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

chard company tnat pears MS name,
harvested this year from 20-acre
tract on the South slope, near EN-
nett, $1,000 crates Of peaches
Displaying products of every char
acter raised In semitropical country
and with an amusement program of
The best, the fair held at Caldwell
last week was a decided success.
The Bank of Nampa, Ltd, capital
lied at 100000 and with reported de-
posts aggregating 100000, has sus-
pended business and is now in the
hands of the state bank commissioner.
B. F. O'Neil will remain in the
Kooena county jail until October 10,
when the question OF trial or dis
missal OF the cases yet untried will
come before the court for determine
ton.
Pocatello's joint teachers institute
will convene October 81. Five hundred
teachers will attend from the coun-
ties of Bingham, Custer, Bannock,
Bear Lake, Franklin, Bonneville and
Power.
Three carloads of Jonathan apples
have already been shipped from the
]. A. Fenton orchard at Meridian this
season. One carload was consigned
to Chicago and two carloads to Los
Angeles.
While playing in his fathers yard
at Montpelier, the little 3-year-old son
of Arnold Hirschi became tangled
with live wire and was frightfully
burned. A pole had broken and the
wires had fallen in the yard.
B. F. Lewis, near Twin Falls, hsr-
vested three and one-quarters acres
OF potatoes, measured ground, form
eriy used as sheep pasture, and re-
ceived $S06.40 for the crop. This ia
the largest yield so far reported.
The state highway commission COM
pleted two days session at Boise,
September so, by adopting a state
| highway system on which work is to
commence Immediately with surveys
and preparation for actual construce
| ton.
Bruce, the 16-year-old son of James
| e. Steele, a prominent man of Idaho
| Falls, was severely wounded at Hen
ry, while hunting ducks. He was u.s.
ing light single-barreled gun with
smokeless powder, when the gun ex-
ploded.
A new flour mill is being built in
Cambridge. 1t will have a capacity
of go barrels per day and run the
year round. Power will be generated
from the Madison mill race in Salu
bria valley and wired across the river
to Cambridge.
AS a sequel of the robbery Of Steve
Strateas at lunch counter in Poca
tello, the proprietor, William Ed
wards; A. r. Richards, the cook, and
William Edgington, who frequented
the resort, are in jail, charged w1rt
assault and robbery.
A comprehensive and complete
system of state highways to be built
by the state, working in conjunction
with the counties through which the
roads pass, was worked out by the
state highway commission at its
meeting at Boise last week.
AS the result of storm OF protest
from all over the state, no pardon for
Harry Orchard, confessed slayer oil
Ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg. was
asked by the Metropolitan Church as
sociation of Waukesha, Wis, when
the state board of pardons met Octo-
Der 1.
Leonard Hoffman, a young man OF
Lewisville, Fremont county, was
found in a weed patch by the road
side near Firth, with two deep cuts
in his throat He was nearly dead
from exposure and the loss of blood
but will recover. 1t is believed he
attempted suicide.
The Idaho Power & Light company
has taken over the holdings of the
Beaver River Power company in
Boise and southern Idaho, together
with all the valuable franchises of
the latter company and its several
power plants and power lines, the
value of which is estimated at close
to $1,0OO,OOO.
An effort is being made to secure
a pardon for Jerry G. King of Sal
mon, who is now serving a term in
the Leavenworth penitentiary for
making false returns regarding the
condition of the First National bank
OF Salmon. King has served one year
and is in poor health.
The Short Line freight yards at
Pocatello have been badly congested
the last few days, but the force has
kept traffic moving as usual. Twin
Falls, Idaho Falls. Blackfoot and
other adjacent towns, are demanding
q great number of cars to move the
grain, fruit and potato crops.
A large number of delegates and
visitors from outside the city were
In attendance upon the convention of
the Y. L. NJ. l. A. and the Y. Nj. NJ. 1.
A. of the Pocatello stake of the Nor
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