The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-03-26
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

Mackay - Thirty thousand poundi
of transformers and % miles OF cop
per wire have recently arrived at the
freight depot in this city for the pow
er plant that is being installed at the
Livingston mines on Railroad ridge
The equipment is being taken to the
property by q fleet of trucks.
Twin Falls,-Plans have been made
for the state declamatory contest to
be held in Boise the second week in
April. District contests in each OF
the seven districts of the state will
be held the last week in March and
subdivision on March 10.
Hailey,-Lack of snow and the ex-
ceedingly mild weather has caused
the HALEY chamber of commerce
committee in charge of the win
ter sports carnival to abandon the
project this year. Next winter the
committee plans to arrange for an
earlier date to avoid the possibility
of snow shortage.
Wallace-The Tamarack & Custer
Consolidated Mining company an
nounces it will pay a dividend of 2
| cents per share, amounting to a to-
tai of one hundred thousand dollars
March 81.
Weiser, - Mrs. Thomas Mooney,
wife of Thomas Mooney. serving a
term in the California state prison
for alleged completely in the 1917 San
Francisco preparedness parade bomb
outrage, was in Weiser collecting evil
dence to be used in attempting to OBJ
tain her husbands freedom.
McCall,-Tud Kent. driving as
Bosses entry, captured first place In
the 15-mile Mccall dog derby, the
closing event in the two-day carnival
here Saturday. Smoky" CASTOR, last
years United States champion, driv-
ing for Nampa, finished second. Sam
Trude driving for Ashton, came in
third.
Boise,-Ada county collected SILL
394.5O in automobile license fees dur
ing February, according to the month
ly report of w. A. Kincaid, county
assessor, as compared with So, 1925
for February, 1923. This brings the
total collected for 1924 to S114,25125
as compared with $11O, 1870 in all of
1923.
Idaho Falls.-The Rigby sugar fac
tn1- cold 70 {Io T4ol LN |
Sugar company Saturday at a sale
conducted by A. V. Scott, receiver for
the Beet Growers Sugar company,
owners of the factory. The sale was
during bidding between
W. H. Watts, general manager, and
R. W. Young, attorney for the Utah 1
Idaho Sugar company. The bidding I
opened at $650,000, the bid of Young I
and was followed by bid of 100000 I
oy Watts. It was then raised to
100000 by Young.
Pocatello.-H. w. Vanderwood Of
3lacEfoot has been named successor +
% Eldon Shock as Burser of the G
IDAHO institute, according to an an f
by President C. R. Fra \
Ter. [
Boise.-Idaho will not permit baby L
hicks to be shipped into the state
rom California it has been announ- U
ed at the state department of agri- Il
ulture. This decision was wired to y
'r. C. D. Carpenter at Petaluma, =
alifornia, who made inquiry few y
avs ago to find out whether the .
ate would accept such shipments in .
lew of the foot and mouth disease a.
oidemic that has broken out in Cal -
ornia. "
Boise,-Track laying gangs started
ork Friday on the Perkins end or
lie Orchard-Boise main line, accord
g to l.. w. Althoff, resident engin- 81 81
r. The work from Perkins to the n
idenbaugh canal will be used, Mr.. y
tthoff said, as the railroad is under =. -
ntract to complete the bridges ~
ross the Ridenbaugh and New York 10
mails before May 1, and the rails I IT
e needed in order that the bridge -
eel may be brought to the ground. NJ
city probably will
,se the fiscal year, May 1, with a
rplus of $4,000 over the budget
innate, the quarterly report of Mrs. -,
lgela Hopper, city clerk, indicates. ~, ~
ere is a balance in the budget es- I'll
nate of s64,74S.2S, while monthly I'D
penditures have averaged approx %
ately $4,000 so far this year. The ~ =.
port is for the quarter ending Jan gu
ry 81.
Boise,-The big Black canyon dam ,
ing thrown across the Payette 90
er in western Idaho just above %
, town of Emmett to form a re- a.
'voir in which to impound water o
the use of lands in the Emmett
ley will be completed in April of ~,
s year. ~,
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