The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-03-20
IDAHO BUDGET


on passing troop trains.
Fitzpatrick Brothers have just fin
ished harvesting their ice crop at Pr
cabO. They have shipped twenty cars
to various Idaho points.
1t is expected that work will soon
be taken up on the state highway from
the Washington county line to Council.
Another crew will work between Tam
arack and Fruitvale.
Phil Sheridan post. G. A. r., at it's
regular meeting at it's headquarters in
Boise, last week, went on record in
favor of more drastic measures to
stamp out prO-German propaganda and
activities.
The state w. c. T. U. and the State
Congress of Mothers sent telegram
to President Wilson, asking that leni-
ency be extended the four American
boys sentenced to death for sleeping
while on sentry duty in France.
Steps have been taken by the federal
department of justice at Boise to have
Adolph Mayer informed. He is the
alien enemy who left Boomers Ferry to
evade the registration Of alien enemies
border
l. Mrs. Sarah Huntley of Spencer,
whose age was said to be over 100
years, was found dead in her howell by
a party of cowboys. A part Of the
body had been eaten away by the dead
wOman's former pets, a pack of
hounds.
| When the ranch home of Ed Wash
burn, near Emmett, was destroyed by
fire, their 1S-months-Old babe was ia
tally burned and a 2-year-Old child Sc
riOusly burned, the mother sustaining
serious burns in an endeavor to save
her children.
Otto Lofgren, who brought suit to
recover damages in the sum of $1,000
for personal injuries received last July
when a scaffolding on which he was
working collapsed at the postOffice
building at Boise, has been. awarded
$1,000 damages.
Jim Ballard, or Chief Red Shirt, one
of the best known BannOck chiefs, died
recently on his ranch near Ross Fork.
survived by a wife and son. Jim Bal
lard figured prominently in the affairs
of the early days.
| More than $3.50 was collected in the
special tag day drive staged at Cald-
well by the finance committee Of the
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auxiliaries. The business district was
thoroughly canvassed by bevies of
young women of the high school and
the College of Idaho.
The aim of the war savings commit
tee is to get districts in which every
child in the district is member of the
thrift stamp club. and the Sugar-Salem
district has notified the Boise head
quarters that it can qualify. This dis.
trict has 700 pupils, sixteen teachers
and three school buildings.
General Pershing has reported the
death of Alex Trowbridge of Gooding
from the effects of pneumonia. Private
Trowbridge was 20 years old, and was
one of the largest and most powerfully
built men in Company X of the for.
mer Second Idaho, weighing about 22s
pounds and about feet tall.
A judgment given Mark Hindman
against the Oregon Short Line by the
district court in Washington county
was sustained by the state supreme
court last week. Hindman, brought q
damage suit against the railroad and
| recovered because it had failed to keep
up fence along the right-of-way.
The state land board expects to take
formal action on the HOLSTER lands in
Twin Falls county March IS. The
board will vote at that time upon rec
concentrations contained in a report
filed with it by Il. S. Madden. After
examining title to the lands Mr.. Mad
den suggested that certain tracts be
patented.
Suit has been filed by the Pullman
company against the state board OF
equalization to recover on charges that
the members of the state board will
fully and intentionally ignored and dis
regarded the plain terms of the laws
of the state of Idaho and fraudulently
fixed fictitious and speculative
value upon all of the property of the
plaintiff without the state of Idaho as
basis upon which the company was
assessed for taxes.
One hundred and fifty-one dozen
rabbits, enough to fill IL large boxes
We're killed by the Caldwell CONNER.
cial club, in u drive held in the Lake
Lowell vicinity. The carcasses were
disposed of to a Portland firm at the
rate of 81 per dozen, and the proceeds
were given to the Red Cross.
Some weeks ago the telephone com
pany boosted rates at Pocatollo to IS
a charge made in towns having popula
tons ranging from 10000 to $4,000
The business men in Pocatello are
fighting the advance.
More than $4250 has been raised b!
the Northwest Nayarena rolleos