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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
AGED PIONEER PASSES AWAY p
LAST SUNDAY MORNING

Last Sunday morning death called
to his reward Judge Horton.
Joseph H. Horton was born in Dev-
onshire, England, eighty years ago
the 18th day of last month. In 1875
he came to America and in 1884 he
settled in Round valley. He was uni
ted in marriage to Mrs. Mary Altman
in 1876, and leaves one brother, two
sons, Henry and Tom and one STEP
son, John Altman, to mourn his loss.
Funeral services over the remains
were held Monday afternoon and in
terment was made in the Challis Gem
etery.
Mr.. Horton had been very active in
the affairs of the county for years an.
had long held the position of U. S.
Commissioner and Justice of the Peace
of Challis Precinct. He was CLOSELY
identified with the early reclamation
of Central Idaho. During his later
years he had been a constant sufferer
from rheumatism which caused com
plications resulting in his death.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16

Last Friday evening, Robert Currar
a rancher living on Antelope creek be
low Mackay, was shot and killed and
Leslie Groves, step-son of Harry Grove
was arrested, charged with the crime
and he is now in the county Jail a
waiting his preliminary examination
which is set for next Saturday before
Probate Judge Jonathan Job.
1t is said that the fatal shooting
was the result of a family row and
that Groves called Curran out of the
house, into the yard, where he shot
him, using a 20 calibre rife. One
bullet lodged in the head against the
skull and the other penetrated the
body just over the heart. severing the
main artery, and lodging near the 9Th
rib on the right side.
Saturday a coroner's inquest was
held, the jury after hearing some of
the evidence in the matter found that
Robert Curran came to his death from
gunshot wounds inflicted by Leslie
Groves by criminal means.
Sheriff Cummins and Deputy Sher-
iff Hammerley brought the prisoner
to Challis Saturday night and placed
him in the county Jail where he is
now being held under special guard
awaiting the preliminary.
Curran was a man about fifty years
of age and Groves is a young man
about twenty-five years old and vet
Gran of the World War,
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
IDAHO STATE WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

Lewiston is only seaport In Idaho
ana is farthest inland seaport in the
Northwest
Boise-New buildings totaled near
ly one million dollars in 1923.
S. Maries orders plans for one hun.
dred thousand dollar school,
1daho's II leading crops showed a
value of over nine million dollars
greater than in 1922
Moscow did street grading covering
So blocks last year, built BIG miles
concrete walks and put in 90 miles
SURFING.
Lewiston State Normal School re-
ports largest registration in history.
Girls new dormitory completed
Kamiah-Two lumber mills at Carl
bel on upper Clearwater, will employ
about 200 men.
More men employed in mining in
Occur d'Alenes than at any time since
1919. All big established producers
Shipping at close to maximum figures.
Prospecting activity greater than for
many years. Dividends paid by mines
double those of 1922.
Idaho's personal property assessed
at s23,7O6,147.67, slightly higher than
1922.
Agricultural conditions over state
considered 20 per cent better than a
year ago.
Mon Pacific makes substantial re-
auctions in freight rates on nwheat
and flour from southern Idaho terri
tory to points in south and southeast.
Counties of Twin Falls, Jerome, Min
idoka, Gooding and Cassia to organ
ize to fight grwth of weeds.
Old Oregon Trail in Idaho, S.2S
miles in Cassia county, to be compler
ed.
Mackay-Model dairy farm, with
rs cows, to be established in Lost
rivel valley.
Number of new mining develop |
ments started in Idaho in 1923 exceed
ed those of 1922
Total of 2,224,500 fish planted dur !
ing past season in rivers and lakes
of Kootenai, Benewah, Shoshone and
Clearwater counties.
Pine creek district will soon be a.
mong heavy producing sections of the |
Occur d'Alenes.
N'allece-Callahan mine on Nine |
Milo creek encounters best lead ore |
". fClnd.
Mullan Carbonate Hill mine to do !
10,000-ft underground development.
Commodity shipments frmo Lemhi |
county in carloads for 1923 amounted |
to 760 cars.
Parma has new hardware store.
Lava Hot Springs working for a
cheese factory
Timber of estimated value of $780, |
600 in Occur d'Alene Indian reserva-
ton to be offered for sale, embraces
100000 feet yellow pine, douglas
fir and larch.
Newport-New school dedicated.
st. Maries-$5000 to be expended
on Riverdale road.
Idaho auto licenses totaled s1,00O,000 |
in 1928
Rupert shipped 10000 pounds poul-
try in week prior to Christmas.
Pocatello-During month of January
state wool growers, state Holstein as
sciation, new poultry association and
engineers hold conventions here.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
GRADE NOTES FROM THE
cHALLIs PUBLIC SCHOOL

