The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-01-09
In THE GEM STATE

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common use in Idaho have been made
by Ernest Crouch, deputy state seaIer
Of weights and measures.
Leroy Falin, sheepherder, is in
! Jail at Payette, charged with stabbing
Gill Weeks, a fellow employee. Weeks
viii recover unless complications
arise.
Harry N. Barr, an Oregon Short
Line fireman, was fatally injured when
he was run over by his locomotive at
American Falls. Both legs were sew
cred from the body.
The handsome home of Senator
Harding of Oneida county at Malad
has been destroyed by fire. The house
had just been completed at cost of
between $4,000 and $4,000
Lewiston has had over 80 inches or
snow this winter, this being equivalent
to two and one-half inches Of rainfall.
This is about one-sixth of the average
annual precipitation for this region.
The building fund for the new Bap-
fist chureh at Pocatello has reached
the sum Of $4,000. This amount was
subscribed by members and the con-
gregation at the last two Sunday meet
ings.
Local engineers have sent an invita-
ton to DR.. Elwoei Meade, noted Amer
lean and Australian engineer, to come
to Pocatello and address the Idaho
irrigation congress when it convenes
there January II to IA.
Manuel Gonzales, a Mexican, was
the first victim in Pocatello of wood
alcohol. Gonzales died on December
81 at the home of friend. The Next
can was known to the police to be
addicted to wood alcohol
Idaho has sold 646, 1885 acres of
land since statehood, mas piled up en-
dowment funds aggregating about $12,-
1000, and has still In her possession
unsold land sufficient TO bring her en-
dowments to more than $60,000,000.
Friends of James Hovermale, who
shot and killed Myron Beach and then
SHOT his own wife at Felt, have started
a subscription list with the intention
of raising money to employ counsel to
defend Hoyermale at his trial when it
comes up.
The Idaho State Teachers associa-
| ton at the close of two-day con-
Tention at Boise, elected Frank w.
Simmonds of Lewiston president for
the ensuing year and adopted resolu-
lions emphasizing the teaching of sane
Americanism.
After over year of discussion and
planning by the Commercial club and
the city council, action has been taken
by the council of Lewiston looking to-
| ward the immediate location and inn
provement of a site for an automobile
| tourists camp.
Determination OF water rights is
| not proper function of the state pub
| lice utilities commission, that body
| told the Mountain Home Water Users
Protective association MS it dismissed
| the associations complaint against it's
irrigation company.
The plant of the Oregon Packing
company at Lewiston has closed after
a record breaking summer and fall
In spite of the fact that last summer
was very unfavorable for the growing
of tomatoes, the packing plant had a
rua of 10000 cases.
| Governor Davis, heading a western
delegation some 20 strong GncIuding
i'Seven goyernors), viii proceed from
Denver, Colo, January 10, in a spe-
cial car to carry to the national con-
gress at Washington, D. c., the out
| line of reclamation needs of the irri-
gated west.
| LaYere Bennett and Earl Crothers,
| aged and 5, respectively, of Jerome,
secured quantity of blasting powder
from tent in which road making ma
| teriar had been stored and set it off
| with match. The older boy was so
! badly burned that he died within u
few hours and the younger suffered
severe and painful burns.
The state auditing committee Gre
ated by the last legislature and au-
thorized to expend $4,000 in auditing
the books and accounts of all state
departments during the years 1917
1918. claims to have already saved the
amount of the appropriation and has
expended less than half of the appro-
priation made by the legislature.
That the corporation business of
Idaho is growing rapidly appears evil
dent from figures that Secretary of
State Jones has just made public. They
show that the total capitalization of
licensed domestic corporations in Ida
no amounts to $30T, 547 ESQ. Foreign
corporations qualified to transact bust
ness in the state have total eapitali-
zation of S1S3,S27,500.
Idaho woolgrowers, meeting at
Boise, gave approval to the action of
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
l IN thp direction of divorce of meat