The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-04-03
IDAHO STATE NEWS


carnival at Payette this fall
/ Mining men of Bannock county ~
preparing an ore exhibit for the Iashs
building at the Panama exposition
| Senator Brady has introdncod
bill appropriating 100000 for the No.,
chase OF site and the erection !,
a public building at Payette.
Work is progressing in spIena,a
shape on the site for the federal hula
ing for Pocatello, and about "a maa
are employed in the work Of excayst
| ing.
The preliminary survey Of the ran.
road to be built by the Boise Pavetta
Lumber company into the timber /,
bought recently from the state win a
started in few days.
| I. s. Matthias entered a ulea :,
guilty to the charge of bigamy !,
Mountain Home and was given
sentence of six months to five wears
in the state penitentiary.
The fourth annual conference far
the boys of southern idaho and east.
ern oregon, held under the auspices
of the Young Mems Christian associa
ton, was held in Nampa last week.
| Jas, Bradshaw, on account Of tha
death of his baby, has filed s13.Ooe
case against DR.. Kelley, at Challis
for an improper diagnosis of the
case, and an overdose of antitoxine
The Gooding Leader reports that
jack rabbit ran in front Of railroad
motorcycle, causing the machine to
be derailed, badly injurying the rider
r. H. Smith, signalman for the rail
road company.
| The state sanitary board had no
right to offer or to pay bounty on
the heads of predatory wild animals
though this has been done for three
years or so past This was the ruling
made by Judge Davis at Boise last
week.
/ J. D. Browning, representing an
/ eastern syndicate, announces that
work is to be commenced with as Lit.
tie delay as possible on construction
| of the street railway for Pocatello.
the city council having granted fran.
chise.
Using a rock with effect, but fail.
ing to find his marie with bottle Of
carbolic acid, some unknown fiend
| made a dastardly attempt on the life
of Mrs. Robert Mckinley at Boise,
when she answered ring from the
doorbell.
George H. Stewart, justice of the
state supreme court, was stricken
with paralysis at Occur d'Alene On
March 25 The court was in session
there at tn. time. Justice Stewart
was rendered completely helpless by
the stroke.
The Michigan-Idaho Lumber com
pany is preparing to open its min in
Payette about July /. A drive Of
about 100000 feet of logs will be
brought down the Payette river on
the first high water for the summer
and fall run.
1t has been learned that an unfa-
vorable report has been made by the
engineer who made the government
survey of the st. Joe and St. MARES
rivers with a view to improving the
banks of these streams by the war
department
/ The governor has appointed seven.
teen representative citizens to attend
the conference of representatives az
the irrigation convention to be held IN
Denver April in response to the sig
gestion of Secretary Franklin K Lane
of the interior department.
Arrangements have been made Tor
the holding of big field day at Wef
ser some time this spring. Proles,
sor Bresnahan has communicates
with several neighboring schools ana
it is hoped to have at least fye OF
six represented in the contests.
In telegram to George W. Perkins
of New York, John 2. Vollmer ..
Lewiston announced that he woulo
run for governor of Idaho on the FfF
| gressive ticket if drafted. Vollmer y
banker and money lender he p
the heaviest individual taxpayer =
| Idaho
enthusiastically marching tnrousl
the downtown business section =
Boise on March &c, forming a paraue
between six and seven blocks lons'
1900 prohibitionists made deihoil
stration which has never before pees
duplicated in Idaho. Among sle'-
were both men and women.
Idaho launched new schelne !
solve the convict labor problem wns',
the land board and the prison poa as
in joint meeting decided 70 enp'Vs I,
convict labor in the reclamalicn :,
10000 acres of state land IN inc ~, ~
Irrigation district in owyhee c9u"''
about thirty Isiles from Boise .
Eight cents pound live we ~
was paid for a carload OF fat huI I
shipped from Juliaetta last weeA Il
is said this is the highest price -"
thara for bo0s for many months