The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-01-08
In THE GEM STATE

years are shown to be $32, AIS, 1922.
J. Z. Martens, farmer living about
IA miles west of American Falls, is
in a serious condition as a result of
! being kicked in the head by horse,
his skull being fractured
William playhouse, an oregon and
Idaho pioneer, and one of the first
Masons in the territory, died at his
home in Boise last week at the age
of SO, death resulting from old age.
The total appropriations of the last
legislature was $2,404, 239.60, the total
bonded Indebtedness of the state is
| $50, the total assessed valuation
OF the state in 1914 was 1891 ,086, 395.28.
Many of the Boise bedrooms are
carpeted with attractive rag rugs wo-
ven by Mrs Susan E. Stevens, who for
the past Is or 20 years has kept the
shuttle in her big loom busy, says the
Boise Statesman.
Fay Worthing, a Boise girl, was
painfully burned when he apron
caught fire from the kitchen stove. A
conductor on a street car heard her
cries and extinguished the flames be-
fore she was fatally burned.
That Nezperce & Idaho railroad,
which operates a line from Nezperce
west to Vollmer, 1873 miles, is con-
Btructing an extension from Vollmer
to Tammany, a district of forty-nine
miles, according to the Railway Age
Gazette
Plans are being formulated by those
who are promoting the Boise Winnie
mucca railroad to build the road with
capital local to Nevada, Oregon and
Idaho as far as possible and get the
reminder through the sale of bonds in
the east
Tha Idaho public utilities commits
sion has ordered the Oregon Short
Line railroad to reduce it's passenger
fares in all parts of Idaho to 3 cents
mile. One way tickets in many in
stances in Idaho carried a charge of
4 cents a mile
In his report for the biennium 1913.
1914 State Auditor Huston calls to the
attention of the legislature a number
OF needs for change in the present
laws OF the state. In connection with
his own department he recommends
that an additional examiner be pro-
yided for.
While he was preparing to go hunt
ing a shotgun in the hands of James
Glass of Swan Falls was discharged
accidentally and two of the lead pei
lets lodged in the body of his z-year-
old sister-one in her arm and one in
her hip. The wounds are not of a
serious nature.
While the several departments of
state government have collected thou.
sands of dollars in fees during the past
two years they have spent as much
in meeting expenses that can be paid
from them, judging from the biennial
report of the state auditor which has
just been issued.
American Falls grain men have
bought more than a million bushels
of wheat this season. But for a kill
ing frost in June the shipments prob
ably would have reached million and
half bushels. Seven years ago but
four carloads of wheat were shipped
from American Falls.
The Idaho State Teachers associa,
ton closed it's annual convention of
three days in Boise with the election
of V. Milo Hills of Nampa, president;
Charles L. Clark of Lewiston, first
vice president; Miss Mills of HALEY.
second vice president; ]. Fred viii.
liams of Boise, secretary-treasurer.
The Idaho State Bar association
will convene in Boise, January 6. The
proceeding will commence on that
day by the attendance of the associa
ton at the memorial service of the SUI
preme court, and will continue
through the 7th and Sth, closing with
the annual banquet at the Commercial
club.
A dozen business and professional
men of Nampa are defendants in three
cases brought in district court in Can
yon county by the Utah-Idaho Sugar
company These cases result from
the effoDts of Nampa citizens to stim.
ulate and increase the growth of sugar
beets in that vicinity during the sea-
son of 1910.
John Lane, major general of ar
tillery under General Robert E. Lee
in the civil war and pioneer of the
northwest, died at his home in Lewis.
ton. He was son of General Joseph
Lane, former United States senator
and first governor of Oregon.
Will Davis, colored, attempted to
murder Lillian Banks, also colored, at
Pocatello by shooting her four times.
Although bullets penetrated vital or
gans, it is thought the woman will re-
cover. Davis tried to kill himself be-
fore being captured, but failed.
A bill has been introduced to in
crease the appropriation for the Occur
d'Alene public building from one hun
dred thousand dollars to one hundred |
and twenty-five thousand dollars, the |
increase being needed to erect an
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