The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-09-12
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Mohtpeiier recently, small Inv
found a shirt box filled with level.
| in the weeds. Ny
S. X. Green, a pioneer of Fremon,
county, and resident of Small H.
n Idaho Falls Tuesday. He said eron
prospects were fine.
w d. Southworth, one of the pro,o
nent ranchers Of Bull, was in Twin
Falls Wednesday loading two Ca.
loads of lambs from the local wards
for shipment to Omaha.
The Mountain States Telepbona
company is assessed this year on q.
| 087 miles of toll lines at $3.50 a mil.
or total valuation for it's propertv
in the state of s1,1S0,45O. Last yea,
the total was $945,419.4O.
Messrs. Peterson and johnson a.
Rockford, Illionis, spent few DAYS
in Twin Falls last week investigation
the resources of the country ana
looking into the prospects for the es
adjustment of an overall factory.
Glover seed, as a paying crop is re-
ceiving growing attention from the
! farmers in the vicinity of Parma, saws
the Review. More clover seed will be-
marketed at Parma this season than
| ever before.
Eliza Spaulding Warren, the first
living white child born west Of the
Rocky Mountains, daughter of Father
Spalding, will be in Boise to meet
with the pioneers of Idaho on their
annual state meeting this month.
A number of the representative DO
tato growers of southern Idaho mat
! at the Bannock hotel, Pocatello, Sat.
urday. for the purpose of discussing
the local and national potato situation
and for the effecting of permanent
| organization.
B. M. Holt, general manager of the
| Caldwell Elevator company, returned
Monday evening from an extended
trip through the Twin Falls country.
where he has been on business for
his company. Mr.. Holt declares that
the Twin Falls section will harvest
|
F. H. Churchill of Idaho Falls is in
receipt of letter from Miles Knapp
the pioneer settler of the Lost River
country, in the vicinity of Leslie, tell
ing of the finding of free milling gold
ore in the Pass Creek near Leslie
which assays show value of $50 to
| the ton.
! Nampa Record: L. l.. Miller and
W. H. Dunn unloaded a car OF Jersey
COWS and heifers that arrived at the
Nampa yards Sunday. They were
purchased in one of the best dairy
sections of Missouri and comprise a
high class bunch Of cattle, many Of
them eligible to registry
The colonizing of the sugar beet
district in the vicinity of Burley,
Idaho, with foreign families now re-
siding near Omaha, Neb., is the plan
OF l.. r. Eccles, general manager of
the Amalgamated Sugar company
who has just returned from a two
weeks business trip in the middle
west.
The object and purposes of the
Bonneville County Fair association
and the board of directors and the
executive committee of that associa-
ZION Is to encourage and promote as
far as possible the exhibition OF agri-
cultural and farm products, livestock
and all the industries connected with
farming.
Several ears of fine corn wern
brought to town last week by Amos
Robinson from his dry farm seven
miles east of Idaho Falls. One of the
ears was at least twelve inches long,
and the other a little less, but both
were well filled, and sufficiently ma
tured at this time to insure their
ripenlng.
One of the Smith boys, alleged to
compose a well organized band Of
morse thieves operating in Wyoming,
utah and Idaho, was captured at New
castle, Wyo., one day last week by
Deputy Sheriff Jim Lewis, who is
thereby entitled to reward of $50,
offered for each of the gang by Wyo-
ming authorities.
Governor Haines has accepted the
invitation to officiate as starter in
the events and races of the fve.day
war Bonnet roundup to be held at
lsano Falls, beginning September 5,
and VIII lead the cowgirls, cowboy
ana Indian parade of a thousand
mounted riders through the streets,
OF which moving pictures will be
taken by two film companies.
The state board of equalization has
place the general tax levy Of Idaho
ior 1913 at two and one-tenth mills,
raising 100000, as against S720,2SS,
the sum fixed by the board in 1912;
the general interest and sinking levy
OF two'tenths of mill, identically the
same as the last board, and the pub
TIC building andommApt i'upd NJ one