The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-04-30
In THE GEM STATE

a tHdileT 10 LH5 rlTSL 1NdIiohal oahh
of Bonner's Ferry which opens with
capital of $4,000.
Ole Bates is charged with embezzle-
ment of about $50 while treasurer OF
the Presbyterian church at Pocatello
about three years ago.
Leroy Gardner, aged s, while play
ing near a water wheel at Boise, fell
under the heavy wheel and was killed,
his neck being broken.
Senator Borah has issued state
ment saying he was mot and would
not become a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for president"
Reports from all sections of the
country surrounding Weiser foreteA
bumper crop of all kinds this year.
This il particularly true with fruit and
grain.
The reported discovery of oil in
well on the Lind and Van Ausdeln
ranch, two miles east of Hollister, has
occasioned considerable excitement in
that section.
The right of Idaho to use water
from streams having their origin in
Nevada is the issue at stake in a case
of Importance to the two states open
ed in the federal court at Boise.
Mark Kuhn, the oldest and best
known travelling man In Idaho, who
died at Albion on April 10, had
travelled for Utah firm for over
forty years and was known in every
town and hamlet in Idaho.
The observance of home industry
week in Twin Falls closed with a big
home products banquet given by the
women of the Twentieth Century club,
the members of which club have fos-
tered the home industry movement.
All the properties operated by the
Idaho Railway, Light and Power COM
pany, with the possible exception or
the lines formerly operated by the
Boise Railroad company, will be sold
at public auction some time in June.
q. F. Van Valkenberg, former state
insurance commissioner, was bound
over under $4,000 bonds, which he fur
nished, to trial in the district court
under the charge of embezzling
$559.55 state funds while he was com
missioner.
John q. Waldron was arrested at
Midvale last week on murder charge
and is in the county Jail awaiting the
arrival of officers. Waldron is want
ed in Clay county Kentucky, where
the alleged crime was committed some
time ago.
After twenty-five years in the alb
stract business, Theo. Turner, mayor
of Pocatello, chairman of the state
highway commission, United States
commissioner and holder of other Of
fees, has sold the Bannock Abstract
company.
The steamer Inland Empire, first of
the steamers to arrive from the Cello
canal, locked at the Snake river
landing at Lewiston on April 10. Cap
tain Arthur Riggs reported fine stage
of water with slight rise and an I'm.
eventful run.
While his wife was gone from the
room to get drink of water for him,
In response to his request, J. w.
Halton, a prominent rancher living
about five miles north of Nampa, ,sx-
PRED leakage of the heart being the
cause of death.
Mrs. Miles F. Reed, wife of Presi-
dent Reed of the State Technical col
lege, narrowly escaped serious injury
II not death, when lightning struck the
residence at Pocatello, piercing the
roof and setting fire to the furniture
in an upstairs room.
Because he considers himself
spiritualist of great powers and claims
to have a couple of gold mines on
earth and one in heaven which God
has revealed to him alone, L. A. PAT.
terson was adjudged insane by an
examining committee at Caldwell
The sportsmen of the Snake river
valley will protest the taking Of
snawn from the streams of the Island
Park section, where the state game
department is now operating, these
streams having been seriously iniur.
ed by this process during the past
five years.
1. ~ iGSl Vi MGTlQlan mas tested
to his satisfaction copious watering
before and during bloom as prevent
tive of frost damage. This enabled
him to grow Is packed boxes of Rome
Beauty apples on one tree not vet
eight years old in 1914, part of crop
gu 900 trees.
Margaret Conway, alias Ray Moore
who was arrested at HALEY. March
Is. charged with the murder Of Daniel
Winders, wealthy sheepman Of
Mackay. September %, 1918. died IN.
der mystifying circumstances in the
Custer county Jail at Challis. It is
reported some one smuggled poison
to the woman.
A peculiar shooting incident oc.
Cured near Rupert. Fred Lindauer
a farmer living some three miles
southwest of Rupert, was DRIVING
along the public highway in the direc.
ton of town when a bullet struek
him in the shoulder NJ ona oo.