The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-12-06
Pthy News Notes
From All Parts OF
IDAHO

HANGED by the installation OF q new
auxiliary pump, which will augment
the water pressure and aid materially
In fighting fires.
Pocatello.-Feeder sheep by thous'
ands are going into the North Side
Twin Falls tract along the Snake rlV'
er. It is estimated that between 2OO,-
600 and 25O,OOO will be fed in that
section. The annual winter bands that
are fed in that district will bring the
total up to more than half million
sheep.
King Hill.-The Oregon Short Line
railroad has commenced work on I'M
proving the section between King Hill
and Reverse. A second track is be-
ing built between these two points and
the road changed between Hammett
and Reverse, it Is announced.
Blackfoot.-The Farm Bureau re-
ports a shortage of labor to harvest
the potato crop In Bingham county,
and appeals sent out to adjoining
counties reveal the same condition.
The condition will be relieved in a
measure when, by special arrange
ment with the school board Of Black
foot, number of students will be
released from their studies to help
on the farms.
Observation-Disclosures shipments from
Idaho have reached the peak and an
average of 40 cars is being shipped
daily. Up until recently shipments
have been averaging about 20 cars
daily. Few prunes are now going
through.
Boise.-R. H. Smith, former Cassia
county sheriff, was found guilty Of
Mann act violation by jury in fed
eral court Friday after trial before
Federal Judge F. S. Dietrich.
Pocatello.-A case of importance to
he whole northwest involving thous-
ands of dollars in freight on which
refund is asked, and of still more I'M
portance for its bearing on future
shipments, will be heard in Weiser
in the near future, before Exam ner
Cassidy of the interstate commerce
commission.
Pocatello.-Allen Baugh, %, en-
ployed as a car checker by the Short
Line, was seriously injured as the re.
suit of being caught between the
couplings of two freight cars while at
work In the local railroad yards.
| Pocatello.-Bear Lake voters will de.
eide November Z, whether Paris is to
remain the county seat, or whether it
will be removed to Montpelier. A pc.
tition carrying the signatures of three.
fifths Of the qualified voters of the
Bear Lake county was presented to
District Judge J. Bailey Lee and the
court issued the order calling for the
! election.
Boise.-The Idaho State Pharmaceu.
ticol association will hold its sixteenth
annual convention in October. 1t is
expected that delegates from all sec.
tons of the state will be in attend.
ance.
Malad.-Representative meeting of
farmers from the Snake river valley,
including Grandview. Hagerman val.
ley, Gooding, Mountain Home, King
Hill, Paradise valley and other sections
was held at Mountain Home for the
purpose Of discussing the price Of al
falfa hay.
| Pocatello.-Work Is progressing sat
isfactorily on road projects in Idaho,
according to c. w. Cross, chief loca.
tor of the U. s. Bureau of public
roads who inspected the work done
on the Warren road, Cascade Knox
and the Knox Yellowpine road.
Pocatello.-One hundred and fifty.
three coyotes one gray wolf, two
stock-killing bears and two bobcats
were killed in Idaho by ten federal
hunters in one month.
Pocatello.-There is scarcity q,
labor In the western and central part
OF the state according to word re.
ceived by the chamber of commerce
Twin Falls-Twin Falls was chosen
as the 1923 meeting place for the com.
ing year, at the second annual reunion
at Burley Of the Seventy Miners.
Boise.--One hundred twenty.three
carloads of potatoes have been shipped
from the ho-Oregon sections. as
compared with 90 cars shipped the
same date in 1921 and 80 cars Skinned
in 1920. according to a report issued
by the United States department O,
agriculture.
Boise.-Exhlbitions from the various
departments Of the University of Ida
no proved feature of the annua
Idaho state fair.
Moscow.-The superiority of won en-
rs college students la apain horne o,,