The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-11-05
In THE GEM STATE

The new Catholic church at Haley
will be dedicated on Sunday. Novem-
Der z.
The arrival of carload OF enW
poles makes 1t possible for the tele-
phone company to begin the extension
Of its lines in and around Kuna.
A large number of new buildings
are going up In the Middleton neigh
borhood, a veritable boom in the line
of Improvement now being in prog,
ress.
Presley F. Horne of Caldwell was
reelected grand secretary at the con-
vention of Odd Fellows, which was
held in Idaho Falls. He was also made
grand scribe of the encampmenr.
It is considered that Latah county |
is per cent prohibition. It is tho
one county in the state that is dry |
automatically and not through vote
on local option. Moscow is regarded
as 80 per cent dry.
Blyth & Fargo Mercantile COM
| pany,s store at Pocatello, with stock
| of fifty thousand dollars, caught fire
| from an overheated furnace. The
stock is a total wreck and there was
considerable damage to the building.
Considerable excitement prevails at
Weiser over what promises to prove
a permanent gas field, which was
struck almost in the heart of the city.
The strike was made at a depth Of 400
feet by drillers who were driving a
well.
six northwestern states-Minne-
sofa, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon-are to join
hands in the production Of great
All Northwest Day at the Panama
Pacific exposition. The date select
ed is Friday, November 5.
Due, 1T is maintained, to the new
and improved system of management,
the Idaho State Normal school at
Lewiston expended but $42,306.4S
from January l to october l. 1915, as
compared with an expenditure OF
$60,142.23 for the same period In 1913.
There were nearly seven hundred
cases of drunkenness in police court
at Pocatello in the past year. Ninety
bookkeeping cases have reached the
district court already this year and
81 in the IL months preceding. The
total fines received by the county in
1914 was $2,495,25.
! AT the request Of the Boise CONNER
! cial club traffic department, the pub
! lie utilities commission has taken up
> with the Pacific & idaho Northern
I railroad the matter Of obtaining a re
! duction in the through rates from
Boise to poitns on the Pacific &
: Idaho Northern. road.
e Huston Bowers of Lava was arrest
h ed and lodged in the Pocatello Jail on
r charge of having aided in the escape
n of Arthur Fulmer, an employee OF thu
s Lava hot springs resort, who is &C
# cused of having taken liberties with {
# 16-year-oid girl at Lava, after having
s piled her with liquor.
o Frank Barrieau met his equad a
a Wallace last week when Jack Tore
fought him off his feet in ten of tn
D. hardest rounds of milling ever seel
n there. The contest was decided
e draw The Mexican forced the con
e. test from the start and downed Bal
h rieau in the second round,
f. The case brought at HALEY agains
r Roy F. Devine, charged with forgery
% was dismissed on motion of Prosecu,
Of ing Attorney Perkins on the groun
In that the evidence at the preliminar
,e hearing was not, in his judgment, SUI
ficient to secure a conviction and tina
it has not been possible to secure an
additional evidence.
Thomas Smith, an elderly gentl,
es man, was struck and run over by a
automobile at Pocatello. Smith is &
:. the general hospital in serious col
:. dition, although physicians claim ths
p will recover.
]. In the federal court at Pocatell'
:, the jury disagreed IN the case againi
- John Fennel charged with sellin
whiskey to an Indian, and he was r
leased on his own recognizance unit
" the March term.
- ]. C. Brown engineer OF the fore
- service, is in the North fork countI
for the river road that will he lin
Z. in the proposed state highway frol
Montana through Idaho.
J. K White, state dairy, food All
sanitary inspector, has issued a war
ing to the druggists of the state
ce the effect that he has reason to b
/. lieve that spurious aspirin and ne
i, salyarsan are being peddled in IL
81 state.
=. Only irrigation systems from whis
~ the water is sold or rented or used c
II lands outside the state are subject
taxation under the laws of the sta
- of Idaho enacted IN 1899 and amen
~ ed in 1912. other companies are g
- empt from taxation.
ed The Pocatello police force has ca
al tured three men who are believed
I'M be a band of crooks which has robbie
clothing stores and wholesale hons,