The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-07-15
IDAHO STATE news

painting in the art exhibit in Salt
Lake recently.
Robert o. Jones, secretary OF state,
and Paul Davis, director of the bureau
Of license, left Boise Friday morning
with the automobile caravan TO at
tend the state convention of the Auto
mobile association at Occur d'Alene.
The second section Of the Montpe-
Iteration road win be impossible un.
til further notice. The contractors
have begun work in Snow Slide and
the road will be torn up to such an
extent rs to be impossible except to
the lightest traffic.
A wholesale jail-break, plans for
which prisoners of the county Jail at
PocateIlo had pondered on for several
days, was frustrated about o'clock
last evening when officers discovered
that a section of the steel flooring in
the large cage had been removed.
The ten-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Nick Nicholson of Kuna was
shot and instantly killed Saturday af-
ternoon by her 7-year-old brother
through the accidental discharge of q
% calibre rifle. The shooting occur
red on the family ranch, nine miles
southwest of Kuna.
Unless people more generally lay In
their coal there will be the worst coal
shortage in Idaho next winter in the
history of the state and the price Of
coal will soar to unheard of prices.
That is the opinion of capable author
tiles who have made close investi-
gation of the subject.
Actual construction Of the central
heating plant and heating system at
the idaho Technical institute at Poca.
tello was started Wednesday by crew
of 10 men. An appropriation of $45,.
600 was made at the last legislature
for this system. The system will be
ready for use this fall.
In order to relieve the unemploy-
ment situation, Mayor Ralph Lewis OF
Idaho Falls is splitting up the work OF
the several city departments in order
that as many men as possible may be
employed. Some men are given work
for several days, then other men are
put in to take their places.
Funeral services for c. V. Whallon,
90 years of age, former Nampa super
intendent of the water works, who was
killed last Tuesday in a sewer cave-in
on Seventh avenue south, were held
Friday afternoon at the Church of the
Brethren of which he had been a mem
Der. The Rev. ]. GraybiTl OBLIGATED.
Dave Burrell, who succeeded P. L.
Neil as commissioner OF the state de.
partment of public welfare July l, was
in his office for The first time Tues
day. He has just returned from an
inspection tour of the state asylum for
the insane at OrOfino. T. L. Neil re-
signed to re-enter the pOStOfEice SER
vice at Seattle.
Cash and Liberty bonds reported to
be worth about $1,000 were stolen from
the Firth, Ida, First National bank,
over the weekend, it was discovered
Tuesday by the cashier after he re-
turned from vacation trip. The bur-
glars broke into nearby section
house and got tools to break into the
vault, leaving the tools in the bank.
Volara ROmanza Nelson, the first
woman to obtain a pilots certificate
from the Aero club of America, met
death Saturday, in an automobile acct
dent at North Platte, Neb., according
to word received Sunday by her father.
William Fl. Mayes of Eagle. Mrs. Mel
son was an Idaho woman, having lived
N Boise and Rupert. No details
the accident were received.
During the storm of Tuesday nigh
the stretch of country between Buh
and the cheese factory was visited by
Il heavy rainfall which left the coun
try flooded for a distance. 1t is un
derstoOd the fruit crops, grain and
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and Twin Falls the wind storm wa
so terrific that trees were uprooted and
business property damaged.
Knives made into saws and blanket
wound into ropes were the evtden
means of the wholesale delivery of til.
county Jail prisoners at Pocatello OF
the evening Of July 4. A section o,
steel flooring in a large cage had ais
been removed. Eight prisoners ar
supposed to be involved, but the OFF
GERS had news of the matter two day.
before. The attempted break was cas-
lily frustrated. IT,.
During the present week the Lincolr
Highway garage received an Interest
ing letter from Magel brothers of Twill
Falls, which strongly urges the re