The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-03-23
IDAHO AND |DAHOANS.

| carrying q cargo OF mOOnShine whisky
from the railroad station to police
headquarters after he had made an
interesting fight for several men who
were endeavOring to get the intC.-i-
Gated Indian to take the same journey
SpOrtsmen of Salmon have recently
been catching salmon trout in the Sal
mon river. These are game fish and
IL sometimes takes fifteen minutes to
lind one. The sport is Il little risky,
as the fisherman stands on the shore
Ice along the river while playing his
catch, and Is likely to get an icy bath
ut any moment.
More than 100000 bushel, of wheat
have been shipped out of Twin Falls
county under the agreement arranged
for by members of the Idaho Wheat
| Growers association, whereby they
have been permitted to ship their
wheat to n milling concern in Ogden
and receive an advance Of 81 bushel.
That some definite policy should be
adopted for the inspection of meat in
Idaho Falls is the consensus of Opin-
ion Of the sanitation and health COM
mittee and prominent business men.
Large quantities of diseased meat,
particularly fowls have been found on
sale in this community.
AS the result of a resolution passed
by the city council, the Idaho Falls
branch of the American Legion will
be given suitable quarters in the pres
ent courthouse, which will be occu-
pied by the city as soon as the county
officials move out.
| New problems which are coming I'D
In the engineering world were dis
cussed by the members of the Idaho
Falls chapter of the American Asso-
citation of Engineers at it's regular
monthly meeting at Idaho Falls last
Saturday.
Through the cooperation Of the
WOman's club, the Junior Red Cross
| and the school board, domestic science
| equipment has been installed in the
East Side school Of Salmon, and hot
lunches are served each day to the
pupils.
The old Rupert hotel building, built
| twelve years ago, which was burned
to the ground last week, rendered
| destitute Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Pratt
and family Of nine children, aged
from ten days old baby to a boy
of II.
There will be few changes in Idaho's
| automobile law. This seems to be the
general sentiment among automobile
| men and is the position taken by Sec
rotary of State r. o. Jones, who is
state law commissioner.
Midyear examinations for pupils in
Bonneville county who have failed to
pass former examinations or who wish
to finish the eighth grade in the mid
die of the school year will be held Jan
uary 10, 20 and p.
The time of the rate convention to
be held in Boise, under the auspices of
the Boise Chamber of Commerce, has
been set forward a week, and the ses-
sion will be held January 81 instead
of on January 20.
Representatives of agricultural and
commercial industries at conference
in POcatellO last week said that 1854
carloads of farm produce yet remain
to be shipped to eastern markets from
the 1920 crops.
A candy sale by the girls in the do
mastic science class at the Bull high
school netted $14. This money is to be
applied on the purchase of equipment
and supplies needed by the depart
ment.
In a police roundup at Pocatello,
seven lOafers around pool halls who
had no visible means of support were
given flOatef SEM .nces by the police
court and oruered to leave immedi-
ately.
The Spencer hospital has filed artl-
cles of incorporation at the office of
the county clerk at Idaho Falls. The
company will begin business with
capital stock of $4,000.
The resolution passed by the citi.
zens of Idaho Falls regarding reduc-
ton of freight rates has been Endorsed
by the members of the Retail Mer-
chants association.
In Bear Lake county the snow
ranges from four inches in the valleys
to twenty inches on the hilltops, while
1t gets as deep as three and half
feet on the peaks.
Complaints of the manner in which
railroads of northern Idaho handle
less than carload lots of fruit have
reached the public utilities commits
sion.
Daniel Artla of EfackfOot was
robbed Of 1925 at Salt Lake by
negro man and woman who held him
up at the point of gun.
Smaller shipments of fruit, grain,
livestock and hay. and many reduc-
tions in prices are reported the past
week for southern Idaho.
Charged with burglarizing the home
of Myers Cohn at> Arimo. w. A.
Hughes has been held to the district