The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-12-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

tWH w ~ ~ LAW uk AfEtuic@if WhU
has been doing some experimenting
along this Sine,
The first Edison storage battery
cars 20 operate west Of New York will
within a few weeks, DO gliding over
the new Twin Fails electric scenic
route TO the shoshone falls
Boise may DO provided with conn.
try club aa the result OF quiet move.
ment that il now under way. Several
prominent local business men are con.
siderlng the country club idea.
The PayetteBosse Valley Spray
company have added an addition to
the building. which cost $1,000. They
sold this spring 10 the farmers IN tho
valley more than 5000 barrels of
spray.
The State Society OF Engineers VIII
hold their annual gathering in Twin
Falls on the 2sth OF December. This
organization is composed Or more tnan
200 civil mining and mechanical en-.
gineers
Lulfag his sweetheart into the
depths OF mine near Harvard. Jesse
DllIman shot and killed Miss NJ Liner,
IS years old. OF Helmer. and probably
fatally wounded himself. Dlllman IL
In The hospital.
Joseph r. Carol. formerly boiler
maker for the Idaho Northern at
Nampa. arrested for bigamy on com
plalnt OF a woman claiming to DO his
common law wife. now faces more
serious charge. that OF white slavery.
Antonio Barretia. a Spanish labor
er. was Instantly killed ut Boise when
the axle on one OF the flat cars OF a
work train on which he was riding
broke. causing the car 10 crash into
tho one on which Barretla was rid
Ing.
Tho Boise assay office win close on
June 30 next unless Idaho's senator's
are able TO insert and keep in the leg
islatiye appropriation bill the item
making sufficient appropriation to
keep this office during the coming fis-
cal year.
The Commercial club. as well as
prominent Boise men. Is putting mp a
stiff fight 70 maintain the Boise as
say office. The outlook In washing
ton at the present tlme Is not con,
hidered encouraging. but the fight viii
be carried right up TO the end.
A Washington dispatch says Sen
ator Borah OF Idaho ia not In favor
OF the proposal OF Governor Iadley
OF Missouri TO call a convention OF Re
puhlicana next summer for the pur
pose OF perfcctinE plans for reorgani
sation OF the Republican party.
Tho supreme court in decision
rendered last week declared unconsti
tutional the act designated as Title
~ Of tina political code Of the sessions
laws Of 1908, relating to the organiza
ton Of drainage districts. because o.
the invaiIdlty OF section thereof.
One measure which the Twin Falls
delegation win ondeavor TO secure thu
passage Of viii be bill providing
for the regulation OF the prices pale
for farm products, etc, bought and
sold within the state. BY companies
having moro than one station open 10
business.
The Wilson Orchard company hal
received shipment OF $500 yearlinl
apple trees from tho Hartley Nurser,
AZ Emmett TO be planted on the t6C
aero tract Just cleared on Eagl
Heights. This is 10 be one OF the lars
est and finest orchard tracts ia tn
community.
The HALEY Miner reports that Their
Is only one man at the Magic dam
and be win stay there all winter a
Waterman 10 look after the propert
OF the company The force OF me
that has been there all summer doin
repair work and making improve
ments was recently laid OF
Attempting 70 cross the Ciearwate
river late at night in a nigh wine
r. NJ Campbell ferryman OF All
tina. a small town above Lewiston
and an intoxicated Indian who goe
BY the name o. "Dlxie" Leech wer
drowned a few feet from the landing
With approximately 600 head {
the finest livestock that has ever bee
collected west OF me Mississippi rive
she Northwest Livestock show opene
at Lewiston on the 9th. with mons.s
crowds from every section OF y
states Of Montana. Oregon and Was
ington-
A salmon trout 81 inches long an
weighing 10 pounds and two ounce
was caught la Wood river on Decor
Der g. II was fished out OF what
called the back waters OF Wood rive
whore the Malad and Wood rlyel
meet. and was caught By two wome
The farmers IN the Middleton Sc
ton are rejoicing over the fact IN
they have no hay 20 SELL having so
every ton they had for S.. In h
section the hay is generally bong
up early, and this year there was !
trouble 70 find buyers.