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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-11-30
situation is Brighter

LONDON. Nov, 30,-tt PA re-
liable official today told the United
Press the Irish situation seemed
brighter" He did not give his rea-
sons.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-11-30
OREGON SUPREME COURT CONSIDERS
CASE Of ELWE D. KIRBY SLATED TO
HANG FOR NUMBERING TIL TAYLOR

Taylor of Umatilla county.
Judge Bingham denied Kirby's
plea for a writ of habeas cor
pus. Kirby's attorneys appeal
ed on a writ of supersedeas,
which, if granted, will auto
matically act as a stay of exc
cution for Kirby. Governor o.
colt will grant John Rathie,
sentenced to hang with Kirby,
a stay of execution providing
Kirby's plea proves successful.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-11-30
Governor MAY H,cprlcve Rathic

SALEM, Nov. 30.-(A. P.l-Elvie
D. Kirby and John Rathie. convicted in
connection with the murder Of Sheriff
Til Taylor Of Cmatilla County. may
not hang Friday as sentenced. Judge
Bingham today denied the writ Of ha-
beas corpus asked by Kirby's attor-
neys, thus opening a way for an appeal
to the supreme court to be filed today.
The attorney argued the legislature Of
1920 exceeded its authority when ii
referred to the people the senate joint
resolution providing restoration of
capital punishment. Tho governor
may reprieve Rathie.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-11-30
DAILY EDITION

The East Oregonisn Is Eastern Ore
CONS greatest newspaper and as SELF
irs force gives to the advertiser over
.wiee the guaranteed paid circulatiOH
In PendletoR and Umatilla county of
any other newspaper.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-11-30
DAILY EDITION

This paper Is 8 member or and audited
by the Audit Bureau Of Cireulations.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

even today in the wilds Of Bolivia and
skull fractures are common. Other
heads are perforated now and then in
the bacchanals and festivals whooped
up occasionally with great quanti-
ties of intOxicants, the investigators
reported.
When the laughter and the free-for-
alls quiet down, the medicine men
get out their sharp pocket knives and
make incisiOns into the injured skulls
of the sufferers. frequently covering
the aperture with gourd. During the
operation they scrape around the
wound with chisel.
Modern anesthetics are unknown to
the medicine men. They put their pa
tient into insensibility by constant
use of the coca" plant. This also is
employed for healing purposes and is
commonly applied to wounds, bruises
and Commissions.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
INDIANS MEND SKULLS

American Museum Of Natural History.
OF nearly 1000 skulls collected In
South America by the late DIR. Adolph
Bandelier for exhibition in the mu-
scum, about s per cent has been Oper-
ated upon. To surgeons the practice
is known as trephining. 1t consists
of removing disk or hutton of bone
from the skull with II saw called a
trephine.
Complex fracture of the skull with
depression Of the bony plates must
have been common occurrences dur
ing the ancient tribal wars when clubs
headed with stone and copper along
with sings, the ''bola" and the ''lliui"
were offensive weapons. said the re-
ports of the museums Investigators.
A natural procedure, they opined,
with victims who survived skull frac-
lures must have been attempts to re-
move the splinters Of bone that
pricked the brain. or to cut out frag.
ments pressing upon 1t.
Warlike clans fight intermitte ntly
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
AMERICANS HELD IN RUSSIA
Anna skeiser Escapes as British Sub
ject and Tells Of the Rancor
of Reds.

Observation-Disclosures Bolsheviki
are bitter toward Americans, and are
not permitting them to leave Russia,
said Anna Keiser Of Philadelphia upon
arriving here.
She came to this city on board the
steamer Rechid Pasha, which landed
at Odessa a number of officers and
soldiers who had formerly served in
south Russia under General Wrangel,
anti Bolshevik leader. She declared,
French, Italian and British citizens
were allowed to depart from Odessa.
Il left as a British subject" she
said, 1.-THE few Americans who were
in Odessa having been refused per-
mission to leave. A number of Gen
eral Wrangel's officers who were taken
to Odessa were shot, and the remain
der were taken before the central
soviet and then sent to the army of
farm workers.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Hit by Wise Frauds

