The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-01-21
In THE GEM STATE

held three-day convention in Boise
last week.
The sum of $500 was sold in health
seals by Wallace enthusiasts during
the annual sale.
Expenses of the sixteenth session
Of the Idaho legislature will total
more than $4,000.
Fifty carloads Of wheat had been
shipped out of Bull by the idaho
Wheat Growers association up to
January /.
j. M, Imgard is displaying az Sho-
shone specimens of ripe strawberries
gathered from his patch of everbear-
ers January 4.
Judge #. y. Uhrlaub was found dead
in his home on the Sand Springs
ranch near Wendell. Death was due
to natural causes.
An organization has been perfected
in Rupert under the name of Mini
d0ka County Fish & Game association
with a membership of 235.
John Sayer, pioneer of the Upper
Snake River valley, died at his home
in Ririe, after taking poison which he
mistook for Jamaica ginger.
Five hundred thousand acres of arid
land lying between Boise and Noun
tain Home may be thrown open to irr1-
CATION through tunnel from the Stan
ley basin.
John Saumar of near Moscow has
been arrested by deputy of the game
department and fined $35 and COSTS
charged with illegal possession of a
beaver hide.
From reports from Boise, George
Mabey, sheriff of Bannock county and
brother Of Governor Mabey of Utah.
is candidate for the position of Unit
ed States marshal.
The Idaho Irrigation congress
opened in Nampa on January II with
good attendance from all sections of
southern Idaho, and was featured by
an interest which was never before
equaled.
Harry RAIDER, a millwright, was
killed in a flour mill at Moscow by
being caught in a countershaft and
beaten against the floor for several
minutes before the machinery could
be stopped.
Less than eleven hours elapsed
Thursday between the arrest of Henry
Smith, charged with breaking into
jewelry store at Boise, and his SEN
tence of from one to fifteen wears in
the penitentiarv-
A rabbit drive at Picabo recently
resulted in the slaughter of. 5000 of
the animals. Two sides We're chosen
with captain for each, the side kill
ing the fewest rabbits to furnish
free dance and supper. .~
Explanation that he was bearing
sick child to a hospital when he was
arrested at Twin Falls on Christmas
day for speeding has won for J. i.
Tomlinson dismissal of the charge in
police magistrates court.
The secretary of states office did a
thriving business during the last two
years. Articles of Incorporation filed
with the secretary of state brought
in 4S,50910, foreign corporations pay
ing $19,S59.4O during 1920.
Thirteen samples of cider that is
being sold at various stores in Boise
were tested in the office of the state
chemist last week, and showed guam
titles of alcohol varying from slightly
less than 1 per cent to I per cent.
Boise has fewer persons addicted to
the opium habit than most cities OF
its size and fewer than many other !
places in the state, in proportion TO |
its inhabitants, according to Lewis |
William, collector of internal revenue. |
After having been pronounced dead |
by attending physicians the 1-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. William Whi.e |
of Boise was twice revived and re- |
stored to life through the use of the |
lungmotOr belonging to the Boise fire |
Fifteen prisoners of the Idaho state |
were pardoned and three
had their sentences reduced at the
January meeting of the state board of |
pardons and parole. Seventy-three |
applications were before the board for
referendum is being taken by the
Bull Chamber of Commerce on the
question of whether or not the organ
ization should take an active part in
the fight for the division of Twin
Falls county, it being contemplated to
make Bull county out of the west enc
Of Twin Falls county
The crop report on the South Side
Or dumping unit of the SInidoka prof
eet for the year 1920 as compiled by
The local reclamation service shows an
Increase in the total acreage irrfgate,
IN 1920 over 1919 of II33 acres. or