The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-03-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

noW uhucA way meet With Guccaae
Thomas B. Martin of Boise has ~
appointed United States marsha,
idaho to succeed Skad L. Hodein ~
| publican. -
Mrs. J. B. Niederkorn has tho Il.
tinction of being the only womas
member of the Idaho Falls commsr
/ cial club
Mrs. J. +. Ryan was found dead !,
her room in rooming mouse At W.,
lace, the death being the result !,
heart failure.
| One OF the pioneers Of Idaho. and !,
man for many years prominent &
public life in Idaho, passed away i,
A. B. Moss of Payette. who died laat
week OF typhoid fever.
| William Seders, aged IS years. die,
of old age at his home at Moscow Nc
was q well-known horseman, HAVING
been devotee of the race tracks II
Chicago and in western coast cities
| On a recent visit to Lewiston fcr.
mer Governor Frank R. Gooding mais
the estimate that the less to Idaha
4
hog growers the past year, as a resn,,
OF hog cholera, reached the sum o,
| $2.0oO.0OO.
The school election held at nixon
| to determine whether or not bonds
| should be issued to build a new
school house resulted in favor Of the
proposition. The new building viii
cost something over $4,000.
By reason Of his recent appoint
ment on The committee on public
buildings and grounds, Senator
Brady finds himself better cared for
in the matter of committee assign.
ments than any other senator Of short
| service.
Because interests that wish to bid
on the Idaho-Oregon Light & Power
company when 1t is put up for sale
are not yet ready, the receivers sale,
scheduled for last week. was posi-
poned until May Is, by order of Judge
| Dietrich.
The first Community banquet OF Pc
catello was held at the Commercial
| club rooms, March IL, with nearly $50
townspeople present. A number OF
live wires from surrounding cities and
a few leaders from adjoining states
were present.
One-half the Idaho lands of the
Northern Pacific Railway company
are to be surveyed this year. This
action means that they will be placed
n such position that patent may
issue on them and they will then be
subject to taxation.
FRANKIE Greene, superintendent u
the Mullan schools, died at the Provi-
| dence hospital, after suffering intense
agony for three weeks from the In
juries he received when crushed un-
der a slab of rock in the Morning
mine at Mullan, ON February rs.
! It is estimated that the cost Of
hauling the crops of 1918 to the rail-
road have cost the people of Curlew
valley enough to grade the roadbsd
Of railroad from Monument, Utah.
to Holbrook, Idaho, and this may be
thought seriously of before lcng.
| In dismissing the charge of man
slaughter against DR.. c. c. Smith, an
osteopath, of King Hill, the last chap
| ter in the famous starvation case y
| written. This case attracted great
deal of attention in southern Idaho,
lue to the peculiar features surround,
| ing it.
A bill will probably be presented al
The next session of the legislature pro
hlDiting fishing in the reservoir at the
Magic Dam or in the backwater iof
miles. The northern limit would pe
Malad Hot Springs, and the southern
the diversion dam just below ths
Magic Dam.
The traffic department of the Boise
Commercial club has taken the mar
ter up by petition to the officials OF
the Oregon Short Line, asking them
to change the name ct the ROAD 70
the Idaho Short Line, in as mucn
as ninety per cent of the mileage q
the road is located within the state q
| IDAHO
Secretary Childs, of the Idaho State
League of Commercial Bodies, mas -
sued call to the secretaries OF the
various allied organizations over inc
state to meet in Pocatello on Aprl ~
to discuss problems common to all Tug
organizations.
complete atlas Of Canyon county
is being prepared. The compilatioa
of the work viii reqSire about e
months and viii include a compiels
description of every parcel OF prop
erty in the county, together with 'ps
owners name.
Passengers arriving on the Trans ris
from Riparia, says the Lewiston IA
une, report the lower river orchalps
now in bloom, the sight being nos.
welcome one to passengers col,'As
from eastern sections, where ~.
lew days ago they left mlu'Min's
conditions. II.
All taanhars ~ fha Caldwell puplie5