The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-02-04
Short News Notes
From, All Parts of
IDAHO

ceremony accompanying was signifi
cant Of the completion of the rail lay
ing for the road but there are SOW
eral weeks of track dressing ballast
ing and fence building yet to be done
before the completed road would be
turned over to the Union Pacific, ac-
cording to constructing engineers in
charge.
Twin Falls,-Roy Callahan, 81, was
instantly killed one-quarter mile west
guard the cherry and apple orchard
of b. f. Woods of Hagerman dis
charged and filled the young mans
chest and face full of buckshot.
Woods as a result Of Callahan's death
is in the Gooding county Jail and a
charge of murder probably will be
placed against him.
Wendell, -Reports from the North
Side tract show that crop conditions
are improved over what was antici-
pated earlier in the season on account
of the water shortage Practically all
of the hay fields over tile tract yield
ed good first cutting, and salts
factory second cutting being taken
on several farms.
Boise, - The Oregon Short Line
Railroad company through its special
agent, Joel L. Priest of Boise, has
notified the public utilities commits
sion verbally that it has repaired
the track leading into the Teton Coal
companys mines in eastern Idaho
and spotted cars on the sidetrack, all
in conformity with the commissions
order issued June &c.
American Falls,-After sending his
10 year old son home to tell his wife
of his proposed act, Glenn Adams OF
this place wired a boulder around his
neck, jumped over a bluff into the
Snake river near the falls and was
drowned. The body was fished up
by sleriff's posse about 80 feet be- |
low the middle falls.
Boise, - Owyhee countys county |
seat fight was settled, temporarily at |
east when Judge Dana E. Brinck |
'uled that both the petitions for re-
noval of the county seat from Silver
lily were defective and disallowea
10Th. Murphy and Grandview each
lad petitioned for the county seat,
tut the court found that neither petit
ion fulfilled the legal requirements.
3oh hinged on the number of names
igned.
Nampa-Final assurance that the
Union Pacific Railroad company IS
eady to push forward construction
york on Nampa's new depot reached
Tampa when a building permit for q
epot to be constructed at a cost OF
$4,000 was taken out at the city
ngineer by the contractors
Soda Springs,-Sales of auto licen-
es in Caribou county for the first
alf of 1924 were far in excess of
nose of last year. The total sales
the last six months of this year
mount to more than the full years
ales in 1923. The figures as given
y County Assessor T w. Horsley are:
eceived from the sale of auto licen
es the first six months of 1924,
70625O; total sales for the year
1913, $565S.40.
Boise, - Farmers in Idaho have
anted the same acreage to potatoes
lis year as last, or $1,000 acres, ac-
riding to the report for July issued {
thursday by Julius II. Jacobsen Unit ,
| States crop statistician for the {
ate. Their early intentions were /
reduce II per cent but the Califor- t
a situation apparently influenced |
e growers of early potatoes to in G
ease their early acreage intentions
,clared Mr.. Jacobsen. C
Justice Park asso-
ltion, which is sponsoring contest +
r a more suitable name for Scab .
ountain one of the large peaks in
e Mink creek divide, at the foot of
lich lies the new Pocatello summer
July, Has ipp'iiittu a. 'OiAiihitlSC w II
dye the entries and select the win W
r. "
Twin Falls,-Feasibility of a rim II
rim bridge across Snake river can VI
n short distance above Blue q
kes which would he an almost in IL
luable asset to both north and south u
les, was discussed at meeting of ei
, directors of the Twin Fall Cham
r of Commerce rooms.
dollars ton, with
allowance of 10 cents crate for al
cking was the price paid by U. f.
well 4 Co.. of Boise for the crop +,
apricots of the Emmett Apricot W
ISOLATION. The crop is estimated at m
zee carloads. ID