The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-10-15
IN THE GEM STATE

met In Boise last week Tor the annual
session of their state association.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton died sud
denly at Nampa as the result of heart
disease. She was 80 years of age.
The state had on hand at the close
Of business September &c. s1.I32.-
647.82, according to the report OF
State Treasurer John W. Eagleson.
Following the discovery OF an al
legged shortage in his accounts said to
amount to sS,19687, William P. Dave.
city clerk at Idaho Falls, has resigned
Idaho won four ribbons at Denver
for the four bushels Of grain entered
from Power county for best wheat
grown either on irrigated or dry farm.
After a tour of investigation, the
state veterinarian reports that there
10 no hog cholera in the Dry Creek
country, where supposed symptoms of
the disease had been reported.
The Intermountain Railway com
pany has filed with the public utilities
commission a new rate of S. per car
on wood for fuel from Barber to Boise,
The old rate was $3.50 per car.
The Lemhi county commissioners
have fixed the tax levy for the cur
rent year at $1.60 per cent of valua-
tion. There is approximately five mil
lion dollars Of property on this years
roll.
On November 10, 1915, the depart
ment OF the interior will open for en-
try under the enlarged homestead
act" 50,349 acres OF land in Ada,
Boise, Canyon, Gem and Washington
counties.
Colonel w. L. Holton OF Homedale
dropped dead from apoplexy. Colonel
Holton, widely known as hotelkeeper
at Homedale, is survived by his wife
and two stepdaughters. He was IS
years old.
During the month which ended on
September Is there we're sixteen hun
dred predatory animals slaughtered
In the state of Idaho, according to
compilation completed In the state
veterinarians office.
John Rooney and Patrick McAlin.
der were suffocated by gas In the
Teddy mine at Spring mountain, ten
miles from Gilmore, last week. They
were the only men in the camp at the
time of the accident.
St. Anthony. Rigby and Idaho Falls
divisions of the Southern Idaho Mo
tor associations were organized last
week and the Blackfoot Auto club,
with q membership of sixty, will prob
ably affiliate this week.
j. Dwight Fox, a veteran of the
confederate army, died at the home
of his son near Salmon last week. For
twenty years he had been ranching In
the Big Hole valley. The cause of
death was paralysis. He was 81
years old
Walter Andrews, former agent for
the Studebaker Automobile company
at Pocatello, is charged with embez-
element OF nearly $4,000 Of the firms
money. according TO the state agent.
who has asked the sheriff's force to
locate Andrews.
For the first time In the history OF
the state Florida has been market
for the potato crop, according to Man
ager j. Donaldson of the Southern
Idaho Potato Producers association,
who has received a wire from Jack
sonville asking for large shipment.
Under conditions prevailing in the
city of Twin Folls the municipality
cannot condemn as nuisance and
compel to be covered, the ditch owned
by the Twin Falls Canal company,
which runs through part OF the city,
according to a supreme court de-
cision.
A. Booth, state highway engineer,
has informed the Lemhi county COM
missioners that the state highway has
been definitely located through Lemhi
county from the Custer county line
down the Salmon river and up the
North Fork to the Idaho and Mon
tana line.
Justin Gowan, OF Caldwell. received
a long, deep cash on the leg when run
down by an automobile. Twelve
stitches were required to close the
wound. The young man was in the
act of trundling motorcycle into
the street when q rapidly moving car
struck him down.
ID. Earle johnson. an undertaken
of Pocatello. escaped from bold
hold-up man after being knocked
partly unconscious. Mr.. Johnson
states that the hold.up, in chasing
him, fell over casket box, which
possibly took some of the fight out OF
him, especially II he was OF a super
stitious nature.
The board of pardons failed to con-
slider the application of Fred NJ. Cole
man, former deputy state treasurer,
s-slf-confessad embezzler of $4,000 OF
s.aee fuL rs. His case was continued.
This action was taken because Cole
man has not completed his work of
establishing the total amount of
money stolen from the treasury.
Louis Hanson, the young son OF Pa
trolman Hanson. was struck by an au-
tomobile at Pocatello while attempt
inc ~ nrnaa no He