anything above the equivalent of SO,
or some such modest sum, it is taken
and receipt given which he may cash
in money Of the country on leaving it.
Sometimes the inspector merely pock-
cts the money, or will take a bride to
let the traveller proceed with all his
cash.
Americans of experience have
adopted the plan of carrying only
checks or drafts and thus avoid this
annoyance.
The Oldest form of travel swindle
takes the form Of trains stopping due
to lack Of coal. Then the train crew
plays cards until the passengers take
up collection with which to buy coal.
This swindle has been improved upon.
An official takes up tickets and then a
second official, who denounces the first
one as a fraud, makes the passengers
pay a second time.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Travellers in Orient Are Victims
Of SWindlerS.
Favorite Means Of Livelihood Among
Minor Officiais-Also Practice
Money and Ticket Frauds.

Constantinople. - Swindling travel
ers in connection with passport vises
has become one Of the favorite means
of livelihood of minor officials in the
Orient and Balkan countries. /.
Mrs. ]. Fl. X. Polly, wife of an
American business man living in Lon
don, recently was a victim Of this
fraud while travelling on the Orient
express, running from here to Paris.
When the train was passing from Bull
garla into Serbia an official in uniform
representing himself as Serb inspec-
tor, demanded to see her passports,
informed her that the wise obtained
at the Serb legation in Constantinople
was invalid and ordered her to leave
the train. After prOtestatiOns, he con-
scented to accept $35 to let her con-
tinue her journey. She had already
paid $50 for vises of her passport.
Before leaving COnstantinople many
travellers are obliged to give large
sums to get vises which later may be
declared invalid in this manner.
Since refugees from Russia are not
wanted in other countries, where they
may become public charges. few pass
ports are granted them officially, but
they are furnished with proper papers
for sums ranging from $40 to 500. As
these refugees are poor, they are often
Obliged to spend all but their travel
ing expenses for vises.
Another form Of swindle results
from the general European laws
against taking large sums Of silver
gold or paper money OF a given cOun
try into another.
To prevent such traffic governments
place officials at frontiers, who de
mand of each traveller the sum of for
eign cash on his cerson. If he declares
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Icy Blasts and Torrid Zephyrs
Are Imported" From Other
Countries as General Rule
NOT SUBJECT TO REGULATION
There Is No Way Of SURPRISING High
and Low Disturbances and A.
mospheric Pressure 10 Boss OF
It's Own Whims.

WashingtOn.-People who complain
about the weather, who kick because
it Is too hot, too cold or too windy, as
the case might be, are reminded by
the National Geographic society that
the weather Is not hOme-brewed.
Most of 1t comes sweeping in from
other countries, blowing up beyond
the three-mile limit without passport
or tariff restrictions. Some Of 1t might
bear the brand, MADE In the U. s.
A." but as a general thing 1t Is I'M
ported. For the most part the Ameri-
can supply Of rain, SHOWS, billiards.,
cold waves and hot waves, tOrnadOes
and tempests, come tumbling in from
the northwest and the west. A small
er percentage, the society reports,
come from the north and southwest,
but now and then the wind In the
Gulf of Mexico and the South Allan
tic kicks up it's heels and there Is
trouble.
But, say the learned men Of the So
ciety, 1t Is worth noting that none of
the weather enters the country
through the stretch Of the Atlantic
coast north of Cape Hatteras, the sec
ton into which pOurs the vast bulk
Of material imports, and in which &C.
ours a majority Of the main disasters
on American shores.
Alaska Storm Center.
There is some consolation to en-
thusiasts for the made in America"
movement, the society says, in the
fact that the great majority Of dis.
turbances that enter the states origi.
nate in Alaska, or in the great warm
cauldron of the North Pacific, between
the Aleutian islands and Hawaii
which Is almost United States sea.
So the weather Is not subject to reg.
ulatiOn. There is no way Of suppress
ing high and low disturbances. At
mospheric pressure Is boss Of Its own
whims. The grounding is not nearly
so accurate prophet as little vane
at the edge Of the sea.
"The areas of disturbance-'lows
and 'highs'-made familiar to large
numbers Of people by the rough circle:
and ellipses that indicate them on the
daily weather maps of the weather
bureau" says the society bulletin
"crOss the continent usually In tire,
or four days. Usually rain or snow
falls in the low areas or slightly Il
advance Of them. The rains that Oc
cur In the arid parts Of the West
however, usually follow in the pas
sage of the lows
The highs" that traverse the Uni
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Prehistoric Medicine Men Of
South America Were SkiIIfuI.
Scraped the Bone With Knives Of
Stone or Obsidian and Covered
Hole With Gourd.

