The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-02-06
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

| entered the American dog derby at
Ashton on February %, according to
a telegram from Robert Harris, rep
resenting the winter sports carnival
of that city. Official entry blanks
have been filed with the association
and President George w. Earn has
notified Harris that the entry has
been accepted. The Montreal team
will be driven by Miss Lydia Hut
Gibson, famous Ashton girl dog racer
who is now in Montreal.
Boise.-Governor C. C. Moore has
appointed former Lieutenant Cover
nor Herman Taylor of Standpoint as
judge in the Eighth judicial district
to fill the vacancy left by the death
of John NJ. Flynn. Judge Taylor has
received the almost unanimous in
dorsement Of the bar Of northern
Idaho. His residence chamber will
be at Standpoint, giving to the north
ern part of the district the represen-
tation it has long desired.
Boise.-Progress toward securing
a national park for Idaho is reported
by Representative Addison T. Smith,
who has written from Washington
that on request Of the director of
parks, the commissioner Of the land
office has instructed the chief Of the
field division at Salt Lake to desig-
nate a specially qualified man TO ex-
anime those fields known as "craters
Of the moon" with view TO describ-
ing them by metes and bounds for
the secretary of the interior.
Twin Falls.-Checks aggregating
$4,000 were mailed Monday by the
Amalgamated Sugar company thru
it's officers here to beetgrowers OF
this district, it is announced. The
amount represents the second pay
ment Of rs cents per ton in addition
to the initial payment under the con-
tract Of $3.50 per ton and the first
bonus, amounting to so cents per ton
which was paid December Is last.
Purley.-Burley and vicinity dur
ing 1923 shipped 5167 carloads of
produce, while 2131 cars were re-
ceived during the same period. In
cluded in the shipments were eight
carloads of eggs, in addition TO heavy
express shipments. One firm alone
paid $4,000 to Burley egg produc-
ers during the last year. Last year
was the first time that eggs were
sent out in carload lots, and authori-
ties predict that 1924 shipments will
be much heavier.
Idaho Falls.-The commissioners
Of Bonneville county have a good rec
ord of road work to report for the
year, as approximately $4,000 will
have been spent on the county roads
in the north end Of the country when
the work in concluded. The road
from the north end of the pavement
IN this county to the Jefferson coun-
" line is being put in splendid shape
by the use OF sand from the Menan
pits.
Moscow,-Plans for the University
If Idaho's new 100000 science hall |
lave been completed and accepted by |
he university executive committee |
md William ]. Hall, state director OF
public works. 1t is expected that the
contract will be let by the latter part
# March and actual construction be-
,un early in April.
Boise,-Governor c. c. Moore will
I
ave the Old Oregon trail in Idaho
as a national highway, It
vas announced at his offices recent
=.
Mackay, - Robert Curran, former
alt Lake man, was shot and killed
Y his step-son-in-law, Lester Grove,
t the Curran home in Mackay. The
illing is said TO have been the result
quarrel which began at party
nd increased in violence as the men
cared home.
Burley, - Herbert Irving Canine, a
enior in the Burley high school, has
aceived the nomination as first al
ornate to the United States Military
at west Point, accorulnS 10
ord.
Boise, - The announcement has
cen made from the governors office
the appointment of W. NJ. Kell of
uxedo Park. y. Y, as fish culturist
II Idaho, taking the place left vacant
? the resignation of George Isaac in
ctober.
Boise,-Governor Charles c. Moore
rs wired the Idaho congressman at
'ashington to make an effort to pro-
ire the replacement of the item Of
% 900 for the eradication Of the
Ne blister rust in the agricultural
bill.
thousand head of cat
:, and from 10000 to 10000 sheep
e wintering in the valley of Malta,
Cassia county.
Payette.-Options for the purchase