The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-10-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS
MERIDIAN
IDAHO

4ary OF state.
F. w Hess, who lives one mile
south of Kimberly, sold from six
acres, aisIke clover seed to the amount
OF $5i4.
Three lconYicts, each on whom
would have been released In less than
ninety days, escaped from the convict
camp near Nampa,
3. A. Goodman, who left Nampa
about three weeks ago to make his
home In California, fell from street
car In San Francisco and was killed
Saturday, November %, has been
designated as Idaho day at the North
western Products exposition to be
held AZ ST. Paul. Mimi. during that
week.
John Crawford, who attacked Chief
OF Police Hodson OF Caldwell with
hammer, has been sentenced to servo
ak months to two years in the peni.
Tertiary.
The Flint mines In Owyhee county,
owned BY the Ell Meyers Mining com.
pany Of London, Eng, win soon have
electricity for power and lighting pur-
poses al their property.
]. y. Mcpherson, state horticultural
inspector, has been appointed as
member OF the board OF governors OF
the Fifth National Apple show TO BIO
held In Spokane on November ii
20 ~.
The council OF Pocatello has fixed
the city tax levy at $685., which brings
the total for state. county and city for
the property owners OF Pocatello TO
ss.06 on the $500, by far the highest
tax ever known locally.
Fourteen boys have been arrested
at Twin Falls, charged with petty
thicvery. II Is charged the lads had
banded together and committed nu-
merous depredations, stealing from
stores, garages and wagons.
Leaving a note 70 her husband
with whom she had uuarreled, Mrs.
Moon, aged about ~ years, OF Boise,
tried TO Kill herself by taking chlo-
ride OF mercury. Antidotes promptly
administered saved her life.
q. W. Gundaker, 40 years old,
owner Of the Big Mohawk and the Pa
page Chief gold and copper claims at
Tucson Ariz, and extensively inter.
ested in the Occur d'Alene district OF
Idaho, died suddenly last week.
Potatoes are being shipped from the
Kimberly tract AZ fast MS cars can
be secured and tho crop Is d fine one,
yielding over 200 sacks TO the acre.
With potatoes selling at only so cents
per hundred. the crop will bring $500
per acre.
The question OF the change OF the
site for the new public school build
ing at Dietrich. which was 10 cost
$4,000, was submitted to vote last
week, when ITO votes were cast; "A,
q bare two-thirds majority. was given
for the change.
The total tax levy for the citizens
OF Emmett this year will be $3.50,
which 10 divided as follows: State
and county. safe; city. $3.50; school,
81, This levy last year Is as follows:
Total tax, $3.50; county and state.
st.40; school, s1.30. city, So.
Idaho schools are to make deter.
mined effort to land the $500 in
prizes offered by the province Of
Manitoba for the best display OF ex.
hibits In home economic work submit.
ted by a school or college at the an.
nual fall fair and carnival at Winni-
peg
Two hundred Indians, cowboys and
soldiers participate In the war bonnet
roundup and Bonneville county fair
at Idaho Falls. Cowgirl and cowboy
races. bucking and ropiug contests.
buildogging exhibitions and the sports |
Of the prairie were included in the
program.
The jury acquitted Ray Weaver, on
trial at Shoshone for the murder of |
Lena speers, TO whom he mailed a
drug that caused the girls death, |
Weaver produced evidence that Miss |
speers had written to him for the
medicine. hoping TO relieve an en- |
barrassing condition.
A number OF colored folk of Boise |
have formed an association. the pur-
pose OF which is to encourage thrift |
and industry among the colored people
of Idaho.
Neppie Sloper, lad OF 10 years, Is |
a federal prisoner In the Ada county |
jail, charged with burglary with In
tent TO rob United States post OF |
fee. Sloper broke into the Louis |
Diehl store, in which the post office |
is located at Eagle.
A man named Templeton was in
stautly killed in duel with Willis |
Stevenson. The shooting occurred on |
Willow creek, near Bliss. Temple |
ton had been living with Stevenson's |
wife, and jealousy over her affections
led to the shooting.
A dispute over the affections of a
lady in South Boise resulted in John
Noonan, a veteran of the civil war,