The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-09-25
In THE GEM STATE


charge of selling load of grain be-
longing to his employer and appropri-
ating the proceeds.
The Boise city schools will here.
after conduct night classes In all
branches wherein there is legitimate
demand, working in cooperation with
the Y. M. G. A. and the Y. w. G. A.
It is said that merchants in south
ern and eastern Idaho believe the war
in Europe will bring prosperity. They
do not look forward to any hard
times this winter, and are buying
heavily.
Despondent because of illness in his
family, Delroy Empey, 35 years of age
of Idaho Falls, Idaho, attempted sui.
eide at Salt Lake by swallowing half
dozen mercury tablets. He is now
out of danger
In Boise the wages of women in
shops and department stores are
higher than in most any other city
in the United States The average
wage is over $12 for saleswomen, and
for all employees. over SIS.
w. l.. Carlyle, dean of the college
Of agriculture and for many years
the most influential man in the Uni.
versity of Idaho, has rendered his res.
ignation to the state board of educa.
ton and the resignation has been
accepted.
With the coming of the rains in the
northern part of Idaho, the state is
relieved of an expense that has been
heavy during the summer months.
This summer has been worse, from
weather conditions, for forest fires
than was 1910.
Mrs. daredevil Kohl, wife of the
baloonist who was injured by a fall
into the Teton river following an as
cension made during the Rexburg
fair aud parachute drop, is still in a
Idaho Falls hospital as a patient, and
is slowly recovering the injuries re-
ceived.
The wheat crop on the Minidoka
project as well as throughout Cassia
county Is falling far short of expecta-
tions this year. Fields which had
been estimated at 40 and so bushels
per acre are turning out from 20 to
80 bushels.
Idaho will not have so great yield
of potatoes as In former years, from
the reports from different sections
There is about the same acreage of
potatoes in Idaho this year as there
was last, but fewer potatoes are found
to the hill.
Harold, the 2-year-old son Of r. A..
Gould of Bull, narrowly escaped death
by falling from buggy and getting
his head caught between the wheel
and the guard, the wheel scraping an
ugly wound in the scalp, nearly pene-
trating the brain.
Some idea of the value of the clover
seed crop of the Kimberly district may
be formed from the statement that a
carload of alsike is worth $4,000 and
that within the past two weeks six
cars have been billed through the Kim
berly freight office.
Some time during the latter part of
this month, probably September "a,
the land department of the state of
Idaho will relinquish to the govern
ment several thousand acres of land
now contained in the Twin Falls North
Side irrigation project.
More than 100 cars of peaches have
been sent out from Emmett and most
of the growers have received their
money on delivery of fruit at cars
About forty cars of prunes have been
shipped and it is estimated twenty-five
more will be sent out.
The contract between the Nampa-
Meridian Irrigation district and the
United States government for the con-
struction of drainage system for the
district, for the watering of 44,060
acres of project lands within the dis
trict has been approved.
The people of starks Ferry have
just lately constructed new port
able schoolhouse for the benefit OF
the pupils in the higher grades who
U0 III the eS-
tablished building. This new school
house is so constructed that it can be
easily moved to the upper part of the
district or else to the lower end.
Boise is anticipating tremendous
revival of business as result of the
operations of the Boise.Payette Lum-
Der company, recently Incorporated
there. 1t is capitalized at $1,000, 1000
and includes in it's directorate repre-
sentatives of the Weyerhaeuser, tho
Musser and the Moon lumber syndi-
cate. the largest and most powerful
on the continent.
Waving all of his statutory rights
and within few hours after his ar
rest at Boise On the charge of embez.
zling $3.50 from Bissinger C Co., hide
dealers, Eugene Henle had started
serving an indeterminate sentence of
from one to fourteen years in the
state penitentiary. He was in the
l.