The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

OF the derailed car is held responsi.
BILE for the derailment Of an D. w. n.
a !. baggage car near Weiser on Au.
gust 81.
The total enrolment 10 the Boise
schools on the second day OF this
school year was 1850, which IL Just
400 more than enrolled on the second
day Last year.
An investigation OF potato diseases
that have baffIed farmers in the irri.
gated regions OF the west, will be
made soon In Idaho by the department
Of agriculture.
Katie Summers. 10 years old, was
drowned In a canal near Rigby. Tho
young lady was out riding when her
horse ran away and threw her into
large canal
James Alexander grown son OF
Mrs. 81. q. Alexander, widow, OF
Hepburn. accidentally killed himself
In taking a gun from a wagon while
setting out 10 hunt ducks.
The report comes from Van Wyck
that work on the Idaho Northern IL
progressing nicely. The grading will
be completed September is, and the
rock work By November j.
Responsibility for the failure OF the
Boise State bnnk, which went to the
wall year ago. win be placed by
special federal grand jury. called to
convene IN Boiae September 20.
Because he forged money order
for SIS in order to get funds 10 send
20 his sick wife In Salt Lake. Charles
L. jackson was sentenced to term
Of i've months Imprisonment in the
county jail AT Boise
Fruit storage houses will be built
IN Boise, Caldwell. Nampa, Payette,
Emmett and several Eastern Oregon
points. BY the Smith q currier Fruit
company OF New York. The storage
houses viii bo completed next sum.
mer
Mining companies Incorporated 10
transact business In Idaho. some 1900
IN number, are being notified by w. J.,
clifford. secretary OF state. relative TO
the filing OF annual statement with
the secretary OF state before October
], 1919.
Paul Elaestone. who ran for the Re.
publican nomination for governor at
the primaries July 30 and was defeated
By q narrow margin BY John NJ Haines
has declined the appointment as q
vice chairman Of the executive com.
mitteo.
The 1912 state and county levy OF
s26b on each sio0 valuation OF prop
erty Ia Ada county as liked by the
board OF county commissioners will
raise an amount approximately sea-
s54.as less than was raised by the
1911 levy.
Charles Keli. age rs, formerly a
wealthy Minneapolis merchant, and
Fgiederike Keil. his vile, met death
at his hands in an isolated mountain
cabin six miles north OF Murray. The
tragedy was evidently the result Of q
suicide pact
Through an opinion rendered from
the department OF the interior at
Washington the state land department
was advised last week that an entry.
man under the Carey act cannot ae-
qulre more than 100 acres of land
under the provisions OF that act,
Aside from the number OF hotel.
roomlng house and restaurant keepers
that have been hailed into court At
pOcatelio and fined. three local drug.
gists faced the justice last week for
noncompliance with the state law rela-
tive To the sale OF liquors and drugs.
Lincoln county commissioners have
made tho annual levy, liking rate at
sass, OF which various state ievies
foot up SO cents, current expenses
rs cents, roads and bridges AZ cents
county bond interest S117. county
bond sinking fund 3 cents. schools 60
cents.
The board Of county commissioners
has flxed the Bannock county tax levy
at az mills for state and county pur.
poses. The levy IL on s9.S76,OOO the
cash value this year being placed at
over SIS .o00. 600. The sum to be real
lied is $3.50 407, OF which S5S,40T IL
for state purposes.
The Payette street fair and fruit
carnival 10 be held September II TO
"a. promises to ne one OF the biggest
and best things OF it's kind ever held
in the state, A liberal premium list
has been assured and the fruit grow
ers and farmers are responding liber,
ally with ent-iee,
The police of Salem, Ore are on
the lookout for an unidentified man
who represented himself as Wallace
e. Pierce OF Boise and procured $2oC
through the Western Union, from
John NJ Haines, business patron
of Mr. Pierce
Ben White committed suicide al
Mountain Home by shooting himselt
through the heart with IA Colts re
yolyer. The tragedy occurred in {
wagon shed at the home of Buck Whit
son, where White made his home. Poo
health was the cause.