The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-06-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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William I. Roberts to be postmaster
at Bellevue.
The Ramshorn mine at Bayhorse
after being idle for nearly twenty
years, will start operations this sum
mer.
The new Touring mill plant recently
established at McCammon is doing
very good business and Is putting out
fine line of flour products
It is estimated that 10000 tons d
alfalfa will be harvested in the
Grand View valley this season. This
on the ground
Ten inches of snow is reported
| from the Giboonsville range as the
result of the recent storm. The wei
weather will be of great value tc
| farmers and ranchmen.
The farmers around HALEY now say
that the recent frost did not do much
damage to their crops. The truck
gardens, berries and cherry trees
seemed to suffer the most.
Henry Miller, well known in Idaho
1 Falls, where he is engaged in bust
ness, expects to market $4,000 worth
of hogs this year from his Oakland
valley farm, few miles from Idaho
Falls.
A prominent fruitgrower anC
rancher near Boise is of the opinion
that great inroaas may be made upor
the clover leaf weevil by allowing
fowls to run at large in the alfalfa
and clover fields.
'Budd" Patten, convicted at Haley
Of wife-beating, has been sentenced to
sixty days In jail. His wife begged
for him before he was sentenced as
she has done before, but her plead
ngs were of no avail.
HALEY is to witness a new depart
ure in house building shortly. A six
room house is now en- route by train
having been built in Michigan in sec
tons ready to be set up on it's arrival
on a concrete foundation, which is
now being built for it.
The senate has agreed to Senator
Brady's amendment to the legislative
bill which was adopted in committee
of the whole, appropriating $1,000 to.
continue operation of the Boise as
say office throughout the next fiscal
year.
The state of Idaho is about $500
better off within the past few weeks
on account of funds turned into the
state treasury on account of the IN
heritance tax. OF this amount.
$53122 was collected from Bonneville
county.
The reclamation service has award
ed a contract to the Morrison-Knud'
sen company of Boise for the con,
struction of three miles of canals at
the Falls diversion works on the
Umatilla irrigation project, Oregon
at $31,8o5.
While fishing at the Magic dam, w.
A. Heiss met with an accident, which
fortunately did not prove serious In
casting his line he fell, striking his
head on rock and lay unconscious
for some time, being found by other
fishermen.
Logan w. Miller, charged with per-
jury in securing a license to wed
Hattie v. Barnum, 14-year-old girl
of Nampa, was tried in the district
court at Caldwell, convicted, and sen.
fenced to serve from three to four.
teen years in the state penitentiary
Contracts have been let for four
bridges which will be a part of the
track of the Intermountain railway
now under construction into the Boise
basin. The total amount of the con
tracts, including the steel work and
the superstructure, amounts to a sum
in the neighborhood of $4,000
L. A. Goldsmith, prominent con.
tractor of Caldwell, was killed in an
automobile accident that occurred at
point near Midway between Nampa
and Caldwell. Mr.. Goldsmith was
driving the car when it skidded and
turned over. Two other occupants
Of the car escaped without injury.
Sioux City is planning on
through route to the Pacific coast by
way of Boise in 1915, according to
the Journal of that city in a recent
issue. The Northwestern is the road
upon which the Iowa people are de.
pending, and it is their expectation
that the line will be completed from
Lander, Wyo., to Boise by next year
Details have been received at Boise
Of the death of Olin T. Mcconnell, q
young Boise man who was killed al
West Plains, Mo-, June 4. Mcconnell
died from blow struck him by Rev
Lawrence S. Flanner, an itinerant
Methodist preacher. Without warn.
ing and apparently for trivial rea
son the minister struck the unfortu
nate man with his fist, knocking him
down. He died seven hours later.
Plans for the new depot of the Ore
son Short Line at Pocatello, as placed
IN the hands of contractors, compre-
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