The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-01-28
In THE GEM STATE


Idaho Shorthand Reporters assocfa-
ton.
Idaho's electoral vote for Harding
and Coolidge was delivered to
Vice President Marshall. on January
is by Lieutenant Harry o. McDougRll,
the state messenger.
Earl yenable Of Payette, who re-
Gently resigned the position of private
secretary to Senator Borah, probably
will join the White House staff after
March 4, it is announced.
Petitions have been received by the
public utilities commission from the
Washington Water Power company tor
permission to construct power lines to
tie city limits of st. Maries.
A. A. Amos, former member of the
BOISE police force, who was implicated
in the robbery of three Cinnamon
about midnight of December q, plead
I'd guilty at Boise last week
Dog race enthusiasts met at Ashton
last week and perfected their organ
ization to handle the big annual race
which will take place this year Feb
ruary p, Washington's birthday.
Arrangements have been made be-
tween the Bull independent highway
district and the county assessor for
the collection of automobile licenses in
and around Bull for the assessors.
Don Stevens, Spaniard, was shot
through the leg, three miles west of
Shelley, and Jesus Pieras, Mexican,
Is in the Bingham county Jail, sus-
pected of having done the shooting.
A third trial in the case of III. F.
Ramseyer, charged with murder in
connection with the fatal shooting of
j. r. Abel, neighbor, in a contro-
versy over ditch water rights, is being
held at Twin Falls. "
The federal power commission Has
issued advertisements announcing the
| application of the Idaho Power COM
pany of Boise or permits to build
power projects at Twin Falls and on
Upper Salmon falls.
by providing for state inspection of
hay leaving the state, Idaho is taking
| q further step toward a perfect pro-
duction than any state in the Union"
says J. Vining Taylor, secretary of the
National Hay association.
| Lyndon G.. Dell, a railroad man in
| the employ of the Oregon Short Line
| in Nampa, committed suicide at his
residence by shooting himself through
the right temple with revolver.
| There iS M Epop,p raaSop For. +bo al
There were A, 1876 acres in potatoes
in Idaho in 1919, as compared with
2s,341 acres in 1909, representing an
increase of 52.4 per cent. The aver
age yield in 1919 was 1859 bushels
per acre, as against 1862 bushels in
1909.
| General denial is entered to the
claim that the increase in the freight
rates from 1918 to the present time is
| costing Idaho growers and shippers
$26000,00o annually by Joel L. Priest,
general agent for the Oregon Short
| Line.
A pamphlet is being prepared which
| Will show that the work of the Uni
versity of Idaho extension division, in
cooperation with the county farm
bureaus, has added $6,716,0O0 to the
profits of Idaho agriculture in the last
two years. .
Citizens of Twin Rails on January
16 paid tribute to the memory of
Michael Bishop, a member of the IA
nous ''lost battalion" whose body was
the first of an American service man
who died in France to be returned to
Twin Falls.
The city of Pocatello is being sued
by Mrs. Muir and A. Muir. Mrs. Muir
some time ago fell into a ditch, al
legged to have been dug and not prop
erly protected by the city. She al
leges that she has suffered a physical
breakdown since the accident.
The capture of Louis Gong, former
gardener of Boise, in Seattle last week,
on the charge of selling a Chinese girl
into slavery, was brought about by
Miss Mu, Chinese welfare worker
who visited Boise a few weeks ago to
look into the. particulars of the case.
The Idaho Sons of the American
Revolution have finally announced the
award of the medal given in northern
Idaho for the best historical essay
This year the theme was "The Land
ing of the Pilgrims" Miss Rita Taylor
of the Wallace high school was award,
ed the special Tiffany design medal.
The Idaho Assessors association
completed its annual convention al
Boise, January 10. Resolutions were
passed urging the secretary of state
as head of the department of law en-
forcement, to call on sheriffs of the
various counties to properly perform
their duties. The Macarthur bill pend