The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01
BUDGET

n hns been decided To huJo"i" w"
Co,lister Literary society until iai'.
balance of S73394.39 remained III
the general fund of the state 're"s s,
March 81. according to report '"e"
NV the state treasurer
Unsolicited purchases or Liper'
honds in north Idaho cities ana towhs
surpass everything in enthusiasm y"
previous issues.
Caldwell public school students anu
their teachers have invested slo'''''"'
t., n,triotic work. according to fgures
announced last week
Nampa bank reported th"' .o'u"
torv subscriptions to the tiiiru A'"''i''
liam nm to the close Of business o'l
the first day of the campaign 'o'''e'
$1S,7OO.
Tho county commissioners OF WASH
ington county voted Unanimously u.
meeting last week to appropriate $-""
for the employment OF a county asr''
cultural agent.
The ranks of ID company, ldaho MT
tional guard, have been depieted Tie
mast week TO the extent of seven mei''-
bers who have enlisted In diilere"'
branches of the army service
Ten supervisors having authority
over the national forests In idaho were
reannointed state fire wardens by the
state land board last week at the re-
ouest of the forest service. They VIII
. serve during the year 1918.
The Loyalty Day celebration at twin
| Falls quite equalled the sangutne nope
of the committee. 1t is believed that
the receipts will be nearly $2OO,OOo' as
n complete canvass was maze OF the
crowd and business district.
| Albert Sickner met with an accident
near Boise that resulted N his death
two hours later, when partly loaded
kiln car tipped over behind where ne
was working in the stacker, plhhlhs
him beneath the boards and crushing
his chest.
l.. Gonzalez met almost instant death
ut the logging camp of the Boise ray
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 II
was cut in two.
H. +. Herd, T. +. Hawkins and
Charles Clifford, alleged INDUSTRIAL
Workers of the World were found
guilty by a jury in district court al
Moscow of criminal syndicalism anC
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. Il
is expected that II large crop can b.
grown, and then the campus will be pu
in blue grass and clover.
James H. Wallis. former state dairy
; foos: and sanitary inspector, has beel
chosen as president of the Utah Pres
association. Mr.. Wallis is now pub
fishing the Vernal, Utah, Express. h
formerly published newspapers
Paris, Rexburg and Preston.
The report that there are numerou
cases of smallpox in Boise is denied
There have been only ID cases all toll
during the whole winter and five O
these were sent to the detention hos
pital. At present there is only on
case of smallpox in the city.
r. +. Bicknell. federal food admir-
istratOr for Idaho, announced last wee
that he had determined to appoint fOu
district food administrators and supel
intendents for Idaho to stimulat
proper planting and advise in matter
of an increased crop production for til
state this year.
Efforts are now being made by I'll
county farm bureaus of eastern Idaf
to stimulate the planting of sugar bee
this spring. The acreage in BOnnevil
county was increased by 1000 acres
n single day last week and the far
bureaus in other counties are just
active among their members.
Mrs. William A. Black, who lost
the probate court at Caldwell WHIT
she contested an alleged holOgraph
will which, her stepson, Bert Blac
and Doyle Fender, her nephew, d
clared had been left by her husban
won on her appeal to the district cou
when the jury brought in verdict 81
ting the will aside.
a Representatives of the gOvernme
have placed orders for nearly 5000 to
ne Of hay to be shipped from Caldwell
It. Kansas City within the next t,
ut months. The Caldwell Traction co
ct pany has placed orders for 1874 ca
nd to be delivered ut the rate of six 2
*. day, to handle the shipments fro
Nv their lines to the Oregon Short Line.
'rt The $500 cash bond of A. L. Carot
10 ter, I. w. w. organizer, charged wi
Gu attempting to influence jury, was
WI dered forfeited by Judge Steele Of I
IT. district court ut Moscow. Carpen
v" was arrested during the term of COZ