The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS

construction Of new school house
at HOLSTER.
President Taft last week sent to the
senate the nomination Of Darwin A.
Utter to be surveyor general OF Idaho
Mr., Utter Ia the incumbent.
Filthy conditions in the unloading
pens at Glenns Ferry form the gov
ernment's basis for suits aggrsgating
$4,000 against the oregon Short Line.
Nampa citizens object to being tax
ed for the buiiding OF three bridges on
the Payette river, at FrultIand, Letha
and Plymouth, and will ask the courts
for relief.
The citizens OF Hollister and sur.
rounding community are TO have their
own telephone system, which will be
connected with the Mountain States
oompany's line.
NJ a. Just. 65 years old, ranch,
man OF Shelley, died at q Salt Lake
hospital last week OF pneumonia. Mr.
Just was stricken with the disease
three weeks previous,
Oakley school bonds sold at 5A per
cent TO Keeler Bros, at Denver last
week. There was keen competition
on the bonds, which were voted to
build a $4,000 school house In dis
frict No. 2.
The state Bank OF Mackay, at
Mackay, In Custer county, has been
merged with and taken over by the
w. @. Jenkins a Co. bank at Mackay,
leaving that city with only one bank
ing institution.
Resulting in a loss Of approximate
E $4,000. three buildings at Nez
Perez. the Nez Perez hotel the John
Nezhit meat market and residence and
the M. ID. Demoud residence, were
burned 10 the ground.
According to information given out
by Oregon Short Line officials, about
$4,000 has been asked for In the
way Of improvements to be made in
The yards and on other OF the com.
pany's property at Pocatello.
The wife OF Fred Gilman. rancher
AGAR the King Hill grade. is much
worried over the absence Of her hus.
sand, and she fears either accident or
foul play, The missing man was last
seen In the town OF King Hill.
Suffering from the Authorization
that she IL mind reader. that she
knows Just what people are thinking
and that some man has been saying
svil things OF her Miss Grace Pad,
dock Of Boise Is to be sent to the asy.
lum.
FTFends OF Lewis Hooker, so years
pf age, are inquiring his whereabouts.
Nr. Hooker, who has been living at
the p. b. johnson ranch, one.half mile
vest of Twin Falls, left there on Sat
arday, March 9, without giving notice
pf his departure.
II the people in the vicinity OF Pay.
cite win agree to grow 100000
pounds yearly OF dewberries, currants,
sherrles and raspberries, the Baker
Preserving company or Denver win
build plant In Payette and agree to
take all the fruit raised.
II Is claimed that Hollister, in com.
pany with the great Twin Falls.sal.
mon River tract. OF which 1t Is the
capital. Is on the threshold of pro.
gressiye movement that may assume,
within the near future, the proper.
tons Of an old.time boom.
Pocatello has an excellent chance
TO get on the route of the Glidden
tour this year. All that is necessary,
according to President Theodore Tur
ner, of the Idaho State Automobile
association, Is concerted action by the
motorists of the southern part of the
state.
That a narrow gauge railroad will
be built this year by the Short Line
people from Mackay to Clayton via
Round Valley and then up the Salmon
river to Clayton is generally believed
In Chaliis. This would mean great
activity among the mines or Custer
county
The irrigated tract OF the Portneut
Marsh valley company last week pass
ed from the suppositious stage into
that OF reality when. with impressive
ceremony, the main headgates of the
eompany's system were raised, allow.
Ing the water of the Portneuf river to
now through the canals.
I'm goin' to start klckin' that
dawg aroun'," is the battle cry Of II.
8. Ashby, horticultural inspector Of
Ada county. following his experience
at a farmhouse near Eagle Monday.
when he was severely bitten by dog
which attacked him unawares, says
the Boise Statesman.
The body OF L. H. vilhauer, hard.
ware man, who committed suicide.
was found on the lawn at the capitol
building grounds at Boise. A bullet
hole was bored entirely through his
head from 3s caliber revolver. He
Is supposed to have been rendered de-
spondent by misfortune.
The decompOsed body of a man, evi.
IDENTIFY George w. Burns of Boise, was