The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-08
idaho STATE news

work has commenced on the con
struction OF the cheese factory
Filler.
series Of ball games has been ar
ranged between the high schools
Payette and Weiser.
The census bureau estimates the
population Of Idaho on July 1, 1914
VIII be s95,4O7, as against S2o,os4 II
1910.
Fire from defective fiue or over
heated stove burned to the GROUND
the residence Of JohR Hannack ano
family at Boise
The city of Boise will act as host
IA June to a trainload Of Salt Lake
BUSINESS men who are making an eN
Utah.
On the east bench Of the Snake
r1Ser, between st. Anthonysand Idaho
alis several large tracts comprising
UPWARDS of 100000 acres of land are
being developed.
A large number of wheat farmers
from the Palouse country have moved
INTO Inc country south of American
rams ana are developing $4,000 acres
Of dry farming land
George Denny met with quite a
painful accident at Cambridge being
thrown from horse. His left ear
was Almost torn off and his face bad
ly scratched and bruised
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A large amount of liquor that has
been stored at the court house at
Bleckfoot pending settlement of the
Mcclure cases was shipped back to
the wholesale house at Salt Lake.
Freight shippers and passengers
over the branch lines Of the oregon
Short Line in Idaho are in the fair
way of getting better rates through
the operations of the public utilities
commission.
Lee Turner, raised in Caldwell and
Oldest son Of Mayor and Mrs. G. H,
Turner, is aboard the battleship South
Dakota, now in Mexican waters. Mr.
Turner is the captain of a field gun
company aboard the ship.
Arrangements are being made by
Twin Falls business men for the
building Of a natatorium in that city
The plans calls for a swimming poo
35x5S feet, with a depth ranging from
two and a half to eight feet.
The department Of agriculture hal
agreed temporarily to contribute $10C
per month to the Boys and Girls
clubs of Idaho to enable them during
the present season to continue thei
agricultural experiment and demon
stration work
Charles Spencer, who was picket
up by the Boise police while he wa
\ wandering around town sufferin
from deranged mind, has bee
taken to a hospital 1t mas been al
& certained that his affliction is due t
an attack Of scarlet fever.
4 Idaho will have the greatest crop
in the history of the state during th
q coming season, and tho Oregon Shol
q Line is preparing to move the CROP
: to market with dispatch, says E.
Calvin vice-president and gener;
manager of the Oregon Short Line.
Hubert C. Williams, forest exar
iner, has just reported to Supervis,
Mains at Emmett to take charge
field party the coming summer
the examination of the timber of IL
north fork of the Payette river in II
Payette and Idaho national forests.
The big sawmill of the Michigs
Lumber company at Payette burnt
down on the 10Th. Loss is estimate
at 100000. The Waterman report
that he found the building burnil
in three places when he turned in Il
alarm. 1t is considered the work
an incendiary.
: Shipping of forest nursery sto
from the government nursery at Poo
tello has begun. Because the al
tude of this nursery is less than til
OF other nurseries in the district, t
work of sending the young trees
be planted begins about three wee
earlier each spring.
From the Pocatello governme
huAoOty VI llluS 4OsUUU you
trees will be shipped to Logan to
planted in the Cache forest, and 4
600 Douglas fir sprouts will be sh
ped to the same forest, little lat,
making total of $4,000 trees to
planted this spring.
JOHN ]. Presslay, appointed DOS
master at Wallace, Ida, ca August
1918, has Just been removed from Z
ice by order of the postmaster &c
eral pending further insetigations i
\ TO the robbery of the postoffice Decor
q Der IL, when s111O1 was stolen fro
q the safe in the office.
As result of the visit Of D. Wa
he King to Caldwell, the automobi
ed owners Of that city organized Xii
20 Drag Automobile club with membt
tx ship of approximately 100. It is sa
On the club is the first of the kind to
ne organized in the country.
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