The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-03-26
INLAND NORTHWEST


1852 worth of war SAVINGS sto,,
,hroueh the postoffices of the sta
during the month Of February.
twelve and One-half cents nor he.
mas Deen decided upon as the shee
shearing price for 1919 by the wo
growers associations of Nevada, Uta
and Idaho. '''"'
Ihree dozen gamblers are at ubert
under bail, bonds or consoling eac
other in the county Jail as the resul
oI series of raids pulled off 1T Re
Lodge, Mont.
More than 100 educators from al
parts OF Montana and from othe
states assembled at Missoula, Marcel
10 10 attend two weeks convention
u the state school srperintendents.
There was only one death by acct.
deht on the Oregon Short iiael Ill.
. % secorIrng 70 a report inst is.
Led by j. G. Clark, safety first com.
missioner of the railroad.
"ltiiin the past week the returned
Dillon, Mont. soldiers and sailors have
Deen organizing themselves info an
association in order TO Obtain mutual
Dehe1its along various lines, both in a
social and business way.
by vote of eight to four the sen.
ate of the Nevada legislature refused
10 pass resolution indorsing a league
OF nations of which the United States
shall be member" The resolution
was passed by the assembly early in
the session.
The Loyal Legion of Loggers and
Lumbermen originated in the north
west by Colonel Disque in June, 1917,
as war organization to counterfeit
the /. w. w. and Bolshevist trouble
makers, has been reorganized on a
permanent peace basis.
The residence of John Turner, at
Butte. was dynamited. Mr.. Turner
and his family were sleeping on the
north side of the house and escaped
all injury. Neither Mr.. Turner nor
the police have any theory as to why
the house was dynamited.
The act passed by the Nevada legis-
lature dividing the county of Hum
Ooldt and creating the new county of
Pershing. must be referred to the peo-
pie Of Humboldt county for decision
ut the next general election. if the
people of that county demand it. ac-
rording to a general legislative act of
1919.
Thirty minutes before he left for
California to recuperate from Il recent
illness. Mayor Ole Hanson removed
F. NJ. Listman from the Seattle civil
service commission. The mayor said
his reason was the fact that Listman
went on the bond of Walker Smith
recently charged with criminal an
archy.
The epidemic of Influenza visiting
Bozeman, Mont, and vicinity ut this
time, the third wave of the disease
has been light in most instances. bu
the death toll is becoming more ap
parent during the progress of the epi
demic and number of severe case
lave developed into pneumonia AM
have been fatal to the victims.
Evidently being firm in the belle
that Reno will be the scene of TIL
Willard-Dempsey fight, and recallin,
the early days of July. 1910, when i
was impossible to get hotel accommo
dationS in Reno at the time of TIL
Jeffries-Johnson fight. four San Fran
cisco men have already reserved rooms
at a Reno hotel for the day and nigh
Of July 4 next.
During January Vermont led in pc
capita sales of War Savings Stamps
with S1.20 or a total of S43S. 900: Mon
tana with total of $4,000 and 81 o,
per capita was second: Utah with
total of S432 900 and "a per capt.;
was third. Idaho was fifth with ;
per capita of 81. while South Dakota
Oregon and Colorado ranked sixth
seventh and eighth with per capita:
of 81, 10, and -.
The governor of Montana has an
uounced his veto of house hill No. 26
attempting to abolish the game ward
ems and give their work over to III,
Sheriffs. The governor deprecated tn,
proposed law as an extra burden OF
the taxpayers, as not being good GOV
eminent and as actuated by politica
considerations.
That Salt Lake and Utah business
men should raise S5,000,0O0 for thu
construction of railroad line into
Uintah Basin and Willard county t,
develop those StorehouSes Of Ctah's
wealth was the statement made in The
principal address before til" members
# tie Commercial club OF Salt. Lake
one day last week.
Approximately 200 enemy aliens, in
mates of the war prison barracks al
Fort Douglas. will be released within
the next ten days, it is announced by
Il. Nj. Price of the United States bu
eau of investigation.
George A. Crowell. sheriff of Ian
der county, Nevada, and we'll known
in the eastern part of the state, passed
away at Oakland. Cal. after an illness
of several months from lung trouble.
Three banks in Roundup and one IN