The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-01-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

recent storm.
Taxpayers in Boise will pay $22.4s
this year on every $1,000 worth OF
taxable property they own.
Mrs. Lillian M. Nesbitt of Payette
has been appointed matron Of the
asylum for insane at Blackfoot.
The state highway commission In
session at Boise officially named the
| trunk lines Of the state highway sys
TEN comprising 1862 miles and tray
ersing twenty-seven counties.
President d. Worth Clark Of the
Wilson club has issued a call to all
Democrats to gather In Pocatello on
the evening Of January for the reg.
ular jackson day banquet and speech.
making.
The United Spanish War Veterans
of southeastern Idaho VIII meet again
In Pocatello on February 5 to install
officers and have general reunion
In which the ladies' auxiliary will par
| ticipate.
Leopold Werthheimer died last
week at HALEY from pneumonia with
which he was stricken Christmas
morning. He came to HALEY in 1884
and opened store which he since
conducted.
Cattlemen at Boise valley are hav.
ing their troubles 1t seems that the
hay is not what it should be. Much
of the first crop was spoiled by the
rain, and the CRITTERS" are partic-
ular. They turn up their noses at it.
Whether the suit against the bond
of the Big Lost River Irrigation COM
pany is to be decided by the state
courts or become a federal case re-
mains now for Judge Dietrich of the
United States district court to de-
eide.
Beardsley Memorial hall, the girls
dormitory at the Idaho Industrial
school at Weiser, was destroyed by
fire last week. Eight inmates were
gotten out without injury. The loss
is placed at $4,000, with but little
insurance.
In connection with the annual ex-
hibition of the idaho Poultry associ-
alton at Boise there will be, for the
first time in Idaho, a dog show, and
efforts are being made to secure the
entries of the many valuable dogs in
tina. vicinity.
There is considerable sentiment
among the vets of Pocatello and in
Bancroft, Soda Springs and Downey
In favor of dividing Bcnnock county
with Soda Springs as the county seat.
This will be one of the issues of the
next campaign.
thousands of acres of land are ly-
ing idle as summer fallow each year
IN eastern Washington, eastern Ore
gon and northern Idaho that are well
adapted to the growing of beans,
states Farmers Bulletin No. sci, is
sued by the department of agricul-
ture.
The official count of the ballots
polled in the last local option cleo
ton held in Bannock county recently
has been made by the county COM
missioners. The dry majority was
1922 with 5,406 people voting. This
reduces the dry majority of two years
ago which was 799.
At the monthly livestock sale at
Nampa last week, forty-five head Of
cattle, mostly grade nlilch COWS, were
sold at prices ranging from S45 70
$50 per head. Fifty head of hogs
were disposed of, several head Of
horses and quantity of farm ma
chlnery, and all brought good prices.
1t has remained for a Boise boy,
george II. Wyman, Jr., to perfect a
process upon which the chemists of
the mining world have been at work
Tor the past quarter of a century.
The Wyman f1otation process will
save the zinc which is found so freely
In most lead ore, and also the copper.
Theodore Turner, mayor of Poca,
tello and chairman of the state high.
way commission, will leave within
the next few days for Washington for
she purpose of inducing the interior
department. to urge an appropriation
OF 100000 to be applied to that DOR.
tion OF the north and south state high.
ways in Adams and Idaho counties
Or. e. Lee died at the general hos.
pital at Idaho Falls, December 81. az.
ter an illness of several months. He
mad been resident of Idaho Falls
Tor over twelve years, where he was
engaged in the practice of dentistry
lie was born at Bountiful. Davis
county Utah, and was SIS years Of
age. ="
With nearly four and one-half mil
hon dollars worth of personal pron
erty on its assessment roll, the books
OF Ada county at the close Of tbis
year will show good and increasing
business and values. This amount
probably exceeds that of any othe,
county of the state and is exclusive
CT the real estate.
IN the belief that the present re-
qulrements of the new federal game
law are not in accord with the needs
OIL TINS state, the Idaho State Sports