Perfect attendance of the Eighth
grade for the month of December:
was credited the following: Eva
Jones, Bryan Connyers, Amos Cum
mings, Mona Keyser and Robert Ham
mond.
Seventh grade: Jack Kirtley, Katy
Zeimetz.
There have been several pupils alb
sent on account of illness.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
TO ORGANIZE ROD AND GUN
CLUB I'M CHALLIS

Saturday January 26th., at 1880 p.
m, meeting will be held at the For
est office in this city, of all those who
are interested in game propagation
and protection. 1t is planned to form
Rod and Gun Club at this time and
to take up matters of importance rel
alive to game conditions in Central L
IDAHO, generally. All are invited to
attend this meeting and to also join
the Cuba. E. RENNER, Forest Su-
pervisor: A D. KELLEY, Deputy
Game Warden.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
GlRLS-GET BUSY AND
GET YOUR MAN

The big event of the year, Friday,
this week-The Leap Year Ball Civ
en- by Mrs. E. K Dodge. Follows af-
ter Monty Blues new show, an out
door comedy of perplexing situations
Luncheon all night at the dance.
Saturday this week, Two big come
dy reels, and the feature unusual,
Bert Lytell in "a Message from
Mars"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Curious sismese Custom.

Among the Siamese the curious Gus
tom obtains of reversing the elbow
Joint of the left arm as a sign OF
superiority. The children of both
sexes are trained to hold their elbow
In this painful position at an early
age, if their parents are persons OF
high grade.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
nnlv Woman Jockey.

Miss Margaret Leigh, daughter Of a
former Kentucky race horse owner, is
the only woman Jockey in America.
She has ridden horses since childhood.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Slao Concrete.

Experiments made in France with
concrete made with Stag have proved
1t about equal to that made with
gravel
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Something to Be Proud OF.

A woman is never satisfied with
her prowess as a shopper until she
has succeeded in getting bargain at
8 church fair.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Lots of 1ime6.

Jud Tunkins says sometimes yoa
have to give boy a college education
to convince him he doesn't know e.
erything Just naturally.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16

Kamiah-Pan-Handl Asbestos Co..
to install new machinery in local
plant and engage in general manufac-
ture of asbestos products. Will en-
ploy forty men.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
LOOKING Backwards.

Robbie-"When were the dark ages
MAJ" Ma-"Back in the days wher
men gave up their seats in trolley car"
to the ladies'"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Game Is Scarce.

"Game is gettin' so scarce" said
Uncle Eben, dat duck dat gifts shot
kin at least have de comfort Of
KNOWN he dies famous"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
The Easiest Way.

Every seventh married couple is di
yorced, so if you are seventh in line
at the parsons you might as well go
back home and give il up.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Wonderful Grain Binder.

A new grain binder that will cut
35 acres day and is operated by one
man has been perfected
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
JImson Weed as Anaesthetle.

In prehistoric times, Zunis and ether
tribes of North American Indians used
q substance obtained from the jimson
weed as an anaesihetic during surgica
operations.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
New False Bottom.

A new false bottom to keep vege-
tables from burning in cooking uteD
gils can be used as IL strainer.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Beware Electric Bulbs.

A scrubwoman standing on a wet
aoor was recently killed when she
touched an ordinary electric light bulb
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Manitoba a Bic Province.

The province OF Manitoba II almost
the same size as Great Britain and
Ireland
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
u. 6. Medical Schools.

In 1913 there were e5 medical
chools in he United States.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Woman Deputy Attorney General.

