The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-08-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

assis'hnt forest ranger in Idaho. The
salary is s1,100.
The people Of idaho are proud Of
the fact that gun crews of the battle.
ship idaho have been awarded the
gunnery trophy Of the Atlantic feet
The road overseer in the district
recently washed cut by the cloudbursI
near Pearl mining camp reports that
ne has the roads in a very coed con
dition again.
Congressman Addison Smith sas ac.
cepted an invitation to deliver an adj.
dress on the occasion of the Thirty.
fifth Annual Pennyroyal reunion which
is to be held near his old home, Fair.
view, o.
There will be no more saloons at
Lakeview. The commissioners last
week turned down FIVE petitions for
saloon license. The issue for and
against saloons at Lakeyiew was a hot
one.
The first state land sale ever held
in Albion will take place on Saturday
September 10, when about $500 acres
of state lands located in Cassia county
will be disposed of to the highest bid.
der The land is to oe sold in forty
acre pieces.
Miss Eleanor Erickson, aged %. was
found dead in bed at Salmon. She
had been suffering from tonsilitis and
was apparently improving in health.
A post mortem examination proved
that death was due to an acute at.
tack Of pericarditis.
The Idaho guardsmen have been
encamped at Boise the past week.
With the 10 companies and band of
the Second ldafo Infantry on the
scene of action, the encampment was
one of the most successful in the his.
tory of the organization.
The state board of equalization has
completed the equaESation of agricul-
tural lands as between counties. The
board increased the reported yalua
tions in this class in but three coun-
ties-Canyon, 10 per cent; Oneida, 20
per cent, and Lincoln, 25 per cent.
Idaho Falls is to have farmers
rest room. The rom is really a suite
to contain rest rooms for men and
women, bath rooms, waiting rooms,
lunch room, toilet room, writing and
reading room, nurserS and store
rooms.
Members of the Occur dAlene Rod
& Gun club will plant a quantity of
wild rice in Kootenai county at var
Ttla d1Yr;Y h. e.
next spring for the purpose of de,
.erming the best season for planting
that seed.
Groyeland, the young son of Thorn
as Randall, living near Blacafoot, had
his hand badly mangled in a pulley
Of a hay derrick. He was brought
to Blackfoot by his father, where 1t
was found necessary to amputate the
third finger.
The women of Weiser have recently
organized a Rest Room association,
for the purpose of equipping and main
tanning a rest room for the use of the
women and children of Weiser and the
vicinity, and for such other. purposes
as may contribute to their comfort
and welfare
The secretary of the interior has
awarded to the Los Angeles Cable
company $500 contract for furnish
ing transmission wire for the Boise
irrigation project and has authorized
the purchase of SO gravel cars at
$3.50 each for the Arrow Rock dam
Of the same project.
The farmers in the Richfield section
are now busy harvesting their second
crop of hay, while the wheat, oats and
the amount of grain yield to the acre
is something marvellous and the po-
sato crop is excellent and the acreage
q large one.
The wheat Drop in Idaho this year
will total 12,500.00o bushels, accord
ing to the latest estimates. Of this
amount over falf, or about 7,00e 900
bushels. will be harvested in southern
Idaho and the five wheat counties OF
northern Idaho will produce 5,O00000
bushels.
The reported valuations of south.
eastern counties for agricultural lands
to the board are: Fremont, S10,437,-
1873; Bonneville, s5,1S0,725; Bingham,
s6.7S1,224; Bannock, S5,452,540; Fear
Lake. s1,791 $685. Franklin, S2,6Ss .040:
Oneida, S1,S10,171; Power, $1.90S, 429;
Minidoka, s610.9S3.
The revolver found beside the body
of James Nichols after the double
tragedy near Twin Falls, has been
identified by G. W. Gerrich as the one
he sold to Nichols or July 7. With
this evidence all doubt that Nichols
killed the woman and then shot him,
self has been swept away.
Nearly twenty years ago Patrick
Hurley, resident of Spokane, then
miner in the Couer d'Alenes, paid S170 |
for 1850 shares of stock in a Occur |
d 'Alene nine He has long regarded |
the stock as worthless, but discovered |
last week that 1t is worth 81 a share. |