The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-07-02
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

about half way between McCammor
and nixon, when a meteor fell OF
mountain and rolled down its side
breaking into several distinct direc
tions. The meteor left quite
pathway down the mountainside anc
was the largest ever seen in this
locality.
Boise, - A possibility that ]. A
Empie, alleged head of the largest
auto theft ring ever uncovered IN
Idaho, may be tried in the Portland
federal court, instead of the federal
court here was seen after Joe Keller
investigator of the Pacific Coast
Automobile Underwriters conference
had conferred with federal and coun.
| ty officers in Boise.
Gooding,-The trustees of Goodina
college have just received word thai
the state board of education has t.
ed upon the recommendation of Dean
j. G. Eldridge of the University OF
Idaho and will continue certificate
privileges to students and graduates
of Gooding college for further
period of two years.
HALEY, = James McKibben Of
Buffalo, Wyo., is visiting his brother
Alex McKibben of Haley. 1t has
been forty-nine years since the
brothers babe each other goodby in
their old home town in Michigan and
they had not met since until this
visit.
Pocatello,-As a foundation for a
fund to be used as a memorial build
ing or some permanent capital addl-
ton to the campus, the graduating
class of the Idaho Tech, numbering
about so, recently took out insurance
policies of $100 each. These poll
cies, which are 20-year endowment
are payable to the Tech.
Blackfoot,-Abou 1900 pounds OF
cheese are now being made daily by
the Blackfoot cheese factory and
shipped to Pocatello by trucks. The
price of cheese having advanced
slightly, enables the factory to pay
the farmer little more for his milk
and it is hoped that the factory will
soon reach its capacity of 1900
pounds.
Pocatello, Daniel Felsted, 3d.
years of age, pioneer and well-Mown
resident of Pocatello, died at local
hospital following a several weeks
illness. Mr.. Felsted was depotmaster
at the Short Line depot and had been
in the railroad service for a number
Of years.
Kuna.-One "hobo" was slightly
injured when a broken journal piled
16 cars of Union Pacific extra 2oo9
over a 20-foot embankment about one
mile east of here. Wooden box cars
and steel coal cars were splintered
and twisted and some of them stack |
ed like jacksaws in a pile three deep
The injured man, with two other
transient men, were in a car that |
was turned bottom side up and buried
beneath two others.
Manufactures have been receiv-
ed here to arrange switches and ma
terial tracks for the commencement
of excavation for the new station OF
the Oregon Short Line. Crews under
direction of the engineering depart
ment here are stalking opt the site
and arranging to switch over the var
ious tracks to provide for the receipt
Of steel, stone, brick and other mater
ial to be used in the station.
Boise.-Water in the Boise river
IS lower than it has been in many
years, according to the daily report
If the United States reclamation SER
Jice here. A year ago the peak OF
Hood water was reached with total
If 1924 second feet as against 1913
second feet measured last Thursday.
This amount of water is far below
what was in the river at the opening
# the irrigation season on April 10.
Boise.-The petition for rehearing
n the test case to establish the vail
lily of the proposed two million sew
n hundred thousand dollar bond is
ue of the American Falls reservoir
district, has been granted by the SUI
IRENE court and the argument will
re presented Friday, June 81.
Buhl,-The sugar beet situation In
he Bull territory has changed very
within the past week. On
ccount of the infestatlon of the
White fly in the beet fields, the re-
of the sugar company
ave advised many of the growers to
low up their fields and plant other
rops. This seems to apply to all
ields IN the west end and as far east
S Filler.
Grangeville,-The old mining amp
f Florence, which in days past mas
ielded $80,000,000 in gold, is to be
pened again and developed. This
vas made known to residents in