The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-11
In THE GEM STATE

er from Arimo, but recently defeated
by J. Henderson, has filed contest
Of election against Mr.. Henderson.
Frank Brown, arrested at Pocatello
following the death of a young girl
from an overdose OF opium, will be
prosecuted on a white slavery charge.
The funeral of zee Yin, the head OF
was one of the most elaborate orien-
tai ceremonies seen in Boise for many
years.
The students OF the technical de-
partment Of the state academy at Po-
catello are working on the exhibits OF
handiwork which are to be forwarded
to the Panama exposition at an early
date
Frank Neihouse, dry farmer, near
Minidoka, met with a fatal accident
| last week when his shotgun
was accidentally discharged, blowing
off his left shoulder almost com
! pletely.
Some of the starving Belgians are
! going to get at least a taste of Idaho
prunes, for portion of the carload
of foodstuffs which was shipped from
Boise last week contained some OF
] this fruit.
| Heretofore there has been from rs
to $50 cars of potatoes shipped from
the Idaho Falls region daily during
! the harvest season to southern states,
but this year only an average of ten
cars daily is being sent out.
| Suicide was the verdict OF the cor
| oner's inquest over the body of the
man who gave his name as John
Smith when he registered at room
| ing house in Boise and who killed
himself By drinking carbolic acid.
At the state Seed Growers conyen-
/ ton at Twin Falls last week, two hun
dred seed exhibits were entered from
thirty towns in Idaho. The attend
ance was large and great interest was
shown by both business men and
farmers
Unanimously acclaimed the most
largely attended and most enthusias
tic convention in its history, the
fourth annual gathering Of the Idaho
State Seedgrowers closed after q
three days session at Twin Falls with
banquet.
/ Mystery surrounding the death Of 9
young girl at Pocatello three weeks
ago, from an overdose of opium, has
been cleared up. Photographs sem
to the Portland police served to iden
tify the victim as Japonica Flemmine
of that city.
Clarence Hart, boy nine years old
received injuries considered to be o.
fatal character, and his mother, Mrs
Henry Hart, is confined to the beC
with fractures of both legs below
the knees as the result of runaway
accident near Lewiston
William Chandler of nixon wal
brought to Pocatello as the result o
an accident which nearly cost hin
his life Chandler was working on ;
threshing machine when his foo
slipped into the cylinder. All th'
flesh was torn from his foot.
Potatoes are selling in Idaho at A
cents a hundred pounds because tn
market for Idaho potatoes in Texas
Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma AM
Mississippi has beea taken ava.
through the failure of the southern
states to sell their cotton crop.
; The long dry fall season has BEEF
most beneficial to the sugar beet fac
tories The failure of rainfall il
Utah and Idaho has caused 10 pc
cent of saccharin to be added to tn
beets. The longer they are permitte
to stay in the ground the more sac
J charm they will contain.
Formal information has been file
. in the district court. at Boise chars
! ing Fred NJ. Coleman, former deput
state treasurer, now of Portland, wit
the embezzlement of $22 1000 of tn
states money and the Justification c
, the books of the treasury department
8 to the extent of $63,S47.17.
. While smoking, Guy LETTERS c
3 Clarksford received quite a scar
r when a % caliber shell exploded
D his pipe while he still had it in hi
4 mouth, says the Standpoint Review
T Aside from Earring his teeth littl
: no damage was done, although
could have turned out rather serious
The Minidoka & Southern Railroa
9 company having secured right {
{ way from private land owners an
homesteaders on the Minidoka irrig;
a tion project, is at liberty under d.
a cision Of the supreme court to PR
+ coed with construction across the pre-
v ject without getting the consent {
the secretary of the interior.
; Leland Bennett, 15-year-old DO
$ of Twin Falls, suffered the fracture {
d two ribs and a slight perforation {
one lung in a runaway accident whe
b his horse dragged the buggy in whic
he and two other boys were ridin
|, over the guy wire of a telephone pol
All the boys were thrown out.
r The residence OF Frank Eiding {
r Rockland burned to the ground wit