The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-11-25
.DA.l0 NEWS REVIEW

lUhklU MEND nT1AW
CAPITAL stock and surplus of all state
lepositary banks, numbering $50, 10
tal s11, So, G9G.36. according TO GER
LITIGATION made to the state treasurer
oy the director OF tho bureau Of pub
lie accounts.
The fact that TIE farmers OF the
Nampa section are being paid more
han three thousand dollars a day in
ash for their milk products, has slim
Hated interest In other sections both
among the farmers and banking and
business interests.
Births in Idaho were more than three
lines the number of deaths in the same
ime, according to the monthly report
IT the vital statistics section of the de-
,artment Of public welfare. Boys for
he first time in months outnumbered
.irls in the birth rerord by totaling 5o9
Is uBdluSI 100 lOI
Tales of unemployment, woodpiles
ind resultant distress were told the
ity fathers of Boise at council meet
ng by E. L. Mcbride, self-termel "vag-
ant" when he presented petition,
signed by 100 jobless men, requesting
,ome solution to the problem of the
unemployed.
Maximn,o Silva, 35, shot and in
,tanly killed his brother, Antonio, at
Nampa recently. The shooting was
the termination of long standing diff
ference between the two, sum OF
money owel and the alleged threaten
ing Of Mrs. NJ. Silva by Antonio, be-
ing causes. -.
The State of Idaho now owns for
asted area (including barren or graz.
ng lands, young timber growth and
merchantable timber within such area)
If 723,Oo acres. OF this acreage there
s about $4,000 acres in northern Ida
40 and about 1900 acres In southern
idaho.
| Bosses poor and unemployed got a
real treat just because baker left out
the salt in stirring up a batch OF 1oVJ
toaves Of bread. Half of the batch was
cent to the city welfare director and the
rest to the Salvation Army. The sup.
ply was quickly disposed of, some
mothers carrying home to their fam.
lilies as many as eight loaves.
The dairy survey being made by Be,
ii. Bussman, secretary of the Chamber
Of Commerce, is bringing in a great
many requests for more cows from tbs
farmers and dairymen of the communi
ty. This information is being received
through the questieunaires mailed GU
4 TO farmers and left at cream station!
and the cheese factory for the farmers
to fill out.
An organized ring of drug peddlers
has been broken up by the police a
Pocatello. The raids were conducted
with the utmost secrecy until all O
the gang had been taken. Several hun
dred dollars worth of morphine, co
caine and opium have been seized, a
well as the paraphernalia for smokini
and using various drugs.
| Hugh Sproat, president of the Idah
Woolgrowers' association, returne
from Washington, d. c., where he wen
In the interest of a permanent TART
ON wool, declared the growers are sal
lsfied with the emergency tariff, as
provides rore protection on wool tina
they had ever hoped for. The duty O
wool in the grease is Is cents a pount
and 45 cents on secured wool.
+. s. Moore of the Emmett fores
office denounees as untrue and ridicu
aus the stories going the rounds cor
serning the burning of hay and home
belonging to squatters in Bear vale,
n the Payette forest. Two huts tha
nad ksen deserted and were practica
y worthless as places of habitatiol
Ind were a menace to the surroundin
imber were burned by order of til
'orest service.
A committee has been formed at r,
tert to launch an organization to fur
sh credit for farmers, to buy dair
vows through the war finance cornor,