OF It's assessment
Of property for the preaent year, The
report shows the assessment Tor 1911
10 be ys.2sa.4ie. an increase Of 81,
ssb,Ts2 ever 1910, or tpg per cent In
eresae,
The actual work Of consoiidatins
che Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company system and the independent
System In tho district including Ada
Canyon and Washington counties, Il
under way, but the real consolidation
IA potse viii not be completed fol
two months or longer
boise ID expected shortly to come
into ownership Of 400 acres OF hand
up Boise canyon by the good grace
Of unela SAM, and II II said that &
great quarry located on this land will
furnish the municipality With ~ iine
Grade Of pavement rock as wal
ever used In the northwest.
mrs, Mary n Hartman. widow oi
the late railroad king. r. H. Hartman
Ia expected to arrive from New York
eariy next month with her children
10 spend few weeks on ranch near
Island lake, northeastern Idaho. a
few miles west OF the Yellowstone
branch 81 the Oregon short Llac.
Two freight trains eoilided near
nowney. the crows having II narrow
ssears from death Both ensines were
demolished and both engineers and
hFcmen were slightly injured.
Tha Smith sonian institute viii soon
be enriched with the skeleton o. q
huge prehistoric animal exeayated
from sand htII five miles west Of
Montpelier Tho finders believe they