New York.-Prehlstoric Indians Of
South America had crude medicine
men who removed splinters Of arrow
heads and stone bludgeons from
wounded warriors by cutting through
the skull with knives of stone or Oh
sidian and other simple instruments
wrought from copper and bronze.
Sometimes the patient lived; frequent
ly he went to the happy hunting
grounds.
These uncomfortable treatments OF
serious casualties from tribal skirm'
ishes still continue in remote areas Of
Bolivia. Evidence Of this has been
Rathcred by field workers from the
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
SoIons Send Pages
to Witness Circus

Sacramento, Cal. - "Mister
Speaker-r- "This Is circus
day." said Assemblyman Frank
L. Coombs, when the assembly
convened. II think that If this
assembly could take a day off
yesterday to go to the ball
game 1t might let the pages
have the afternoon to 60 to the
circus. We were all boys once,
except those Of us who were
girls" Then Mr.. Coombs, whose
suggestion was approved unani-
mously, gilded the lily by TAX
ing up n collection to pay the
pages admission, buy their pea
nuts and otherwise make the
day bright. and five small boys
stepping high and smiling wide
ly, left for the lair Of the blood
sweating behemoth.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
II. S.Weather Is
Not Home Brew

ted States have fewer places of origin
than the ''lows"-Alberta, North and
South Pacific, Rocky mountains and
Hudson bay. They usually bring
cooler weather. The bitterest cold
waves known in the region from the
Great Lakes eastward follow 'highs"
that drift down from the Hudson bay,
but judging by the recent winter per-
Torrance there was not much drift
ing.
The bulletin does not explain why
the last winter fell so far below the
usual average, or whether this may be
taken to mean that the approaching
summer will break all records for
heat. considering its early start.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
strengthening Strange!

The city visitor was consulting the
Oldest inhabitant. "How many peo-
pie in this town now?" he asked.
TWENTY-FIVE, SIR"
"How many did you have last Year,"
"Twenty-five, SIR"
"That's strange. Aren't there any
babies ever born in this town?"
Eyes, sir. But most every time a
baby is born, somebody leaves town."
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Where Resemblance stops.

THAT MISS Gabbleish reminds me of
church bell, only she hasn't the sense
Of one"
"What do you meant"
swell, a church bell has an empty
head and long tongue but it is dis.
Greet enough not to speak until it's
tOlled."
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
RECALLED, FOND MEMORIES

A director, who has reputation
for being rather harsh and Overbear'
ing in his methods was giving h's
leading man tongue lashing ti'"'
fairly turned the atmosphere piue
Through it all. however, the Vlct''i,
leaned gracefully against the wall anu
smiled happily.
"What the deuce are you erihh'''s
abOut?" barked the director. 10 you
like to be cursed"
"Why, yes l rather ENJOY IT,
chuckled the actor. ut recalls 'hs
good old days, you know, wheh
played Uncle Tom and was Deatei
to death every night by Simon lie
gree. Film Fun.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Anticipating an Order.

"Why did you throw those two
pieces of toast out there on the
grass7 asked the fat restaurateur.
II wanted to see if couple of
quail would come around and lay down
on 'em, sir" replied the uninterrupted
chef.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Saving His Energy.

so you are for prohibition?
Il am replied Uncle Bill Bottle.
top.
For what reason?"
THE simple reason that there isn't
any more use of arguing about it.
Washington Star.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Forceful Advice,

He-What did your father say when
you told him that my love for you was
like n gushing brook?
She-lie said: Dam it!'-Ex-
change
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Her Night.

