The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-05-28
IDAHO BUDGET

permits.
Report from the Jackson Lake cOun-
try indicate that the snowfall is less
than in recent years in that vicinity.
Barney Camp of Council has been
appointed captain Of the penitentiary
guard, and Louis f. Kennaly, of Idaho
City, has been made clerk of the pen
itentiary.
Payette has entered the field Of as
pirants for the new Odd Fellows home
to be built in Idaho, and have told the
committee to come and pick out loca-
ton and they will get it for them.
Contracts for six months supplies
for the Soldiers Home and the state
penitentiary were distributed among a
number Of firms last week by the state
prison board and the Soldiers Home
board.
Mine managers announce that de-
spite continued drop in lead prices and
uncertainty as to future conditions,
there will be no general suspension of
mining activities in the Occur dAlene
district.
The public utilities commission last
week heard arguments Of the applica.
ton of the Gilmore Copper company,
seeking to have telephone service in
stalled to its mines, and took the mat
ter under Amusement.
The Weiser Valley Cow Testing as
sOciatiOn was organized at Weiser last
week, about thirty-five interested dairy
men being present, who selected Off
GERS and agreed that testing shall be-
gin as soon as the details can be ar
| ranged.
An agreement having been reached,
the action brought by the city OF
HALEY against the HALEY Water COM
pany, charging that the company had
quate fire protection, has been dis
missed.
The Knights of Columbus of Boise
have adopted resolutions favoring the
reclamation of arid lands of southern
Idaho and the logged-over lands Of
northern Idaho as fitting recognition
Of the services of soldiers, sailors and
marines.
The man who recently stole car
in Nampa and sold it In Boise for $3.50
has been apprehended In Baker, Ore.
He gave his name as Anderson, but
has worked under different aliases and
has stolen number of cars in Idaho,
it is believed.
1t is said that in Idaho alone the
railroads in 1917 paid out more than
$4,000 in claims for livestock killed
on the rights of way, and that much
of the damage resulted from the con-
gestiOn of stock in the open places
around small stations.
Members of the Idaho Mining assO-
citation will hold their sixth annual
convention at Boise February II and
II. The speakers and subjects will be
Of much interest to the mining men
of the state, and a record-breaking at
tendance is expected.
Construction on system for water
ing 5000 acres of the Twin Falls West
End project, which was abandoned
several years ago because of lack of
water to supply the proposed area of
more than $4,000 acres, will begin
within a few weeks.
A Boise resident brought to the
Statesman office last week an egg, laid
that day by a Buff Orpington pullet,
which measured 6 3-S inches in circum-
ference on way and Z 3-4 inches the
other way, and when placed on the
scales it weighed exactly a quarter of
II pound.
The attorney general has announced
that the state industrial board or the
insurance manager cannot enforce an
award made to an injured workman.
After an award is made by the board,
it is the business of the person in
whose favor it runs to enforce COM
pliance of the order.
Many members Of the legislature and
a number of state officials, including
Governor ID. w. Davis, X. o. Jones,
secretary of stale; Edward G. Gallet,
state auditor: Roy l.. Black, attorney
general, and Miss Ethel Redtield state
superintendent Of public instruction,
NCIC SuSStS at Tic TIISt NhCtIONiSe
peace conference held at Boise.
Boise firemen are agitating the
passage by the city council of pro-
posed ordinance which will put into
effect the twO-platoOn system of main
tanning the personnel of the fire de
partment, which will enable the men
to have regular hours in the day free
from duty.
Boise citizens believe they have an
opportunity to obtain the proposed Odd
Fellows home for INDECENT Odd Fell
lows, their wives and orphans, since
the Caldwell site selected a number of
years ago, on which many improve
ments have been made, has had to be
abandoned.
Access to all local draft board rec
Ords shall be given to the state council
of defense for its work in preparing
the history of the work done by Idaho
in the war. according to an order is
sued by the provost marshal general
Pensions IF coz n month have haen