The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-09-01
In THE GEM STATE

indications are that Boise viii
shortly boast thoroughly up.to-date
country club.
canyon county, Idaho, boasts of the
production Of 700 bushels of white no
tatoes from thirty acres.
An automobile hit boulder in the
road near Dietrich and was wrecked
the occupants being injured, but none
seriously
The farmers in the King Hill irri.
cation project, near GleMns Ferry are
again threatened with a shortage Of
water for the balance of the irriga.
ton season.
frank Guidici, the Eight Mile
rancher who was missing from his
home for two days, is now in the Gus
tody of the sheriff. He is believed to
be demented at times.
Fire which started in shavings in
the boiler room OF the Duluth sawmill
at Harrison resulted in the destruc.
ton of the MILL The loss is $45, 900,
with insurance of $4,000.
Lemhi county is preparing to sur.
vey that portion of the proposed route
OF the Boise-Butte highway which
passes north from the Custer county
line to the Montana boundry.
It is said that many of the farmers
who are in a position to hold their
crops are unwilling to contract at
present prices, in the belief that the
recent advances in the market will
continue.
Threshing is now in progress
throughout the wheat belt in southern
Idaho. Local buyers report goou yields
in the irrigated districts, but that the
dry-farm yield is generally somewhat
below the average.
The report of the investigation OF
the King Hill irrigation project made
by the commission of three has been
completed and forwarded to the sec
rotary of the interior. The King Hill
project is now state property.
Vivian Hoyey, young rancher OF
the Sage creek district, twentysix
miles north of Salmon, was shot and
killed by Stonewall Ballinger, a half,
breed Indian, after dispute over a
] stock range. Ballinger fed to the
mountains.
The governor announces that he
will ask the legislature to make ar
appropriation for the purpose Of buy
ing and preserving the site of old For
: Lemhi, near Tendoy, as memorial
r to the first white settlement that wa:
attempted in Idaho.
Three Twin Falls congregations
e have outgroWn their church buildings
4 Recently the Baptists sold their church
4 to the Latter-day Saints. Last weel
the Baptists purchased the presen
Presbyterian edifice. A new rresby
terrain church is planned.
1t is authoritatively announced p,
the state game department that it vii
recognize the first day Of Septembe
: as the open date for the shooting 0
: duck, goose, snipe, plover and swan
: The federal law, however, fixes octo
:, Der l as the opening date.
The Western Potash company wit
headquarters at Idaho Falls, has bee
q organized and proposes to operate OF
= the great sagebrush areas in tn
. southeast, burning sagebrush in por1
q able burners and having extracte
from the ashes 20 per cent potash.
. verdict of murder was bought b
!? the coroner's jury at Twin Fan
against Harold and Lynn Lovelact
Y brothers, IL and II years old, respe'
i lively, who have confessed to shoe
d ing and killing Thomas Hamill, mar
II nal training teacher of Carson, New
/" Conditions in the Wood River SCI
ton regarding the sheep industry al
becoming very acute. The high price
of sheep and mutton and the natur'
e increase of the bands combined hav
!: ed the sheepmen to increase tnel
A. hands far beyond the capacity OF In
y range.
II is being charged that hunters
ar southern Idaho go across the sta'
Up line into Utah for game when ous
10 ness grows dull in this state. Art'
II bagging coyotes in Utah the soaps al
sent to Salt Lake and the feet cut Q
n and forwarded to Boise, where ooun'
Is collected.
With THE Best for Idaho Children
. as its slogan, the teachers Joint
= stitute of Ada, Adams, Blame, Bois
CANYON, Gilmore, Gem, Owynee an
IL washington counties, comprising I.
southwest section of Idaho VIII
held in Boise at the high school ouil
II ing september to 8, inclusive.
Boise automobile dealers and the
!. district agents have sold more aut
| mobiles in the last 80 days, IN pr
A norton to the industry's output Una
/ in any precious sO-day period. II
4 estimated that no less than zoo %
Il loads of machines have been shipp'
/ INTO this territory in that time
Il :. natiticu filed in the supren