The Bingham County news., 1921-08-05
|DAii0 AND |DAHOANS

Mrs. X. l. Perky, one of the prOmin-
ent and public-spirited women of Ida
no, died suddenly at her home in Boise
this week of heart trouble. The fun
eral was held Wednesday from the
family residence. Mrs Perky was the
wife of X. l. Perky, former United
States snator from this state, appoin-
ted by Governor Alexander to the re-
cess interval. following the death Of
Senator James H. Brady She was
chairman of the board Of trustees Of
the Idaho institute for the feeble-mind-
ed at Nampa.
r. B. Ball of Idaho Falls, Edward
and r. B. Hatch Of BlackfoOt narrawly
escaped death recently when they
cooked a batch of biscuits on the
Hatch farm near the pole bridge in
Bingham county, according to wOru
received at POcatello. A pan of -four,
treated with strychinne, had been left
In the cupboard of the house. One OF
the party, unaware that the flour had
been poisoned, made the biscuits. The
two ate several of these before feeling
the effects. BY swallowing raw eggs
and lard they were able to counteracr
the effects of the poison.
In order to prevent wheatfrom burn
ing an excess of irrigation water has
been used on the tracts of the Idaho
Irrigation Company system during the
past few weeks. AS a result there has
been heavy drain on the stored water
in the Magic Reservoir. The storage Is
now down to less than 10000 acre
feet and the canal company is anxious
to conserve as much as possible of this
water over until next season.
The Boise representative of Denny
q Co., fruit buyers of Chicago, COM
pleted plans for purchase, by his COM
pahy, of 100 cars Of Idaho prunes from
the Idaho Evaporatng company, OF
Meridian, it was announced last Thurs
day. This contract, growers say, will
take all the prunes from the orchards
OF 16 growers in the vicinity of Merl-
dian and said to be the largest prune
sale completed in 1921.
The trial of Mrs. Lydia Southland,
Charged with the murder of Edward
f. Meyer, her fourth husband, at Twin
Falls last fall, will begin in the dis
trict court as soon as possible after
the opening of the fall term Of court
on September 12, or about September
rs, Prosecuting Attorney Frank L.
Stephen announced Monday after
conference with Judge W. A. Babcock,
who will preside.
Bannock county has regained $685.
7O975, representing principal and in
terest on money deposited in the Ban
mock National bank, which closed it's
doors May 13, from the Aetna Casual
ty and Insurance company. e l..
Jearney, district representative of the
company, with headquarters in Salt
Lake, arrived in Pocatello Friday ana
delivered the check to County Attorney
l. K. McDougall.
Eight head of thoroughbred Perch
erOn Norman horses, including Sylous,
grand champion stallion of the north
west, were burned to death in the barn
of Il. II. Waltz, which was destroyed
by lightning Monday morning. Mr..
Waltz resides three and half miles
northwest of Filler. His loss totals
$4,000, partly insured.
According to County Auditor G. n.
Burgher, at Rupert the total valuation
OF all taxable real property in MinidO
ka county is $5,1O4,1S9. There are
at $45.6O per acre. The grazing land,
AZ, IT'S acres, is assessed at $3.50 per
acre. Their are 2O83 cattle, 27S5
horses, 2O47 sheep.
Taxable property In Twin Falls
county is valued this year at $343l5,-
600, or $S4S,54650 less than last year,
when valuation tOtaled $50 164, 1860,
exclusive of utilities, according to fig
ures announced by the county auditors
office.
The people of Malad are protesting
against the new mail service which
went into effect Monday. Instead of
two mails. one arriving at IL 30 a. m.
and one at > 80 D. m, and leaving an
hour later, the town receives only one
mail, which arrives at s 30 and is not
distributed until the next morning.
broken derrick pole falling on
Abner b. Wallihan, 30 years old while
at work in the bayfield, on his place
near Declo Friday morning, broke his