The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-11-10
In THE GEM STATE

Seven would-be forest ranpa,
the civil service examination a. D 'VOs
last week. iSe
Two hundred prominent cattlo
horse raisers were in conyentor a
rocatello for three days last week ~
With view to obtaining for M,
a military remount station ranos4 se
efforts are being made by the p.,'
Commercial club. 's
The car shortage in Idaho is hal
Investigated by the public utni,.ss
commission with view Of learn,Sa
.Fhether or not it can be remediaa
A Meridian farmer has receivod ),
Geo from the hay and seed crops fro,e
eight acres of clover, thus exceaaina
by $3.50 the estimate he had n,ooas
upon his crops value.
Mrs. j. G. Endsley and her sistA,,,
Jaw, Miss Endsley. were seriously T.
Jured near Nampa when the yehicle j.
which they were riding was struck bv
reckless auto driver
In return for contributing big %,
signment of turkeys for adornment =,
Thanksgiving tables, ranchers of Star
and vicinity will receive approx.
mately $4,000 within the next two
weeks.
William Muir, an accessory afto,
the fact with Nose Croney. who was
arrested some time ago for killing a
deer in Bannock county, has been
fined 500 in Justices court at Pa.
catello.
The Wilbert Gold Mining comuanv
of the Wood river district, near Hal.
ley, has declared dividend Of slO.
600, payable November Is. This will
make the total payments $4,000 in
little over a year.
Bluestem wheat went to S1.45 IN
Moscow Friday of last week, the high.
est point ever touched by wheat in this
community with one exception, that Of
February, 1915, when STAT was Of
fered for one day.
The commissioners of Canyon couu.
ty will stand suit in district court on
the complaint of Alfred F. Stone, al
leging that they acted illegally in en-.
gaging outside counsel to prepare and
prosecute tax foreclosure suits.
Officials of the Pioneer irrigation
district have filed in district court at
Caldwell petition asking for conir.
nation of the procedure by which
their organization has authorized is.
suance of $1S9,200 worth Of bonds.
The bureau established by the fed.
eral government in Idaho Falls three
or four weeks ago for the purpose Of
furnishing potato growers in Idaho
with daily market reports on the move.
ment of that crop. has been discontin.
ued.
In 1915 Meridian was accorded the
distinction of having been the origi-
mating point of more shipments Of
pure-bred sheep than any town Of its
size in the United States. 1t is con-
sidered highly probable that it will
win like honor this season.
Charles McGrath, living near Star,
has just finished threshing the clover
seed crop from sixteen acres of land,
receiving 125 bushels. At prevailing
prices for seed of the quality Mr.. Nc
Grath produced this gives a highly
profitable return from the land.
The price of potatoes continues to
advance in the Pocatello market, the
quotations on Wednesday being $3.50
per hundred on RuraIs and $40 fol
Gems. The shipments Wednesday
from Pocatello points in this section
Of the state amounted to ninety cars
The Overlook mine in the Black
Warrior district, % miles from At
lanta, has the distinction of being the
only mine in the state that closes
down for Sunday. So great an limo
walton is this in the Atlanta camp
that the mine is known as the Sun
day school" camp.
Frank Jones, James Gonzales ant
49, 4AOUbo, INT LII &C 1lCD 'AIAu -
coroner's inquest as being implicated
in the killing of Ola Guthrie, who wa
found dead at his sheep camp Octo
Der 8, after preliminary hearing a
Montpelier, were bound over to tn
district court for tial.
AS the result of Bosses increased
freight tonnage and the representa-
tons of the traffic department Of tn
Boise Commercial club, the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad com
pany has put on a through dali.
package car" for less than carloa'
shipments of freight from Chicago t
Boise.
The Oregon Short Line has az
pealed to the state supreme cour
from an opinion handed down by TIL
district court for Ada county in tn
action brought by A. w. Athe'
against the railroad. Athey aske'
$4,000 damages for harm alleged .
have been done his character. 4
jury gave him $4,000.
Having gone to look after the horse
2nDarpnfIv in hfu ,,u,,oI oood health