The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-08-30
NEWS HISTORY OF
THE PAST week
A Complete History Of What Has
Been Happening Throughout
the World
WESTERN

We9 eHN
The Interstate commerce commits.
sion has held that existing carload
rates on apples from Idaho and Utah
points. by way of Salt Lake City, to
Btsbee. Douglas and Nogales. Ariz.,
are unreasonably high, and directed
that the rates be reduced to $1.4Oh
per hundred pounds.
Never in the history Of the inter.
mountain west have there been more
motorists touring than this summer.
Since the latter part Of June they
have swarmed into this district by
the hundreds daily. All previous es-
timated and actual records have been
shattered by at least q Is per cent
increase.
News has been received by the for.
estry officials that examination for
forest rangers will be held at the head
quarters of the various forestry super
visers October "A. The service is
anxious to have as many qualified
men as possible enter the examina-
tions. An examination for scalers
will be held October Is and %, but the
places Of examination have not yet
been announced.
1t took a mule driver, five city fire.
men, q veterinarian, a hardware man,
. blacksmith and about 1000 spect-
tors two hours and five minutes to
release . diminutive mule. which
caught its foot in a street drain pipe
at Kansas City.
Samuel NJ. Vauclain, president of
the Baldwin Locomotive works. an
nounced receipt Of an order from the
Union Pacific Railroad for Is locomo-
tives to cost 100000. Construction
OF these engines will begin at once.
After severely knitting Deputy War
den Arthur Muchow, four prisoners es-
capped from the South Dakota peni-
Tertiary at Sioux Falls, taking War
den George w. Jamison with them.
The prisoners fled In a motor car
parked by tourist just outside the
prison walls.
GENERAL
Republican leaders are alarmed
over reports that the president will
not seek another term.
Northwestern flour markets remain
very unsettled.
Three big steel corporations, en-
ploying nearly 100000 workers, have
announced a 20 per cent wage increase
for all day laborers in their manu-
featuring plants.
Increased wages averaging AZ per
cent and affecting between 10000 and
10000 nOnunion miners In Westmore-
land and Fayette counties, West Vir.
ginia. were decided upon at a meet
ing Of operators, 1t was officially an
nounced.
The state governments of the Unit
cd States have total debt Of $1.O71,.
SOC, 961.28, or $10.1S for every man,
woman and child in the country, ac-
cOrdipg to q nationwide surveye OF
stale, finance just completed by the
Bank Of America. New York.
Readjustment Of wages bringing a
close approach to normally as applied
to mining has resulted in a return of
the pendulum toward greater mining
activity than has been experienced in
the history Of Alaska since the boom
days.
Mrs. Warren G. Harding. whose re-
cent gift Of 500 toward fund to buy
oats and hay for Glover, the 51-year
old horse, brought her an offer Of hon.
orary membership in the Nyack So
ciety for the prevention Of Cruelty
to Animals, she accepted the honor.
English women athletes won the
first International woman's track meet
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United States, France, Switzerland
and Czecho-Slovakia. The American
team was second. France third, Czecho
Slovakia fourth and Switzerland fifth.
The 1922 area of sugar cane, not
including sorghum cane, in the eight
principal states producing sugar cane
II estimated by the United States de-
partment Of agriculture to be $4,000
acres, or about 30 per cent of the
harvested cane acreage of 1921. This
is a preliminary estimate and includes
the acreage intended to be harvested
for seed and syrup. as we'll as for
sugar.
A grand American trap shooting
handicap will be held at Atlantic City
soon.
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