The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-01-22
IDAHO BUDGET

.e'urHs or S25,OOO from q shipment of
butter to New York.
Inc news that casual COMPANY No.
ioo, consisting of nearly 20 Idaho boys,
nad reached Newport News from
france, brought holiday cheer to many
Idaho homes.
A Payette commission firm shipped
car OF dressed poultry to Seattle last
week. The load was made up of 5000
pounds OF chickens and the balance in
turkeys and geese.
Ihere is considerable Interest In the
| discovery of u foot vein Of coal on |
| me indian reservation by o. A. KIM |
"ali or Pocatello. A company will be |
organized to mine the coal.
| The local exemption board records |
snow that POI of the Gooding county |
men saw military service. From June |
D. 1917, to September IL, 1918, total
OF 1913 men were registered.
| The Boise Trades and Labor council
mas adopted a resolution placing the
council on record as favoring the for
nation Of League of Nations as an
insurance against another world war.
| A. +. Hanks of Deer Flat broke his
leg above the ankle while loading
sack OF potatoes onto a wagon. AS he
| llfted the sack he twisted his leg in
some way and broke both bones in it.
W. r. Iaryan, who lives a quarter
OF mile west Of Collister station, re-
ports the raising this year of 1900
pounds of Weiser beans on plat of
ground 249 feet long and 81 feet wide.
Patents from the United States gov
eminent for 20, 800 acres of land in the
Twin Falls Oakley project and $4,000
acres in the Twin Falls Salmon river
project were received last week by the
state land department.
Winter wheat acreage in Idaho is
1000 acres compared with 315OOO
acres sown last fall, according to the
December report Of the BlackfOOt Of
flee of the bureau of crop statistics,
United States department of agricul-
ture.
| The reclamation service is planning
to open bids early in January for con-
structiOn of seven miles of canal and
two miles of feeders, being part of
the NOtus canal near Caldwell. The
work involves about 10000 cubic
yards of excavation.
Both the Barber and Emmett mills
Of the Boise-Payette Lumber company
have shut down for repairs and Il gen.
eral cleaning and overhauiing of the
equipment The Emmett mill will re-
sumo activities January Z, and the
Barber mill the last of January.
According to the vote of the emer-
gency board of the Idaho State Fed
GRAFTON of Women's clubs, Miss Helen
Deneke Of Richfieid and Miss Nancy
Watts of Mountain Home will be the
lucky young women to represent the
Idaho club women in the work in the
Through houses overseas.
Miners residing near the old camp
! of Florence report the probable death
of Jerry Seaburg. the sole resident of
| Florence. A few days ago miners dis
covered that Seaburgs cabin had re-
Gently burned TO the ground The old
miner has not been seen nor heard
from since.
Mr. and Mrs. f J. Brummett. who
with Mrs. Brummelf's brother and her
two tiny children. drove from New
Mexico to Boise only to come down
with the Influenza after arriving in
the city, died Saturday of last week,
the mother dying in the morning and
the father in the afternoon.
Since the Idaho state sanitarium at
Nampa opened, June 10, it has received
a total of 81 patients. The first ~
patients were received from the North
Idaho sanitarium, 10 of whom were
males and 10 females. From the Idaho
insane asylum 20 patients were also re-
ceived These were also 10 males and
10 females.
Mrs, Jensina Nelson of Bull, has re-
ceiyed word from the war department
that her grandson, Otto Olson, had been
recently wounded at the front IN
France. A message also has reached
Mr.. and Mrs. W. d. Prentice advising
them that their son, Lester. had been
wounded at the front.
; Postmaster Davis Of Boise. While IN
j. Washington recently, was assured that
II if the site for the establishment OF a
Il postal station on airplane mail service
II would be in direct line, between Salt
n Lake and Seattle, the establishment OF
i n station in Boise would receive IA
u vorabe consideration.
Il Ada county's courthouse has been
condemned by J. X. White. state SAN
\ itary inspector. who states in COM
4 munication to the county commission
ers that the building lis in such con-
,bition as to constitute a public nuisance
! in that it is wholly unsuited for the
un,mose for which it is used"
IL is expected that from 400 to ooo
members of the Western Retail Lum-
hermen,s association, out of total OF
100. will be present at the convention
TO be held at Boise, February 20, Il.
and -.
For the first time since war emer'
gency was declared more than year