The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-09-04
IDAHO STATE NEWS|

Candidates for the senate from
Idaho, James F. Alshie, Republican,
and John F. Nugent, Democrat, have
filed preliminary primary expense &C
counts in the senate.
A private telephone line is being
constructed from Bellevue to MuIdoon
and from Muldoon to Carey. 1t wfh
be great convenience to the ranch
ers on Little Wood river.
That the government win undertake
the construction of the Black Canyon
irrigation project as soon as congress
authorizes a loan to the reclamation
fund is practically assured.
It has been finally decided that the
four successful aspirants to the nom
nation for governor of Idaho will be
invited to address the Labor day
throng at Boise September Z.
A nine-year-old boy named Near
thur was electrocuted near Chester.
The boy was playing with guy wire
swinging loose from a pole, when the
wire came in contact with live wire.
AS the result of drinking water from
newly filled cfstern near Twin Falls,
ten people Of party of thirty were
stricken with typhoid fever, one of
whom died in the Twin Falls hos
pital.
L Hans w. Hochbaum, county farm
adviser and instructor in the Boise
high school, was seriously, though not
dangerously injured when horse
which he was riding stumbled and
| threw him.
ALI the mill hands and miners en-
| ployed at the independence mines and
| mill at HALEY we're laid off last week
| to await a reopenfng Of the market
| for ores. Only two men viii be kept
| at the mine.
The body of Max Coolidge, the
Spokane young man who was drown
ed in Lake Pend GOreille August 4,
was recovered last week by two fish
ermen who CHANGED to be In the vi
entity of Sunnyside.
E. w. sherman, who was charged
Haley, and was sentenced to four
teen years in the state penitentiary.
Sherman confessed to robbing a guest
in the Arco hotel of SIS.
A plan is under way to change the
surface of the new federal building at
Pocatello to stone instead of brick,
and work has to some extent been
suspended while this proposition is
being decided at Washington.
Phoenix-like Bovill is rising from
the ashes of the Fourth of July fire
| into well-built brick town. Cntracts
for brick business blocks having a
frontage Of 800 feet have been let and
the work is now we'll under way.
| Over a quarter of million dol
lars worth of sheep changed hands
at Mccall on the south beach of Pay
cite lake, during the last fifteen days.
Most Of this buying and selling of
sheep was between growers and deal
ers.
| T, H. Parks, field entomologist for
the Idaho Agricultural college, has
been in Bear Lake county inspecting
| the alfalfa for the presence of weeviI
He reports that Up to the present
time there has been very little weeYil
found in that section.
] The report of the state tax com
| missioner on railroads in Idaho shows
That, if it is adopted, the assessed val
! uation Of the roads in Idaho will be
raised five million dollars. The state
board of equalization has taken the
report under consideration.
The Idaho Millers' association met
in Pocatello last week for the pur-
take regarding securing a uniform
rate to coast points. The millers state
| that they do not anticipate that flour
will raise in any appreciable price.
The biggest showing of first class
ore that has been developed in the
has been opened in the Nau Aug
mine on Deer creek. The body is slA
feet wide and the ore shoot is 15U
feet long. The width is solid steel
galena.
The infant child Of Adrian Par
/ SOnS I'll nOlAd5 ulSL V6dLu ny uTOWu-
ing while the parents were preparing
supper. The baby crawled to an irri-
cation canal which passed near the
house. When missed search was in
stituted and the body was found more
than 100 yards from the house.
Engineer o. S. Osborn of the Ore
gon Short Line, who has charge of
the work on the loop that is being
built from Idaho Falls around by the
foothills to st, Anthony, has sent two
carloads of laborers out within the
past few days and the laying of steel
is now going on at a rate of nearly
two miles per day.
Afflicted with the rabies, having, 1t
is believed, been bitten by coyote,
mad dog ran amuck in the streets Of
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