The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-05-03
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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The state w. G.. II. u. OF Idaho vii
Introduce i BILL at the next session o
the legislature asking that capita
punishment be abolished.
The third annual Chautauqua vii
be held In Boise, June 10 10 20, ant
the directors aud COMMITTEES are hare
At work completing the details.
While playing with a group OF play
mates on the turntable at the D, 8. Il
rcundhouse ut Boise, Mildred Street
or, aged II years. had both feet badly
crushed.
by a vote OF 2o5 to 10 the taxpayers
Of Boise have expressed their wish
that the $4,000 city improvement
bond issue recently declared null and
void BY tho district court DO reIssned.
A shipment OF 305 dairy COWS
reached Wendell recently from wis
consln This IA said to be the larg.
est shipment Of dairy stock ever
made from east TO west across the
continent.
Don H. Bank engineer IL charge Of
the Sovernment irrigation inyestiga.
tons In Idaho. has devised maasur
Ing box or weir to cost not over s2.be
that win measure exactly the water
that IL used.
Boise win be Yeritable garden
this summer II all Of the plans Of the
various Improvement associations
materialize within the next few
weeks Prizes have been offered an
greEating $3.50.
While attempting To put the weapon
In its scabbard staten Moss Of PAY.
elite was accidentally shot In tho cali
Of the right leg last week. The bullet
followed this bone down TO the foot
where II lodged
Work II progressing on the big irri.
gation canal along the west side Of the
salmon river, IN the Challis valley.
The water Is being taken from chat
~ creek. and tho ditch will reclaim
large tract 81 farming land.
Track laying on the Idaho Northern
extension north OF Emmot Is proceed
Ing rapidly The grade TO Horseshoe
Bend u complete and the track.laylne
machine and large force Of men will
soon have the rails laid 10 that place
The sheriff has brought back from
San Francisco Harry sprague, the
self-confessed aafeblower OF Monk q
Cos store at Salmon In December
1905, Sprague talks freely of his
deeds and appears 10 be deeply pen
itant
Idaho's growing dairy Industry has
received fresh Impetus IN the estab.
iishment of cheese factory at Buhl
and IN the promise of others at other
points tn the state as fast ia enough
cows can be shipped In to supply
them.
Mrs. Lee Miller who committed
suicide In Spokane, was bride Of but
few months Prior to her marriage
20 q Wallace restaurant man laat
fail, she was known as Beatrice
Fairfax, name which she took when
abe began stage career,
There Is universal mourning among
the trainmen and old time travellers
over the death OF Mrs. Ryan, who for
years managed the eating house at
dlenns Ferry, later going TO Coke |
Vile, Wye. where she was In charge
OF the station eating house
Several thousand acres OF land in |
Hannuek and Bear Lake counties
which have been withdrawn from all |
forms Of entry because OF the pres. |
enee OF phosphate deposits may be re. |
stored to surface entry IL bill now
pending In congress In approved
Orchards in Twin Falls. Fremont.
Bingham and Lincoln counties are In
excellent condition. and indications
point to an unusually large fruit yield
In all the fruit.growing sections In
southern and eastern Idaho. accord.
ins TO J. IT, Mcpherson, state hortl.
cultural inspector.
Andy Shaw and Louis Stephenson,
the two aoys arrested for breaking
into the Luxton meat market and Ida.
no Falls Junk company at Idaho Falls,
We're found guilty, Shaw viii pass
SIX months in Jail and Stephenson
VIII remain in the training school
until he attains his majority.
l.. d, Blackwell. resident of south
Boise. who had been missing for six
weeks. and who had been given I'm as
dead by his family, has returned to
his home. and claims he has no recol.
lection of his doings from the time he
disappeared from his home until he
aE'oSe III San Francisco hospital.
4 new concrete bridge to cost sew.
eral thousand dollars will be con.
structed in the west end Of Idoha
Falls, over Crow creek this summer
The span win be sixty feet. This i'm.
provement, together with other work
OF a like nature in and about Idaho
Falls, is fast making of it a city bean.
tiful.
w F. Morton, one Of the men work.
ing in box factory at Caldwell had
his right hand taken off by one of the
saws in the factory. The accident
occurred while he has removing snr,s