The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-03-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The body of John Griffiths, who was
killed by passenger train near In
kom few days ago, was sent 70
Brigham City for burial
Citizens of Gilmore, Ada and Can
yon county are to meet in Boise 70
decide on the route through those
counties of the Idaho-Paciflc state
highway.
OF the seventy-two Greeks who left
Boise at the beginning of the Balkan
war, none have yet returned to the
home OF their adoption, and six lost
their lives during the war.
The prizes won on corn by Ada
county growers at the Internationa'
corn exhibit at Dallas, Texas, recent
ly, has given renewed enthusiasm t.
ranchers in that vicinity to grow
corn.
Mystery surrounds the tragic death
of William G. Bauer of Butte, Mont,
who was found dead by sheep herd
er two and three-quarters miles south
west of Minidoka in lonely sage,
brush waste.
The newly organized Civic Improve
ment club at Haley, which has on its
membership roll about fifty energetic
women, will take ur the work of i'm
proving and identifying the city Gem
etery for their first activity.
Residents of the Gentle valley sec.
tioD of Bannock county will apply to
the board of county commissioners
for the establishment of the rural
high school system in that locality.
In all probability twill be granted
Home Industry week is to be OBJ
served by the clubwomen all over the
state April IL to 10. Women will ask
specially for home products, first from
her home county, second her home
state and then in the northwest states.
Kootenai county, one of the largest
counties in northern Idaho, voted
dry" by 405 majority, according to
unofficial returns. Twenty-four sa.
looms, six wholesale liquor houses and
one brewery must close within ninety
days.
Work upon the building of the up,
per Snake river valley belt line
through Fremont and Madison coun-
ties, Idaho, will be begun as soon as
the SHOWS melt and the .seyentyfour
miles of trackage will be completed
| in the fall.
Mayor Theodore Turner and the
city council have petitioned the secre-
tary of the interior of the United
States for the grant of part of tn:
forest reserve lying on the bencn,
just west of the city. for city park
| for Pocatello.
e. p. Taylor, field horticulturalist
of the University of Idaho has is
sued circular to the fruit growers
of the state advising them to clear
their orchards of the varieties oi
fruit trees which he calls 'drones
and boarders."
A large colony of Finlanders, com
prising about thirty families from the
Black Hills country of South Dakota,
Springfield, where they have purcnas-
ed large tract of land under the Abb
erdeen-Springfield ditch.
The production of clover seed has
developed into an industry Of consid
cradle Importance to the farmers
around Meridian during the past tive
seasons. and it is predicted that this
years acreage of clover will be fully
twice as large as last season.
An attempt was made at Pocatello
to burn the residence of Allen Trapp
last week, but the fire department
easily put out the fire. Fire had been
set in four parts of the house and
there is no question that the fire was
OF incendiary origin. There is NO
clew to the arsonists.
William Pendry of Montpelier has
invented machine which he thinks
will solve the problem of a private
water system for farmers and citizens
of small towns where they have no
water systems. The machine is very
simple, high pressure can be OBJ.
tanned and it can be run at a very
low cost.
Professor ]. WILEY Sessions of Pc.
catello. who is deputy seed inspector
OF the state, has received orders
from Governor Haines that potatoes
from California must be DESTROYED O,
deported at the expense of the con.
signee on account of the infestation
of the California product with the in.
furious tuber moth.
The state board of pardons by unan.
nous action denied the application of
B. f. c'Barney') o'Neil, the convicted
president of the defunct State Bank of
Commerce of Wallace, for full and
complete pardon, taking the stand thar
in Justice to the public at large and To
O'Neil himself he be not liberated from
the penitentiary.
A trunk being unloaded from bag
gage car at Idaho Falls was drowned
and stream of liquor poured forth
The trunk contained twenty nine
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