The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-05-23
IDAHO STATE NEWS

City News. published at McCammoi
BY A. y, Haines, was destroyed b.
DIRE May IL. the loss being $1,000.
The Commercial club OF Caldwell
has Endorsed she plan OF holding week
" band concerts and appointed com
mittec 10 raise the funds necessar,
70 assure At least 20 concerts thiI
season.
The last OF the large irrigation EN-
terprises on the Twin Falls tract wat
completed last week when water wal
turned on to the Oakley project, put
sing 10000 acres OF land under irriga
tion.
After June 3 Bosses military res
ervation viii be deserted save for 3
solitary care taker. who viii repre-
sent the United States government
and have full charge OF the aban
doned post.
At Boise, a movement was launched
at meeting OF the good roads con.
vention committee, through which Il
is hoped that the federal government
will be persuaded TO open Yellowstone
park to automobiles.
Denied a new trial by Judge II. N.
Dunn AZ Occur d'Alene on a charge OF
classifying accounts OF the defunct
State Bank OF Commerce OF Wallace.
b. #, 0'Neil has tiled an appeal to
the supreme court
y. G. Macwatters Of Boise has an
nouneed that he will give as a prize
20 the boy who raises the best corn in
the school club contests one OF his
iine thoroughbred Duroc prize.winning
hogs valued at 800.
officers are seeking Earl Snyder
who escaped the marshal at Eagle. II
~ claimed that he married a girl II
years old. and two weeks later placed
her In disorderly house. The charge
against him Is white sb,very.
Dale Howard Bruce. Of Boise. 10
years cd, has just been made the first
Juvenile humane office OF the state
and carries imposing credentials, TO
which the clerk of the supreme court
and a number of other notables have
attested.
Major Fred r Reed will draw his
salary OF $1,000 a year from the state
as commissioner OF immigration. la.
Dor and statistics In spite Of the at.
tempt Of the last legislature to abolish
the office. owing to a decision OF the
supreme court.
Idaho should worry over an over
production Of potatoes. II Is under
stood that representatives from the
large potato tracts of this section VIII
be sent to Germany to investigate that
country's methods Of dealing with an
oyer-production Of spuds.
Boise will soon be made a city 10
be Stunned by Migrants and other
undesirables, il a plan outlined by
Mayor Hodges can be successfully
carried out. The agency proposed by
the mayor for use In handling the un.
desirable element Is rock pile.
A physician. an attorney, a mer.
chant, a capitalist and farmer and a
minister of the gospel have been OF
fictally designated by Mayor Hodges to
represent the city OF Boise at the
fourth annual convention OF the In.
ternatIonal Good Roads association.
The Middleton village council has
ordered the construction OF "a new
bridge across Wilson creek ON Main
street The bidge win be 36 feet long
and rest on concrete buttments, and
will replace a structure which has
for some time been considered un-
safe.
A fatal shooting took place near
DEVILS creek, some fifty miles south
Of Twin Falls. In which Jesse Hayes.
an unmarried man about 20 years OF |
age. was killed by John Gray. we'll
known and Highly respected sheep
man OF the creeks. Gray claims self |
defense.
McCammon is to have a new flour
milling company. Articles OF incor |
Doration have been filed In the office
II the county clerk for the Idaho Rose
company. with Nc |
as the principal place OF |
business. The capital stock is placed |
i SIS. 900.
The United States government Is
low carrying on series of lnyesti
cations In water.ogged and alkali
ands which will prove o. great bene.
Il 70 ranehers. since there is at pres.
mt a large number OF acres OF such /
and in the southwest, due partly 10
excess OF Irrigation.
The twelfth Idaho legislature was
lot vested with the power to abolish
constitutional office or that Of com.
missioner OF immigration, labor and
itatisttcs. by refusing to make bi. !,
'nnial appropriation for II. acco ding
o an opinion handed down by the su.
,rame court OF the state.
Using a case knife as pick and
.rowbar. ID. F.. Kelly dug through the
walls OF the Washington county Jail /
Ind made his escape. He kept his
liberty for more than two hours and
hen voluntarily returned. He was
IN hand when the breakfast bell rang
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