Mrs. Jeanette Brill, a practicing
lawyer Of Brooklyn, is the first woman
to be appointed q deputy attorney
general Of the state Of New York.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Charter No 157

OHdTI6T mo. IOI
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The First State Bank, at Challis. in
the State of Idaho, at the close of bus
mess, December 31st.. 1928.
DToOT-n1Er
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16

RESOURCES
l. Loans and Discounts s115, 2s5. 80
z. Oyerdrafts 1853
3. Stocks, Bonds, Warrants 13.751.47
g. Banking House, Furniture
and fixtures --......-. 4.775.OO
o. Other Real Estate -------- 13,276.54
Z. Claims, Judgments, etc 52350
.. cash on Hand --------------- 17,232.3S
9. Due from Banks ----..-- 23.3SO.45
10. Checks and Drafts on 9TH
er Banks -----.-.---..---. 1851
IL. Other Cash Items ---.--.-.- 1880
s13. Other Assets, Transit Ac-
count --.-.-----.------- - 4,915.54
LIABILITIES
l. Capital Stock Paid ins 100000
z. Surplus Fund ----------- 1000. 90
8. Undivided profits, less ex-
penses, Interest and Tax
eS PAID --------------------------- S6627
5. Individual Deposits, sub
ject to check .---------- 139,252.34
8. Time Certificates of De-
post ---------------- 29,6S5.S9
Total Deposits los, 1898
Total 1874 ,016.37
STATE OF IDAHO, County of Custer,
SIS. I. N. C. Hovey, Cashier of the a.
bove named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to
the best of my knowledge and belief
N. c. HOvEY, Cashier
CORRECT-Attest:
F. MCPHERSON,
H. H. HARTMAN, Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 11th day of January. 1924.
I certify that I am NOT an Officer
or Director of this Bank. - - -. -
EMMETT DONAHUE, Recorder
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior U. S.
Land Office at HALEY, Idaho, January
9, 1924.
NOTICE is hereby given that Pietro
Pedrini. of Clayton, who. on Novem- I
Der IL, 1912, made Desert Land En-
try, No. o12205, for Lot 6, Section 81.
Township IL North, Range II East,
Boise Meridian, has filed notice of in
tention to make Final Proof 70 esteb
lish claim to the land above describ
ed before Emmett Donahue Cler'- af
the District Court, at Challis, Idaho,
on the 18th day of February. 1922
Claimant names as witnesses:
John C. Tam. Natalie Tam, Fillippo
Maraffio. Sam Del Bondio, all of Clay
ton, Idaho.
MAY G.. ANGEL, Register.
1st pub. Jan. 16. last Feb. IS, 1924
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Depth Of Mediterranean.

The greatest depth Of the Meditef.
'anean sea is about 14,436 feet.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16

Write it 1924.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
MAN MURDERED
ON ANTELOPE
LESLIE GROVE SHOOTS AND
KILLS ROBERT CURRAN

Coroners Jury Brings in Verdict of
Gritty Charging Robert jCurran's
Death to Leslie Groves. PreIimin-
airy Set for Next Saturday in Pro-
bate Court.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16
Condensed Statement
of
THE FIRST STATE BANK
Challis, Idaho

Statement showing condition of the
First State Bank of Challis, Idaho, De-
cember 1st., 1928.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-16

cHALLis IDAHO WEDNESDAY, AFTERNOON, e,
The daily worker., 1924-01-21
On Receding Chins

That the people Of the United States are
faced with the possibility of degenerating into
race characterized by the receding chin,
made famous by the comic strip cartoonist in
Andy Gump, is the warning sent out by the
Chicago Dental Society at its sixteenth annual
convention. The statement issued by the dem
fists claims that most of the ills of the body
are traceable to infected teeth and gums.
Faith in the pronouncements Of those whose
profession it is to tinker with broken down
human machinery is rather shaky in an age
when even the medical profession is so COM
mercialized as it is today. While we do not
minimize the dangers confronting the U. S.,
should the scanty chin fraternity grow in num-
bers, we are frank to confess that we are still
more afraid of the type with the receding
forehead and the protuding paunch.
If the brain cavity of the average American
was capable of housing a more liberal supply
of gray matter it is quite likely that those who
produce the wealth which enables parasites to
live in comparative ease, would be in a posi-
tion to look after their bodies and organize a
society so that the preservation of health
would be considered of greater Importance
than the accumulation of wealth
We learn that here in our Chicago public
schools with 372,191 pupils there are only FIVE
full time dental hygiene teachers, tho the rec
ommendation is for 1885,
Our capitalist masters will willingly spend
millions for war and destruction but while they
like to boast and heave out their civic chests
with pride over their public spirit; while they
endow operas and other institutions that bring
them renown and publicity, they leave the
children without proper care and their parents
without the necessary means to properly pro-
vide for them
The trumpet blast of the dentists may send
potential Andy Gumps scurrying to dental
torture chambers and it may bring home to
parents the necessity for more attention to
child hygiene, but under the social system that
sends little children under six into the mills
ana the sweatshop hells of the great cities it
is utopian to expect that a dentists warnino
will halt the chin in its retreat toward Adams
apple
The daily worker., 1924-01-21

