The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-05-10
Pihy News Notes
From, All Ports Of
IDAHO

| Twin FallA-ConstructiOn by the
Idaho Central Railroad company
o. railroad between Twin Falls and
| Webs, Nevada, will in no wise be at.
| fected by the tragic death at San
francisco Of tie company's president,
George L. Davis, according to a te,e.
gram received by N. s. Wright, Sec
rotary of the Twin Falls Chamber of
Commerce, from Joseph L. Stewart.
secretary OF the railroad company.
Aackay.-Guilty Of murder in the
first degree. with q Recommendation
tor life imprisonment. was the verdict
Thursday Of the jury in the case q
David Breyer, confessed slayer Of o..
car Taylor. The jury was out three
hours AID forty-five minutes. follow
Ing week spent ON the case. .Judss
Adair Of the Sixth judicial district
pronounced sente1ce.
Pocatello.-Captain Legion Worth.
ley, the regular army officer detailed
TO Idaho az instructor, after an IN.
spection of the units at Pocatello has
gone 20 American Falls. Captain
Worthley will take over the property
Of the American Falls company Of u
fantry which has been disbanded BY
orders from the adjutant generals Of.
flee and the property will be shipped
to tho Pocatello and Gooding units Of
the national guard.
Afbion.-L. q. Jewell. professor n
science; Stanley Werner and Sharon
Albertson. students in the Albion Nor
NAL, were badly burned in the chemis.
try laboratory when a test tube ex-
ploded containing sulphuric acid, Do
tassium psrmaoganate and iron I'll.
i1gs.
Idaho Falls.--Prospecrs for a big
wheat crop in the upper Snake river
valley Of Idaho are the best in years.
Is the statement made by J. w. Hays,
large operator OF wheat ranches, who
has over 300 acres IN wheat this
year.
Nampa.- approximately 1900 acres
of lands within the corporate limits
OF the city will be permitted to with
draw therefrom under the decision of
Judge E. L. Bryan Of the district court
who sat here recently. The hear
ing was On petition under detach-
ment proceedings instituted by sever
al scores Of individual owners.
Boise.-As the result of a threa-
tened protest to the issuance Of per.
mission by the interstate commerce
commission for the construction Of the
7.5-mile Homedale branch into tho
Gem Irrigation district, the Oregon
Short Line Railroad company has
called off its engineers, who were stalk
in gthe proposed line over the right
of way. This announcement was made
Wednesday by George E. Erb, presi-
dent Of the public utilities commits
sion.
Boise. G. Fralick, Idaho commits
sioner of finance, has permanently re-
voked the permit of the Security
Home Builders association, a TEXAS
corporation, which has been doing
business in Idaho as a loan company
for the past few weeks. The commits
sioner asked that the permit issued by
him be surrendered together with all
agents licenses issued to representa-.
mi
was the result of an investigation in
stituted some weeks ago by the Boise
Ad club.
Boise.-Two new park sites have
been presented the city and accepted
by the council which agreed to cOntin.
uous maintenance. The first 10 Is
acres located in what is known az
Hull's gulch. The presentation was
offered by the Boise Artesian Water
company, which has been improving
the site for years. The second il
a portion Of what is known as the
triangle" in Boise barracks, which
the war department has consented to
permit the city to use.
st. AnthOny.-It is reported that
Captain Henry Guleke had reached
Lewiston. Idaho, in 3OOmile trip By
boat through the cascades and rapids
OF the treacherous Salmon river In
his first journey this season from Sal.
man City. This picturesque yet dan
gerous trip is made through the fam
GUS canyon of the Salmon river and
through the center Of the stage, a
region uninhabited except by the trap
per and the prospector. Captain Gul.
exc reports that on Monday, within
a few hours he saw 362 deer and sew.
eral mountain sheep and goats. Big
game was seen all along the Salmon
river, and one deer seen had evident.
" escaped from activity as q pet, for
he had bell on his neck.
Idaho Falls-Guy Carl Nelson and his
brother Clyde Z. Nelson were found
guilty Of first degree murder by .
jury for the killing of s. A. Brown
ing. local grocer. Nov. %. 1921, while
holding up the store. The jury made
no recommendation fc- icciency.
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