The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-28
In THE GEM STATE

f-'AS h1Aulh6 tAsliDlL SuOWu Ut Tie
Panama-Pacific exposition by Idaho
will be displayed at the state fair this
fall.
Approximately $4,000 worth Of
farm loans were granted by the land
board of Idaho at its meeting Friday
of last week.
Coal prices VIII not be cut in Idaho
until about October 1, if then. That is
the consensus of opinion of the lead
| ing coal men.
Fruit shipments are moving through
Nampa from Oregon, Washington and
southwestern Idaho at an unprecedent-
ed rate at the present time.
Turner Gilbert of the second Idaho
was arrested at Boise charged with
burglary, and placed under $500 bonds,
which failing to secure he was placed
In the county Jail.
III. III. Styer of Bull presented the
Red Cross chapter of his town with a
pure bred registered bull calf of Hol-
stein strain. This champion bred calf
was sold at auction at the fair last
week.
Lyman Jones, sentenced from five
to twenty years for second degree
murder, escaped from the state peni-
Tertiary Sunday. Jones was "trusty"
and had been serving as a ditch
walker.
Finding that he could not make
recently installed steam laundry pay
ct Cedar City, Utah, G. r. Parry sold
ct and is moving to Burley, where
he has been guaranteed $500 business
week.
Arco has been building up rapidly
since its selection as the county seat
of Butte county. Business buildings,
churches and schools are being con-
structed and the town has prosper
Gus air.
Charles Floyd, arrested near Nampa
and held to face serious statutory
charge, was taken to state prison last
week to serve a term of five to fifteen
years. He entered plea of guilty in
district court.
Yielding to the call of patriotism,
DR.. f. Nj. Cole, widely known physi-
clan and surgeon of Caldwell, and
member of the board Of education, is
soon to don the uniform of a U. S.
army surgeon.
Three men pleading ignorance of the
law regarding the shooting of ducks
before sunup We're fined $25 each al
Pocatello and their guns confiscated
and sold under the state law which
makes that proyiso.
Hard hit though the College of Ida
no, at Caldwell, has been by the with
service, registration of the Openins
days indicates that the general at
tendance will be up to normal.
The Utah Power and Light com
pany has applied to the public utilities
commission for a certificate of public
convenience and necessity, authoriZ.
ing it to obtain franchise in Jeffer-
son county to sell electricity fer
light.
One person was seriously injured
and a touring car smashed as the re-
suit of practical jokers when the cal
owned and driven by A. ]. Bowers OF
Pocatello crashed into some timber
placed across the road by some youths
of nixon.
Bosses six banks have total deposits
of 81, 469, 4S5.11 and total assets of
$14, 4S1 ,203, according to- statements of
their condition at the close of bust
ness September IL, the date designated
by the comptroller of the currency in
his last call. -
! The school of mines, University of
Idaho, Moscow, is willing to examine
and in a general qualitative way to de-
termine free of charge the character
and approximate composition of min
eral specimens sent to. it by residents
! of the state.
John F. Gundy, age 10, died at a
Twin Falls hospital as the result of
accidental shooting. While going
through Snake River canyon, near
Crystal springs, he stumbled and fell
accidentally discharging a revolver in
his coast pocket.
Z. A. Strive, while adjusting a ma
chine at Midvale, suffered a serious
accident. His arm became caught III
the machinery and was ground into
bits nearly to the elbow. He was re
moved to town and his arm amputat
ed just below the elbow.
To protect his little sister and an
other young girl from insults, anC
himself from being badly beaten, he
asserts, Frank Brim, IA ears old, OF
Caldwell, shot Walter Freeman three
times, one bullet hitting him just above
the heart and the other two striking
him in the right arm.
A police judge or city magistrate has
no jurisdiction over felonies or in
dictable misdemeanors and therefore
is without power in cases of violation
of the law in the matter of sale, trans
portation, receipt or possession of in
ffnu liOrnrS according