The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-05-09
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 the
Busy Reader
WESTERN


Nonstop long-distance danci
tnghts are under ban in the lar
facific coast cities, the authorities
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portlun
ore, Seattle and Tacoma, Wasl
nave announced. "Tiie first coup
tnat starts it," said Sheriff Matt Sta
wich OF Seattle, Il will put In Jail {
charges of insanity"
Herman Leaf, of Los Angelo
through his father, ]. Leaf, has file
a suit against the Hoffman Cand
company asking damages of $3.50
on the allegation he was disfigure
Tor life when he broke front foot
on nail In a piece of candy he a.
serted had been made by the defend
ant company.
With all highway communication
to the north cut off and the stee
bridges washed away, flood waters O
the Neuches and Sabine rivers con
tinued to rise in what promised to b,
the worst flood In the history o.
southern Texas.
Waterspouts were added to the list
OF unusual phenomena occurring in
the Pacific, beginning with Saturday 8
tidal wave and disturbances. The
British steamer Marivi reported to
the United States photographic office
at San Francisco by radio that in the
north Pacific she sighted two enorm-
GUS spouts, each reaching a height
estimated at 1000 feet. The Marivi
was approximately four miles away
from them, but was pitched and twist
ed about helplessly by the swirling
waters.
Armed posses at Spokane are seek
ing man whose advances caused a
young girl to lep from his speeding
car, and who, when pursued, shot and
wounded the motorcycle officer pur-
suing him. The girl. Gladys Homer,
aged Is, is In hospital with frac-
tured skull. possibly dying. The mo-
torcycle officer. ]. II. Cashatt, is in
another hospital with a bullet in his
right lung.
Because she would not give an au-
tomobile ride to three boys she pass
Cd on the road near Denver, Miss
Nellie Carroll was fired on by the
youths and seriously wounded.
Instead Of people going to church
on Sunday, the church will be
brought to them by radio under a
plan proposed by the Radio church
OF America which was Incorporated
last week ut Sacramento, California.
There Is virtually no good" whisky
on sale In Seattle today liquor being
sold Is "the vilest kind of stuff
virtually poison" Roy c. Lyle, feder-
n prohibition director for Washing
ton, declared in a statement
GENERAL
Solitary confinement in the Eastern
State penitentiary for not less than
Tx. nor more than ten years, was the ]
Ientence given to Henry G.. Brock,
Wealthy Philadelphia clubman, for
ZilIing three persons with his auto
mobile while he was intoxicated and {
peeding away.
A bill recently passed by the Mich '
gan legislature imposing tax OF /
wo cents gallon on all gasoline I
old within the state. was vetoed by a
Governor Alex ]. Groesbeck. The gov \
rnor, in his veto message, charged s
he bill unjust In that 1t would be a n
AK not only upon automobile own
RS, but upon all other users of gaso- ;,
ne. y
Sheriff j. r. Jones of Tallahassee, s.
lorida made personal profit OF 500 t.
a each prisoner leased by Leon W
)unty to the Putnam Lumber COM
any, he testified before the legisla- te
We committee investigating prison f
,nctitions in Florida. q,
The Right Rev. d. S. futile, pre- N
ding bishop of the Episcopal church
the United States died at his Home OF
St. Louis, following an illness of 81
'veral weeks. Bishop futile was h,
J, and the Oldest Anglican Bishop in
le world from point of service. :.
The grain futures trading act was K,
clared valid and constitutional at he
ashington by the supreme court. 1t fe
as the second time the court had to
ssed on the validity of grain fu- s,
re trading law, previous statute of
sed on the taxing power of the dc
deral government having been held in
by
President Harding probably will ask
ngress at Its next session to reduce M
, income tax. weeks disclosure tn
1t the treasury will receive this tn
ar S2OO,000,0O0 in income tax. Last ex
ek's disclosure that the treasury mt
j receive this year S200,000,000 in tw