The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-10-31
IDAHO STATE NEWS

A Boise man who pleaded guilty ia
working his stenographer more thaR
nine hours a day was fined $40.
The Aberdeen Commercial club has
undertaken the task to secure a tele-
phone exchange for that town ant
surrounding country.
The winter terminal for the Idaho
Northern tracklaying crew, building
the line to Mccall on Payette lake,
will be at Lake Fork, eleven miles
from the end of the extension.
Elmer Williams Of Spring Creek,
who was stabbed seventeen times by
Dick White, died at HALEY. White is
in jail. The stabbing is reported to
have followed quarrel between the
men.
County Survey Crandall has COM
pleted the preliminary survey of the
proposed road from Gibbonsville into
the Bitter Root valley. This will be
a link in the Park to Park" auto
road
George Toston, aged 81, we'll
known resident of Pocatello, died Oc-
tober % at his home south of town.
A bad case of la grippe developing in
to typhoid fever was the cause of his
demise.
An unidentified negro, evidently en-
ployed near American Falls as a sec
ton hand, fell under moving freight
train which he was attempting to
board, and had both legs cut off be-
low the knees.
John Sparks, a sheepherder residing
at Homedale, shot himself in the head
with suicidal intent and will probably
die. Dependency due to protracted
| illness is reported to nave been the
cause of the mans rash act.
The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the double tragedy, murder and
suicide near Boise, when Glenn War
dell shot his young wife and then
killed himself, was unable to assign
cause for the crime.
F. H. Newell, director Of the Unit
ed States reclamation service, who
visited Boise last week, says that Ida.
ho must join hands with the federal
government in order to save her
Carey act irrigation projects.
The grand lodge of Idaho Odd Eel
lows has selected Presley F. Horne
to succeed the late George H. Handy
as grand secretary. Mr. Handy,
whose home was at Caldwell, died at
Salt Lake City a short time ago.
Frederick L. Allen of Boise has been
granted patent, according to re-
cent issue Of World Progress, on an
improved eyeglass that does away with
all screws, eliminating the possibili-
ty of breakage at the contact point.
The discovery of what is believed
to be the Oldest tree in the Fourth
forest district has been made by e. H.
Hodson. A yellow pine has been
found in the Carpenter Creek district
that is believed to be 459 years old.
Governor Haines has written to Sec.
rotary of Agriculture Houston calling
attention to the good work that is
being done at the potato experiment
station at Jerome and urging a liberal
appropriation for continuance of the
work.
Walter Mitchell, AL Stewart and
Will Harris of Bancroft, who were
arrested for violating the local OPP
ton law by dispensing cider contain
ing about 20 per cent alcohol, have
been held to the district court for
. TRIAL
Mayor Theodore Turner of Pocatel-
10 narrowly escaped a serious acct
dent when his car was run into by
one belonging to Barney McGarvey.
The mayors car was light runabout
| and was carried severar feet by the
heavy car.
William Walker, a carrier boy for
the Pocatello Tribune, was run over
by an automobile belonging to H. H.
Whittlesey, druggist, and was pain
fully injured. He suffered a broken
shoulder blade and a great number
of bruises.
: Thought to have been stricken with
fit of insanity, Glen E. Wardell, killed
! his wife and ethen committed suicide
as the two were talking together in
; Boise. Wardell was 20 years of age;
his wife but 81. They were married
: June of this year.
Potato digging is the principal in
dustry of the Richfield tract these
days. The acreage of potatoes is not
nearly so large as it was last year
but still it runs up into the hundreds
Of acres, and the price is so much
better that the crop is valuable.
In the arrest at Boise of George
Thomas and George Klintz, the Off
GERS believe that they have in Gus
tody the leaders of gang of burg
lars who have in the past severa
weeks stolen several hundred dollars
worth of merchandise from box car:
on the Oregon Short Line between
Ontario and Pocatello.
After several days of wrangling by
attorneys representing the "wetsi and
the "drys" before the board Of com