The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-01-07
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senator from Idaho on January Ii by
appointment of Governor Davis.
The sixth annual convention Of the
Idaho Cattle and Horse Growers as
ISOLATION will be held at Boise ON
January and 3.
Applications for renewals of leases
on state lands are being received in
increasingly large numbers, according
to /. Fl. Nash, state land commissioner.
Raymond Owens of Boise has been
appointed judge of the Third judicial
district, to succeed Judge Charles Z.
Mccarthy, who was elected to the SUI
preme court for a four-year term.
Idaho's dairy industry in all it's as
poets will be discussed at the tenth
annual conference of agricultural and
engineering interests, to be held at
Nampa, the week of January 10 to IA.
Three men paid a total of $50 in
fines, besides costs, in police court at
Bull because they found leaky place
in Bulbs lid" and, after partaking of
the forbidden drink, fell into the hands
Of the police.
Dan Redheart, an Indian, was mis-
taken for a deer and shot by James
Moore while the latter was hunting
On Elk creek, about fifteen miles above
Ahsahka. Redheart died as a result
of the wound.
The completion of the Bonneville
county courthouse at Idaho Falls is
all but accomplished. The treasurer,
assessor, recorder and county clerk
will move their offices into the new
building January 9.
1t is estimated that a million tons
of hay will be moved out of Idaho
during the next few months, as the
result of the order of the interstate
commerce commission reducing the
freight rates thereon.
The Commercial & Savings bank of
Mountain Home, which was closed
September 81 by order of the state,
will pay it's depositors in full, accord
ing to statement issued by John G.
Fralick, state bank commissioner.
The state educational institutions
will spend total of $500, 4S7 98 dur
ing the biennium of 1922 if appro-
priations which they are asking for
their budgets go through the legis-
lature.
Verlyn, son of Clyde Horn, of Arena,
met with a serious accident last week
when he fell ON pitchfork while feed
ing the stock. He was rushed to
Caldwell hospital, where he underwent
an operation. An intestine had been
punctured.
Large numbers of unemployed men
have gathered in Lewiston. The prob
lem of taking care of them is diff
cult one, as there is little demand for
labor. Many skilled workmen are I'M
employed, as the building season has
virtually closed.
Another movement is on foot by
the citizens of the southeastern Dor
ton of Jefferson county for the an
nexation of the northeastern part of
Bonneville, Antelope, Swan Valley,
Erwin, Grand Valley and Mud Springs,
according TO report.
Marvin Monroe, "A, son of DR.. James
Monroe, Bull, and a Rhodes scholar
ship man, has been taken by his father
to the state mental hospital at Black
foot for treatment for acute dementia,
caused by shellshock suffered during
service in France in October, 1918.
The sheep industry in Idaho is just
about where it was numerically ten
years ago, according to figures an
nounced by the census bureau. When
census was taken last January the bu-
reau found 2,35627O sheep on farms
and ranches of Idaho as against 2,11O,-
$50 ten years ago.
The University of Idaho is this Win
ter providing profitable employment
for the spare time of the farm bby
in the form of the opening of the
second term of the school of practical
agricu ture on January 8. The term
will run for the ten weeks of the slack
winter season on the farms.
The Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
is communicating with Bull, Twin
Falls and other commercial bodies
along the Twin Falls railroad branch
as to lettering the railroad facilities
in that direction. While before the
round trip could be made in one day,
now it takes two from POcatello.
Crops worth S3,461 1899 were saved
from destruction by ground squirrels
in 1919 and 1920, through the rodent
control work of the extension division,
in cooperation with the federal gov
eminent, counties and farm bureaus,
says statement from the office of
the extension division, based on the
biennial report of Director L. w. Flu
harty.
Reports from the Magic dam show