The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-18
In THE GEM STATE

societies Of Idaho Is to be held at Idaho
Falls January IA to 10.
Owing to the unusually open winter,
ranchers In southern Idaho are becom-
ing considerably concerned over the
sale Of their sulpluss hay.
It viii cost the city Of Nampa $1999T
to insure its appointed employees with
the state Of Idaho July I, 1918, under
the new casualty insurance law.
According to reliable information, 1t
is altogether probable that a special
war session Of the Idaho legislature
viii be convened early in February.
A. @. Townley, president Of the
Nonpartisan league, is coming to Ida
no the middle Of this month to de-
liver series Of speeches in the Snake
river valley.
Two masked robbers with automatic
reyolvers held up six men in the I'M
derwook Typewriter agency at Poca-
tello and forced them to give up their
yaluables, amounting to about $50.
Ground was broken at Twin Falls, on
January 8 for the construction Of
$4,000 three-story brick apartment
house being built by Mrs. Mary Hick-
Ter, owner and manager Of Hickler's
cash store.
Orders to intern George Seaman, a
native of Germany, recently arrested
at Pocatello, were received from Wash
ington last week. Shortly before his
arrest Seaman was employed in the
sugar factory at Blackfoot.
An Indian woman was burned to
death at her hut near BIackfoot on
the Snake river when she rushed back
into the blazing structure for the pur-
pose of saving gold coins to the value
of $40 which she had hidden in the
place.
A further raise in tobacco, due to
the war conditions, is announced by
dealers in Boise. Fiye-cent cigars,
which were not raised few months
ago when other tobacco mounted in
price, will now be sold at Q cents
each.
w. t. Bartles, farmer living some
five miles northwest of Wendell, has
been arrested on the charge of having
beaten woman named Lois Sisk, who
claims Bartles beat her after she had
shot one of his dogs that had at
tackled her.
Clarence Roe, wealthy rancher of
Idaho Falls, is reported to have lost a
tin box containing $7700 in gold, the
box being taken from him by a man
who stumbled against Roe as he was
carrying the money on the street in
Pocatello at night.
The Idaho Woolgrowers' association.
which held its annual session at Boise
last week, elected the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year: President,
Hugh Sproat, Mayfield; vice president,
John Skillern, Boise; secretary-treas-
urer John Iddenbaugh.
Frank Brfm, the 10 year-old Cald-
well boy charged with manslaughter
as the result of the death on October
s of Walter Freeman from gunshot
wound received during an alteration
with Brim on the evening of August
With the hope of some day expert
encing the romance of sending out an
rs. o. s." message from some ship in
distress, sixteen young men and
sweet faced girl have entered the spe-
cial school of radio telegraphy installed
at the Idaho College of Technology NJ
PocatelIo.
Shipments of produce and merchan-
dies from Canyon county last year
totaled 1915 cars, according to a re-
port showing the business of the
county during 1917. This is SS4 more
cars than We're shipped in 1914, an in
crease of 612 over 1915, and 66 more
than were shipped in 1916.
During the farmers and house
keepers week at Moscow, January %
to February 4, the principal emphasis
of every lecture delivered and every
topical discussion held viii be placed
upon the changes and readjustments
necessary to meet the emergency
situation created by the war.
There dire no actual figures avail
able showing the number of Idaho men
who enlisted in various branches of
the army and navy, but that the num-
Der was large is well known. 1t is
between 1900 and 2000 On basis of
1900. the grand total of men contrib
uted since the war started is 5T29.
The fight over the new workmen's
compensation commission of Idaho
reached climax at Boise last week
when the executive board of the Idaho
State Federation Of Labor filed pc
tition with Governor Alexander asking
the removal from the board of George
III. Fisher of Bancroft, its president.
Thus far there has been but little de
mand for $40 hay aud farmers in some
communities are joining forces in send
ing representatives to Texas and other
markets to seek purchasers. 1t is
stated that about twenty-five carloads
of Idaho hay have recently been
shipped to Texas and other southern
states and that it has netted the grow