The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-12-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS

former IS seeking TO block the Latter
from entering Twin Falls territor r.''f
War has broken out in southern ~
no between two of the largest aIaa.",
cal power corporations in the far.
tory, the Great Shoshone q TT.
Senator Borah has offered an amons
ment to the currency bill. mali
notes issued under its provisions loaa,
tender for all debts. public and nj ea'
vate. pif
Lincoln high schools football teor.
OF Portland went down to defeat r.
fore the Boise high eleven AT ca.
field at Boise on Thanksgiving by the
score of IA to 2. ny
Two big electric dredges, each with
a capacity of moving 1000 cubic YARD
of dirt every twenty-four hours. arc !.
work on the $4,000 drainage system
for the Pioneer Irrigation district
The secretary of the interior h..
authorized the reclamation service Il
execute contracts for dredging ennin.
ment for the new Jackson lake dam
in connection with the Snake river
storage project.
Two carloads of turkeys were shin.
ped from Middleton last week to the
coast markets. The birds were first
shipped to Emmett, where they were
dressed and then resbipped to Port.
land and Seattle.
Idaho has some queer laws, I'm,
without doubt one of the queerest is
that which makes it mandatory for a
teachers examination to be held in
the various counties beginning
Thanksgiving day.
Patrick Lenahan, resident of owy
hee county since the early COS, passed
away at his ranch home on Pickett
creek last week. Deceased was over
80 years old and is survived by his
wife, three daughters and son.
State headquarters for the w. G. T
q. will be opened in Boise within
few weeks, and an active Campaign
for a national prohibition amendment
will be waged, along the line sug
gested by the national association.
The lumber industry that has been
dormant in Boise for seven years was
revived last week when the state land
board sold 10000 acres of timber in
the Boise basin to the Barber Lumber
company for consideration of $780,.
600.
William Williams, who was charged
with the killing of Sam Thomas at Mud
Lake short time ago. had this pre-
liminary hearing at Rigby and the
charge against him of murder in the
first degree was changed to man.
slaughter
Martin Jensen, proprietor of the
Caldwell Ice & Cold Storage company,
whose plant at Caldwell was recently
destroyed by fire, will commence work
at once on the erection of two-story
brick building, 50x60, on the site Of
the old plant.
Three men who have been appoint
ed to offices in the newly created
county of Jefferson, just carved out of
Fremont county, are postmasters, and
will therefore have to resign their
places by the first of the year to enter
upon their new duties.
The corner stone of the new build.
Ing for the city fire department al
Idaho Falls was laid last week. This
will represent the nucleus Of a $4,000
city hall, but only one-fourth of the
whole structure, enough for the fire.
men, will be built now, the rest await
ing the sale of bonds.
The registration books for the local
option election at Pocatello on De-
cember II, closed last Monday with a
light registration. The books and rec
ords had been lost in Ward O. and this
necessitated the complete re-registra.
ton of that ward. Only few re-
registered in that ward.
1t is tacitly understood among the
attorneys of Fremont county that the
first criminal case in the new county
Of Jefferson will be that of the state
against Billy Williams and Nose
Johnson. one of whom is charged with
killing "Scar-face" Thompson at Mud
lake about month ago.
A. w. McQuay, who was arrested at
Pocatello some time ago for stabbing
Lyn Beacon, who was interfering De-
tween the man and his wife, pleaded
guilty to charge Of simple assault,
and was sentenced to sixty days in the
jail. Beacon was in the hospital LOT
some time, but has recovered.
State Auditor Houston has recently
ordered County Clerk Pomeroy of Ban
mock county not to issue receipts for
taxes on railroads, telephone, tele'
graph and transmission lines until FUR
Their notice from the state office. the
state equalization board Is busy ad'
lusting the taxes of several of the pup.
ic utilities corporations.
The constitutionality of certain pro-
visions of the new revenue law is at
lacked in suit filed at Moscow IN
which the First NaSRnal bank of MOS
COW is plaintiff and the assessor ana
he tax collector are defendants. me
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