The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-10-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

kinson delegates to the public lands
convention
Idaho club women viii give the
work Of securing uniform divorce
Law their personal attention at the
next legislature.
Rain cut down the attendance al
the state fair, but the exhibits were
voted the best at any state fair In
the history OF the state.
Rettering the conditions Of the
women Of the rural districts win be
one OF the chief objects Of the Idaho
State Federation OF Clubs at It's next
biennial meeting.
John Brooks q veteran Of the civil
war and member OF the local q. A.
4. post. died at Nampa last week
Deceased was so years Of age, and
Heath was caused by an attack OF
pneumonia
Ben Purcell, an employee Of John
Neeley OF Ney Plymouth, says he was
held up by two men about one mile
east OF Crawford and relieved OF
$44.a0. as he was returning to his
sheep camp,
Farmers OF Ada county are deter.
mined 10 make fight against high
taxes and extravaganza In public ex.
panfitures, and to carry the fight TO
tho courts II they zee any relief IN
that direction.
Slick Merrill earned decision over
Patsy McKenna after 10 rounds of
fast boxing al Boise. Both men were
on their feet and both seemed strong
aG the finish, but Merrill was given
the decision on points.
Just because the original maker OF
note Is released from Its payment is
no reason why the grantor of the debt
Is freed from his portion OF the obli-
gatiou, according TO a decision handed
down In the supreme court last week.
Plans are on foot, under the direc.
ton OF Thomas II. Maloney, represent.
alive OF the Chicago Land Show, to
have Idaho potatoes used In all the
principal hotels in Chicago and on all
the dining cars running into and out
OF that city on Idaho Potato day.
Nearly 1900 men are working on
the Boise project under the direction
OF the United States reclamation ser.
vice, bringing the waste places Of the
state into the cultiyatabie farms of
Idaho, The payroll for this small
army amounts TO 100000 per month.
The governorNis In receipt of let
ter from Associate Forester A. +. Pot.
ter announcing the arrival In Wash.
ington OF the articles OF agreement
between the state and nation on the
exchange of land. aud expressing the
belief that there viii be little difficulty
in getting together,
The farmers around Van wyek are
busy threshing and delivering their
timothy seed. which was contracted
for last spring by different firms 10
the amount Of $4,000. The seed is
yielding about 500 pounds per acre.
The price being paid for seed is from
i've to ten cents per pound
With tho arrangement OF seven of
the indicted directors of tho defuuct
State Bank Of Commerce and the
subsequent granting OF twenty.one
days to each In which to plead the
first round Of what now promises TO
be long drawn out legal battle was
concluded at Wallace on the 9th.
The Idaho Potato day for the Chi
eago land show Is getting enthusiasts.
tic support from the eastern part of
the state and there will undoubtedly
he enough OF the Idaho tubers there
to make the day u success,
The state horticultural inspector
has declared that unless the practice
Of selling infected and decayed fruit
by certain Srocers and fruit dealers
Is stopped Immediately arrests will
follow, and because OF the prominence
OF the parties involved u sensation
will doubtless result
On what he declares arc trumped
up charges preferred for the purpose
Of Custing him from a rich mine in
which he is Interested, Elmer II. Rod.
gers a mining man with interests in
tho east and also interested in the
development OF properties in Idaho,
VAS arrested at Boise.
The biggest single bar of gold bal.
lion that has left rie government as.
say Office in Boise in long time
was shipped TO the Denver mint last
week. The big bar contained 1900
ounces OF gold and weighed lis
pounds. The value is fixed at S28, 900.
For over 20 years. 500 settlers have
been living on farms aggregating So.
600 acres in the fertile Salmon river
country TO which they had not the
slightest title, although tNey had
sauatted on the land in good faith,
according to Frank S Spotford, assist.
ant superintendent OF survey.
The arrival of the president in
Boise was announced to the multi.
tudes by the firing Of the regulation
salute of twenty-oRe guns at the Boise
barracks. The cavalrymen took a
commeUdaf,Ia iptaras, in ~, ,.,,t, -