The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-04-14
IN THE GEM STATE

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Line.
Tho civic club at Pocatello has
made arrangements for the entertain
ment of the State Federation OF WON
ar,s Climbs. which will meet in that
,ity April 16. II and IL.
The Idaho chamber of commerce, an
;ts meeting at Pocatello last week.
vent ON record as favoring rural
credits and a special tax levy OF one
third mill for state publicity.
Row Shilling, aged 20, hotel clerk.
has confessed that he was guilty OF
RI ,bing the Nicollet hotel, he having
previously reported that he was neio
ur by a lone highwayman.
Jesse G. Bristol, proprietor OF
summer resort at Lava Hot Springs.
and mining man, was crushed to death
nv a boulder on which he was work
ing in the course of prospecting
trip.
shooting gallery supplies was the
label on large consignment OF
whisky shipped from Salt Lake to Po-
catello recently, it is announced py
special agent of the department OF
justice.
The Silver Creek Power company
has applied to the public utilities COM
mission for authority to install an
electric light plant to serve residents
of Carey and Picabo. The plant VIII
cost $4,000.
The Pocatello Commercial club has
adopted resolution in favor OF pre-
paredness which is to be presented at
the meeting of the Navy league at
Washington, D. c., April 10, by Ed
ward o. Elliott.
Representatives of the recently or
ganized Idaho State Chamber OF Com
merce met at Pocatello. and after dis
cussing ways and means OF furtherinS
the objects of the organization, par
took of banquet.
Students of the Idaho Technical in
stitute have gone on record as in IA
vor of compulsory military training.
The matter was brought before the
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vote ID was decided in favor of mill
tary training.
The Intermountain Fair and Racing
circuit, with eight cities of the inter-
mountain country listed on the men,
bership roll, was organized last week
in Boise by delegates from Oregon.
Utah and Idaho cities.
Ray N. Thompson, who killed Geo.
Mclaughlin during quarrel on the
Thompson ranch near Malad last fall,
and who was dismissed on the charge
of manslaughter on motion of the
prosecution, was re-arrested and
charged with murder
Officers at Pocatello confiscated g.
3O-gallon barrel Of whisky, 4S pints of
whisky and Is bottles of beer one day
last week. 1t was brought from Salt
Lake on Short Line freight 277 by FIVE
negroes. The bootleggers made their
getaway under fire.
Charles E. Acton, former assessor
and tax collector, at special ses-
sion of the district court at Occur
d'Alene, pleaded guilty to charge Of
misappropriation of county funds and
was sentenced to from two to ten
years in the penitentiary.
The executive committee OF Rigby
stake tabernacle has accepted plans
for the proposed building. The struc-
ture will cost $4,000. Subscriptions
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now coming in in better measure than
the committee had hoped for.
A dispatch from Standpoint, Idaho,
says four young boys ranging from
II to 16 were rescued from their per
ilous positions as prisoners on large
ice field in the lake by the steamer
Northern on it's regular trip into Sand
point. The boys had become maroon
ed while fishing.
April 20 is the date set for the Pc
catello Commercial club boosters ex
cursion to Twin Falls and Burley. The
Short Line railway has made special
rates, and the club is planning on
taking at least 100 members and theil
wives on this "get acquainted" trip
through the state.
The Equity Machiae & Elevator
company, with capital stock of $25,
goo, divided into 1000 shares of $2I
each, was incorporated last week il
Pocatello. This company will. begiI
business at once and will construc
an elevator to handle the grain tina
is being raised in the Bancroft dis
= trict.
From Harrison comes the news tina
for the fifth consecutive year tn,
lone swan" has been seen in TIL
swamps along the st. Joe river be
tween Harrison and st. Maris by Capt
i Eli Laird of the steamer Colfax. TIL
swans mate was shot by a hunte
several years ago and each season tn
big white bird is seen to return to tn
same spot.
A jury impaneled at Pocatello TO
the purpose of trying a case in tn