The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-01
IDAHO STATE NEWS


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Governor Hawiey announces that
no may call special session of tho
legislature, 10 meet Ia February o.
March, for the purpose Of enacing Q
revenue law.
Mrs ]. q HasoF, GO years or age,
died az her home III Meridian, after
four years Of illness. She had been
d resident Of that city for more than
twelve years
a delegation Of woolgrowers from
idaho and Utah reached Washington
on Wednesday 20 discuss with west
ern members or congress the ques.
tion Of probable legislation reducing
tho tarift on wool
The oregon Short Line has com.
piled with the request Of the Mont
pelier chamber OF commerce that
double daily service be maintained
on the new branch running south
from there to Paris.
slick Merrill won a decision over
Rirdleg Collins at Mountain lIome
In ten rounds OF boxing The men
put up as fast an exhibition az the
authorities would allow, and Merrill
clearly outpointed his antagonist.
John Bailey, living near Nampa,
from 40 acres harvested crop Of
1000 sacks Of potatoes. The land on
which these were raised Ii known
40 the Lakeside Orchard tract" and
lies south Of the Deer Flat reservoir,
Declaring as unconstitutional sec,
ton 2 Of the law known as the "Irri-
cation act passed by the state legls-
lature last March, the supreme court
has handed down q decision at Lew.
istnn Affirming the ruling Of the dis
trict court IN Canyon county
This Twin Falls q Southern Idaho
Poultry association announces that It
win hold It's fourth annual exhibit.
ton at the Bull opera house Decem-
Der II To 16. inclusive, Judge Col.
lier, the foremost poultry Judge OF
America. will score all birds
Leo Cramer. formerly yice-presi
dent OF the Idaho State bank Of
HALEY. must serve an indeterminate
sentence In the state penitentiary
This Is the edict or tho supreme
court OF Idaho In an opinion affirm.
ing the decision of tho lower court
Advertisements which the Chicago
land show Is printing In newspapers
throughout the middle west call at
tention to the fact that enough pota.
toes for 10000 people are given
away daily at the land show, the pc.
tatoes being the gift Of the state of
Idaho.
Some 100000. the balance OF the
price that the Idaho-oregon interests
were 10 pay for control Of the Boise
Valley Railway company, was paid
over last week to the holders of the
Boise Valley stock, and the road
passed Into the hands OF the Idaho
Oregon people.
That the orchardlsts in northern
Idaho have solved the problem OF get,
ting the maximum benefit ont Of their
water supply and that practically all
loss by percolation, evaporation and
seepage has been saved to use on
the fruit trees Of the district, Is the
belief OF experts,
Bud Jones, n local character. was
arrested az Mountain Home, charged
with an assault on Mrs. Jerry Cron.
in. He viii plead guilty. The pen,
atty Ii from one to fourteen years in
the penitentiary, Jones Is said to
have been intoxicated when he com,
mitted the crime.
Or. Louis A. Ruehl. former vice.
president of the United Breweries as,
ISOLATION, and his wife, Mrs, Augusta
Ruehl. We're exonerated of the charge
of being fugittyes from justice from
Idaho and discharged on writ OIL
habeRs corpus In the superior court
at chicago, last week.
Because the demand for trained
forest rangers Is far greater than the
supply, the University of Idaho has
decided to put In pre-digested
course for young men who want to
go into the government forest ser.
vice and serve In the vast forests
Of the northern part of the state.
The Emmett Telegram declares
that the extension proposed by the
Pittsburg 4 Gilmore line Is In real
ity the extension of the Chicago &
Northwestern. reaching out for a Pa.
citc terminal via the Salmon and
Snake rivers to Texas City, Wash,
and thence via Pasco to Portland.
Sold into slavery in Mexico after
being captured when he entered that
country believing 1t was the United
States, held for ranssm and when
freed barred from entrance to this
country, Louie Lung Fong, Chinese
lad Is years of age, son of Boise
Chinaman, has at last reached Boise.
William Odell. a widower. sixty-ffve
years old, killed his son David at Post
Falls and shot the thumb of Ben
Stellman. All the men had been
drinking, and When quarrel arose
over trivial matter the elder Odell
was attacked by the others.
Mystery surrounds the disappear