The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-13
IDAHO AND |DAHOANS

| he Mesa orchard near Council. Tie
| cable Is SO miles in length and Is
equipped with eighty carriers, each
holding eight boxes. The tramway is
expected to carry this season between
100 and $50 carloads of apples to the
shipping point.
Idaho county officials are consider
ably incensed over the theft by med.
| ical student of the skull of soldier,
a veteran Of the Nez Perc, Indian war,
from its resting place when the skele-
ton of the fighter was exumed recent
| ly by IL steam shovel working on the
north and south highway near White
bird.
W. II. Wickland, who escaped from
the penitentiary at San Quentin, Calf,
and was captured at Idaho Falls, made
an unsuccessful attempt to escape from
the Idaho Falls Jail. When he was
discovered he was saving his way to
freedom, and had sawed one of the
bars nearly through.
The trustees of Rathdrum have de-
cided to have the streets dragged and
the city dam cleaned. The board fixed
the special tax levy at 10 mills, 5 mills
more than last year. The annual ap-
preparation calls for $500 to be raised
by taxation, besides the $3.50 by wa
Ter for this village.
The University of Idaho closed the
first week of its collegiate year with
total enrolment approximately 20
per cent higher than before, and with
freshman class which exceeds by
30 per cent the largest incoming group
of other years.
A fourteen-acre farm about one mile
west Of Idaho Falls was sold last week
for $4,000. or approximately $500 per
acre. In 1905 the fourteen acres was
covered by sagebrush and could have
been obtained for $12 an acre.
F. L. Larson, rancher near Poca-
tello, reported to the sheriff's office
the theft of % sacks of oats from
pile where they were stacked follow
ing threshing. The thieves are said
to have used an automobile.
While playing with a .22-caliber
|
age, was accidentally shot by com
panion, John Mark near Pingree. The
bullet passed through the body, but
his recovery is expected.
B. f. Holt, a business man of Cald-
well, was found dead near LOngmOnt.
Colo, where he had been visiting his
father. At his side was gun. 1t is
supposed that continued i'll health led
to his self-destruction.
The county probation officer has
just completed canvass of the mer-
chants in Pocatello and has instructed
all of them that the selling of cigar
,ttes and tobacco to minors must be
stopped Immediately.
State agricultursts are becoming
alarmed over the amount of livestock
being shipped out of Idaho for winter
ing in states which experience milder
weather. rather than pay unusually
high prices for feed.
The bond election held last week
in Salmon failed by a narrow margin.
The election was called to determine
the purchase of % inches of first right
to the flow of Jesse creek.
The body of f. A. Rector of Oakley,
who was drowned at Murtaugh lake
lille duck shooting his boat capsiz-
ing, has been sent to Walla Walla for
burial.
Recruiting officers at POcatellO re-
port that enlistments the past week
J. have been the heaviest for some time
nine men having enlisted during the
a week.
d Ashton has sold it's waterwOrks
r bonds in the sum of $4,000 to Ben
e well, Phillips & Este of Denver. for
3 par value and accrued interest to date.
The Oregon Short Line station at
: Tetonia, on the Teton branch of the
railroad, was burned last week. Cause
of the fire has not been ascertained.
y The Idaho firefghters held a two
;, day state convention Mt Idaho Falls
4 last week, about fifty firemen being
$ present from all parts of the state.
h Earl Clyde of Moscow and Ardie
s Gustafesen of Sunnyside farm won two
o valuable prizes in the pig club contest
# at the spokane Interstate fair.
4, In Rear Lake county very little
A threshing has been done. 1t is esti-
II mated that it will require six weeks
e time to complete the harvest.
:" At the closing session of the con.
vention of chiropractors, held ut Idaho
l. Falls. the delegates selected Wallace
~ as the 1921 meeting place.
10 Work on the Gooding- Wendell por.
ton of the Gooding- Rupert highway
n will be begun within the next few
v days.
- The Idaho Intermountain Institute
has organized Y. w. c. A. at Weiser
to which sixty girls belong.
IN According to recent computations
le ldaho's wheat crop this year will az.
r. gregate n ,692 900 bushels.