The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-07-19
NEWS STORY OF
The PAST week
a Complete History Of What Has
Been Happening Th,ousho~
he Void
WESTERN

ENCOURAGEMENT OF FUNDS belonging to
the First National bank Of that town,
was arrested and turned over to gov
eminent officials at Portland, Oregon.
With the shearing season nearing an
end In the idaho district interest has
conferred on the shipment from the
Gray's Lake region Of 100000 pounds
Of wool sold to st. Louis for SO cents
. pound. The lot was the largest ship
ment and was brought to one weeks
shipments totaled thirteen cars, St.
Louis and Boston dealers getting the
bulk.
A civil service examination to fill the
postmastership at Salt Lake will be
held July 25. The office, which pays
$1,000. will not become vacant until
September 8. In the examination Of
candidates education and training will
constitute twenty of the hundred
points the remaining eighty points
cover business experience and fitness
AZ regards metallurgical operations,
1872 will probably OCCUPY q unique
place in mining history, in that two
large milling plants of the most mod
ern type have been put In operation.
The first new mill to start treatment
Of ore during the year was the Silver
King Coalition Mines company's plant
at Park City; the second, that Of the
Utah Consolidated Mining company.
Excessive heat and deficient mols-
ture, with danger Of premature ripen
Ing and shrunken yield, have had much
to do with making wheat 90 higher in
price.
After completing 15O-mile trip over
hand from Filler. Idaho. the wagon train
successful bidders on the Elko-Hal-
leck road contract, has arrived at
Coin, four miles east of Elko. A
camp has been built, and the first
earth moved on the $4,000 link of
the Victory highway east Of this city.
It is expected that the entire twenty
mile strip Of graveled highway will be
completed this season. with perhaps
the exception Of the work incident to
wetting down the suface of the gravel
topping.
GENERAL
Adoption Of . program for a non.
pastiss9 political campaign this fall to
elect the friends of organized labor,
and an overwhelming defeat Of the
radical forces that favored recognition
Of the Russian soviet government,
marked the closing session Monday of
The American Federation of Labor con
vention atCincinnati.
An invisible peril that has been Turk
Ing for months, menacing thousands
of lives and perhaps causing death in
many causes, was barred when the
New York World obtained the admis-
sion of the department of agriculture
that II has condemned as unsafe a vast
quantity of chlorOform sold from the
army surplus stores. This chloroform,
put up in small tin containers and in
tended for an enesthesia, has been
distributed to surgeons and to hospi.
mls throughout the county, and there
Is no way of telling ut present how
much of 1t has already been used in
connection with operations About
100000 cans are said to have been
sold and 1t is estimated that possibly
onequarter of it has decompoaed to
such an extent that to admipiS.er IL to
patient would be 20 invite death.
William Rockefeller, who with his
older brother. John d., built up the
family millions in the oil industry,
died of pneumonia complicated by a
recurrence of kidney trouble, at his
country estate overlooking the Hudson
river from North Tarrytown. He was
81 years old.
Governor Len Small was acquitted
Of a charge of conspiracy to embez-
zle Illinois state funds, after one OF
the most sensational trails In the his
tory of Illinois. The jury was out
only an hour and thirty-five minutes.
Lack of nerve on the part OF Sheriff
Melvin Thaxton OF Williamson county
Illinois and the killing of two union
miners by guards were two of the
cases assigned for the massacre Of
twenty-five strikebreakers in report
made over long-distance telephone Il
Adjutant General Black by Major Gen
eral Milton ]. Foreman.
Generally favorable conditions fol
the harvesting Of grain and hay ant
for the cultivation Of crops, except IL
some northeastern and north centra
states. were recorded by the weathe
bureau in its weekly weather and crol
review.
Fifty thousand workers Of the mon