The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-04-29
In The GEM STATE

$123,500 were made during the month
of March by the department of public
investments.
George Slinder was arrested at
BlackfOOt on the charge of stealing
two valuable hounds belonging to Dr.
Westhill. SIinder was placed under
bond of $1,000.
The Idaho-Oregon baseball league
has been formed of the clubs from
the towns of Payette, Weiser, Parma
In Idaho, and Huntington, Nyssa and
Vale in Oregon.
The Boise barracks will not be
transferred from the war department
to the treasury department, for the
present at least. according to a letter
from Senator BOrah.
E. NJ. Monfort, former patrolman
at POcatello, who Is charged with the
murder of r. ]. Morgan, was given
preliminary hearing April 20, and
bound over to the district court.
Representative Smiths bill placing
southern Idaho on mountain time has
been referred by the interstate COM
merce committee to the interstate
commerce commission for report
The first step looking to the estab-
lishment of a dairy industry in Bear
Lake county has been taken by the
county farm bureau, which Organiza-
ton is DOW promoting silo construc-
ton.
The siX-rOOm house occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Arnold at POcatellO
was severely damaged by fire as a
result of gasoline explosion. The
furniture in the house was damaged
to the amount of $1,000.
Wage scale for common labor in the
service of Bear Lake county has been
fixed as follows for the present year:
Single-handed, $3.50; man and team,
$3.50; man and three horses, 1928 !;
man and two teams, Sc.
A totally new brand of "hootch,"
but one with an awful "kick," and that
for Is cents, was found at Idaho Falls,
when Chief of Police Carlson found
two men by the river drinking a we'll
known kind of canned heat"
More than half a million dollars is
available for the maintenance of the
extension division of the university
for the 1922 biennium, according
to figures complied since the adj
jOurnment of the legislature on
March ).
An effort is being made among the
stockmen of the Challts and Mackay
vicinity to raise q large sum of money
to attract hunters and trappers to that
territory to rid the section of the many
wolves which are preying ON the live
stock there.
The Idaho senator's National Com
mitteeman John Hart and State Chair
man John Thomas conferred again at
Washington on patronage, but agreed
upon only one appointment, that of
Virgil w. Sans of Pocatello, to be
surveyor general.
Three complete tickets, together
with an independent candidate for
city clerk, were In the running when
of new nominations for Twin Falls
municipal offices to be filled in the
election of April &c.
Pocatello women and the clubs es.
pecially are taking an active interest
at present in the work of Police Ma
iron Ella Wall. There has been a ru,
NOR that the office is to be discontin,
ued, which brought forth a score OF
protests from the women.
Commissions have been forwarded
to William Mccall of Camas, Percy
Jeffrey of Monteview and Roy Brown
| of Hamer, appointed by the governor
as commissioners of the Camas-Monte
view highway district in jefferson
county, organized in February.
Request has been made of the in
| terstate commerce commission by the
| public utilities commission of Idaho
that the reconsignment and diversion
hearing of new schedule of freight
rates be reopened and a date be sci
for taking testimony at Boise.
Moving pictures featuring Clara
Hamon Smith, recently involved In
the murder trial of Jake Hamon, will
not be shown in Idaho, according to
resolutions passed by members of this
Idaho State Exhibitors association
| which met recently at Idaho Falls.
The probate judge at Standpoint dis
missed Sheriff William kirkpatrick
of Bonner county from custody fol
lowing the close of his preliminary
hearing on a charge of having accept
ed a $50 bride from liquor runners
The decision was met with applause
from courtroom spectators.
Idaho sheepmen will be saved thou
sands of dollars this season in ship
ping charges, as result of the redue