The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-02-13
IDAHO STATE NEWS


on the Wood river branch were snow
hound for two days when the train
was stalled in a cut three miles from
Picabo.
George N. lift, a former resident o.
Pocatello, consul at Nuremberg, Ger
many, has been promoted to consu
at st. Gall, Switzerland, with an in
crease in salary.
Suit has been filed against the Utaf
Power & Light company for $4,000
damages by the estate of Steve Gil
bert, who lost his life last June while
at work in the companys power PLAN
at Idaho Falls.
The report Of the secretary of the
Pocatello Commercial club shows
that 80 per cent of the business
houses are members of the club, an6
that there are nearly 300 members in
good standing.
requisition of Governor Stewart Of
Montana for the return to that state
of Charles F. Thomas, wanted at Mis-
soula for child desertion, which is q
penal offense in Montana.
J. A. Owens, vice-president, and G
l.. Robbins, director of the Bank Of
Nampa, Ltd, which was closed by
the state bank commissioner Septem
Der 27. 1918, are charged with violat
ing the state banking laws.
The HALEY Electric company has
filed articles of incorporation for rec
ord. The capital stock is $4,000
Fred w. Gooding of Shoshone, Frank
R. Gooding of Gooding and John r
Hart of HALEY are stockholders.
A carload of material for the in
terror work on the new ST. Charles
Roman Catholic church at Haley has
arrived, and another carload is ex
pected, when the work will be com
pleted as rapidly as the weather will
permit
A trades school maintained in con
nection with the city schools or sep
arately, is the solution which Judge
Dunbar of the juvenile court sug
gests for the idleness of the Boise
boys and girls between the ages Of
IA and 18.
William Ok and Harold l.. Hart
vigsen have been named as members
of the police force at Pocatello tc
succeed H. Willard Green and J. E
Campbell, resigned. Green resigned
because his record was brought vi
before the grand jury recently in ses
sion.
The announcement that the state
highway commission, in the extension
Of the proposed state highway from
Boise to Payette, has planned the
same to run so as to leave Emmett
"off the road" has produced a strong
spirit of protest in the Emmett sec
ton.
Witnesses were unable I to appear
upon behalf of the shippers and petit
TONERS living on the Hill City branch
of the Oregon Short Line on account
of the road being blockaded with
snow and the Idaho Public Utilities
commission continued the hearings
until February %.
Work on 100000 passenger sta
tion at Pocatello will start on or be
fore May l and the station will be
completed before 1915. Money has
been appropriated for the station anc
the plans are ready. This was the
assurance given the public utilities
commission last week.
Idaho Falls has greatly increased
in productive output during the last
year. From August /, 1912, to June 1
1913, there were billed from there
l,6S7 cars of potatoes. From August
l, 1913, to February 1, 1914, there
nave been moved from Idaho Falls
l,573 cars of potatoes.
Oregon Short Line officials have
given assurances to the public utili
Ties commission that work on a 5000.
OO0 passenger station at Pocatelle
would be started on or before Nav i
ana that the new station would be
rushed to completion to be ready for
the heavy passenger traffic of 1915.
Governor Haines has issued a
requ1sition on Governor Johnson Of
California for the return to Idaho OF
9, E. Lore, who is under arrest in Los
Angeles. He is wanted for MAKING
a false report last April to the bank
commissioner on the condition of the
Bank OF Nampa, of which he was
cashier.
John L. Cox, the young man who is
serving term in the penitentiary
under conviction of having robbed
his companion of silver watch on
the streets of Boise while both men
were drunk, was permitted to attend
his mothers funeral last week
through the clemency of Governor
Haines.
James A. Pinney, one of Bosses
leading business and public men,
three times mayor Of that CITY and
pioneer of Idaho, died at his home
February 5. Death was due to Quick
pneumonia. He was one of the first
white settlers at Florence, Idaho. and
established fho frct