The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-07-23
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

Turner, United States COMMISSIONS
and other factors, there will be u
particular interruption in the statu
Of the local offices OF the departmer
of justice which were scheduled 1o
removal to Salt Lake several week
ago. Protests on the part OF locs
citizens were emphasized by show
ing Of business transacted by I'll
local office, 1t being claimed that Tn
bulk of federal actions originated Il
this immediate section necessitat1n
! retention of the office here.
Emmett,-Sixty dollars ton, VIII
an allowance Of 10 cents crate 10
packing was the price paid by U. f
Powell & Co., of Boise for the crol
of apricots of the Emmett Aprico
association. The crop is estimated a
three carloads.
Pocatello,-ClOudburs in the For'
Hall section north of Pocatello caused
considerable damage to crops, accord
ing to word received from that Sec
ton, washing out several bridges over
the Ross Fork creek and destroying
potatoes and alfalfa fields. Word
from the MoCammon district, south
of Pocatello, indicates that the high
way was badly washed out by
the storm, which rolled huge boulders
and considerable rubbish from the
hillsides into the roads.
Idaho Falls, = Judge Ralph Adair
rendered a decision in the case
brought by Mrs Estella Mulliner,
county treasurer; Charles Criddle,
sheriff, and Jess T. Nielsen, county
school superintendent, in which they
appealed to the court to set aside the
recent order of the county commits
sioners making a drastic salary cut,
in which he ordered that the salaries
be put back to their former basis.
Boise,-Governor C. C. Moore has
received information from Washing
ton that captured war trophies, In
Guiding field guns, machine guns and
other equipment, taken by the Ameri-
can forces in the recent war will be
distributed through the state govern
ors to each state in proportion to the
number of men that served from that
state. The federal government will
pack and load all shipments, but the
states must bear expense of trans
portation.
Shoshone, = All possible speed to-
ward getting the construction work
on the proposed big Wood river by
pass, which will cost approximately
$50, 900, under way by an early date
IS to be exercised by the Big Wood
River Canal company. The length Of
he bypass is eleven and one-half
niles and it is estimated that it will
ave annually 10000 acre-feet OF
water at a cost of but S2.S4 per acre
DOT. The bypass is to be built
parallel to the Big Wood river through
carnations which will permit of very
title waste.
Twin Falls,-Grading equipment to
e used in the construction of the
railroad which will
urnish Twin Falls with a direct out
ct to the Pacific coast markets,
ontinues to pass through Twin Falls
ound for Rogerson, where it is being
AIKEN to the grading camps along the
'ay.
Ashton, The opening of Yellow
.one park for the summer season is
applying market at good prices
II much of the produce of the upper :
make River valley This is particu- {
rly true of vegetables, butter, eggs :,
nd poultry products.
Malad, = The Virginia store and T
'stoffice building was destroyed by {
re last week. The explosion of a =
lsoline stove is reported to have
e lack of water and insufficient s.
Up, the building was quickly des- =
Dyed, together with all contents.
water shortage in d
e McCammon section is becoming
rious, according to word from the -
notion city and unless that vicinity n
visited by heavy rain the sugar :
ct tonnage will be very poor. -
Black canyon dam ID
now reality and the last of the ~
men who worked on this magni-
lent structure of concrete and steel
gone. All the debris is cleared away
everything about the dam is look
, spick and span.
3oise,-Out of thirty eight applica-
rs for pardon which were acted L
IN by the board, seven were grant 81
twenty-three were denied two
re given combinations Of senten-
/, and six were continued.
under the strain
forced attendance upon the posse
ich searched the lava beds near
'ey for some trace of his victim |