The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-01-12
IDAHO AND |OAH0ANS

travel to a hOmesteader'S shack In ShO'
shone basin, rescued Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Gearing and their six children
from threatened starvation.
Forty settlers in Owyhee county
have brought suit agains the tax col
lector of that county, seeking to re-
strain him from collecting taxes on
their property. The men are holders
of Carey act tracts and contend that
their lands are not taxable because
they have not received patents for
them.
Albert II. COnnOr of Standpoint,
speaker of the thirteenth Idaho leg
slature and candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for United States SEN
atOr at the POcatellO convention IL
1920, has been appointed assistant at
tOrney general, to handle the legal at
fairs of the public utilities commits
sion.
The chamber of commerce Of POca
tellO has issued can to all CONNER
cial bodies of Idaho and Utah to ap
peal to the state public utilities com.
missions for consideration of freight
rates on grain in these two states.
The Oregon Short Line has declined
to make any decrease in this cOmmOd-
ity.
An average return from the sale of
milk, butter and cream per COW above
the cost of keeping them, of S73.S3
| was made, according to records on
pa cows in the Cow Testing assOci-
alton at Good.ng. The average gross
| income was placed at $142.35 and the
cost Of keeping was placed at $6S.52.
An investigation committee inquir
| ing into the cause of the death OF
August Schuppenies, a section hand
who was killed at ShOshOne, December
"a, reported that death resulted from
carelessness of the section hand, in
that he failed to take warning Of the
bell Of the approach of train.
SiXty-six head Of purebred Jerseys
were sold at a Foundation Jersey
sale" held recently at Payette. The
highest price paid for Jersey COW
was $605, paid Wy Mr.. Berry of EN-
nett. The animals brought an aver
age price of $21S.55, and the entire
herd sold for $4,000.
Herman Burcher, who is said to
have profited from nefarious money
getting schemes in Pocatello, has been
apprehended in Portland. Burcher,
while in Pocatello, is alleged to have
cashed a number Of forged cashiers
checks on the First National bank of
Park City, Utah.
The POcatellO Rotary club at it's last
meeting unanimously endorsed reso-
luton asking the state legislature to
pass an emergency bill providing for
he pOstpOnement of the collection of
axes for this year on account of the
'tringent financial situation.
A POcatellO dispatch announces that
The way for Governor D. w. Davis to
become secretary CT the interior has
oeen clarified by the withdrawal of
Major Fred r. Reed, managing di-
rector of the Idaho Reclamation assO-
citation, from the race.
The deed for the Payette site of the
south Idaho sanatorium was secured
last week in most enthusiastic meet
ing of the chamber of commerce of
that city, the necessary $4,000 purchase
price of the tract being raised in less
than half an hour.
Shipment Of wheat out of Twin Falls
county by the Idaho Wheat Growers
association, which was discontinued
when the price dropped to $1.3O, was
resumed last week. The association
advancing 81 bushel on all wheat
shipped.
What is thought to be solution of
he alfalfa weevil embargo has been
found in the proposed establishment
in the state of Idaho of three or more
fumigatiOn plants for the treatment of
all hay before shipment.
The Lewiston Gun club has decided
% hold the annual tournament on April
"a, 25 and 20. A feature is to be
tlVe-man team contest from each club.
One hundred dollaps will be offered 70
he winners.
A petition asking the Filler board to
1eclare a paving ordinance providing
for an Improvement district has been
signed by more than 20 per cent of
the resident owners of Main street
property.
Application Of the Standpoint Cham.
Der Of Commerce for an emergency
freight rate on hay from southern
Idaho has been received at the office
Of the public utilities commission.
Crops worth $743,OOO have been
saved from grasshoppers in Idaho in
the last two years, through activity of
the county and state extension
workers
A reduction in wages of 20 per cent
Is announced by the school board To
the men engaged on the construction
Of the high school at Bull.
Eighty carloads of first grade apples
have been shipped out Of Parma by
one firm.