The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-03-16
IDAHO AND |DAHOANS

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graph company in regard to it's protest ]
now pending before the court as to
paying taxes for the year. The com.
pany claims that it Is being Overtaxed |
with % per cent payment of the |
taxes by this company until the court |
settles the matter.
According to J. Vining Taylor, Sec
rotary of the National Hay associa. |
tion. who is in Idaho at this time at
the invitation of the agricultural de- |
partment of the state to inspect hay
conditions and to make recommends
tons, plugging system Of inspection
Is to be carried out at the two termi-
nal points, POcatellO and Weiser
| Representatives of the governor are
Investigating circumstances surround.
ing the case of Melvin Petit, whose
sentence to serve a term in the state
prison upon conviction Of a statutory
offense was lately sustained by the
supreme court. Protests against a re-
prieve granted by the governor occa-
stoned the special investigation.
A survey of the broom corn crop re-
naming unmarketed at Bull is being
made by the chamber of commerce
with view of providing a market for
the product. Broom corn has been
raised by several farmers experiment.
ally there for several years and a
portion of it manufactured into
brOOms.
The city of Montpelier took import
ant steps looking to more substantial
and permanent civic improvements at
the meeting of the city council last
week, when the old wooden structures
on Main and Tenth streets were con-
demned and the owners given thirty
days in which to remove them.
Mrs. c. Anderson was seriously
burned at her home in Pocatello when
lighted match set fire to the bed.
Mrs. Anderson had lighted the match
to observe the time, when it fell into
the clothing. She was badly burned
about the hands and face.
The county assessors, at their meet
ing at Boise last week provided for the
introduction of several measures in
the legislature which, if passed, will
have a substantial effect on the stat
utes relative to taxes and tax collec'
tons.
H. B. McCollum was shot and killed
at Twin Falls by Ed L. Slagle, when
at the outset of poker game, Slagle
ordered the players to throw up theil
hands. Upon their taking his demand
as joke. Slagle is then said to have
shot.
Organization of the Southern Idaho
Bean Growers association and adop
ton of the marketing plans of thu
Wheat Growers association in dispos
, ing of product, was effected at meet
] ing of about 80 growers at Twin Falls
Fire of mysterious origin in tn
boiler room Of the Bull flour and fee
mill caused loss of probably NOR
{ than 100000. With the exception o
) IL portion of the warehouse and the OF
: flee, the entire building is in ruins.
A railroad has been constructed t
. the phosphate beds eight miles fror
I Soda Springs and soon it is expecte
D shipment of the crude phosphate roc
a will begin. The rock is to be crushe
and sold to farmers for fertilizer.
Senator Gooding has called on tn
secretary of agriculture and chief TO
ester and urged that stockmen usin
b the national forest range be not n
D quired to pay the 1921 grazing fee III
til August l.
!. The demand for hay in the Rupel
: section is increasing. The price
. from $40 to 5000. on board car
+ There is small demand for potatoe
!. at from 55 cents to 60 cents per hui
3 dred pounds.
= The Oregon Short Line has al
nounced the purchase of fifty acre
north of the state highway north {
PocateHo for the immediate erectiO
of a $2T5,OOO Understanding plant b
the railroad.
The Bannock county commissioner
ure authority for the statement thu
ont of the total of $685., 900 taxes du
for the first half of the year, approx
n,ately $63OOOO has been collected.
The city of Bull is made defendal
in suit brought by Lester Allen, pr
:. prietor of a local pool hall. who We
=, recently refused license to continr
in the pool hall business.
If The preliminary estimate of Il
d highway engineers for highway wol
"a in Bannock county for the comir
=, year is given at $S25,OOO, includir
n state and federal aid.
II Luther Kirk has been held for tri
sr 1t Rupert, on the charge of murde
x Kirk is charged with firing the sho
3 which caused the death Of ]. l. Me
rill. The shooting took place o
tober 16.
1t is announced that McCammon ar
Franklin high schools Nave bee
authorized to open courses in aut