The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-11-28
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS.
a RESUME OF THE WEEKS
oOINGs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events OF tho Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-.
pared for the Benefit of the
Busy Reader
wEsrERN

Mayor B. F. Stapleton, Wednesda,
authorized an investigation OF the al
legged Ku Klux Khan display Of burn
ing crosses which startled Denvel
residents Saturday night. Clever
big crosses blazed simultaneously IL
various parts OF the city. one on the
state capitol steps.
BY locking their arms together
Lewis and Frank Pierce, brothers
broke the fall Of Wilbur Wolfe, an oil
worker. after he had toppled 80 feet
nom the head of an oil derrick at
Lodi, California. Lewis Pierce suf-
fered sprained wrist and a crushed
leg, but Wolfe escaped unhurt.
Traffic was halted on a busy street
corner at San Francisco while the
Rev. A. II. Dratham, Catholic
priest, knelt In the middle of the
street and prayed over John S. Ed
wards, 10, who a moment before had
been struck and fatally injured by a
street car.
A state charge of contributing to
the delinquency OF his 15-year-old
son, Roger B. Laswell, has been filed
against Beecher Laswell, capitalist of
Los Angeles, In addition to a city
complaint charging he and his son
with assault and battery, In connec-
ton with an alleged attack last week
by young Laswell upon Rev. II. b.
Gooden, head master OF Harvard |
school. A complaint charging de-
iinquency also has been issued
against the boy
One woman died of injuries, two
others are In q serious condition and
third is suffering from a broken
ankle as the result OF an auto striking
group OF pedestrians on the high
way north OF Sandy, Utah Sunday
evening. Mrs. Christina Hanson, SO,
wife OF Andrew Hanson died at her
lone from fracture at the base of
he skull. Mrs. Annie Egbert, 4S, is in
! serious condition with double
racture OF the left arm, five broken
lbs and cut beneath the jaw from
which her tongue protruded when she {
vas picked up r
The United States had authority {
he supreme court held Monday to '
ondemn land for new site for that 0
art of American Falls, Idaho, which t
adj to be relocated because of flood
TX resulting from the construction of
dam across the Snake river. .
GENERAL +,
Twenty-Five girls in the Juvenile II
etention Home at Chicago, attempt u
to escape with knotter sheets 81
lille four men in motor car circled
slin and again outside the building. a
he men drove away when the upris- tf
& squelched. sc
Two bandits Wednesday shot and
lied two bank messengers in an
evated station of the West End
bway line at Fifty-fifth street and 10
wv Utrecht avenue, Brooklyn, 1T
atched leather bag containing ie'
3.6U7 from one of their victims and M
ID through an awed crowd in an IN
tomobile driven by confederate. va
The Oklahoma senate Wednesday 81
ternoon refused to grant tile pro- -,
cution the right to dodge martial :"
" courts OF the Indictment, in the ~
parchment trial of Governor ]. c.
alton. This was a big victory for ~
alton and apparently gives him the az
mt to bring in evidence on alleged
! klux Khan floggings In justifica-
n OF martial law and in the effort ce,
show that a conspiracy has been be-
med to remove him from office. in
A bomb Wednesday killed J. A. OF
rnes, prominent Texas real estate OF
iler; mangled Jessie, his 12-year-
son, who died twenty minutes no
err wrecked the Barnes dwelling ,r,,
l shattered every window in tile 60,
ok. Mrs. Barnes was cut by fly loo
glass. The bomb was in a box ish
tut ten inces long and five inches Ton
lie. 1t was sent by express from
l Antonio.
-nree passengers and cOlOred
ter were injured when Great Yves. up
a passenger train No. /, southbound pal
the track Monday one mile east eno
Marshalltown, Iowa. No'
he anticipated pref Christmas gift 1
of the William Wrig- 1--WE
Jr., company, was announced apr
1day in the form of stock melon as
an exchange Of one share of old nov
* for three new with maintenance que
he present dividend OF 50 share ma.
81 year on each share of new ted
X payable monthly. al
be British government has noti- b
the treasury that its next pay dec
t on the war debt, due December lnd'
Ill be made in Liberty bonds. The s1nf
nent will include $23,O00,000 on witt
principal OF the obligation and VII
100000 interest. >
deral tax revision under a pro- mas
apDlyiug reductions to the entire Deel