The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-12-03
Short News Notes
From All Ports of
IDAHO

y" ySoiS VI age, died at tn
Burnley hospital from gunshot wound
inflicted when a shotgun he wa,
carrying on a pillow fell off and die
charged, the shot entering the left
side and pentrating the left lung
Pocatello,-The order of the Ran
mock county board of commissioner
disseminating the farm bureau. mad
October Is, was recinded at racor,t
meeting of the board and the WORT
OF the bureau will be continued The
sum OF $336.39 remains in the farno
boreau budget and the apen+ r.
charge has been instructed to keen
within his appropriation for the re-,
mainder of the year.
Lewiston, = Though Idaho never
has attained any national distinction
because of her fishing industry thn
salmon run this fall in the Snake and
Clearwater rivers, which join here is
meaning many thousands of dollars
IL is estimated that already approx.
mately $4,000 has been realized fror,
the salmon taken from the two
streams
Malad, = The production of Ire.
berg head lettuce in Idaho in 1922
was 1910 cars, which Melted GROW
ers approximately $40 a car profit
according to report recently issned
The total value of the western cro,,
is approximately $2O,0OO,OOO. of which
one-half goes for freight and the
otner half is divided roughly, $3.50.
between grower and shipper.
LEWISTON Contractors on uncom
pieted highway links are doing all
they can in face of the bad weather
conditions to finish their work in al
lotted time, but in many instances II
appears the work must wait mill
spring, according to a report from
=. Oxley, district highway engineer
bolse,-The primary and general
elections in Ada county cost approxi-
nateiy $1,000, according to figures
" the county clerks office, which
that warrants for expen-
es OF the election November are
low ready and may be obtained
Twin Falls,-Five out of eight men
rrested by police when they appear
d IN masks and robes of the Ku KIux
Ian on Twin Falls streets On the
of September 81 last insti-
tied suits in district court here for
amages each against w. T. Leslie
win Falls commissioner of public
nety; T. 0. Herman, chief of
'ilce; Delbert c. Kennison, H. L.
utz and j. H. Bigley, police officers
ID their bondsmen.
Wendall, What is said to be the
rsest parcel post shipment ever
mt from the Wendell postoffice
tt here recently when D. w. Kas-
ms shipped forty sacks of potatoes
his wife at Tindall, Idaho, where
rs. kassens is teaching school.
Ich sack weighed 70 pounds and
total postage on the 30 sacks
IS s3O.34. Tindall is forty miles
I'm the railroad.
Boise, = Idaho's 1926 automobile
slstratlons plates have arrived and
ready for distribution in the of
OF the secretary of state, it has
n announced. The numerals and
ters are black on white field and
plates are a trifle wider and
rter than were the 1924 plates.
lewiston, = The Umatilla Rapids
oclation here passed resolutions
the organization and the
es and towns from Portland to
Vision to program for river dam
struction and river canals between
Cellilo locks and Lewiston.
win Falls,-George H. Ackley, 69,
lager here for the Birdsel Manu-
'uring company for two years
and candidate this year of the
gresslve party for state senator
found dead in his room at
hotel. Death was declared by
slcIans to have been caused by
ma pectoris, aggravated by in
MA, from which Mr.. Ackley Lad
cred for a few days.
lpert,-The beet sugar factory at
closed last week. About 49,
tons of beets wore cut, a much
Ter amount rnan lat year. The
5, however, have been especially
III sugar CONTEXT.
Use, = The sentence of Dave
gland, alleged murderer of W. D.
erson of Valley county has been
nuted to life Imprisonment
= DR.. w. F. Howard,
inent member of the medica'
'ssion in this city, has been elect
serve three-year term as a
Der of the board of governors OF
American College of Surgeons.
election took place at recent
'g of the board OF governors
In New York City.