The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-01-08
IDAHO BUDGET

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butter to New York.
ne news that casual company No. /
ioo, consisting of nearly 40 Idaho boys,
hau reached Newport News from
france, brought holiday cheer to many
Idaho homes.
A Payette commission firm Skinned
a car of dressed poultry TO Seattle last
"eeh' Inc load was made up of 5000
pounds Of chickens and the balance in
turkeys and geese.
1here is considerable interest in the
discovery of II foot vein of coal on
'he indian reservation by o, A, KIM
pall or Pocatello. A company will be
organized to mine the coal
Inc local exemption board records
snow that POI of the Gooding county
men saw military service From June
D. l9l', TO September IL, 1915 a total
OF 1919 men were registered.
HE Boise Trades and Labor council
has adopted 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 a
sack OF potatoes onto wagon. AS he
lifted the sack he twisted his leg in
some way and broke both bones in it.
W. r. Yaryan, who lives quarter
of mile west of COllister station re-
ports the raising this year of 1900
pounds of Weser beans on a plat Of
ground 249 feet long and 81 feet wide.
Patents from the United States gov
eminent for 2O,5OO acres of land in the
Twin Falls Oakley project and $4,000
acres in the Twin Falls Salmon river
project We're received last week by the
state land department.
Winter wheat acreage in Idaho is
1891 900 acres compared with $4,000
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 md
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 a gen.
eral cleaning and overhauling 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 Richfield and Miss Nancy
Watts of Mountain Home will be the
lucky young women to represent the
Idaho club women in the work in the
furlough 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 Seaburg's 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. Brummetts 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, ii has received
Il total of Ga 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-
ceiyed. These We're also 10 males and
10 females.
Mrs. Jens.na Nelson of Buhl has re-
ceived word from the war department
that her grandson. Otto Olson, had beer
recently wounded at the front III
France. A message also has reached
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Prentice advising
. them that their son, Lester, had beer
, wounded at the front.
Postmaster Davis of Boise, While IN
, Washington recently, was assured tha'
if the site for the establishment OF a
postal station on airplane mail service
, would be in direct line, between Salt
Lake and Seattle, the establishment OF
station in Boise would receive IA
vOrable consideration.
Ada county's courthouse has been
condemned by J. X. White, state san
itary inspector who states in COM
mun;cation to the county commisslon-
ers that the building lis in such a con
, lition as to constitute public nuisance
J in that it is wholly unsuited Tor the
PURPOSE for which it is used
I 1t is expected that from 4oO TO ON
members of the Western Retail Lum
bermen's association. out of total OF
1900. will be present at the convention
TO be held at Boise, February ~, Il
and ID
For the first time since war emer
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