The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-09-05
Short News Notes
From, All Parts of
IDAHO

county oupt. j. L. burgess last
week at Albion State Normal.
Occur D'Alene-More than 25O0
acres were reported to have been
covered by fire near the Magee
ranger station, which was supposed
to have been caused by lightning.
Burley-Warren Cole, II, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Cole, fractured
both of his arms when he fell from
load of hay.
Pocatello.-September % will be an
important date in the history Of To-
cal Shriners, as Idaho Utah, Wyom-
ing, Montana and Nevada will unite
in a ceremonial to be held here at
that time.
Driggs-Teton county is not under
quarantine for smallpox as announc-
ed in published reports but public
meetings have been banned because
of a case Of the disease developing
In a Wyoming community contiguous
to this county.
Idaho Falls-Lionel Edward Grow,
aged %, was committed to the insane
asylum at Blackfoot on an order
signed by Judge Peck of the probate
court.
American Falls-Sheriff George ID.
Hansen returned from Forsythe,
Mont, with Vern Mcbride and James
Doyle, two of the three jail-breakers
who beat Jailer Sailing into subm1s-
mission on July and escaped from
the county Jail.
ocatello.-Deputy Sheriffs l. J.
Moss and Pete Jensen and u federal
prohibition enforcement agent visited
the home of w. r. Kitterman, and
confiscated a copper moonshine still
of forty-gallon capacity.
Shoshone-About 100000 will be
spent in the next two years upon
the thirty-mile road between Lookout
Pass and through to Shoshone in Ida
no, according to the report OF e. Il.
Kidder, senior highway engineer.
Rupert.-The 8 year old son of MIR.
and Mrs. H. A. Clark was badly stung
by bees when he wandered near one
of the hives. The child was found IN
a serious condition.
Boise.-Ernest Calender, IL years
of age, is the first Boise river victim
of the year as the result of drowning
while wading near a sand bar at the
foot of Fourteenth street here.
Boise.-Warren Cron, foreman at
the United States reclamation service
power plant at the diversion dam
near here was electrocuted when his
leg came in contact with a high-ten-
sion lile.
Idaho Falls.-Dr. Adolf Huebscher
of Monroe, Wis, member of the Swiss
consulate, arrived in Idaho Falls
to confer with the Idaho Falls cham
Der of commerce relative to estab-
fishing a Swiss cheese factory here.
Idaho Falls.-Harold valIrath, aged
is, was brought back from Pocatello
by Sheriff Criddle and placed in the
county Jail on a grand larceny charge
Yaulrath is accused of having stolen
n Rold.
Pocatello.-A call for bids III the
construction of the new Idaho Tech
building in this city has been issued
by the state board of education.
Boise-Byron Koch, 81 years Of age.
was drowned in the Payette river at
Hazeltine island, directly above the
function of the Snake river and the
Payette.
Pocatello-A body mutilased To
such an extent that it was hardly
recognizable was found in the middle
of the westbound track on the Oregon
Short Line right of way mile and
half west of the city.
Hailey,-The "Picotte corner" has
lost its historic building, the old home
of the Wood River Times. The build
ing was torn down this week to make
room for a filling station.
Pocatello to Fletcher
Kirkendall, caretaker at the local
tourists motor camp, total of 2ooO
people has visited the Pocatello camp
during July.
Hailey-The Wood River National
Farm Loan association received its
charter this week. with an allotment
OF $4,000 to be placed on farm lands
in this county.
Mountain Home.-John n. Johnson,
70, a pioneer resident of Gilmore coun-
ty, met instant death when he fell
from a load of hay atop a wagon.
Boise.-The season opens August 1 |
most of Idaho on sage |
hens and for one month the hunters |
of Idaho will pursue this game bird.
Boise-Feasibility of constructing a
hydro-electric plant at the Arrowrock
lam to provide power for irrigation
,uuns in the Gem district is being