Mr.. Styles-Where In the world
have you been. dear. in all this rain?
Mrs. Styles-DOwn to Mrs. Myle's
playing bridge.
But it's an awful night to be out"
But ! wasn't out tonight, dear;
managed to win"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Modest.

First Manager-l'm fed up with
these movie stars. Young Cecil Lee
grand is just the limit
Second Mannger-What's the mat
ter now?
First Manageable wants me to put
on a play he's written in which he's
featured as heavyweight cham
pion in the first part and win
ming jockey in the secOnd.-Filn
Fun.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
The Right Of Search

"Trouble ut homer" inquired the
sympathetic friend.
Serious" replied MeektOn. MY
wife went through my pockets last
night"
and you are highly indignant?
No. She is. She didn't find a
thing" Star.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Broke In on the BLESSING.

Weston, w. Va.-Prohibitlon officers
interrupted Dave Able as he was say.
Ing grace over his MONDAY meal and
arrested him on charge of operating
q moo nshine still.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
All Serene.

Il notice they're on very peaceful
terms with their next-door neighbors."
"Yes; the two families don't speak
to each other"-New York Sun.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

"Can The Ouija board read the ia.
ture?'
swell, don't know. Sometimes
F! think the future is blank page"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

The walkout Of the miners in the
TonOpah district Is entirely different
from the ordinary strike and close
investigation will really show that the
men have been taken advantage Of
and the mine owners desired to in
crease their own profits at the expense
of the mine wOrkers.-Sparks New
Tribune.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

Washington correspondence tells OF
intermingling Of cOngressmen-that
the Republicans sit with the Demo-
Gratis and vice versa, and that the
chamber Is not divided into "sides."
Why Is that done? To keep the DEM
ocrats from getting lonesOme?-Win.
nemucca (Nev.) Silver State.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
SUSPICIOUS,

Cleveland heredity expert tells us
thae the world is either ruled by
blondes now. or soon will be, ana we
wonder whether he is trying to jolly
some little body, OF to boom the
pcrOXiGe market.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT

Commercial information furnished free
Of charge. Catalogues supplied and COM
mArcial inquiries cheerfully answered
Write any firm above! Do ii nowi
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
A PERTINENT QUESTION
Monk-Say. old chap, what are
YOU behind the bars for?
In Botany,

OF what are you afraid. my childY"
Inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh. sir. the flowers! They are wild"
Replied the timid creature.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
Advice.

Here. young man, ia a simple plan.
Go to it;
II it is un-A.nerican,
Don't do it!
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

I'm handling the hOrdes of hobOes that
are beating their way across the coun-
try, and the situation Is daily becOm-
ing more serious. At ElkO warnings
have been issued to keep property un-
der lock and key.-Virginia City
(Nev.) Chronicle.
Clara Smith Hamon, who sold her.
self to Jake Hamon. the Oklahoma
politician, for Tx lingerie, limOusines
and lazy life. and killed him when
she saw 1t slipping away from her, Is
to appear in movies. The decent wOm-
anhood of this country should never
be insulted by having this woman
smile at them from the screen.-West-
ern Nevada Miner.
An anti-tObaccO association tells the
world that leech will die instantly II
1t sucks the blood of an habitual to-
baccO smoker. If there were some
way Of getting the information to
them, the leeches hJ doubt would con.
slider this news quite important. AZ
for us, we are sorry the same thing
isn't true of mOsquitOes.--IdahO Falls
UdahO) Times Register.
The Pioneer-RecOrd is pleased tC
state that no damage suit will be In
stituted against the city of Rupert by
the gentleman who slipped and fel
upOn the sidewalk the other day, al
he has almost recovered from the nc
cident. At first 1t was thought his hi
was fractured, but upon thorough ex
animation 1t was found that the Onl!
injury he Sustained was severe cut
small porti0n of the bottle beinl
quite firmly embedded in the flesh
Rupert (Idaho) Pioneer-RecOrd.
The fact that the consumption o
beer Is 75OOOO,O0O gallons less pc
wear In Germany than it was befOr
the war Is easily accounted for in tn
fact that there are several million
fewer beer-drinking Germans tina
there were before the war; 1t wOui
hardly be a supposable case that eac
Individual is going to drink twice
much as before simply to sustain tn
reputation Of the fatherland.-El
(Nev.) News.
Our writing friend, DIR. Fran
Crane, does not believe In some AM
modern trades. He says the Turl
keep their women covered from hea
to foot. but they are not the mo-
progressive, intelligent or even mora
--GOldfield New Tribune.
Bill Buckwheat says that he thinl
the shack to the land" movement Is
mighty good thing. And he's golr
- get back to the land as soon
y dampness disappears. = uts
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