the same Roumanian comrades 1t be-
came clearly apparent that our COM
rades do not yet understand the tasks
of revolutionary work among the
farmers. And this in country like
Roumania where the majority of the
population consists of farmersl
Just such an attitude you will fire.
quently find in other parties as well.
The work among the workers, in the
trade unions, is habitual thing to
us; in this work we feel at home.
But as for work among the farmers,
we forget that. That is the situation
in such countries as Italy, where the
farmer population preponderates.
Owing to the same attitude, the mis-
takes of the Bulgarian Communists
were in a considerable degree
brought to light in due course of time.
The first international farmer con-
ference which took place short time
back in Moscow has produced a
greater echo than any of us could
have expected, especially in Ger
many because the situation in gen.
eral is most revolutionary there)
and, as we hear, in America also.
Already it is quite apparent now that
this first international farmer con-
ference will have tremendous signi-
ficance, and that the efforts which
The daily worker., 1924-01-21

farmers over to the side of the work
ers. At the first opportunity the
American comrades must establish
a special mass Communist newspaper
designed for hundreds and hundreds
of thousands Of small farmers. The
experience which you are going thru
in having helped to create the Feder-
ated Farmer-Labor Party is being
followed attentively by every Com
munist in Europe and in the whole
world. Every success of yours fills
us all with pride.
"We know that the European pro-
letarian revolution will, perhaps, not
develop as yet in the next few weeks,
however quickly it may have ripened
of late. We stake on the inevita-
biblity of the world revolution, but
that does not mean that we. like
fools, stake. on the inevitability of
the revolutions in our country, 1905
and 1917, and we know that revo-
lutions are not made to order, nor by
agreement. Notwithstanding
that, we know that we are invinci-
BILE for the world proletarian
revolution is invincible.
SO wrote Comrade Lenin in the let
ter mentioned by us above. You will
undoubtedly agree with US, COM
rades, that these words of the teacher
remain fully and entirely in force.
The daily worker., 1924-01-21
Danger Signals for Miners

The miners are about to gather in national
convention There is strike talk in the air. IL
is a practical certainty that the bitumlnous
miners will demand an increase in pay and I'M
provement in their conditions of work.
The situation is a serious one and the capl-
tailsts are preparing for all eventuahtles. Ihey
are preparing for fight to the finish. Al
ready the multi-millionaire mining engineer,
John Hays Hammond, who headed Harding
Coal Fact Fixing Commission, is sounding the
alarm Mr. Hammond is yelling vociferously
that quick action is needed to prevent strike
He is now demanding that the Government
forthwith establish permanent Board of In
quiry as a division of the Interstate Commerce
Commission This Board should get to work at
once Should it fail then the Government is to
step in and run the mines under emergency"
An even more open hint to the miners that
everything will be done to stop them from
striking for higher wages and better working
conditions is thrown out by the well-known
news agency of Wall Street, the Boston News
Bureau Analyzing the likelihood of a coal
strike it says:
eff this not the quadrennial year of ballot
ing, there would be serious strike beyond much
doubt. But enormous pressure will be brought to
bear upon the miners, especially in the Central
Competitive field, for amcable adjustments of all
differences and moderation in demands and, above
ALL for avoidance of any organized effort union
IKE the West Virginia fields"
This is the plainest sort of talk from the
highest oracles of Big Business on the eve of a
strike. The miners convention would do well
to heed these warnings Two of their most
powerful leaders, John l.. Lewis and Frank
Harrington, are prominent republicans. Far
rington was once a member of the Republican
National Committee. The need for action is
urgent: The danger of a surrender to the coal
The daily worker., 1924-01-21

