The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-07-30
Short News Notes
From All Parts OF
IDAHO

writer. whose fiction has appeared
the Saturday Evening Post, has pee
engaged as the superintendent .
The Neversweat mine at Silver. hi
family will make their home a
Nampa.
Lewiston-All but one clip OF ~
600 pounds of wool, out OF lOo'VV
pounds held on ranches because O
low water and 100000 brought Il
town this season, has been disposed
| f. The prices were lower than las
year but higher than those OF a lev
years ago.
Mccall, - Ten thousand young
fish we're turned loose in Payette
lake recently according to Deputy
Warden Holden, in charge. Hall
were trout and half land locked sal
mon. All came from Hayspur
hatchery. They were freed at the
inlet ID miles from Mccall.
Mountain Home, - E. Rohlfing,
charged with first degree murder IN
connection with the death Of Fara-
dy Mills on the Mountain
Home highway on June 27, waived
preliminary hearing before W. IL.
Manion, probate judge, and was
bound over for trial during the Octo-
Der term of court. Rohlfing is held
in the Elmore county Jail without
bail.
An off-peak power rate in Idaho
would be noncompensatory, confls-
catory, discriminatory and preferen-
tial, the Idaho Power company In
formed the public utilities commits
sion in answering a commission or
der of May in which the commission
asked the company to show cause
why such a rate should not be es-
tablished.
Idaho Falls,-The city council has
requested the city treasurer to make
a demand on the county treasurer for
$1,000, which is claimed by the city
for taxes due the municipality.
Should the request be denied other
action is possible.
Boise, - Rates on coal from the
Teton mines in eastern idaho under |
lease by H. F. Samuels and others
are unreasonable and excessive and
will be Investigated by the public
utilities commission, according to an
order issued by that body. The
rates were filed July IA by the Ore
gon Short Line Railroad company in
with a commission order
requiring the company to repair the
tracks leading to the mine so coal
could be moved and further to file
schedule of rates from the mines to
Idaho points.
Idaho Falls,-What is believed to
oe one of the very few specimens of
iand mosaic in the world, a picture
made by the intricate arrangement
# grains of colored sand, has just
,een completed here by W. S. o.
3rien, local manager for a telegraph
The work which is a
picture of Abraham Lincoln and a
aging of his which has since be-
ONE famous, is contained in large
vide mouthed bottle, which, filled
With sand, presents the picture on
he inside surface of the glass
Nampa, the fact-find-
rs bill, under which Boise project
ettlers will receive relief, is practic-
lily certain to become law, a few
december, Senator W. E. Borah has
ever changed his original opinion
ours after congress reconvenes Iii
nat the forty-year extension and ,
ve-year moratorium is a superior
leasure he told a large gathering
a public address here.
Rupert Kenneth Adams and Ru-
olph Zcholke caught three trout,
,taling seventeen pounds, at Mini
oka dam. Zcholke found on one
the fish fly and spinner and Sec @
on of line that he had lost while ]
ying to land it at the same place {
,veral evenings before.
Nampa,-Other cities of the Boise {
Illey are congratulating Nampa on =
e successful completion of its cam =
lign to bring the big car repair Z
ant of the Pacific Fruit Express 7,
mpany to this city. shl
Boise,-Actual construction of the
MON Pacific station on the bench L.
II start August 1, according to L. &c
Althoff, construction engineer in -
arge. o. P. Cherdron of the Cher !.
on Construction company of Salt RI
be, which has the contract, was in =
tion with M AJtboff 49,: