The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

the international Dry Farming con.
gress for Boise.
That a motor car service Will soon
be In active operation between Idaho
Falls and the several towns adjacent
IN the very near future IL foregone
conclusion.
North Idaho 10 second IN the United
States In the production OF lead, this
year, according TO the annual advance
statement OF the United States geo
logical survey,
Indicative Of interest In the move.
ment for better educational facilities,
figures show that s250.oO0 IL to be
expended In northern Idaho this year
for school buildings.
Work on the Burley sugar factory
" progressing very rapidly. Over 100
men are now employed on the build.
Ing. and twenty-five carloads OF ma.
chlnery have been received.
rHampa q. HI Peacock. printer,
aged 40, died at McCammon from
heart failure last week. Peacock
had worked In number OF printing
offices throughout the state
Several OF the negroes who have
been giving the police department OF
Boise all kinds Of trouble lately have
been escorted to the city limits and
shown the way out OF town.
Moro than 2I.O40 acres Of land In
the dry farming belt OF Ada. Boise
and Canyon counties have been added
10 the enlarged homestead classified.
tons Of tho interior department
The comptroller of the currency
has authorized the payment OF sec.
ond dividend Of 10 per cent TO the
creditors OF the First National bank
OF Salmon. which was closed last
June.
That Bonneville county Will soon
have home for her officials Is evil.
denced by the act that the county
commissioners are already figuring on
such building, says an Idaho Falls
dispatch.
The Soda Springs Commercial club
il urging the county commissioners
OF Bannock county to appropriate 81.
500 for the construction OF a road
from Soda Springs through the Tin
Cup country,
The last OF the work Of grading the
Salt Lake e. Idaho railroad has been
completed. The roadbed Is now ready
for the steel for the entire sixty-hye
miles from Buriey TO Kelton Summit,
near the Utah line.
Mike Davis. who held up Mike
Ryan at Mountain Home and robbed
him OF s2,50. must serve a term in
the penitentiary. The sheriff heard
of tho robbery and ran out In his
night clothes and arrested Davis.
William Martinsen OF Idaho Falls,
who owns extensive ranch interests
near Grant, has been shipping baled
alfalfa 10 the st, Louis markets and
has received price ranging from
s2Ab0 20 s26 per ton for II there,
The village board Of Burnley has
had prepared an ordinance calling an
election for voting upon the question
Of bonding for $4,000 TO extend the
electric lighting and power station.
and put in water works and sewers,
Legal authorities In Adams county
have requested an opinion from the
Office OF Attorney General McDougall
as 10 whether the question of remoy-
ing the county seat from Council to
some other city within the county
may be submitted TO the people at
the general election this fall.
Notice OF intention to circulate pc
titl0na for vote on the question OF
moving the county seat OF Cassia
county from Albion TO Burnley has
been published, and the petitions win
be circulated within q few weeks,
polls In November.
The interior department, notwith.
standing the action OF the attorney
general In Diminishing the criminal
suits against the Barber Lumber
company, says Washington dis.
patch, has recommended and urged
that an appeal be taken to the su.
preme court In the civil cases against
this company.
After waiting nearly ten years for
water, the people of Dead Ok Flat
last week saw water lifted 10 feet
high at the rate Of twenty cubic feet
a second and running in three Of the
bitches, one fifty, one eighty, and one
10 feet lift. Il is estimated this
section viii now furnish homes for
from 500 TO 1000 families.
Mrs Mary A. Rich, widow of
Apostle Charles c. Rich of the Nor
mon church, prominent and
wealthy woman Of that region, died
Il her home at Paris, April II, aged
seyenty-five years. General debility
was the cause.
NJ A. Thometz. received a check for
s974.80 for single car Of Idaho
Rural potatoes, last week, grown on
bis ranch at Goodwin station. near
HOLSTER II. Landing Of Kimberly
reports gross returns OF $500 per acre
on his thfa Vaarfa uOtafn eron