attitude towards the farmers.
Not so long ago, we had the op-
portunity to speak with some promi-
nent comrades of the Communist
movement of Roumania. The Rouman-
ian comrades have won over the ma
jority of the trade unions. They
deserve renown and honor for this.
Their merit is especially great for
the reason that they have to carry
on their work under constant oppres-
sion by the united big landowners,
capitalists and yellow Social Demo-
Gratis. Dozens of Roumanian Com
munists were shot, or were tortured
in Roumanian prisons. Many Ian
guished in life-imprisonment. Every
comrade risks his head for ordinary
Communist agitation. To win over
majority in the trade unions under
such circumstances deserves great
merit. But from conversations with
The daily worker., 1924-01-21
British Civilization in Ireland.

rience gained in this respect in Amer
ica deserves serious study by and as
siduous attention from the whole i'm
ternational movement.
The underestimate of the role
of the farmers is the fundamental
original sin of international Menshe-
vism. The essence of Bolshevism
consists just in this, that it has clothed
with flesh and blood the idea of die
tatorship of the proletariat, that it
has begun to transform into actual
ity the hegemony of the working
class in the revolution, and precisely
for that very reason it seeks an ally
in the propertyless farmers who,
with correct tactics on our part, will
aid the proletariat to fulfill its his
torical mission.
The chief differences between the
Russian Bolsheviki and Mensheviki
could, in the final analysis, be
brought down to the question of the
farmers. Even the cleft" Menshe-
wiki, in 1905, although they imagined
that they were more left than the
BoIsheviki, did not understand the
significance of the farmer movement
and in fact spoke an opportunist Ian
guage. Almost all the conflicts
among the Russian Bolsheviki during
The daily worker., 1924-01-21

Twelve years ago she had to import
65 per cent of the nitrogen she con-
sumed. Last year Germany operated
fixation plants on such a scale that
she became almost free Of the need
for importation and it is predicted
she will soon be exporting large guam
titles.
Present consumption of nitrogen in
fertilizers in the United States is
about 100000 tons year. Produc-
ton Of cheap fertilizer would largely
increase this amount and would stop
the steady deterioration of our farms
which is one Of the causes of the
farmers present distress. The am
nual loss Of nitrogen from our soil
is figured at from 100000 to 4,000,-
900 tons.
So the discovery made by mere
government chemists actuated by sci
entific interest and desire to per-
form a necessary service is Of inn
mense Importance for they have not
only developed process which equals
any known elsewhere, but they have
also perfected methods of manufac-
ture.
Where then does private initiative
The daily worker., 1924-01-21

the calling of it has cost, will be re-
payed hundred fold.
Whoever wants to help the Com
munist Party to become, not a guild
organization which defends only the
narrow class interests of the working
class, but a party of proletarian rev.
olution, of Socialist upheaval, of the
hegemony of the working class, must,
after the establishment of party of
workers, direct its attention also to
the winning over of the farmers.
In this respect the American Com
munists first felt out the new path.
The American Communists helped
to create the Federated Farmer-La-
Dor Party preserving, to be sure,
their Communist proletarian Party
as an Independent organization Not
everywhere, and not always, will
precisely this form prove the most
suitable. But in any case the expe-
The daily worker., 1924-01-21
Government Chemists Make Big Discovery

and the profit motive come in? It
will come in all right. Some big capi-
talist or capitalist combine will
wheedle the government into leasing
or selling the peoples nitrogen plants
and the chemists formula along with
them, on the vague promise that the
will get the use of them
in time Of war. Then the profit mo-
tive will begin to show its real results.
The production of nitrogen will be
kept down enough to keep prices and
profits up. And the farmers hope Of
cheap fertilizer will fade.
Perhaps the government chemists
who have made the greatest progress
in discovering the process without
need Of the grab-it-all motive would
also be the best bet when it comes
to choosing the men to supervise and
operate the peoples nitrogen fixa-
ton plants at Muscle Shoals and else
where. 1t would certainly relieve the
congressional record Of great load
of futile debate to let the offers Of
Henry Ford and the other capitalists
who long for this gilt edged monopoly
60 hang.