The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-10-23
IN THE GEM STATE.


Bids are being asked for the grad
ing and graveling of several miles Of
Pocatello's outlying streets. /
Quarters have been secured at Boise,
or the Idaho Poultry & Pet Stock as
sociation show, to be held January A.
TO 8.
The first corn show at Meridian, DC.
tober IL, was a success in every way.
A large premium list had been raised
by the merchants, and a splendid pro-
gram had been arranged.
7. G, Carr, an aged man of Rock
land, is sugering with an infected eye
i'd, caused from a rat bite. The old
gentleman suffers greatly from the
injury, and 1t Is feared that 1t may
terminate seriously.
Mona Delayn, vaudeville actress,
was accidentally shot at the Rex
theatre at Rexburg. An Illusion act
was in progress in which she was the
"bullet-proof lady" 1t is feared she
will not recover.
Five duck shooters from Idaho Falls
B.
they failed to produce their licenses.
The arresting officer confiscated their
guns and game to hold vntil the case
could be settled before the court.
Isaac Warner, colored, was held for
trial on charge of numbering Ed
ward Jackson, also colored, at Pocar
tello. Jackson was shot while in bed
at his rooming house, and large sum
Of money which he had displayed Is
missing.
All the bridge steel for the construc7
ton of the railroad bridge of the Boise
Payette Lumber company across the
Boise river northeast of Boise has been
placed on the ground In readiness for
laying on the concrete piers in the
river.
3 Work ON the Nampa-Meridian drain
age system will not be begun imme-
dias~ly. The courts must pass upon
the matter before the secretary of the
interior will approve. AS soon as these
preliminaries are settled the work
will start
Allan Pearson, the 8-year-old son Of
John p PEARSON, living near the Soldiers
Home at Boise, was struck by. an aut-
omobile and instantly killed. The
driver of the machine has been charg-
ed with manslaughter and held under
$4,000 bonds.
The moving of the Montpelier pas
senger and freight depot has been
completed. The work of moving the
building and building new platform
occupied about ten days. The new
site was deemed necessary on account
Of the location of the double track.
w. A. Bull was shot and killed by
Enoch Lewis near Jackson. Lewis is
constable and was endeavoring to
serve warrant on Bull when the
shooting occurred. The coroner's jury
recommended that Lewis be held to
the district court for trial for the kill
ing.
Mike Bonewitz, hermit homestead
err living three miles northeast of No
tus, has been taken in custody by the
Canyon county officers on complaint
of residents of that section who al
lege that Bonewitz is insane and a
menace to the peace of the neighbor-
hood.
The federal grand jury at Pocatello
returned true bill against Jack Stat
terry for sending obscene literature
through the mails to Mrs Ida Howard,
Lansing, Mich. Slattery pleaded guilty
~ tba obarua ond moc cantannod hy
Judge Dietrich to three months penal
servitude.
If Idaho potato growers will keep
their heads and not allow themselves
to be panic-stricken by reports ema.
mating from spectators and buyers.
there is no need to worry over the
price of the tubers this year, accord.
ing to the Southern Idaho Producers
association.
After Intellectually trying for some
time by snares and traps and by chas.
ing with dogs to get the bear that had
been visiting his fathers orchard, Cap.
tain Bradbury succeeded in getting his
game last Sunday morning. He caught
the animal in a steel trap, says the
Rathdrum Tribune.
An automobile driven by Guy Web,
lend of Holdrege, Neb., who was &C.
companied by his father, H. Wehlend,
and George ]. Clark of Nampa, was
struck by Short Line passenger train
while crossing the track of the Boise
branch north of Nampa, but all three
men escaped with slight bruises.
Using barbed wire for rope on a
windlass that was hastily rugged up
with timbers found on the spot, sew.
eral Pocatello Boy Scouts recently
rescued five lambs that had fallen into
an abandoned mine. according to re
port received at the headquarters of,
ice OF the Fourth forest district.
A report of the secretary of the Y
NJ. C. A. at Pocatello shows that the
average daily attendance at the build.
ing this month is $50 Members have
| aiken 3,zS2 baths and written 1850