The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-12-22
In THE GEM STATE.

IN ans Is TO have new $4,000
Dflck business block.
custer county will build 5000 900
worth OF good roads next year.
The State Federation Of Labor will
meet in Boise for its second annual
meeting January Is and 1s.
Inc state highway department will
ask the legislature to appropriate ST.
100000 for good roads in Idaho this
winter.
q wagonload Of white clover seed
raised at Kuna on seven and one
third acres weighed 5000 pounds. and
was worth 1921.
From the preliminary plans it would
appear that Bosses first municipal
Christmas tree celebration is TO be a
highly successful affair.
A 100000 Utah-Idaho sugar fac
tory is now assured for Shelley and
Will be ready for 1917 crop and have
100000 annual payroll.
A Jail delivery eliminating in a pis-
tol duel between two desperadoes and
officers Of the Law occurred at Rupert
last week, the prisoners being recap
tured
Idaho national guard regiment soon
TO be sent home, will be mustered out
at Boise barracks and not at Fort
Douglas, Utah, as was previously an
nounced.
On account Of the accumulation Of
ice in the mill pond, freezing in the
logs, the Boise Payette Lumber com
pany has closed the sawmill at Bar
Der until the last Of January.
The report Of Water Superintend-
ent Edgar Smith for the month of No
vember shows that more than $4,000
was expended in extending and de-
veloping the water works system in
Pocatello.
Doc Yanden, one of the picturesque
characters and old time resident of
Pocatello, died recently at his cabin
along the Portneuf river in the Fort
Hall reservation, few miles south
Of Pocasello.
After having been out twenty hours,
the jury at Standpoint in the case of
Tony Lemley, accused of the murder
of Frank Green, reported Sunday that
it was unable to reach verdict and
was discharged.
A small box OF toys direct from
Germany arrived at one OF the Boise
shops last week. The box, which
weighed just 35 pounds, was a small
portion of an order given last Febru-
airy to large German TOULOUSE.
The call has been issued to the va
rious labor organizations Of this state
for the second annual convention Of
the Idaho State Federation Of Labor,
which will convene at labor headquar.
tiers at Boise, Monday, January 10,
1917.
Animated by a noteworthy spirit
of enthusiasm and unity of purpose,
200 farmers wearing the red badges
betoking membership, met in Cald
we'll last week and perfected organi-
cation of the Canyon County Farm
bureau
Mrs. Emil Lundquist of Firth died
from the effects OF being severely
burned week before when in kind
ling fire in her cookstove an explo
sion occurred, which set fire to her
clothing and the house, which was
burned to the ground.
Nellies Chase OF Ahsahka, Clear
water county, the prize winner for
1916 in the Boys and Girls potato
clubs under the direction of the uni
vcrsity extension department. netted
profit of S74.24 on one-eighth of an
acre planted 10 potatoes.
That possession OF liquor is not pro
hibited under the statewide prohibit
ton law, nor its transportation, un
less it is shown that it was transport
ed for use as a beverage. was in sub
stance the ruling by the court at Boist
in a case decided last week.
When the state land department
holds its final sale of the year Decem
Der 80 in Lincoln county. it will have
sold every acre OF land which it i:
permitted to sell under the state Law
for 1916. The department is allowed
twenty-five sections annually.
The cific-Intermountain Dairy ex
position, Boise. will be one OF the de
velopments of the coming year if Ger
tain business men and dairymen
backed by the Boise Commercial club
can secure sufficient encouragement
from the business interests and tn,
dairy industry to warrant the under
taking.
After listening TO testimony ant
examining records which harked bacl
as far as the year 1872, the jury a
Mountain Home in the case of tn,
state OF Idaho VS.. VIII T. Montgom
cry brought in verdict exoneratinl
Montgomery. sheepman, from tn
charge of violating a range alleged L
belong exclusively to cattlemen.
Word has been received of tn