The Idaho potato acreage is placed at 37,000 acres, or a gain of 1000 acres over last year. A year ago, the condition was only 75 per cent of normal and the final outturn amounted to 6,400,000 bushels. The present condition is 96 per cent of normal, forecasting a total crop of 6,186,400 bushels.
Thirty-two seed potato plots have been started, under farm bureau auspices in Cassia county this year, according to F. W. Cater, project leader. The plots have been planted on clean ground, which have not been sown to potatoes for some time. Excursions will frequently be made to these plots to show growers the various conditions under which the potatoes are being raised.
Slayer of Husband Acquitted.
OAKLAND.
Emma Freitas, 22, who shot and killed her husband, Tony Freitas, a prize fighter, was acquitted of a charge of murder by a jury in superior court today. The defense pleaded temporary insanity. Freitas on his deathbed for gave his wife and asked that she be not prosecuted.
Cal.—Mrs. Boy Charged With Slaying.
BUFFALO, N. Y.—Confessions made to the district attorney here today by three boys allege that Norman Kelley, 16 years old, was the slayer of Edward Pokgrant, a boy scout, who was shot dead in the woods near Ebenezer Sunday. 