Bill Buckwheat says that he thinks
the shack to the land" movement Is a
! mighty good thing. And he's going
10 get back to the land as soon as
Ae dampness disappears. = Utah
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

TWELVE BUG POWER.
Papa Spider-Hey son, run out
light is getting low.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

As allied armies advance further
into Germany, many German manu-
facturers move their factories to the
interior. That's significant. They
must look for a long invasiOn.-Twin
Falls (Idaho) Times.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11
nter-Mountain
Editorial Hilites
Selected for Western Newspaper Union
Service by RIA. c. and &. b. w.

Henry Ford Is still fighting the Jews,
and when he gets that out of his sys.
TEN we suppose he'll turn his atten
ton to home Disqualification UdahOl
News.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

Nevada towns along the main line
railroads are facing serious problem
In handling the hordes Of hobOes that
are beating their way across the coun-
try, and the situation Is daily becom-
ing more serious. At ElkO warnings
have been issued to keep property un-
der lock and key.-Virginia City
New Chronicle
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

Eastern bankers report that money
Is easy. We hadn't noticed it. That
we get hold of seems to be most un'
easy and wants to he going on its way
Brigham City (Utuh) Journal.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

A Scotch professor says that the
world may be ruled by race Of biped
reptiles In a million years. If this Is
40, Lenine and TrOtzky are consider
ably ahead of their time.--GOldfleld
(Nev.) Tribune.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

Americanism is still supreme in
America, and Haywood and his flag
hating followers must serve the just
sentences imposed for their fragrant
disloyalty.--Park City (Utah) Record.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

Our writing friend, DIR. Frank
Crane, does not believe In some anti
modern TRADES. He says the Turks
keep their women covered from heau
to foot. but they are not the most
progressive, intelligent or even moral
--Goldfield (Nev.) Tribune.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

That farmer who sold % calfskins
and only got enough to buy himself
one pair of shoes was certainly
caught In skin game.-Hailey
UdahO) Times News-Miner.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

What ever the answer may he to the
railroad riddle may prove to be, the
development of inland waterways
should prOceed.--Kemmerer CWyO.)
Camera.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-11

And every time that Japan begins
to zap about zap, the total disarma
ment proposition seems to take Il
watchful waiting attitude. - Butte
(MOnt.) Miner.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-04-12
GRASSHOPER MENACE
CONFERENCE OPENS TODAY

Regina, SaSk.. April l1.-Co-opera-
ton between the western Canadian
provinces and the northwestern states
of the United States in a battle agains,
grasshoppers will be discussed Mt a
conference here Tuesday, attended by
representatives of those sections, in
Guiding Montana, North Dakota and
Minnesota
The conference viii be presided over
by Professor Norman Griddle of the
Dominion department Of agriculture,
and will be attended by special COM
mittee appointed at Winnipeg last fall.
when representatives of the dominion
and provincial governments and of
North Dakota conferred on the grass
hopper situation. Members Of the
committee are G. V. Michener, of the
Manitoba agricultural college; Mop
Tullis, field crops commissioner for
Saskatchewan; Professor Griddle,
Stewart Lockwood, Of Fargo, entomol-
ogist for the state Of North Dakota.
Professor Ruggles, representing Min
nesota, and Professor Cooley from
Montana, will attend. and it is expected
the Alberta department Of agriculture
will also be represented.
Results of investigations conducted
last year will be discussed. and the
conference will also take up the ques-
ton of devising a more economical
poison bait.