The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-03-19
IDAHO BUDGET

cember 30, and student activities have
taken on new life.
Fire resulting from what Is said to
have been an Overheated stove totally
DESTROYED the twO-stOry. nine-roOn
home of Mrs. Margaret Blair, at Boise.
The Caldwell Pet Rabbit and Stock
show was a decided success and had
far more entries of high-chiss stock
th"u tho heads Of the show had hoped
for.
Oregon carried Off the silver cup
offered by the Western Dairy lnstruc-
tors association for the state exhibit
ting the i've highest scoring entries In
the butter department.
Frank McCarrol. Bosses champion
bulldogger AID wrestler of ability ana
class, will meet young" NOrbeck,
champion wrestler of Canada, in a two
out of three falls match ut Boise, Feb
ruary II.
This has been good winter for
putting up natural ice, but none was
put up in Boise for commercial use,
according to local dealers. The rea-
son for this is that there is no good
ice pond there.
In a report put out for the infOrma-
ton Of the Idaho stOckmen 1t Is shown
that the average number of govern
ment hunters employed in the state
during the year was about 30 and that
the total expense incurred was $751;
1851.
February "a is the date set by the
state land board for hearing protests
against the estimate of the Idaho IT.
rigation company of $32, $50 for main
tenance expenses for the Big Wood
River Reservoir & Canal company this
season.
Following preliminary hearing at
Boise, Billy Hang and Charley Hong,
Chinese, were held for trial. They are
accused of having assaulted and rob-
bed Wong Hong, Chinaman from
Cascade, the sum taken said to be little
over 5000.
o. H. Barber, who has been an Ida
no resident since 1890, and Judge
in 1877, will be the contestants in a
rabbit shoot which is to cost the loser
banquet. Both sportsmen are resi-
dents of American Falls.
The value of the gold, silver. copper,
lead and zinc mined in Idaho in 1918,
according to the estimate Of c. N. Ger
! nv of the United States geological sur.
vey, department Of the interior, was
about $3S,14OOOO, a decided decrease
Of $16,7OO,OOO from the value in 1917.
Silver badges and certificates OF
honorable discharge from the service
of the committee on public information
have been mailed from the office OF
| Harvey Alfred, state farm markets
director to all county, city and Local
chairmen of fOur-minute men in the
| state.
A prominet real estate man in look.
| ing over the records of 1918 in tfle ab-
stracts, took the trouble to segregate
the number of homes sold in Boise
during the year and found that they
numbered trifle more than 100 and
the aggregate price was more than
$25OOOO.
That Canyon county is destined to
be a great purebred stock country and
iHat the stockmen of that section are
ling to pay fancy prices for stock
shown at Caldwell when 5i head
shorthorn cattle were sold at auc-
for 81 900, an average Of SOL. 90
the "a head.
he jury, after being out less than
hours, brought in a verdict Of &c..
in the case of Arthur o. Ross and
en- Ross against the Boise Railway
pany, the case being the result OF
rect car striking the Ross autOmO
killing the young son of the
ses.
Dads from Roberts to the Montana
and from Grangeville to Kooskia
been designated as state
ways by the highway commission
Grangeville-KoOskia road, wher
pleted, will connect the north ant
h highway with the Lewis ant
TX highway.
wing to the Seattle strike, the
lOle BannOck county contingent Of
oilers will not arrive in a body, n!
first anticipated, as rehabilitation
ceased at the Washington canton
It. Some Of the boys are coming
be most every day, however.
meeting of the Lemhi Business
IS association; resolution wa
Eed and ordered forwarded to tn
hi delegation in the state legisla
3, favOrng the inclusion of tn,
simaroi valley in Lemhi county
region Is now partly in I'emhi an,
fly in Custer county.
n memorial to her service men Il
world war, Twin Falls county vii
rove tract of 24O acres ut She
ne Falls, set aside in 1909 rs
park, will erect monument beai
the names of everyone mustere
the service from this county an