The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-08-03
IN THE GEM STATE

a bridge across the Clearwater.
The Mountain States Telephone com
pany will spend $4,000 on the Mont
pelier-C0keville line.
Ears Of sweet corn eight inches lon,
haye been found In Collister garden
The stalks are IL feet high.
Official notification Of the fact tina
there will be no drafting in Canyon
county on the first call was received
last week
Lee Johnson, a 15-yearold girl, wa.
drowned in canal near her home al
Menan while in swimming with a par
ty Of friends.
i Carl Ernest, one of the penitentiary
TRUSTEES who escaped from the Mosely
farm Sunday night, was captured Mon.
day afternoon.
Elmer Blank, charged with the
grand larceny of a horse, was given
a preliminary hearing at Welser and
bound over for trial.
More than 100 bakers still are
needed for service in the regular army.
Men accepted receive S3S month and
have the rank of sergeant. Here's a
chance of Idahoans.
Hog cholera has been almost wiped
out in Idaho, according to report
filed with the livestock sanitary board
by Or. w. A. Sullivan of the federal
bureau of animal industry.
A number of the men drafted APP
peared at the capitol for examina-
ton last week, but they were told to
return home and wait until notified
through the mails before returning.
The postoffice at Twin Falls will
move into new quarters on the corner
of Second avenue and Second street,
west, an November l. These quarters
have been leased from the date
named.
DR.. Enoch A. Bryan, state commits
sioner of education, thinks great eff
forts should be put forth by the
people of the state this fall to keep the
attendance of the state university up
to normal.
The mine owners of the Occur
dAlene district are reported to have
held secret meeting at Wallace
and to have agreed to petition Cover
nor Alexander to ask for federal
troops for the Occur d'Alenes.
Otto Lofgren, mason employed in
the construction of the new wing for
the federal building at Boise, suffered
a broken leg and several painful
bruises when scaffold upon which
he was standing gave way under a
heavy load of brick and stone.
Teton county is going to have to
import a physician to examine it's men
who have been drafted for the army.
There are two doctors living Mt
briggs, the county seat, but both are
under 81 years of age. That makes
them ineligible to serve on the exemp-
ton board.
The Idaho womens committee,
Council of National Defense, has de-
cided to send out the food pledge
cards for distribution at once and ask
each state organization for small
contribution to cover the running ex-
penses, postage and stationery, of the
organization.
The truckmen at the Oregon Short
Line freight depot at Boise, who re-
Gently struck for an increase of pay
from 81 a day to $3.50, struck again
Monday for an increase to So. They
were led to believe, at the time of the
other strike, that they ought to have
asked for SO.
There is a balance of $685., 222. 43 in
the state treasury to the credit of the
public schools, educational, penal and
charitable institutions and the public
building fund that is available for
farm loans, according to report
filed by the state treasurer with
Governor Alexander.
Five arrests were made at Glenns
Ferry by officers seeking to break up
a gang which has been Systematically
stealing valuable goods from freight
cars in this territory. All of the men
taken were Oregon Short Line EN-
| ployes, the group including switchmen,
brakeman and telegraph operator
Fred Soda, young Caldwell
| mechautcian, was drowned while swim
ming in the Boise river. He was with
company of other bathers, and at.
tempted to swim across the river, but
apparently was poor swimmer. He
went down in the middle of the stream
as result of cramp or of strangling
When small ditch leading into his
garden failed to send along salts
factory flow, ]. NJ. Greenfield OF
Caldwell, began an Investigation. He
found the impeachment in the ditch t.
be sack containing "a bottles OF
whisky. The booze had evidently
been cached there by some bootlegger
Frank l.. Moore, prosecuting attor
ney for Utah county, took the frs
definite step last week to test The
Idaho criminal syndicalism law, alsC
the point whether active membership IL
the |. w. w. institutes criminal syndic
alism, when he filed criminal com
plant against ten of the men now IL
prison in Moscow.