The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-09-26
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
4 RESUME OF THE WEEKS
ooiNGs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for tho Benefit Of the
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WESTERN

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With $4,000 men out Of employment
because of the shutdown OF industrie
the economic loss In Omaha's waite
famine was declared to have amount
ed to more than 100000. DR.. A
M. Pinto, city health commissioner
also warned that danger of a typhoi,
epidemic Is increasing hourly. TIL,
famine was caused by Missouri riv
or caven, which filled city mains Will
mud Tuesday.
Decision to open 42,700 acres OF
public lands in California and Colora-
do for homestead entry by former ser.
vice men was announced Wednesday
by the interior department. The
tract includes $4,000 acres in Imperial
county, Calf, near the towns of West
moreland and Dixieland, and 400
acres in Montrose and Gunnison coun-
ties, Colorado, near Ouray.
Fertile farms and ranches In the
Arkansas valley In southeastern Colo
RADIO experienced one of the worst
floods in recent years Wednesday
night and early Thursday morning
when an immense irrigation reservoir
on the Apishapa river north of Fowler
cracked and precipitated great rush
OF water down the valley.
Robbers blew two safes In jewelry
manufacturing shops at Los Angeles,
Friday night and escaped with Jewels
valued at $4,000, according to the
police estimate. The robbers over
powered the night Waterman, tied
him to chair, forcing him to witness
their operations.
The Equity Packing company of
Fargo, North Dakota, whose affairs
have been involved in controversy for
several years, has filed a petition ad-
uniting its insolvency.
GENERAL
First Lieutenant Walter II. Hirsch-
emiller, a service officer in the army |
air service, was killed and eighteen |
other reserve officers in training at |
Camp Mead, Nd, were injured Thurs
day in the collapse of an old barn
in which they had sought shelter from
the rain.
Two marine officers were instantly
killed and another probably fatally in
jured when two planes in which they
were flying, collided at an altitude of
approximately 5000 feet, plunged to
the ground.
Eastern, southern and mid-western
states, Thursday. shivered and dom
cool August weather were broken and
light frosts were reported in section
gripped by the cool wave.
The Cuban government Thursday
became the first Of Americas wartime
debtors to pay off the total amount
Of its loan. The second and final
payment on the balance of S6,9SS.000,
owed by Cuba was paid to the treasury |
by the National City Bank of New
York, acting for the Cuban govern |
ment. {
All records for a flight across the :
continent were broken Friday when :
Pilot Wesley L. Smith Of the air mail :
service landed at Hampstead field. !,
New York at lila o'clock eastern .
time completing a relay
nail flight from San Francisco in 20
hours and IA minutes.
Scale committees OF the miners :
Inion in three anthracite districts of v
Friday. authorized their A
fficers to order all miners to cease n
york on September ]. n
One man was killed. another was s
fatally wounded and an I'M u
nown number of others were Injured
t midnight Saturday when citizens of d
'arnegie, a suburb of Pittsburg. and f
obed members of the Ku Klux Klan T
dashed at the Glendale bridge over S
'hartiers creek. fl
A westbound mail train on the Chi -
ago, Burlington & Quincy railroad ="
lunged into the ditch at Russell,
owa, early Saturday when one of the OF
-ucks of the coal tender was derailed es
nd tore up a section OF track. d;
Nine persons, including a family of -
We, we're drowned Sunday when ~
lirty-foot gasoline launch sunk in the
river near South st. Paul. SO
ct passenger Of the launch surviv- a
l. The catastrophe occurred as a re
arty of picnickers was returning to W
le Twin Cities from Pine Bend. de
A negro mob was formed 10 miles
est OF Goldsboro, N. c., ito get" eA
ebert Hood, white farmer who was pc
;quitted by jury of the killing Of =.
negro. Hood was informed of the -
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