The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-05-23
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
a RESUME OF THE WEEKS
DoINGS IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit Of tho
Busy Reader
WESTERN


s1xty-nine days ago for Bellingham
Wash, was abandoned at San Fran
cisco. 1t usually requires fifteen days
70 make the trip and the ship has moi
been heard from since It's departure
Fire wrecked the Lincoln county
Neb.. courthouse at North Platte fol-
lowing which it was discovered that
the safe in the county treasurer's
Office had been looted of 100000.
Plans to erect 100000 building
ut Denver were announced by officers
OF the local chapter of Dali Sumaku,
national Japanese fraternal society.
The order has 500 members In Colo
RADIO.
The Chicage.-Rock Island and
Pacific have asked the interstate
commerce commission for authority
to issue $S,55O,00O In equipment trust
certificates to be used in part pay
ment OF equipment purchases involv-
ing over S1O,0O0,0OO.
Famed by a high wind, a spec
tacular fire almost wiped out the
plant of the Washington Fir Products
company on the Duwamish waterway
near Seattle and menaced several
other lumber mills nearby before 1t
was put under control.
Three yeggs blew open the safe of
the First National Bank at Moab,
Utah and escaped with approximately
$1,000 in cash. A resident of Moab
named Greene came by the bank
while the men were at work and
when he apparently discovered some
thing was wrong and stepped up to
the bank window one OF the men on
guard ordered him to raise his hands
and then an accomplice came from
the bank and Greene was bound and
gagged.
Photographs and fingerprints of
Clara Phillips, escaped hammer muir
deress. are on the way to Tegucigal-
pa, Honduras, where she is believed
to be under arrest, according to an
announcement from DR.. F. M. Rod
riguez, Honduran CONSUL at Los
Angeles.
Tbd American fishing schooner ST.
loan of Seattle suspected Of poach-
ms. In Solander bay on the west
coAbt of Vancouver Island, British
Columbia, was captured by the
Canadian fisheries patrol boat Ma
hspina, after the schooner struck
broadside by volley of shots from
the patrol boat, had been scuttled by
. crew that fed leaving one wound
ed man, who was taken prisoner. II
GENERAL
The ruling of Attorney General s
Daugherty against the serving of s
liquor on American ships on the high t
seas was overturned by the supreme T
court, which held ut the same time,
however. that the ban prohibiting both
American and foreign ships from
bringing liquor stocks into American .
ports under bond was legal and en- .
Iorceable.
Secret service agents and members Q
u the Now York bomb squad boarded a
he incoming Hunson liner American
Legion and arrested Philip weisen- ),
hal Of New York In connection with .
the embezxlement of 100000 from ;,
The American Express company in a :,
Ieries of international transactions N
involving forged manifests. T.
Injunction proceedings asking that
he federal courts put an end to GER a,
ain operations of the Western Pine g
association, compris- ~
NIB about 90 corporations, were filed .,
" the federal government in st. Paul. &C
dinn-, at the direction OF Attorney If
General Daugherty. RI
Student hazing in Northwestern &C
University at Chicago added shock In
O its annals when the skeleton OF
leighton Mount, youth who dlsap- tn
'eared II September. 1921, was found ii,
In an old breakwater. tif
Leaders Of the strike OF railroad 80
hopmen have abandoned their case 80
t Chicago in defense against the fed Nv
raj Injunction obtained by Attorney II"
General Daugherty, last September,
nd announced that their principle 70,
ontention In the case had been up re,
cid. co,
The Hippodrome New York's great thu
1t playhouse has closed its doors REF
'r good, The great playhouse will sla
lake way for a large business struc- ref
ire. to
Albert Peterson, a policeman was
lot and killed and Guy Carlson, 90,
equity sheriff, was dangerously
ounded at Mitchell, Neb., by Har-
d Randall, whose arrest was sought n'
, charge of bootlegging. Randall co'
'caped. ore
tai
Miss Dolores Dixon, who recently o.,
Fought a suit for $4,000 damages
yainst "Babev Ruth, the New York 70
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