The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-01-02
IDAHO STATE NEWS


receiver of the American National
Bank Of Caldwell, which has closed
Its doors.
A sturgeon. weighing 245 pounds,
was captured near the bridge at Sal.
mon last week. 1t measured feet
. inches in length and is the largest
hsh ever caught in that district.
The Bonanza copper mines, locat-
ed near Montpelier, have closed down
Tor the winter. A great deal of neces-
sary machinery has been installed and
Manager Eckheff expects to ship reg.
ularly next spring.
A jury at Pocatello brought In
verdict of guilty against Walter Grant
charged with arson and conspiracy.
The penalty is from FIVE years to life.
Grant is regarded as the leader OF a
ring" at Pocatello.
Oliver Mink, perhaps the Oldest In
dian in southern Idaho if not in the
northwest, died peacefully and alone
at his cabin south Of Pocatello, last
week. Mink was very old, probably
well past the century mark.
The Idaho Railway, Light & Power
company of Boise, holding company
for the Idaho-Oregon Light & Power
company, has been placed in the
hands of receiver by Judge Frank
S. Dietrich of the federal district
court.
The Idaho state highway commits
sion met at Pocatello last week and
awarded a contract for construction
of the first stretch of the state high
way This will be two and one-half
miles between Pocatello and Port
Neuf.
P. G. O'Malley, who has been ap.
pointed postmaster of Pocatello, by
President Wilson, is a prominent at
torney of that city and was formerly
city attorney. He has lived in Idaho
four years, most of that time being
spent in Pocatello.
The suit for $4,000 damages
brought at Salmon City against the
Lemhi Power company by Mrs. Max
Smith for the death OF her husband
who was alleged to nave been killed
by a live wire last April, has been
settled out of court.
The man killed and badly mutilat-
ed by train in the Glenn's Ferry
yards has been identified as Earl S.
Sawyer of Syracuse, Neb. His rela-
tives were communicated with and
gave instructions to bury the body
at Glenn's Ferry.
That she will lead better life was
the condition on which Matte King,
colored woman, was released from
the city jail at Boise. The woman
was convicted some time ago of rum
liquor illegally.
A dispatch from Washington states
that the buildings and grounds OF the
Fort Lemhi Indian agency will short,
ly be sold at public auction. By an
act of congress passed last July, the
state of Idaho was given a prefer,
ence right to buy this property.
With a cash reserve of % per cent,
and with securities of sufficient value
to pay it's depositors in full, the Of
hcers and directors OF the American
National bank in Caldwell voluntaril!
turned the institution over to Fred
Brown, national bank examiner, for
liquidation.
During the past month the Oregon
| Short Line brought 775 actual set.
tiers into Idaho. Many are farmers
who are tired of the droughts of the
Nd hon arax <r.
a land where drought, hailstorms, cy-
clones and billiards are known only
| from hearsay.
To the fact that the board of par
dons of the state followed a custom
established for years, Arthur b.
state bank, of HALEY, owes the
| Christmas present he received Thurs
day in the form of full and absolute
pardon from the state penitentiary.
The Southern Idaho Producers as
sociation has decided to pool all ship.
ments of potatoes sold after Decem.
Der 1, 1913, and the producers have
| been notified to that effect. The
claim is made that if the potatoes
had been pooled in monthly ship.
ments the price in October would
have averaged ~ cents and in No
vember 70 cents.
The city of Idaho Falls scored a
legal victory last week by obtaining
dismissal in the district court in
the claim for $4,000 damages filed
by Julia A. Rush, for the death OF
her husband, an employee of the city
who was killed by cave-in while
digging a sewer trench.
Assessor Grimmett has issued q
statement to the effect that the taxes
! of Bingham county for the year will
amount to $2S5,000, of which s134,00C
goes to the state and the balance for
county, city and school expenses
Blaekfoot city receives $4,000 and
its schools get $4,000.
The bridge across the Payette river
between FruitIand and Payette Is now