The Meridian times., 1920-01-02
In THE GEM STATE


airy 10 to ~.
Ten foreign companies doing busI-
ness in Idaho increased their capital
ization the past year to the extent Of
s53, ,0O7. 900.
Fred Boyer, who has been trapping
on Lick creek, came out last week
with several hundred dollars worth nf
mink and marten skins.
December reports indicating that
three additional counties have become
involved in the Idaho smallpox epi-
demic, making a total Of 70 counties
In the state.
with the forwarding of a charter to
tbs James f. Sage post of the Ameri-
csn Legion at Burke, the Idaho branch
OF the legion has reached a total of
eighty-fiye posts.
Governor Davis cabinet has lc~t
one Of its members in Guy BOwerman
Of ST. Anthony, who resigned and last
| week gave over his office to C. h.
| Walker of briggs.
Indian appropriation bill as repOrC-
/ ed to the house Of Representatives car
| ries an appropriation of sJ5.T00 for
| improvement, maintenance and opera
| tion of the Fort RaIi irrigation sys
TEN.
Three hundred seyenty-sevsn new
| domestic corporations filed their arti-
cles In the office of the secretary OF
| state during the past year, while "A
| foreign corporations qualified TO do
business in Idaho.
! There were. 317J pounds of white
arsenic. GOO pounds of Paris green. 1900
dozen lemons, 1Se0 gallons of moIaSseS.
and about $1,000 pounds of bran used
in the Lewis county grasshOpper Tram
paign the past year.
Notice that Idaho will fight to the
last ditch efforts of the Mountain
Home Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany To compel state assessors 10 eut
it's taxes In half has been filed by Roy
L. Black, attorney general.
More was saved by the killing of
grasshoppe-s in one county Of Idaho,
under farm bureau auspices, last
spring and summer. than it is costing
to run the entire University of idaho
extension division this year
The total automobile registration for
1919 win exceed that of last year by
approximately 10000. The total num-
ber of cars registered in 1918 was b.
2S9, while the number of cars register
ed for 1918 to date Is 41.TTJ.
O. p Hendershot must answer in the
I -
ulansiaughter. being charged with re-
SponsfbiIity for the death of Michael
Morris. an employee of the Bernhartii
carnival shows. during the fair al
Boise
The trial of Leroy C. Jones. present
JFnfted States marshal. against whom
the state of Idaho brought suit to re-,
cover approximately $4,000 alleged
to be unaccounted F,r in the fish and
game department. has been postponed
sixty days.
james HOvermaie. a former soldier
of Felt. Il station on the Victor
branch. shot and killed Myron Beach
and then shot his own wife with Il
Winchester rifle. Hoverrnale claims
self-defense. Mrs. Hovermale. although
severely injured. may recover.
The Mountain States Telephone {
Telegraph company has been ordered
to show cause before the state pub
lie utilities commission .htnuary 5
1929. why it has failed to file its in
ventOry of physical property within
the time granted by the commission.
The civic committee of the Retail
: Merchants association of Idaho Falls
through the chairman of the commit
tee, will take up with the city council
after the first OF the year the matter
: of REMEMBERING the business houses
and residences of Idaho Falls on q
IlaEe comprehensive basis.
Figures showing that the total CAPT
talfzatiou of licensed domestic cor
porationS in Idaho has mounted to
$780,. .54T ,0:S9 and that foreign corpora
tionS qualified to do business in the
: state have total capitalization ot
S1S3, 81, 800 have been made public by
: Robert q. Jones, secretary of state.
Statewide Endorsement of the pro
posed creation at Washington of q
federal board of public works. TO have
. executive powers covering the entire
/ engineering field. will be one result
, OF The convention in POcateIlo Janu,
AIRY l., Is and II of Idaho irrigation
, experts and engineers, it is predicted
The year just closing was one OF
the most disastrous in the history OF
the state in the point of fires. due IL
the fact. it is claimed, that private
! corporations owning timber failed to
assume their responsibilities in con,
nection with fire fightfng and because
|. they engaged inefficient workmen in
/. w. w. members and others.
The state board OF examiners. in
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