The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-12-12
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

10 county authorities. that she had
been commanded by the Lord to en-
ter upon campaign of destruction,
Mrs. S. Prough set fire to a shed at
4 her home here and endeayored to per-
forts to save the building. Mrs.
Prough was recently discharged from
the state insane asylum.
Wallace, - Twenty-seven non-diy-
idend paying companies in the Os-
burn district Of the Occur d'Alenes
will spend s25s.7OO during the calen-
dar year 1923, according to data COM
piled by Ravenal Macbeth, secretary
of the Idaho Mining association. The
table made public itemizing the ma
ture Of the expenditures is figured on
basis of actual expenditures up to
! October 81 and an estimate for Nov
ember and December.
Weiser,-November 10, George w.
Triplow of this city picked and deliy-
cred four quarts Of ripe, eyerbearing
Strawberries of large size and good
color, from his residence lot in East
Weiser.
Wallace, - Damages aggregating
S74, 077.30 are asked Of the Northern
Pacific railroad company in a suit
filed in the district court for 36 prop
erty owners who lost their holdings at
the time of the fire July 13 which
wiped out the business section of the
town.
Wendall,-The Johnson Thompson
ranch in Wendan shipped 1902
pounds of certified Grimm alfalfa
seed TO Salt Lake short time ago,
the seed having been harvested from
a 22-acre field. The growers claim
record yield in Idaho for this year of
1217 bushels. twenty-five acres
threshed 113 sacks, weighing 1927
pounds per sack. That is q total Of
267.S1 bushels from the % acres
Couer d'Alene,-When the Occur d.
Alene Canning company closes its
season this year, it will have packed
1000 tons of fruit, nearly III Of which
has been grown in the immediate vi
cinity OF Occur d'Alene.
Filer,-N. 3. Keeney & Son have
completed the building OF an addition
to the bean warehouse and mill in the
west part OF the local shipping dis
trict at a cost of $4,000.
te,-Arrangements have been
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Canning company's factory at Cald-
well, to be ready in time for the 1924
crop of corn The plant at Payette
will be continued to its full capacity
tile same as in the past
Kuna.-Kuna claims the largest out
put of any cheese factory in the state
The COOPERATIVE Creamery factory
receives from 10000 to 1900 pounds
of milk a day and 1740 pounds of
cheese is made each day. Big trucks
haul this cheese, which is packed in
55-pound boxes to Meridian. where it
is given the paraffine covering by
being dipped in a vat and placed In
temporary storage on racks to cure
for shipment
Blackfoot,-Prelimi work on
new state highway to connect Black
foot and Arco, will be started shortly |
by Bingham county, it was announc-
ed by W. H. Gregory. director of high |
ways. Mr.. Gregory has just return
ed from eastern Idaho, where he had .
been on highway matters.
Malad. = Idaho stockmen are pre-
pairing for a determined fight against 4
an increase in national forest graz
ing fees proposed by forest officials
at the close of three-day meeting
at Boise.
lad.-Idaho is to have a cooper
alive poultry marketing association,
owned and operated by Idaho people,
for the benefit of the Idaho poultry
producers. The Idaho branch of the
Pacific Cooperative Poultry Producers
has withdrawn from the parent
branch, with headquarters at Port
land. and leaves the Oregon and
branches in that organi-
cation.
Pocatello,-A crew of men. under
the supervision of F. II. Southern and
Earl Evans, of the state highway de-
partment, started this week on the
work of building guard rails on the
outside of the curves at the two rail-
road crossings south of McCammon-
Both crossing are reached just after
curves and have been of
danger TO autoists.
Boise. = William ]. Hall, commits
'ioner of public works has gone to
northern Idaho to let contracts for
several sections of state highway
in that district. Bids for
he construction of portion of the
North Pacific highway between Wal
ace and kellogg will be opened at
Wallace.
Albion. - A Camas county demon