The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-26
In THE GEM STATE

livestock and farm products were
shipped from Caldwell during the past
month.
Idaho grains are practically up to
their normal weight per measured
Dushel. Last year they were short, be-
cause of prolonged drought.
Boy Scouts were conscripted at
Meridian to aid in the distribution Of
posters advertising the fourth ANIMAL
roll call drive of the Red Cross.
Jesse Mathews, Minidoka county
farmer, has just harvested a yield of
10Y bushels of barley to the acre on
tract of four and One-half acres.
More than $50 delegates are expect
ed to attend the colder boys .. confer.
ence of the Y. NJ. c. A. for southern
Idaho at Twin Falls, November 20 to
%.
In an action filed at Boise, Fred A.
Monske asks judgment in the sum of
$4,000 from Henry Klee, who had him
arrested on charge of disturbing the
peace.
Kid Davis of Salt lake knocked out
Charley Lavatta in the fifth round of
scheduled twelve-round bout at Po-
catello. They are both feather
weights.
Fourteen men were arrested in po-
lice raid at Pocatello. Gambling was
the charge against them and consider
able gambling parapherpalia was taken
in the raid.
One field of ten acres in Canyon
county yielded $685. bushels per acre
OF marketable prOtatoes. These were
sold for seed and averaged close to
$1,000 per acre.
The officers of the Caribou National
forest, located at Montpelier, have
just finished the tabulation of the re-
ceipts for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1920, showing total receipts of
$40, 445.73.
j. 2. Wiedenman, accused of shoot
ing and causing the death of his son-in-
law, Irving E. Kelsey, waived pre-
liminary examination at Twin Falls
and was bound over to the district
court for trial.
The chamber of commerce, Kiwanis
club and the Rotary club of Pocatello
are indorsing the Fall River irrigation
proposal, which is to be resubmitted
in congress by Representative Addi-
son T. Smith.
First place was won by the Uni
versity of Idaho College of Agriculture
team in the student stock judging con-
tests held on the opening day of the
Pacific International LIVESTOCK exposi-
ton at Portland.
Land sales of 600 acres in Caribou
county and 1000 acres in Bingham
county have been completed, and I. N.
Nash, state land commissioner, has
sent in a check for $11, 16677 for the
first payment en- the lands.
Quinter Harris, of Nampa, was ac-
cidentally shot by his brother, a
charge from 20-gauge shotgun tear
ing ragged hole in his. shoulder, some
of the shot striking him in the face.
1t is not believed his injuries will prove
fatal.
Apparently frightened at her at
tempt to commit suicide at a Nampa
hotel, Mrs. Stella Kinney, about 80
years old, telephoned the office and
notified the clerk that she had taken
carbOlic acid and was dying. A physi-
clan was summoned and administered
an antidote.
David SAINT OF Mud Flat was at
tackled by rabid coyote, but was able
to get to his house without being bit
ten. One of the valuable dogs of Mr..
SAINT was bitten and was afterward
shot. The ~oyote was killed and the
head was sent to the state bacteriolo-
gist at Boise.
Tom BOhrman of Jordan valley had
a narrow escape from death when a
over on the top of Poison Creek hill.
The truck turned over three times be-
fore BOhrman was thrown out. He
sustained a disiocated shoulder and
several broken ribs.
e. T. Meredith, secretary of the de-
partment of agriculture, will be I'M
able to visit the state seed show which
opens in Nampa January 10, according
to a wire received from him by the
seed association. The association had
hoped to have the secretary deliver
an address at the show.
A recent reports hows that 1929
Idaho citizens paid individual income
takes for their earnings in 1918, the
incomes taxed amounting to $50,
296, while the tax paid was 81 .493,51S.
The preceding year 16,414 Idaho in
comes, aggregating S46,465,514, were
taxed a total of 1888, 646.
Eugene Gasser, chief of police of
Lewiston, narrowly escaped death
when the police car which he was