The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-03-04
In THE GEM STATE

members.
Five or six carloads Of hay are NOV
ing out of Caldwell daily at prices
ranging from $40 TO S13 ton.
Caldwell expects again to be the site
of the southwestern Idaho high school
basketball tournament, to be held early
In March.
A rabbit killing contest between
two teams Mt Pfcabo closed recently
during which nearly $4,000 Of the ami
mails were slaughtered.
Tom Takakahashi, japanese trusty,
who escaped from the penitentiary,
was captured by deputy sheriff at
Huntington, Ore, and returned to
Boise. 81.
Dan Young, retired farmer, was
found dead in his home at Salmon.
Date of his death is coniectural,
though he had probably been dead two
or three days.
University of Idaho students have
been offered an opportunity by the
Italy American society to enter an
essay writing contest with a trip to
Italy as prize.
The senate has agreed to Senator
Borah's amendment to the agricultural
bill, appropriating $4,000 to erect neces-
sary buildings at the sheep experiment
station near Dubois.
Thomas r. Hamer, former congress-
man from Idaho, is the leading candi-
date for diplomatic representative to
Panama, according to news received
from Representative Addison T. Smith.
Committees raised $1,000 to be used
as temporary loan in keeping teach
ers in the Twin Falls schools. A ques-
tionnaire shows that $4,000 must be
paid the teachers between now and
April /.
A series of three community fairs
will be held in Blaine county next
September-Sne at Bellevue, one at
Carey and one at Gannett. The fair
will be of but one days duration in
each place
Securities held by the department
of public investments are valued al
S13, 1854, S53.32, according TO a report
made by B. E. Hyatt, acting chief ex-
aminer of the department Of finance,
| after an examination.
| The board of education has decided
to submit to the voters of Shoshone
| $4,000 bond proposition, partly for
taking up bonds soon coming due and
partly for building gymnasium and
some additional school rooms.
X. Henry (Tud) Kent's team of
thoroug' bred dogs won the Ashton dog
classic at Ashton. Kent's team COW
cred the distance of approximately
twenty-five miles in two hours, one
minute and forty-eight seconds.
On January l, 1921, Idaho had a
total of 3,79S, 400 head of all classes
of livestock on farms. This is re-
duction of 367,3 300 head, or SO per
cent from January L. 1920, when the
livestock population was 4,165, 700.
The Albion normal school would be
moved to Burley, Cassia county,
by the provisions of bill introduced
in the senate. Funds for the erection
of the buildings would be provided by
levying a Il mill assessment against
property of the state. -.
Though Idaho counties reported a
total of nearly eight million dollars in
outstanding bonds in 1919. Latah
county, first of the A counties to file
its 1920 report, informed the state de-
partment of finance that it has no out
standing bonds at all.
Statewide organization and rejuven-
alton of the Democratic party in Idaho
for the purpose of capturing congress
sion9l, state, legislative and county
offices, was inaugurated in Boise last
week at a meeting of the leading
Democrats of the state.
Frank Sikkerman, aged 40 years,
was instantly killed last week. and Al,
bert Olson, aged 80, probably was
fatally injured by a premature blast
on the 200-foot level of the Hercules
mine at Burke. Sikkerman's head was
literally torn to pieces and death was
instantaneous.
A federal inspection of all the cav.
airy troops in the Idaho national
guard will be held during the month
of March. The inspection is an an,
nual one and will include only those
organizations which were recognized
by the government previous to Janu'
I airy l, 1921.
\ Charging that he is incapacitated
for any but "the lightest forms OF
work" as the result of an alleged &C.
cident in the Boise-Payette Lumber
company's sawmill September IL, 1920
Frank Cherry has filed suit at Boise
against that company in which he
seeks to collect $4,000.
Idaho's livestock population is less