The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-04-22
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

SucceeulHS FRANK ElcHelDeTBeT VI
Adams is acting for the Security Say
ings and Trust bank of ST. Anthony
and the Farmers and Merchants banl
of Rexburg, under an appointment b.
the state bank commissioner
Kamiah.-Tom Rankin. Nez Perez
Indian, aged 104 years. resident OF
Sites, died here. He was believed
to be the Oldest Indian of the Ne2
Perez Tribe, and was held in respect
OF both whites and Indians.
Lewiston.-Early cherries in this
district showed their first bloom on
| March go and are now opening fast.
Judging by the buds opening a fair
cherry crop is in prospect The cher
ry growers are still working on or
| ganization plans.
Twin Falls.-Reports from Charles
| G. Huber of the Union Bridge COM
pany at Portland, who recently visit
ed this city with reference to the
proposed rim-to-rim bridge across the
Snake, are most satisfactory. He
writes that after careful figuring and
comparison, with the situation at
Pasco. Wash, where the great bridge
was constructed across the Columbia
river, he is convinced that the Twin
Falls site offers satisfactory finan- !
clal proposition. Comparison includ- |
ed population. lines of traffic and new |
INES OF highway certain to come
through Twin Falls. The rim-to-rim
bridge will be 400 feet long and $50
feet above the Snake river The
Hansen bridge is SIS feet long and
345 feet above water level.
Filer.-The village of HolIister will
vote May II on the question of issu-
ng municipal coupon bonds in the
sum of $4,000 for the purpose of pro-
'ldlng extension repair and improve
nent OF the municipal waterworks
liant
irwin Falls.-Buhl high school
iris basketball team became cham
ions OF the northwest as a result of
nelr victory 81 to "a over West Val
~ nigh school team of Wildwood,
wash. champions of Washington. in
hard-fought game played before
rowd OF more than 1000 spectators
the Bull high school gymnasium
Pocatello.-When harvest time DIR.
lg the fall of 1925 rolls around, farm
s. stockmen, poultry raisers and -
of townspeople in south.
istern Idaho make preparations
attend the district fair. to be held T.
the Blackfoot grounds September -
> To- IL and IS. according to Ezra n
Felsted, acting secretary of the dc
utheastern Idaho fair district. and ne
committee from Bannock county Or
hch attended the meeting held all
ere t,f
state game depart. -
INT OF Idaho has leased for one
a. with an option to buy, three
'es OF land in the Hagerman Val q
10 De used as a game bird prom y
atlon experiment station. Forty be
pairs of Hungarian pheasants w
ng cared for in Boise will be trans an
leu 10 the farm Immediately. All pl'
land is in alfalfa and there is ~
ming water through the place. =
c. c. Moore has Ger
olnted the following committee tn -
Ae plans for the celebration at du'
erlcan Falls about July LIST. on wv
formal cornerstone having of tho u 81
dam which the government is fur
dlng there: o. R. Baum of Po. gro
no. f. d. Durkea of American ,,ou
S. M. B. Yeaman of Idaho Falls RI
w. Graham of Twin Falls and Ellie,
u Swendsen, commissioner os Bu
lmation Of Boise. -
ano Falis.-The largest mortgage ~
iileu IN Bonneville county was
III on record, when the Utah. ME-
sugar company mortgaged its ~
hgs Tor 100000 to the Wells 45.8f
Dank and the Union Trust com. NE
OF San Francisco Internal rev. 12Rs
ups III the sum OF $500 was Is
"a and cancelled on one of tbe " ;,
ial counterparts of the mort. i&l
and deed of trust. NJ
"
se'-Lorenzo West. 90. believed
We been the last survivor of the "a
ers of Boise barracks. died ~
'aho Soldiers home. West was -
{ skinner in charge of the pack o
Tor Major Lugenbeei. when he N
leo from Fort Walla WaIla IN
new post somewhere near Loo
mines in Boise b,,u;r, E
He freighted supplies for the ton Fl
men II Yves first established Nom
manned in the government en-. bricati
scout many years afterward I
well.-J,oans San FIR,
re IN force March 81 on forms hA
district, according to the re. NI