The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-07
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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coupling cars, died at a Salt Lake
hospital on the 29th.
1t is probable that Boise will in the
future have a chain gang. The pris-
oners committed to the city jail win
then be put to work upon the streets
of the city and in a measure pay for
their board.
The 8-year-old daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Lew Alfred, of Pocatello, who
was sent on an eruand at night, is be-
heved to have attempted to cross on
a plank over the river in the darkness
and was drowned.
AS result of the phenomenal sue
cess OF J. B. Frey, a Deer Flat settler
under the Payette Boise project, in
raising potatoes, there will probably be
some $1,000 acres set out to tubers
In that vicinity next season.
Mr. and Mrs. A. w. McQuay and Ed.
Hanson are in Jail at Pocatello, while
Lynn Beacon is in the hospital as the
result of stabbing affray, when
| row between the married pair oc-
CURED in the McQuays room.
! The proposed sale of 10000 acres or
/ timber land to the Barber Lumber
company by the state of Idaho has
been held up as the result Of bid
which was filed without being accom-
panied by the name of the filler.
Boise has lost again in the litigation
involving license money for the use
of its streets from the Boise Artesian
Hot and Cold Water company, for the
circuit court of appeals at San Fran
cisco has reversed its former decision.
There Is apparently a strong posi-
billy that the real murderer of Scar
face" Sam Thomas at Mud Lake may
never be known, as Bill Williams and
Nose johnson both fired on Thomas,
and neither will say which shot killed
him.
The body of Oscar Whitman, aged
20 years, was found behind the counter
in the Stoddard Hardware store at
| Nampa, Idaho, where he was employed,
with bullet hole in his head. In
dications are that he committed sui-
eide.
/ J. B. Frey, of Deer Flat this year
made $4,000 from fifteen acre patch
of potatoes He gathered 5000 bushels,
an average of 600 bushels to the acre.
He used the Idaho Rural variety and
got an average price of so cents a
bushel.
Before a year has elapsed the L.
ID. S. community of Idaho Falls ex-
poets to have one of the handsomest
amusement halls in the state, if not
the finest. The foundation work on
the $4,000 building has been COM
| menced.
A Boise dispatch announces that the
Beaver River Power company, which
entered the local electrical field in
opposition to the Idaho-oregon Light
and Power company, has just sold out
to the Idaho Railway, Light and Power
company.
In a vote taken at Shoshone on the
question of municipal ownership OF
the towns water system, which has
been offered for sale by the Kuhn
interests, the proposition carried four
to one. The price fixed upon for the
purchase is $4,000.
So serious has become the car short
age situation in southern and eastern
ldaho that the public utilities com.
mission of the state has made that a
special business with the Oregon
Short Line in the hope that the con.
dltlon may be helped.
The result of the competition at the
recent Canyon county fair for the best
yield of oats per acre has just been
announced by the officials of the or
ganization. L. L. Young takes thu
premium with the magnificent showing
OF 16S bushels to the acre.
The highest price, it is said, ever re-
celved for cattle of certain kind any
Wlher in the world was recorded in
Boise last week when deal was
closed whereby local stockmen con-
tracted to sell seventeen carloads of
FEEDER steers at $50 head.
There was not single car avail
able for loading potatoes in Idaho
Falls, on the Both, Notwithstanding
the clamoring of the dealers and
farmers, who have reached a stage
where they are skeptical of the re-
peated promises of railroad people.
That the warning majority and
minority stockholders of the Idaho
oregon Light and Power company o.
Boise may reach a settlement of their
dltferences out of court now seems
probable. for conferences have been
gong on in which advances have been
made by both sides.
While searching two Spaniards,
ponce officers of Pocatello found
number of rings, which led to an In
vestgatton. The men We're placed in
lah under supicion. and search OF their
room uncovered steamer trunk filled
with $4,000 worth of jewelry. believed
to have been stolen.
The state veterinarian visited Arco
last week for the purpose of KILLING