The Meridian times., 1920-08-13
In THE GEM STATE

completed. At its completion the dis
tance between Cabarton and Cascade
will be shortened about three miles.
Because business prevented some
members of the team from deyOting
the time necessary to tut-of-town trips
to the HALEY ball club, that organiza-
ton has disbanded.
U. S. Road Engineer n. l.. Down
ing and Contractor Carlos Gossi were
In Bellevue from the Galena Sum-
NIT road project. They state that the
Wood river side of the Galena Sum-
init road is ready for traffic.
Word was received at Pocatello Sat-
urday of the death by drowning Of
two men, shsepherders in the employ
of Roscoe Rich, In the south fork of
Snake river, near Calamity point, in
the Swan valley section of the country.
Erwin Wyatt was struck and in
stantly killed by l6htning last week
near Caldwell as he was returning
from work In the wheat field of the
ranch owned by Fred Harrington, To-
Gated about three miles from here. He
was "a years Of age.
Louis Bishop, a farmer near Ban
croft, was struck by freight train extra
No. 2510 Tuesday at Blaser and seri-
ously injured, according to word
brought in this morning by Conductor
e. J. Grady, Who was in charge of the
train.
Thirty-seven thousand acres of po-
tatoes planted this year, an increase
of 1000 acres over last year, and with
crop indications 95 per cent of nor
NAL, are the figures issued by Julian
Jacobson, field agent of the Idaho
crop reporting service.
DR.. V. A. Fitzgerald, testifying in
his own behalf in the case in Judge
Reddoch's district court at Boise, in
which the state charges Doctor Fitz-
gerald and DIR. W. A. Myers with re-
ceiving bribes while members of the
state board of dental examiners, de-
MED all charges.
J. A. Ramsay and Frank w. Young,
representatives and operators of the
w. L. Chester Moving Picture COM
pany of Los Angeles, arrived in HALEY
last week and met with NJ. S. Bene-
dict of the forest reserve to make ar
rangements for taking moving pictures
of the Sawtooth mountains.
This year a pest new to this state
has been doing considerable injury to
grain crops, wheat especially, in south
eastern Idaho. 1t was first reported
from the vicinity Of Franklin in Frank
lin county, and subsequent investiga-
tiOn discloses the fact that it occurs
generally throughout Bannock, Frank
lin and Oneida counties.
Idaho alfalfa hay is barred from
Arizona, British Columbia, California,
Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Wash
ington, because Idaho alfalfa is in
fected with alfalfa weevil, according
to notice of state quarantine against
Idaho received by H. A. Lyon, direc-
tor of the bureau of farm markets, de-
par VI agriculture.
Real property assessment rolls filed
at the state auditors office for the
1920 meeting of the state board of
equalization for Ada, jefferson, La
tab and Power counties, place the
reported total valuations for the
counties for 1920 at $29,526,68O for
Ada county, S7,O49,945 for Jefferson
county, $1S05O,23S for Latah county
and $6,35o,942 for Power county.
Some further particulars of the
finding of the body of Joseph Unger
on Float creek in the Seafoam coun-
try have reached HALEY. 1t Is stated
that the sheepherder who discovered
the body was out in quest of range for
the sheep under his charge The body
was found on pile of drift wood at
the edge of the creek, and the cloth
ing was found in a bundle in the brush
nearby.
over $4,000 is said to have been
saved the farmers of Idaho through
supply by the state university of bac-
terlaf cultures for soil innoculation at
small cost. Private concerns, it is
said, charge 81 for enough cultures to
innoeulate one acre; the university.
through its department of bacteri-
elogy, supplies the same quantity for
20 cents. Requests for culture have
come from several distant states,
The state won it's first conviction
IN the dental fraud law, when a Jury
IN the district court at Pocatello re-
turned a verdict of guilty against DIR.
" A. Fitzgerald, northwest manager
at Portland of the Painless Parker
system of dentistry, and DIR. W. A.
Myers, former secretary of the state
dental board, on the charge of con-
spiracy to defraud.
PRESIDENT c. r. Frazier of the Idaho
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