The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-04-20
IDAHO AND |DAHOANs


mer Governor James II. Hawley Of
Boise, Monte 3. Gwinn of Boise and |
Major Frank 4. Fem of Kooskia as |
members of the board Of trustees of the |
State Historical society, which MAIN !,
tains at the state capitol the state |
museum and is responsible for pres |
ervation Of Idaho's historical records. |
The Pocatello City council has ap- |
propriated 500 for the defense Of |
Patrolman Monfort on murder |
charge in the forthcoming trial and |
for the care Of his family. Monsoon
claims that he fired at the sidewalk |
and that the bullet gl3n"ed. wOundfng
K. j. Morgan, who later died.
Twin Falls district schools will re-
main open to the end of the term, and
the district will enter next school
year with clean slate, financially, as
the result of verdict expressed by
voters in an election on April g. on
approval of special tax levy for
| these purposes.
An X-ray photograph Of the wound ..
| received by Thomas Shaffer in the
| shoulder during shooting affray at
! HALEY last week shows that the
bullet struck the neck of the shoulder
blade and was broken into three
pieces. which are still embedded in
the shoulder.
| A jury at POcatelo returned a YER
dict in favor of Sophia Without, widow
| Of Henry Without, founder of the Com
nercial Development company. ending
| a six years battle over the legality of
will supposedly made by Without in
favor of Theodore Cattle, his partner.
Four state banks were closed on
ipril 8. They are the State bank of
am;ah in Lewis county; the State
'ank of kooskia, in Idaho county; the
tate bank of Peck. in Nez Perce
county. and the Fidelity State bank
IT Orofino, in Clearwater county.
Enough powder to demolish a 10
tory building is contained in bomb
ound by Nampa police. The bomb
Contained quantity of lydite flakes,
nth a cap of INT, enclosed in a glass
abe three inches long and a quarter
That Idaho is likely to receive the
benefit of the accumulated reclama-
ton funds now in the hands of the
department of the interior. having
,ome from royalties on leased oil
lands. is the opinion of Governor Da-
Wis. now in Wash ngton.
]. C. Jewell, known as the king of
all poachers,' has been arrested for
illegal trapping in the Selway game
preserve by Il representative of the
state game warden, who AYERS that
he travelled 400 miles on foot in order
to get his man.
Application has been made to the
public utilities commission by the
Northern Pacific railroad to discon-
tinue the station at Burke, owing to
the closing down of three large mines,
which used Burke as an ore shipping
point.
Shoshone has decided to grab her
share of baseball honO-s in southern
Idaho this season. The business men
have subscribed to fund, TO be paid
monthly, of sufficient size to insure
the financial backing of the club.
Blackfoot is to try to secure a char
ter and the permit TO install lodge
of ElkS. Although the official census
gives Blackfoot as having 1887, the
city council has decided that Black
foot has more than 5000 people.
Idaho's winter wheat crop promises
to be the largest harvested since 1915
with a total production of approx
mately nine million bushels. This is
one million bushels more than was
harvested last year.
A complaint has been filed in the
Canyon county courts against S. j.
Livesay of Caldwell for exposing for
sale seed of alfalfa which did not
conform to the pure seed requirements
of the state law.
Leroy Baker. received at the peni-
Tertiary ATril Is, 1920, under sen
tence of e ON one to fifteen years
for burglary in Madison county, has
been granted pardon, to take effect
April 10, 1921.
Chester Baker, aged "a, committed
suicide by shooting the top of his head
off with soft-nOsed bullet at the
home of his cousin. ISham Morgan, six
miles from Kendrick. Baker was ar
epileptic.
Kenneth Coates, aged Il. who was
picked up at Pocatelle OH the charge
of vagrancy, being runaway from
. Boise. was committed to the state in
duStrial school at st. Anthony.
Clyde Hansen of Iewisville, who at
!, tempted to hold up the Jefferson State
bank at Menan recently, has been sen
fenced from one to fourteen years il
the state penitentiary.
The Idaho industrial accident board
: placed the maximum compensation fol
F., the loss of the sense of smell at S4S(
in ease which was closed by thu
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