The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
In THE GEM STATE

| few feet from the house.
A community church with gym
nasium, kitchen, studyroom, and an
auditorium large enough to seat 1857
| people, will be built at Hazleton.
On February %, 1499c acres of IT.
rigable land in Ada and Canyon coun-
ties, under the United States reclamG
ton project, will be opened for sale
by the government.
The farmers in rabbit hunt at Alb
erdeen two days last week killed TO-
600. Two more drives are scheduled.
Rabbits have destroyed several stacks
of alfalfa this winter
At meeting of the Blackfoot coun-
Gil tie vote as to the Sunday open
| ing of picture shows was finally lost
by the negative vote of Mayor Peck,
and picture shows will not operate on
| Sunday.
Donald Stedman, 10 years old, and
Emil Wagner, 8, were drowned in Med
| icine lake near Medimont, when their
sled on which they were coasting slid
into the open water where men were
cutting ice.
| Thomas Seymour, formal National
league ball player, was found dead in
the mountains near Cascade, in Long
valley. He was frozen to death. Sey-
mour had some mining property on
West moutnain.
Either w. o. Moore, former sub
| ject OF England now a resident of Nc
Call, made a 100-mile trip on skis from
his home to Boise to become a natur-
allied citizen. Mccall is located on
the shores of the Payette lakes.
A stubborn smoldering fire at Wal
lace, which taxed the energies of the
local fire department for more than
three hours, caused an estimated prop
erty loss of $4,000, and the temper
airy closing of six business houses.
Jerome Cooperative creamery that
commenced operations about the first
of the year, is now one of the sue
cessful industries of that section.
During the month of January, 1880
pounds of butter was made at this
creamery.
The Farmers Society of Equity was
reincorporated at Pocatello last week
with a capital of $150,O00, with A. Y.
Satterfield of Pocatello as president.
Great Progress has been made in a
few years. Pocatello is the central Of
fee of the organization.
A mother with three weeks old
babe in her arms, her husband, their
two sons and a stepson were SEN
fenced by Judge Babcock In the dis
trict court at Twin Falls to indeter-
inmate terms in the penitentiary for
burglary and receiving stolen goods.
James F.. Kane, aged SO years, one
of the most prominent citizens of Po-
catello, died February Is, after an i'll
ness of several weeks. The direct
cause of death was arteriosclerosis.
The decedent was born in Joliet, ILL.,,
in 1858. He came to PocateNIo in 1890.
After celebrating all night, a jury
in the district court at Boise gave A.
W. Athey, former ticket agent for the
oregon Short Line at Ontario, Ore,
in his suit against that road for dc.
famation Of character, a verdict fol-
$4,000.
Judge George Chaplin died suddenly
\ at his home in Idaho Falls, February
II. He was apparently we'll as usual
until few moments before his death.
He was n years of age. He was one
of the Oldest pioneers of southern
Idaho.
Al. Caldwell, who has been driving
the Leesburg stage 0for the past six
years, declares that this is the hard
est winter he has encountered. He
drives six horses, with track breakers,
every day to go ahead over the sum-
NIT. The snow is piled six feet deep
in the hills.
The Lumbermen's Trust company
of Portland has purchased bonds op
Pocatello sewer district No. 10 and
street improvement district No. 8, for
$1,4S2 and $6,400, respectively, pay
ing a premium of $3.50 on the same.
The bonds draw per cent.
George Bentz has rendered his resig-
nation as supervisor of the Caribou
forest reserve and, with his family,
will leave about March 1 for White
bird, Idaho county, where he will en-
gage in farming aAl stockraising. Mr..
Bentz has been in the forest service
for sixteen years.
Lieutenant Paul Frederick Foster
of Idaho, former student of the state
university, was recently presented by
the navy department with a medal OF
honor as recognition of the distin-
guished services in the line of his pro-
fession rendered at the seizure of
Vera Cruz, Mexico, April 81, %, 1914.
Reece Clevenger, sentenced to serve
a term Of life Imprisonment in the
idaho state penitentiary for murder,
was freed by the state board of par
dons last week, his condition being
such, the prison physician stated, that
death may overtake him at any time.