The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-01-19
IDAHO AND |OAHOANS

A jury at Twin Falls returned q yer.
dict declaring DIR. H. w. Sawyer,
Osteopath, guilty Of performing ma
jOr surgical operation without being
scribed in such cases. The action 10
regarded as a test suit as regards the
rights of osteopaths to perform surgi-
cal operations.
Payette county, through the coop
Grafton of the farm bureau, co-opera-
tive creamery, banks and the Payette
Jersey Purchasing association, has
just brought in and sold at auction 50
head Of registered Jerseys from the
state Of Washington. The animals
brought $4,000, or an average Of
$218.50 each.
When c. A. Jeffries and Hazel Gill,
both Of jerome, appeared at the
county clerks office at Pocatello and
asked for license to wed, they were
taken into custody by the sheriff's
office upon advices from Jerome.
They were clippers from that town and
the girl is said to be only II years of
age.
Pests fought by the Elmore county
farm bureau last year were English
sparrows, magpies, ground squirrels,
pocket gophers, rock chucks and grass
hoppers. Savings of crops worth
$7791 resulted from the ground squir-
rel campaign and one man saved $1,000
by the destruction of rock chucks.
Bannock county will not be divided
by the next legislature. according to
the Bannock county Republican cen
trail committee and other party work
ers, assembled in "get together"
meeting at Pocatelio.
For the purpose of determining If
an adjustment of freight rates can be
made to permit the movement to east
ern markets of many millions Of bush
els of wheat and potatoes from Idaho
and northern Utah, a conference will
be held at Pocatellu.
Fight fans of Pocatello are disgust
ed with the last performance before
the Gate City Athletic club, and will
ask the state athletic commission to
compel boxers to put on better per-
Torrance in future, under penalty OF
being barred.
Robert Bell, state mine inspector
announces that Idaho may have a
| mine research station established by
the federal government at Montpelier
| for the study of the economic avail
| ability of fertilizer deposits in that
vicinity.
Charles P. Seymour was burned tC
| death and r. H. Mulvihill, overcome
| by smoke, was rescued in an uncon
| scious condition in a fire that de
| stroyed the packing house of Van Hos
sen & Seymour at Mesa, in Adams
| county.
A new department has been added
to the public library at Pocatello
known as the "Children's department.
Miss Ruth Hughes of the Carnegie
| library school of Pittsburg will arrive
January Is to take charge.
| George F. Isaacs, fish commissions
i of Idaho, is making arrangements fOl
a survey of the state with a view tt
finding the best places for propa gat
ing landlocked salmon which are be
ing received from the east.
| That the Boy Scout organization il
Idaho Falls should have charter from
the national organization, was TIT
| oopoanc,1c Of or1iuion ar y,,aatinp n
the members of the council expressed
at a meeting last week.
| A Russian sheepherder was brough
into Jerome by the sheriff on com
| plant OF re ldents at the Andy New
man ranch, has been adjudged insane
and is now in the asylum.
| A fine of 500 and costs was imposed
| upon B. Goldberg, proprietary medi
cine vendor, who was convicted a
Twin Falls of practicing medicine
without state license.
Three hundred bushels of grain wa!
destroyed by sparks from a threshin:
machine for George Trantman, nea
Grangerville. He also lost two stack:
| which were burned.
| Organization of a cherry growers
association is considered by the Gen
county farm bureau the outstanding
feature of its horticultural program
for the year just past.
The farmers in the Dixon and Lat
erai Eight districts are buSily engaged
in building phone line into their sec
ton of the segregation.
The county commissioners Of Madi
son county have made an appropria
ton of $4,000 toward the erection of &
soldiers memorial.
John Wilson and Susie Morrise!
were arrested on a charge of boot
Logging" at the home of the woman IL
Idaho Fails.
The annual meeting Of the Stat'
Grange of Idaho will occur in Elder
January II to 20.
State land sales during the month
of November amounted to $237, AZ
The conventions of the Idaho chap
ter of the American Association of En-