The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23
Short News Notes.
From All Parts of
IDAHO

Power companys plant on the north
fork of the Snake river at Ashton. 1t
is claimed that this plant holds a
strategic position in power develop
ment of the upper valley and that II
could be bought for less money than
the enlarging of the present munich
pal plant.
Jordan Valley, - The 10-stamp
quartz mill at Flint is now running
"a hours a day with three shifts and
crushing about 20 tons Of ore. The
ore now being worked is from the old
dump sorted for shipment last spring
and is being cleaned up to make room
for bigger operations soon.
Lewiston,-An emergency rate fol-
the movement of the so carloads OF
bulk apples in the Lewiston ware
house and to apply on all bulk apples
in north Idaho is being urged by
United States Senator F. R. Gooding,
the interstate commerce commission
and the Lewiston Commercial club.
Pocatello,-A. B. Garfield, chief OF
the Pocatello fire department, waS
injured while fighting fire in a three
story frame building and sustaining a
bad break on his right leg above the
ankle.
Nampa,-Livestock breeders and
experts from all over the Pacific
coast and intermountain country were
in attendance at the state meeting OF
| the Idaho Swinegrowers association
which was held in Nampa January
and 3.
Boise,-To plan campaign against
coyotes on the Boise national forest
and other forests in Idaho, members
of the Idaho Wool Growers associa-
ton will meet in Boise January 10.
The coyote is reported to be increas.
ing rapidly and causing much trouble
since the q. S. biological survey with
drew it's trappers.
Boise,-With a crop of 100000
bushels of apples Idaho has made
new production record. December
prices were practically the same as
year ago but total value was S4,200,-
900 against $2,S0S, 900 in 1922. Stocks
in storage would indicate a total
seasonal shipment of $500 cars and
possibility of $500 cars. This would
compare with 1922 cars in 1922 and
$50 in 1921.
Boise, = Justice Charles Mccarthy
of the Idaho supreme court became
supreme justice Of the court January
1920 when the personnel of the court
1920 whe nthe personnel of the court
was increased by constitutional
amendment from three members to
five.
Boise,-Sixty thousand carloads of |
farm produce were shipped out of |
southern Idaho during the fist ten |
months in 1923, according to Joel L. |
Priest general agent of the Oregon
Short Line railroad.
Shoshone,-Frank 7. Disney we'll
known attorney and pioneer resident
of Shoshone, was fatally stricken by
an attack of apoplexy while attending
an observance of st. Johns day held
by the Masonic lodge at Shoshone.
Boise.-Governor Charles c. Moore
has accepted the resignation of J. B.
Burns who has been assistant adult
ant general of the national guard for
the past nine years.
Moscow, = Increase of 631 in the
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last three years is revealed by the
annual holiday check-up on enroll
ment is now 1870, being the total
since the beginning of summer school
last June. The corresponding figure
for the year 1920 was 1899.
Rigby,-A. B. Scott receiver of the
Beet Growers Sugar company of Rig
by, Idaho, has been ordered by Fed
eral Judge f. S. Dietrich to sell the
property at a date to be named later.
Nampa,-Eleven thousand dollars
will be spent by the state highway
department. on reconstructing the
portions of the state highway within
he Nampa highway district as a re-
suit of an offer made by the state
department. to the directors of the
district Thursday afternoon.
Boise. Ida.,-Governor C. c. Moore
las received for the state of Idaho
title to 7,994.41 acres of land in the
Haley land district. This land is
coated in Twin Falls county, south
# Bull. and is the tract on which the
Brooklyn caravaners settled in the
all of 1921.
Boise,-Governor Charles C. Moore
as named Miles S. Johnson of Lewis, !
on as district judge in the Tenth jul
icial district, to take the place re-
emily left vacant by the sudden death
f Judge Wallace Scales of Grange
lille.
American Falls-Acceptance by tbs
ecretary of the interior of recon-
lendations regarding the disposition
power rights in the proposed