The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-21
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Inc convention III Jouun4y "a w.
Idaho Seed Growers association VIII
be held In Pocatello.
Five hundred C loads of potatoes
and apples were shipped from Idaho
during the past week.
The quarterly conference Of the
Pocatello stake OF the l.. d. S. church
, was held Saturday and Sunday
Eugene Fisher was fined $25 and
costs for hauling meat through Boise,
covered with dirty and insanitary
canvas and mixed with offal
Construction ON che Idaho Falls in
terurban began on the 10th when the
engineers in charge of the works set
the first grades and the plows began
to turn the soil.
That Governor Haines is seriously
considering calling a session extraor-
binary of the Twelfth Idaho legfsla-
ture to convene in Boise next year
is persistently rumored.
Percentage of crop production is
considerably better in Idaho than in
other parts of the United States, ac-
cording to government estimates
based on the situation in October.
The car shortage in Idaho was re-
lieved to some extent by the delivery
of 500 refrigerator and box cars at
different points by the Oregon Short
zine. within two days last week.
r. Farrell, twice previously tried in
she district court in Canyon county
IN charge of polygamy, escaped con-
viction for the third time when the
jury at Caldwell last week failed to
agree.
A Salmon dispatch says that forty
seven cats were taken down the river
by Captain Guleke last week. The
cats are destined to gladden. the
homes of residents in the wilderness
along the river banks.
Firemen rescued baby from death
when a building burned in Boise last
week, the parents having gone down
town and left the baby at home
asleep. 1t is supposed that the fire
originated from a defective flue.
Jacob Rohner was arrested at
Montpelier under the local option law,
is being alleged that he had too much
liquor in his possession. A wagon
load was found in his room and con
fiscated. Rohner is out under bonds.
Claude Smith, resident of Demp.
sey, was arrested last week on
the charge of violating the game
laws. It is alleged that Smith, while
on hunting trip near the Yellow.
stone park, killed an elk or two and
also moose.
Completing a hard two-day trip by
auto, team and interurban to Boise
from Winnemucca, New, President
Benjamin F. Bush of the Western Pa
cific and party arrived at Boise on
the 18th in time to be banqueted at
the 0wyhee
The counties of Madison and Jeffer-
son, created out of old Fremont coun,
ty. now officially exist, together with
their respective county seats, Rexburg
and Rigby, for Governor John M.
Haines so declared by proclamation
ON the 18th.
The war between the majority and
minority stockholders of the Idaho
Oregon Light & Power company in
which the former seek to foreclose
and the latter wan a receiver for
the property, has been temporarily,
at least, halted.
The department of agriculture at
Washington has designated Deputy
State Game Warden R. G. West CT
northern Idaho, with headquarters in
Moscow, as government game war
den for Oregon, Washington and
northern Idaho.
Canyon county has produced more
corn to the acre the past season than
any of the best famed corn growing
states of the middle west-Illinois.
Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and others-ac.
cording to Professor H. A. Ireland,
agricultural expert of Canyon county.
The appraisers Of the Martha Nc.
Carly estate finished their work and
filed their report in the probate
judges office at Boise last week. They
ind the estate valued at $420,212.0g
and liabilities to the amount of s35,.
S2O.93, leaving net value of 1884.
291.16.
B. L. JeweK and ]. N. Holt. who
have had change of the salmon sein.
ing opera ions near Salmon for the
past four months, left for Port.
land on Tuesday. During their stay
they have taken out and eyed"
more than 100000 salmon eggs for
the Portland fish hatchery.
One of the most important pieces of
legislation supposed to have been en-.
acted by the Twelfth session of the
iegislature-the drainage district la,
may not have been enacted at all.
A flaw rs said TO have been found in
the record, and question as to the
legality of the law has been raised.
The following fourth-class post
masters in Idaho have been reap.
pointed: Barba, Ada county, Thor.
valid Holm; Bonanza, Custer county
John II. Hickey; Fairfield blaine