The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-12-10
IDAHOBUDGET

Idaho, through its memorial commit.
tee, has just signed contract with tine
Fairbanks brothers. ]. Leo and Award,
Of Salt Lake, to furnish each Of the
forty-six counties Of the state that
with the requirements of the
state memorial law, a copy Of the fig
ure chosen as the state symbol, and to
advise each county in selecting the
site and setting for the memorial.
Figures gathered in survey Of the
bean industry in Filler, show that
$615, 900 was realized in the Filler
country this season on 5000 acres Of
garden seed beans of 40 varieties,
which produced 100 carloads or over
10000 bags making 125,OO0 bushels or
approximately 100000 pounds of gar
den seed beans.
Investigation is being made as to the
manner in which John e. Bowen met
his death at sheep camp near ShO-
fallen in a fit on a stove. Several
teeth are missing and there is said to
be other evidence that Bowen did not
meet death accidentally.
Orders have been issued at Idaho
Falls that the operation of all punch
boards and slot machines must cease
at once. The chief Of police and the
county attorney have been checking
up the law on the matter and have
announced that the operation Of the
devices in Idaho is illegal.
o. V. Allen, former state treasurer,
who confessed having embezzled state
funds during his term Of office and was
sentenced to from five to ten years
in the penitentiary, has been released
on parole. He has served five years
and a month.
Ten men enlisted in the army from
the Pocatello recruiting office during
the month of November. and this city
is third in points of number of re-
cruits enlisted during the month in
the Utah-Idaho district of the recruit
ng service.
Strong resolutions approving the
stand taken by the American Legion
in its fight against disloyalty and radi-
calism and pledging support to the
World War veterans were passed at q
meeting Of the Nampa post of Il
G. A. r.
The Twin Falls Chamber of Com
merce is cooperating with potato
growers and buyers of the district in
consideration of plans looking toward
he establishment Of a potato flour
mill at a cost of from $4,000 to
$4,000
Making the statement that men high
up in society and church affairs were
knowingly contributing to social evils
in Pocatello, City Attorney B. A.
Cummings severely denounced such Of
tenders in a speech at Y. II. c. A.
meeting.
Because of insufficient appropria.
ton, the duties of the state bureau of
supplies, the states central purchasing
agency, will be absorbed after Janu.
airy l by the office staff of w. ]. Hall
state commissioner of public works.
The state of Idaho has asked the
federal government to remove from
Idaho and deport from the nation ap
proximately half of the 100 l. w. w
suspects who have been arrested in
this state.
The Declo Hot Springs company has
been Incorporated with a capitalization
of $4,000. This company will build
health and pleasure resort six
springs.
The annual farm bureau meeting
will be held in Payette ON December
ID. The bureau has membership
of about $50, and the number will he
increased to probably 500 for the next
year.
Two hundred beangrowers from the
Twin Falls tract met at Filler last
week and perfected temporary or
ganization to be known as the Twin
Falls County Beangrowers' associa.
ton.
Three cents a loaf has been added
to the retail price of bread in Poca-
tello, and hereafter the price will be
Is cents for the former 1O-eent loaf
or two loaves for % cents.
The city of Bull has filed a claim
on the Salmon springs, ON the river
just below the falls, with view OF
supplying the city with pure spring
water.
A compilation Of the bank deposits
and resources Of the five banks of Bon
neville county, all located at Idaho
Falls, shows total of $S,O47, 1885.
Loyal Graham, Of Placerville. may
lose the sight of one eye as the re
suit of chip striking him in the
eye when he was cutting wood.
Approximately 21O,S4O acres of for
est lands will be involved in the pro
posed exchange of lands between the
state and federal government.
The two-story brick school house al
MinidOka was destroyed by fire said
to have started from an overheated
furnace.
H. A. GrOsyenor, charged with sec.