The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-08-06
IDAHO BUDGET

found.
A Salt Lake motor company has
been awarded the contract for furnish
ing the city of Bull with modern fire.
fighting apparatus, including chem.
zeal engine, ladder and hose.
Anna, the 1S-months. old child of Mr..
and Mrs. George Kreps, living abou.
four miles west of Rupert, while play.
ing near the house last week fell into
an irrigation ditch and was drowned
before assistance could reach her.
Choose between your cat and the
health of your child, is the selection
urged upon IdahOans in statement
which has just been issued by J. Il.
White, state commissioner of public
welfare.
Gooding has been placed on the new
Roosevelt highway, being laid out
across the state. This highway will
cross southern Idaho and will follow
the Oregon Short Line until it reaches
American Falls.
The baseball germ is getting firm
hold on fans of the national game in
all corners of BannOck county, and
the latest town to come to the fore
with team is Grace, one of the live
spots of the southeastern part of the
county.
The threshermen of GoOding county
have formed an organization known
as the GOOding County Threshermen's
association. The purpose of the Or
ganizatiOn is to divide territory, save
overlapping, establish uniform prices
and to facilitate efficiency in the
handling of the crops in GOoding
county.
Authorization was received by Of
ficers of the Farmers and Merchants
from the comptroller of currency at
Washington of the increase in the cap
ital stock and surplus of the institu-
ton from 100000 to $4,000. The in
crease went into effect Immediately
upon receipt Of the authorization.
That fall plowed land in southern
Idaho is probably better producer Of
corn and small grains than spring
plOwed land Is indicated from progress
reports of a series of such experiments
conducted here and in other southern
Idaho counties by E. B. Hitchcock, soil
specialist with the University of Idaho
extension department.
| Approximately One-fOurth of the
total number of inmates in the Idaho
State penitentiary have made applica-
ton for either parole or pardon. This
unprecedented number of requests, to-
falling fifty-twO, will be submitted for
consideration to the pardon board this
week. There are 21S prisoners in the
institute.
A committee Of fifteen thresher-
men, farmers and labOrers, following
the recommendation of q meeting of
seventy-five delegates in the farm
bureau office here, has fixed the fol-
lowing scale Of prices for threshing
In Twin Falls county this season:
Wheat u cents, barley 6 cents, oats 5
cents. The charge for threshing
where straw burning machines are
used Is l cent bushel higher. A
charge of 81 per hour will be made
where wages cannot be made threshing
by the bushel. The farmer is to fur
nish coal and board the men employed
with the machine.
In cleaning up various odd parcels
OF land scattered over the state, the
state board Of land commissioners
have announced sale of state land in
BannOck county near POcatellO, COM
prising fifteen-sixteenths of section.
The land is divided into fifteen parcels
OF forty acres each, and six of these
tracts are improved to the extent Of
from $50 to $3.50. This land is in
section 16, and the plan Of sale pro-
vides for the payment of cash for the
improvements, plus 10 per cent Of the
purchase price of the land, and forty
years time Is granted for the payment
of the balance.
United States Marshal Leroy C.
Jones of the federal Jurisdiction for
Idaho has been served with demand
by the state of Idaho to make good q
shortage Of $4,000, together with in.
terest and penalties, alleged to exist
IN the state fish and game department
and credited and created in the state
fish and game department while he
(Jones) was game warden for Idaho
according to dispatches.
The crop and weather report issued
by the bureau of estimates for the de-
partment Of agriculture last weel
gives comprehensive summary of the
crop conditions in the state of Idaho
. ut the present time. The report state,
that fine growing weather prevailed
out that the long draught was un
broken and that in dry-farm section!
crops continue to deteriorate.
r Calls for aid from Idaho to extin
1 gu1sh forest fires raging in the almos
inaccessible country in the vicinity O
yellow Pine resulted last week in tn,
dispatch of another party of firefight
= ers from the headquarters Of the fiel,
service of the general land office, a
the direction of Ralnh & Kally Of Sal