The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-03-05
IDAHO BUDGET

III S@o,OOO, Is the latest new industry
to be attracted to Nampa.
A baseball league composed of teams
representing Boise, Weiser, Nampa,
Caldwell, Wilder and Emmett is being
organized.
The POcatellO Commercial club. at
It's annual meeting, went on record as
being opposed to any county division
OF Bannock during this term OF the
legislature.
Action which will mean irrigation Of
SOOO acres Of the abandoned Twin
Falls West End project may be taken
by the state land board if contract
terms can be agreed upon.
Boise barracks as an aeroplane sta
ton for forest service patrol work is
practically assured, according to Ho-
mer Fem, chief of grazing for the
Ogden national forest district.
Fire fighting associations will need
So5,OOO for their operations in north
Idaho during the next biennium, C. 81.
Francher, representatives Of four as.
sOciatiOns, has informed the state land
board
Station employees of the Oregon
Short Line in Boise. Nampa and Cald-
well have been added to the roll of
organized railway workers by the for
nation Of a local union of the Order
of Railway Clerks.
The Idaho State Butter & Cheese
Makers association held it's annual
meeting at Nampa last week with an
attendance of twenty butter makers,
cheese makers and managers from diff
ferent parts of the state.
Cecil Peckham of Wilder recently
shipped 23,516 pounds of Golden Ban
tam sweet corn to Iowa, for which he
received cents per pound at the sta
ton at Wilder This corn was grown
on nine acres of ground.
The Gooding county labor bureau for
returning soldiers and sailors has
placed about fifteen men during the
past two weeks and it now looks as
though they would be able to place
many more in the near future.
Idaho offices of the national food
administration at Boise sold it's furni-
ture at public auction January q to
the highest bidders. This furniture is
what has been used by the Idaho Of
flee for the conduct of it's business.
The planting of Liberty grove"
containing a tree for each University
of Idaho student who has given his
life in the war, is the proposal of
Dean F. G. Miller of the school Of
forestry of the University of Idaho ut
Moscow.
mot guilty" was the verdict brought
in by the jury at Nampa which tried
DIR. Allen Mills, chirOpractor, on a
charge of practicing medicine without
license. The verdict was returned
within Is minutes after the jury left
the courtroom.
Winter wheat in northern Idaho is
in exceptionally good condition, but
residents of that section fear the dan
ger that might result from heavy
frost, according to r. J. Leth, field
agrOnOmist of the University of Idaho
extension department.
In total value of livestock on farms
in Idaho, as compared with last year,
horses. decreased $978,OO0; mules de-
creased $4,000; mich cows increased
$1,224, 900; other cattle increased $4,-
$4,000; sheep decreased 1913, 600
and swine decreased $SS,0OO.
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by the state land board to select ap-
praisers to reappraise $4,000 acres of
state land in Madison county for re-
sale, the land having been previously
offered at sale which was cancelled
by the former state land board.
Il. w. Simpkins of Nampa, who re-
ported that his car had been stolen
January II by one Anderson whom he
commissioned to drive it over to Boise
to have it Overhauled, went to Boise
last week and found his car, an auto
dealer having purchased it from An
dersOn.
Idaho county assessors have decided
that cattle valuations will remain
much the same as last year, mich
cows will rank from $40 to $45, COM
mon cattle at $50, yearlings at SIS and
grade bulls and beef cattle at $50.
Horses and sheep will be assessed at
a lower valuation than last year.
The Twin Falls County Bar associa-
ton meeting at Twin Falls adopted
resolutions regarding the discontinue
ance of supreme court terms at Poca-
tellO and Occur dAlene, and approx
ing bills now in the legislature to Gre
ate new judicial districts, one of which
would divide the Fourth district, in
which Twin Falls county is included,
into two districts.
Claims by the Idaho Federation of
Labor in communication to the leg
islature that injustices had been done
mine workers in the Occur d'Alenes by
the operators in refusing to refund
payments on Liberty Bonds after the
men had been laid off, are denied by
the mine owners.
Some idea of the immense amount