The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-04-10
idaho STATE NEWS

tello will have another large theater
and playhouse, costing more than
| 100000.
Recently delegation OF live citi
zens got together at McCammon and
organized commercial club for that
enterprising town.
Justice George F. Stewart. OF the
Idaho supreme court, who was strick-
en- with partial paralytic stroke at
Occur d'9Alene, 10 slowly improving.
A bull trout weighing twelve and a
| quarter pounds was recently caught
In the Salmon river by b. s. Brown OF
Challis. Fishermen in the Lemhi river
report good sport with white fish.
Francis Olson, young man aged
20, met violent death near Deary.
He was engaged with companion,
Harry Clark, in Moving out stumps
with giant powder. Olson was hor-
ribly mangled.
The board Of pardons has refused
to grant pardons to John Lockwood,
sentenced from Shoshone county for
murder, and Charles H. Allen, one Of
quartette who killed M. ]. Crowley
In a music hall at HALEY.
The women of Idaho have been the
prime movers in the Home Industry
week there, originating the idea In
Twin Falls two years ago. Last year
1t was made state flair and now II
ls established as an annual event.
The millers OF southeastern Idaho
met In Pocatello last week and per-
fected an organization which will be
known as the Idaho Millers" associa-
ton. A committee was appointed to
draft constitution and make re-
port at the next meeting.
The name of the new baseball
league recently formed at Blackfoot,
consisting of teams from Pocatello,
Blackfoot, Bancroft and Idaho Falls,
is the "Three-B league" This is from
the fact that the counties represented
are Bannock, Bingham and Bonnie
vile.
Public spirited citizens of Twin
Falls, working for the good of the
city, have conceived the plan of hold
Ing free entertainment in the high
school auditorium each Sunday after
noon, between the hours of and )
o'clock. The plan is proving very
popular
Secretary George Stoll of the Poca-
tello Commercial club is formulating
a plan whereby federation of ALI
southeastern Idaho commercial clubs
may be formed. a number of the sur
rounding city clubs are anxious to
come in, and McCammon has already
voted to do So
Idaho has only one named peak hav-
ing an altitude greater than 10000
feet, that is Hyndman peak, near the
Blaine-Custer county line. The eleya.
tion of this mountain is 12,07S feet.
There are, however, several unnamed
peaks near Hyndman peak whose ele.
vations are greater than 10000 feet.
Joseph Siciliano, sentenced to Inn
prisonment from thirty-tive years to
life for killing one Vaughan at Poca-
tello, and for whom clemency was rec
commended by all of the officers Of
Bannock county, has had his sentence
committed to ten years, which. with
good time, will liberate him in less
than six years.
Believing that her son was dead,
not having heard from him for twelve
years, the mother of John Lockhart,
an inmate of the state penitentiary,
serving life sentence for murder,
who did not learn until recently that
he was prisoner in that institution,
has arrived at Boise rrom Californi.
to make a plea for his pardon.
Representatives from Pocatello, Ida
no Falls, Bancroft and Blackfoot met
at Blackfoot few days ago, and per-
fected plans for four-team base
ball league, including the said cities.
The schedule was partially arranged
and all towns will as far as possible
play home talent
What is known as the Sweeney
building, a three-story, 75xl00-foot
structure at Idaho Falls, which has
stood unfinished for over two years
10 hON w JIG itiSAGu at ONCE. GnIOT6
its completion William Sweeney, the
owner. fell and broke his back, and
after lingering for nearly forty days,
died.
Free milling ore impregnated with
gold and showing assays running
from $500 to $4,000 ton, was uncov
cred a few days ago in the Ruth mine
on War Eagle mountain at Silver
City, the strike being the greatest
in that camp since its early days,
when it produced millions in gold
and silver.
Former United States Land Com
mission w, R, Stevens. who was taken
10 Boise from Burnley few days ago
by deputy United States marshal to
answer serious charges, has been UNI
able to furnish bail and is held in jail
1t that place. Stevens. Is 1t charged,
entered land under several assumed
and fictitious names.