The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-17
In THE GEM STATE

IL is expected that over 5000 acrtn
OF beets will be grown in Twin Falls
county this season.
Pahsamaroi valley is growing con.
stantly in population, new settlers
coming in every week.
The governor has issued a procla.
nation designating April to 8 as
western Consumers Week"
The Southern Idaho Y. w. G. A.
conference was held at Caldwell last
week, three days session being
held.
a true leap-year girl made her ap-
pearance at Star on February 29,
when daughter YVES born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Turpen
That blackleg is causing a loss of
Serious proportions to cattle owners
In the northern part Of Ada county,
Is the latest report.
1t is reported that the herd of an.
telope on the Pass creek bench are
starving and that coyotes have already
killed large number.
The bootleggng cases before the
district court at Pocatello during the
last twelve months total 1877, with
fourteen cases pending.
A 5-year-old grade Holstein COW at
Bull has production record of 500
pounds of butterfat in twenty-nine
days, from 2,111 pounds if milk.
Bonneville county records show hf-
ty-four arrests for bootlegging and six
cases pending within the past year.
Most of the defendants pleaded guilty.
The report comes from st. Maries
that deer have forsaken their noun
tain haunts and invaded the town,
some having been seen in the court
house yard
The sugar factory to be erected
west of Twin Falls will be one Of
the largest and most modern plants
in the west. The daily capacity will
be 1,400 tons of beets.
The village trustees of Star are Civ
ing their attention to the streets of
the town and have a force or men at
work grading the streets and putting
them in better shape.
Joe Streng, for twenty-five years a
wool buyer in Idaho, and one of the
best known men in the intermountain
country, died at Ogden, Utah, as re,
suit of an elevator accident.
The Twin Falls Automobile show
will be held March 20 to 20, inclu-
sive, and it is expected that practical
ly every car represented in the state
will be exhibited at the show.
George E. Crum of Lewiston has an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub-
lican nomination for governor of Ida
no. Mr.. Crum settled in Lewiston in
1899, coming to this state from Ohio
The Fort Hall mine, near Pocatello,
which has been closed for five years
was sold last week to Butte com
work will be resumed on the prop
erty.
Since the disappearance of the re-
cent heavy snow, the work OF complet-
ing the surveys being made by the
United States reclamation service in
Black Canyon territory is being prose
cuted.
The Mountain Home High school
basketball boys have won the north
western championship, having gone
through the season in contest with
teams from other schools without a
single defeat.
AS one evidence of the advent of
prosperity in that section of the state
it is reported that at the Sullivan &
Turner auction at Caldwell last week
all but $40 of the $2,4OO total sales
was paid on the spot in cash.
BY a vote of twenty-five counties
to fifteen, the Democratic state CEN
trail committee rejected the preferen-
tial primary for the election of dele
gates to the national convention as
called for by the Baltimore platform.
The revolver with which it is al
legged Ernest Hardenburg shot and
killed Sam Richardson has been re-
covered and is now in possession of
the sheriff at Caldwell. The revolver
was found near the scene of the trag-
edy.
Answering numerous inquiries re-
garding artificial coloring of apples,
the state chemist has decided that
there is absolutely no way in which
the coloring of apples may be in
fuenced. declaring Idaho's sunshine
is the best pigment.
Members of woman's club at Par
ma entertained their husbands with
music, recitations, stories and refresh.
ments one night recently, but the la
dies deny the imputation that it was
necessary to give the social in order
to see their husbands.
Never have there been so few pris
oners as at the present time at the
county Jail at Boise. The former aver
age, it is said, was from eight to
twenty-five. Since the state went dry
the number has grown less and less
until at the present time there are
but four county prisoners and one
hold m a federal charge.