The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-07-09
IN THE GEM STATE


Falls.
Plans for the first annual Minidoka
county fair to be held at Rupert the
last OF September are being com.
pleted
Three hundred carloads OF apples
will be produced in the Twin Falls
country this year, according to State
horticultural Inspector Graham.
Five more auto loads of Rupert
people left July for San Francisco.
making in the neighborhood OF fifty
Of the people Of Rupert who have
chosen that method Of travel to the
big show.
Miss Wilma Sherwood, the L.
yearold girl who was located in Og.
den after running away from her
home in Idaho Falls, was taken back
home by her mother.
Joe Watts. city marshal of Ameri-
can Falls, shot himself accidentally,
and is in the hospital, but it is ex-
pected that he will recover soon I'M
less complications set in.
Caught when the car which her
husband was driving to Arrow Rock
overturned on the summit of High.
land hill, Mrs. Andrew ]. Flack of
Boise was dangerously injured.
The treasury department has is
sued charter to the Overland Ma
tional bank of Boise, which will sue
coed the Idaho Trust & Savings bank.
The new bank opens with capital
Of one hundred thousand dollars.
Lack of crop rotation is impover-
ishing the soil of rich farming and
grazing country in Lewis, Nez Perez
and Clearwater counties, according to
G. E. Arney of Spokane, western inn
migration and industrial agent for
the Northern Pacific railway.
Circular letters for use in making
an agricultural survey of Idaho are
being sent out From the answers
received to them the state market
director hopes to be able to compile
some accurate statistics with regard
to farming conditions in the state
Senator Brady is at present con-
Quoting a series of experiments with
wells at Mountain Home He is desir-
Gus of testing out the question of I'M
foreground water supply, and the best
pumping and electrical equipment
adapted to conditions as found in
that community.
Fire at an early hour in the morn
ing at Twin Falls totally destroyed
La Mole millinery store. The built
ing adioined the Hotel Rogerson and
the fire was discovered by a hotel
guest, who was awakened by smoke
in his room The fire burned Stub
bornly for over an hour.
Fourteen Pocatello business men
last week made an automobile trip to
Arbon by way of the Mink creek road
They report that the road is in good
condition and that with some slight
work Strengthening out some of the
grades it will be in excellent condi-
ton for hauling the great crop of the
Arbon valley to Pocatello.
The supreme court has ordered an
| alternative writ issued directed
| against Probate Judge Dunlap of Ada
county to compel him to enter judg-
ment and appoint an appraiser to fix
the value of the holdings of the liar
riman estate in Idaho in the case in
stituted against the Short Line and
other property to collect a transfer
tax.
The state will not be able to claim
any assistance from the United States
government this season for fire fight
Ing In the southern part of the state.
Heretofore, through the Weeks law,
the state has claimed three thousand
dollars year from the government
IN protecting its own and private in
terests from forest fires for this part
of the state.
The campaign to create Pine coun.
ty, recently launched, would divorce
from Latah county valuable holdings
of the Potlach Lumber company and
the Washington, Idaho and Montana
Railway company, extending from the
ldaho-Washington line on the west to
the fdaho-Montana state line on the
east, an area about 20 miles long and
! "a miles wide.
A report comes from Northfork,
down the Salmon river, that an organ
tSeu ooHu VI Morse unleFeS is OperaC-
ing Just over the line from that Sec
ton in the Bitter Roots. Stock own
ers are rounding up their horses on
that range.
Mrs. Josephine Baird of Rockland
died at hospital from burns she re-
celved few days before. While
burning trash in her yard Mrs. Baird
fell in the burning heap. Her cries
brought help, but not before she was
terribly burned.
The skeleton of a man was found
lodged on gravel bar in the Snake
river few miles south of Idaho Falls
last week. 1t is believed that the
skeleton is that of George Neal, who
disappeared from his home in Idaho
Falls last September.