The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-22
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS.
A RESUME OF THE WEEKS
OOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

OF Denver, on trial in the United dis
trict court on charges of forging
permit for an application to shi
liquor into Colorado, was found guilt
Wednesday. The jury deliberated on
~ ten minutes.
Cloudbursts have caused the Bi
Horn River to leave its banks flood
ing the entire country along it
course in Wyoming. The town @
Thermopolis was flooded to a dept
OF three feet, and outside communica
ton was shut off. Nuemrous rail
road bridges were swept away by tn,
flood waters.
Idaho, according to the postoffict
department, now has PIT rural free
delivery routes, aggregating $751;
miles of service. One new route was
added last year and 10 routes were
extended for total of pit miles.
Daily reports on the potato mar
kets of the country with special ref
erence to southern Idaho and also
crop conditions and miscellaneous
shipping information will be broad
casted from Caldwell, Idaho begin
ming about August 1, by the federal
department Of agriculture.
The state of Idaho sold 23627 acres
of state land in Canyon county Thurs
day, 1t was announced Friday by l.
II. Nash, state land commissioner
Tho ~ fha @
869.12 Part of the land is located in
the alkali bottoms IL miles south and
west Of Caldwell and the remaining
portion is along the Snake river, Mr..
Nash said the bidding was fair.
Some Of the land sold for $36 an
acre.
The appointment Of e. ]. Baird of
Soda Springs, Idaho as deputy COM
missioner Of reclamation was an
nounced Saturday by w. G. Swendsen
state commissioner of reclamation.
Mr.. Baird will also act as a water
master on the Bear river. AS deputy
commissioner he will have charge of
the distribution OF the stored waters
In Bear Lake.
GENERAL
Stormfield-the home of Samuel L. |
Clemens mark Twain) in the clos |
ing years Of his life-a picturesque |
villa on a ridge at Redding, Conn. |
was burned Wednesday, 1t was I'M
occupied for many years after Mr..
Clemens death and was bought last
December by Mrs. Margaret e. Givens
of New York.
Twelve hundred persons charged
with violating Detroit's traffic laws.
constituting the largest docket in
court history, faced judges at Detroit
Wednesday. Eight hundred of the
accused are charged with speeding.
The provincial police, securing On
tario for the six bandits who fought
q pistol battle with dozen bank
in Torontos financial
district and escaped with $4,000 af-
ter wounding three employees, receiv
ed word that the ashes of a touring
car, believed to be that in which the
robbers fled, were found on the Gar
rison road between Buffalo and Fort !
Erie, Ont.
Nobody in Texas slept under blan |
kets Wednesday night The night
seemed as hot as the day before and I
Thursday seemed about to repeat c
such soaring temperatures of as ITO
It Wichita Falls, los at Temple end @
Marshall, 107 at Paris and Omaha. n
Texas; 106 at Gainesville, 1O5 at n
rexarkana, 104 at Fort Worth and q
Waco, and 1O3 at Austin and Dallas. /,
dost Of these figures were records /,
or the year. O
An explosion In the plant of the c
United States Fireworks Manufac- r
uring company at Cardington, just o
utside the western limits of Phila-
elphia, is reported to have killed n
t least one person and injured a o
lumber OF others. n
Department Of justice officials at :"
said Thursday that libel q
ork federal courts by District At
orney Hayward, to confiscate the Is
quor seized recently from foreign IN
ners. Instructions have gone for IL
ard from Assistant Attorney General u
Villiebrandt to Mr.. Hayward, with b
dvice to limit the present proceed So
lgs at least to confiscation Of the u
quor. IL
German marks dropped to 0O03H
ents, new low record for all time. q
the New York foreign exchange III
larket Thursday. This is at the ss
lite of nearly 31S,OOO marks to the 81
dollar W
Expenditures of the federal govern or
ent "chargeable against ordinary
,ceipts" during the fascal year end 60
Inn to<o 90