The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-26
IN THE GEM STATE

sheep on the desert near Steamboat
take, southeast of Carey.
Idaho's peach crop is not total
loss. Council Valley will come to the
rescue with 300 acres all bearing,
with scarcely any damage at all.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 of the
building fund being solicited by off
Gals of the Idaho Oregon Holiness
school of Nampa already has been
subscribed.
Mrs. Pearl F. Shoemaker has been
exonerated by jury for the killing of
her husband, Charles T. Shoemaker
and her daughter, Muriel E. Robin
Shoemaker, at Glenns Ferry, on May 8.
Leading strawberry growers of Mid
dleton report that the recent frost
hurt this fruit crop less than any
other grown there. They believe that
they will harvest two-thirds of a full
crop.
For the purpose of authorizing the
refunding of $365,000 worth of bonds
now outstanding, directors of the
Nampa & Meridian Irrigation district
are calling an election to be held on
June 20.
A timber buyer for the Canadian
government has completed the loading
and shipment of ten carloads of huge
white pine timbers at a Harrison
loading works for the use of the allies
In Europe.
The city council has voted to pur.
hac I'll - ~. No.
er company for the sum of S350,00O.
This step will close one of the most
unpleasant chapters in the history of
the city.
All evidence tends to prove that
Alice Empey, the little girl whose
body was found in Sand creek, near
Idaho Falls, was murdered. Deep cuts
made by sharp instrument were
found on the body.
The Boise Salvation Army corps is
TO have brigade of boy scouts in
the near future. The organization will
be in line with the other scout organ
lzation except that it will have a
strong religious flavor.
The hearty cooperation of the resi-
dents of Idaho Falls in the campaign
10 make the Salt Lake citizens mill
tary training camp this summer huge
success was pledged at a mass meet
ing held at Idaho Falls.
Festivities of an elaborate nature
marked the close of the school year
In Middleton. The program included
May Day observances, drills, folk
songs and dances, singing, games and
sports, and a picnic dinner.
Thomas Carr, Salt Lake junk
dealer. was electrocuted on a high
voltage electric pole about ten miles
west of Pocatello on the Fort Hall In
dian reservation. The mans body was
found at the foot of the pole.
The United States census returns
showed Blackfoot to have population
Of less than 1900, but the citizens
have been claiming 5000. A census
taken by school pupils last week
showed $500 actual residents.
1t is thought that o. L. Mullins, the
rancher who so mysteriously disap-
peared from his home near King Hill,
Idaho, on May 2, while apparently suf
fering from walking typhoid fever,
may be somewhere in the vicinity of
Salt Lake.
The sociology class OF the Blackfoot
high school under the direction of SUI
perintendent Vincent took complete
census of the city in one hour. The
town was divided into districts of two
blocks and each assigned to a pupil of
the schools.
While riding horseback on the road
north of the Fruitland High school
building in Fruitland, Fred Eldredge
came very near being killed when the
wind blew down two electric light
poles and two adjoining wires caught
around his neck.
Never before has there been such a
demand for Idaho lands as there has
been recently. During the month of
April there were $50 applications for
homesteads filed, seeking the right to
settle on some 10000 acres of land in
the vicinity of Blackfoot.
William Sheppard is making ar
engagements to ship sand from near
ing country and has a force of men
building tower across the river from
Roberts and will use an endless chain
method to convey the sand.
The cost of clerical help in connec-
ton with the registration of automo.
bile licenses is lower in Idaho than
in any other western state with the
exception of Wyoming, where 1875
cars were registered in 1915, compared
with 1901 in Idaho, according to q
report
At the first monthly meeting at
Nampa OF the Southern Idaho Laun-
dry Owners association, organized at
a session in Caldwell in April, ten
laundry proprietors Of southern Idaho
and eastern Oregon laid plans for CO.