The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-07-10
IDAHO BUDGET

Owing TO the press Of spring work
It has been decided to adjourn the
Collister Literary society until fall.
A balance of $73,394.39 remained In
the general fund of the state treasury
March 81. according to Il report filed
by the state treasurer.
Unsolicited purchases of Liberty
bonds in north Idaho cities and towns
surpass everything in enthusiasm on
previous issues.
Caldwell public school students and
their teachers have invested $lO,975.3:.:.
in patriotic work, according to figures
announced last week.
A Nampa bank reported that volun-
tary subscriptions to the third Liberty
loan up to the close of business on
the first day of the campaign totaled
$1S,7OO.
The county commissioners of Wash
ingtOn county voted unanimously Mt
meeting last week to appropriate $1,000
cultural agent.
The ranks of D company, Idaho ma
tiOnal guard, have been depleted the
past week to the extent of seven men,
bers who have enlisted in different
branches of the army service.
Ten supervisors having authority
over the national forests in Idaho were
reappointed state fire wardens by the
state land board last week at the re-
quest of the forest service. They will
serve during the year 1918.
The Loyalty Day celebration at Twin
Falls quite equalled the sanguine hope
Of the committee. 1t is believed that
the receipts will be nearly $500 900, as
complete canvass was made Of the
crowd and business district.
Albert Sickner met with an accident
near Boise that resulted IN his death
two hours later, when Il partly loaded
kiln car tipped over behind where he
was working in the stacker, pinning
him beneath the boards and crushing
his chest.
L. Gonzalez met almost instant death
at the logging camp Of the Boise Pay
cite company near Centerville, when
he was crushed by an immense log
Gonzalez was saving the log on hill
side and it rolled upon him when 1t
was cut in two.
H. f. Herd, 4. Il. Hawkins and
Charles Clifford, alleged Industrial
Workers Of the World, were found
guilty by a jury IN district court at
Moscow of criminal syndicalism and
sentenced to prison, the terms ranging
from four to ten years.
The faculty of the College of Idaho,
at Caldwell, is planning to use the cam
pus as a war garden again this year.
The crop this year is to be wheat. It
is expected that large crop can be
grown, and then the campus will be put
in blue grass and clover.
James H. Wallis, former state dairy,
foo,! and sanitary inspector, has been
chosen as president of the Utah Press
association. Mr. Wallis is now pub
fishing the Vernal, Utah, Express. He
formerly published newspapers at
Paris, Rexburg and Preston.
The report that there are numerous
cases of smallpox in Boise is denied.
There have been only 10 cases all told
during the whole winter and five Of
these were sent to the detention hos
pital. At present there is only one
case of smallpox in the city.
r. f. Bicknell. federal food admin
istratOr for Idaho, announced last week
that he had determined to appoint four
district food administrators and SUPER
intendents for Idaho to stimulate
proper planting and advise in matters
of an increased crop production for the
state this year.
Efforts are now being made by the |
county farm bureaus of eastern Idaho |
to stimulate the planting of sugar beets
this spring. The acreage in Bonneville
county was increased by 1000 acres in
single day last week and the farm
bureaus in other counties are Just as |
active among their members.
Mrs. William A. Black, who lost in
the probate court at Caldwell when
she contested an alleged Photographic |
VIII which, her stepson, Bert Black, |
ana Doyle Fender, her nephew, de-
clared had been left by her husband
won on her appeal to the district court
when the jury brought in verdict set
ting the will aside.
Representatives of the government
have placed orders for nearly 5000 tons |
OF hay to be shipped from Caldwell to |
Kansas City within the next two
months. The Caldwell Traction com.
pany has placed orders for 1884 cars.
to be delivered at the rate of six Der
day, to handle the shipments from
their lines to the Oregon Short Line.
The $500 cash bond of A. L. Caroen.
ter, l. w. w. organizer, charged with
attempting to influence jury, was or.
dered forfeited by Judge Steele of the
district court Mt Moscow C,rnor. |