The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-07-17
IDAHO BUDGET

successful this year. and local people
have contracted for another in 1919.
The Old Folks party at Rupert was
a great success with over 100 guests
at the noon banquet. An interesting
program followed the banquet.
The Nampa Defense League now has
791 members and has had some ex.
ceedingly important questions of pa
triotism before it In the past three
| months.
| Meridian women formed War Saw
| ings society for the duration of the
war last week. The organization Is
| to be known as the Meridian War Saw
| ings society.
| Five hundred people attended the
Traders Day sale at Caldwell last
week. Fifty head of cattle. 100 hogs
| and miscellaneous goods were sold to
the amount of 5000.
| G. W. Lewis suffered broken rib n
the result Of haying accident On the
Cess ranch near Homedale. He was
struck by a fork handle at a point on
his rib. where II had been fractured
before.
The price of threshing was fixed at
6 cents per bushel for wheat and bar
ley and 5 cents for oats, the farmer TO
furnish coal. at a meeting Of repre-
sentatiyes of farm bureaus, held at
Gooding recently
Herbert E Zumwalt. formerly Of
Mccall and Warren. died in Fran
from wounds. June b. He was a
member of Company n of the Second
Idaho but was transferred to the
Second engineers
]. W. Galloway was appointed by
Governor Alexander as appeal agent
under the draft for Washington coun-
". to succeed G. c. Donart, who was
disqualified because of his being with
the draft age limit
Van ]. Chaplin. who was sem
fenced to term in the Elmore county
Jail. in federal court last fall for
stealing from interstate shipments of
goods at Glenns Ferry was released
from the Mountain Home Jail last
| week
.. The matter of caring for crops WAS
discussed at a meeting of representa-
tives of farm bureaus held at Goodins.
| and it was the sense of the meeting
that an injustice was being done the
farmers of Idaho under the present
rulings of the government.
Mr.. and Mrs l. s Binford- promi-
: nent residents Of Caldwell, were in
\ stantly killed on the Idaho City road
near the Halfway house. when their
car. driven by Mrs Binford, failed to
= respond TO the steering wheel and ran
I'D the side of the hill and turned over
: backward
Byron Defenbach. certified account
!, ant, who has been auditing the treas
ury accounts for Bingham county. has
, found material discrepancies The
= principal shortage, according TO present
indications. seems to have been in 1914.
and amounts TO $4,000. Auditing still
continues
= At least 900 rabbits were killed in
the big drive held at Mora by sports
men from Boise. and the vicinity about
Mora, according TO the estimates made
: when the smoke had cleared away
- from the barrage that was rained in
the rabbit ranks by approximately 80
shooters.
If a bible printed in the year lis
: sold in California recently for $500
would a bible printed in 1906 sell. and
what would be its possible value.
> This is a question Dudley C. Watson
a of Twin Falls is bordering. He has
- the other bible, an edition more than
- 100 years older and in splendid condi
ton.
In Idaho go corporations with in
=, comes amounting TO SSs.si1-So paid
: an income tax of S2125a6. Thirty-twc
= stock raiSers with S2113.3T5 incomes
paid a tax of S13,711. The thirry-eighl
big mining companies. whose income
~ was IS 42i441. paid tax of S5a.osc
- Seventeen lumber companies with So,
24..6S1 incomes paid tax of S1a.197
~ Miss Rugna Sund of Standpoint. who
az has been employed as a stenosraphel
at the state house. received word las
"a week that she had passed the preiim
;, mary examination for the yeomanr,
"A | branch of the navy
a, A meeting was held last SATURDAY,
- at Gocding to discuss the farm labol
"a. problem, which was we'll attended b,
N county agents. farm bureau president
"a and farmers generally from the sectioI
ID west of Pocatcllo and south of th'
mr. Salmon river.
4. An epidemic of bovine tuberculosis
b. has broken out in eastern Idaho, =
f. he result of the shipment into thu
X ection of a carload of infected eattl
/. from Missouri. according to DR.. ]. +
2 Ellis. governemnt specialist in chars
A of cattle tuberculosis prevention.
A municipal corporation canno
- question the right of the state TO ex
Is ercise its police power in the regula
i. ton Of rates for public utilities on IN
r ground that by 50 doing it would in
pair the obligation Of a contract. b.
4 cause in this state no authority exist