The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-02-28
NEWS OF A WEEK IN.
A CONDENSED FORM.
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE
happenings That Are Makino History
information Gathered from all
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Iines
WESTERN

>A~o were rocked and dis
erict within a radius of 10 miles wa,
shaken by the 1Jrce OF an explosion
OF nftrogiycerfne ut the magazine OF
ehe Illinois Torpedo company at Tur
key Mountain seven miles south n,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, according TO fnfor
matSons. The driver OF nitpo wag.
on was loading his truck at the mag.
Azine when he dropped q two quart
can OF tile explosives. With the ex.
ception OF small piece Of his sea-.
no trace OF the truck or driver was
found
The Kuklux Klan makes sweeudne
denial of all of the statements and
Charges contained In the petitlpn
recently filed by the state to oust
the organization from Kansas, in an
answer filed with the supreme court
et Topeka.
Lieutenant Frank Honsfnger and
Sergeant j. Kelley, both of Kelly
ueld, were seven miles east of Lore
90, when the De Haviland combat
plane from which they were drop
ping bombs In the war maneuvers
being enacted before Brigadier Gen
eral William F. Mitchell. assistant
chief OF the aero service OF the Uni
ted States army. fell.
The Montana Soldiers compensa-
non measure was held invalid in a
decision handed down by the Mon
tana supreme court.
The Commercial Pacific cable be-
tween Honolulu and Midway island,
which went out Of commission Feb
ruary 2. has been repaired and SER
vice again resumed.
Oontrol Of the Central Pacific mil
way company by the Southern ia
Gfic company under lease and stock
ownership and under terms of a
traffic agreement protecting the use
Of the Northern Unconstitutional
route, was approved by the inter-
state commerce commission.
Mrs. Mary Nolan, who as Califor-
MAS first woman who will succeed
her husband, Representative Nolan
from the Fifth District, has left her
home for Washington.
-Four hours after the passenger |
liner Wilhelmina collided with the |
wooden motor ship Sierra, at sea |
about twenty miles from San Fran
cisco, at AIS o'clock Thursday morn
Ing, the crew of the Sierra had TAX
en- to life boats, while the Wilhel-
NINA was in no danger and was IN
damaged except for a dented bow.
James Pingree. farmer president of
the Pingree National Bank OF Ogden,
faced trial In the federal court ON
seven couHS charging him with mis-
application Of funds belonging to the
bank. |:
GENERAL
The four wealthy La Montague l.
brothers, one OF them the famous In Is
terna tional poloist. Rene NJ. La Mon
tagne, will view the world from the lie
window cells in the Essex county j,
|ail In New Jersey as the penalty of (
being caught at boootlegging to the =
upper ten OF New York society. Iu
Roy Mitchell. negro. has admitted
killing eight persons In and near
Waco. Texas. within O little more t
han a year. County Attorney C. S. e
Farmer announced. Two negroes v
rere tried and convicted for the Il
,laying Of Mr.. and Airs. Barker and b
Turk, the killing of whom Mitchell o
confessed. n
More than half the bodies of the
miners entombed In Nine No. of 81
be Phelph-Dodge corporation at 9
lawson, N. NJ. by an explosion last ~
thursday had been recovered Two IL
{ the men walked out of the mine o
nharmed Friday morning. There
Tcre I'D men in the mine when the b,
last occurred. The death list prob tn
bly, win be 100. IN
Thomas A. Edison, who celebrated -
10 seventy seventh birthday Mon
,y expects to work until he Is 100
ears old. Judging by my ancest- "
rs." he said sunday. al I'm really on -
middle-aged now. Judging by ~
y feelings. It comes 10 about the ~
me thing" ~
Joseph b. Kemp was found not pa
rilty by = jury at Lumborton. N. c.. wi
n murder which was committed In FL
rs WI
Former Judge James Gay Gordon
NJ ask the court for permission ma
St week to have Harry X. Thaw. in:
syer OF Stamford White, released Sh
I'M the Pennsylvania hospital for a
Q insane for a weeks vacation. so lbu
can visit his mther, Mrs Mary lin
Gely T'haw in Pittsourg, it was sh(
,rned. inc
The last American troops to re-