The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-08-07
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The residents of Pingree are some.
what sore over the loss of their post
office which the government has dis
continued.
r. s. Dibble, proprietor Of the Dbl
Bile garage in Blackfoot died July ~.
following an operation for acute an
pendicitis.
John Burnes, who was arrested at
Pocatello on the charge of wife beat
ing. was sentenced to six months In
the county jail.
Fifty stacks of hay on the ranch OF
J. w. Brose about half mile east
of Perkins was destroyed by fire. The
cause Of the fire is unknown.
Grasshoppers have made their ap-
pearance in alarmingly large numbers
in some fields around Kuna. Poison
or flock of turkeys is said to be the
only remedy.
Mrs. d. ]. O'Mahoney, wife of the
horticultural inspector for southeast;
ern Idaho, was thrown from rig near
Pocatello and dragged for some dis
lance, causing serious injury.
The Boise summer normal total en-
rollment for this years term has
reached ga students; 1913 of whom
are doing the regular normal work,
the other thirty-one being enrolled in
special classes
Charles Turnbull, land owner of
the Wood river country north of Sho-
shone, died last week of spotted fever.
He was sixty years old and lived for
many years in the country where the
malady was contracted.
Worrying over financial affairs that
did not turn out in satisfactory man
ner, James Boden, young farmer liv-
Ing at Dayton, Bannock county, com
mitted suicide by hanging himself
from beam in his barn.
Ira Flagler's sweet cherry orchard
on the east slope netted him between
$500 and 5000 per acre this season,
says the Emmett Index. He has 100
trees, occupying about two acres. He
received $1.60 per crate, and each tree
netted him 81.
Miss Rhea Dunlop was run down
by an automobile at Soda Springs,
and received injuries from which she
may not recover. 1t seems that the
driver of the car was watching a run.
away horse, as was Miss Dunlop, when
she was struck.
Deputy Sheriff Lish and Jailel
Lewis intercepted a covered wagon
coming into Pocatello, which contain
ed thirty-two cases of good brant
of whisky. Phillip Barron and Char
ley Yuen, Chinaman, were in charge
They were arrested.
District Judge Gwynn, in whose dis
trict are located Bonneville, Jefferson
and Madison counties, effected by the
recent decision of the supreme court
in the Power county case, decided las,
week that the counties are dry. A
test case was made.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E
Carson of Blackfoot is suffering from
a stroke of paralysis as the result O
falling from a high bed and strikin,
upon its head The babe had beef
left in charge of small child, whel
the accident occurred.
During the progress of small fir
at Pocatello in one of the GreeI
shacks, Fireman Jones slipped and fel
from the roof of the building and re
ceived painful fracture of the arm
The fire was extinguished befor
mpeh damage had been done.
Sam Polls, the Greek section han
who alarmed the country side q
Wfeser when disguised as Septembe
: morn, he ran wild through the graf
fields and later made his escape on a
!, eastbound train, was found dead |
:, the Snake river near Payette.
The silver service presented to IL
: battieship Idaho two years ago
Philadelphia by Governor Hawley t,
|, which the state legislature appropria
ed $500, is to be stored at the Was
, ington navy yard pending the CO
) struction of the new battleship
bear the name of the state.
immigration Inspector Plummer h;
IN charge a Greek by the name
Demitutous Gollius, who will be /
5 turned to the old country. Collius
said to be murderer in Greece, al
/ will be deported as an undersirab
Q person. He was first arrested at T
o catello for annoying women.
+ Personal kilograms that passed /
u tween James H. Wallis, state gu
u tood commissioner OF Idaho, and &c
10 ?. McCabe, chief counsel for Jacob
Manufacturing company, alleged
: be affiliated with what is knoy
- as the baking powder trust, may lie
= up to a congressional investigation
! An automobile containing a PAL
70 OF hive from Idaho Falls, S. II. H
n gardner. wife and five year old $
and Earl Miller and wife. skidded n
,c. plunged into slough of the Sna
IA river, twenty-five miles from TOW
ce INTO fifteen feet OF water, turin
IN. upside down carving the nassapc,