The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-06
In THE GEM STATE

| aminers.
School bonds for the construction Of
Il new building in the Scism school dis
! trict, which were voted for recently,
have been sold
Andrew Peterson had his hands Sc
| verely burned at the Melcher mine
near Albion, while assisting in open
| ing a barrel of hydrochlOric acid.
The state board Of equalization has
reduced from $7,000,0OO to $6,500OOO
| the valuation it had fixed on the prop
| erty of the Idaho Power company.
| Frank Wilcox a well known resi-
dent of HALEY, was instantly killed
on the Galena summit by being thrown
from his wagon, his team having run
away.
! Stockmen of Mountain Home have
! complained informally to the public
utilities commission Of shortage of
double-decked stock cars in which to
ship sheep.
The petition for moving the court
house from Albion to Burley has been
filed. While only 1850 names were
required on the petition, it contained
2228 signatures.
Edith Garrett, aged Is, of Nampa.
pleaded guilty to passing bad checks
in Boise, Meridian, Welser and Cald,
well, and was committed to the indus
trial school ut st. Anthony.
Former Governor Frank r. Gooding,
who has been Idahos fuel adminiStra-
to for nearly a year, announces that
he has offered his resignation from that
office, effective September /.
Mrs. s. f. Hayes chairman of the
wOmen's committee, Council of Ma
tional Defense, is urging a display of
the work of this committee at the
state and several county fairs.
AS the result of a quarrel over a
game of dice, Sam L. Davenport adj
mits shooting and killing Henry w.
Stricken at Nampa, but says he acted
in self-defense killing Stricken with
his own gun.
The quick arrival of help is all that
saved Frank Measel from serious
accident, if not instant death at Maple
Grove, when he was struck by horse
and vas being trampled upon when
help arrived. He was badly bruised.
Under the direction of the club lead
er of the boys and girls club of Ban
neck county, Mrs. Virginia MacCraig.
thirty canning clubs comprising
membership of 375 girls have been or
ganized and are now in full working
order
Availability of water for 10000
acres, comprising the first unit of the
Utah Construction eompany's Big
3 Lost River project, was made known
: to the state land board last week by
1 the company, with request that the
5 segregation be accepted.
The general tax levy this year will
be % mills of the total levy of ~
mills. This will raise $685., 686. IS as
compared with S65O,OOO last year.
General interest and sinking fund, and
capitol building fund levies, respective
", were fixed at l and mills.
The premium list for the Mlnidoka
county fair, to be held in Rupert Sep
TENDER Is, 10 and 90 has Just been
issued and contains a nice lot of pre-
miums along all lines of horticultural
|
miums are to be paid in thrift stamps
Gold production in the state last
year dropped off 15,04466 ounces from
the production of 1916, official reports
show. The total value of ores in the
state was $54,S45, 1913. At the aver
age rate of approximately 500 per
ounce this was decrease of $4,000
600.
Clay Tallman, commissioner of the
general land office, has been request
ed by interested persons to include
100 acres additional to the 2O,5OO. to
which the Twin Falls-O Oakley project
was reduced, in the states application
for patent to the selected lands or the
tract
The Pocatello Rotary club loving
cup was awarded to Shorty" Tai
madge in the drilling contest at the
Idaho technical institute, when the 1O6
men stationed there entered com
petitive drill for the loving cup Of
fered to the best drilled man by the
local order Of Rotarians.
A suggestion for further aiding The
men who return to Idaho after the
war, has been made by c. Il. Arney.
western immigration and industrial
agent of the Northern Pacific railroad,
and that is, that the returning soldiers
should receive substantial considera-
ton in the form Of gifts of land.
r. f. Bickneli, food administrator for
Idaho. has authorized the sending of
| Instructions to all county administra-
tors asking that they make as effective
a plan as possible to have all confec.
TONERS cut down on their sales of
candies to a limit of one pound at any
! time to one person.
Sergeant Leroy Womack wrote re-
/ Gently to his mother, Mrs. Marion
Womack of Firth, Idaho, that he is
safely in France after a pleasant trip
! across the seas and a short visit in