The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-04-11
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Nephi P. Pierce. Sergeant of th
Salt Lake police force, who was she
on the night Of November 27, by bar
dts, died at Salt Lake hospits
Monday where he had been confine
since the shooting The two robber
were apprehended the following da
an gave the names Of Arthur Haye
and Robert Allen. Both were ser
fenced to terms In the state prisol
and are now confined there. Wit
the death OF the sergeant the Grim
inals are now liable to trial OF
charges Of murder.
Sentences of from one to fourteen
years each in San Quentin peniten
tiary were imposed by Superior
Judge C. o. Busick of California, OF
eight alleged members of the l. w
W. convicted last week on the charge
OF criminal syndicalism. Some Of the
men created a minor disturbance
while they were being sentenced.
Following domestic trouble o. K
Exum Of Pocatello, Idaho, shot and
killed his wife, and then turned the
gun on himself. Exum is not expect
ed to live.
Pearl Cockrell, held in albuquerque
N. NJ, has confessed that she nursed
one Of the bandits who was shot in
the robbery Of federal reserve bank
truck Of 100000 here last December,
according to statement by Rugg
Williams chief of ploice, of Denver.
Approximately six thousand barrels
OF oil in battery of thirteen 500 bar
rel capacity tanks of the Conan Oil
company is burning in the Tonkawa,
Oklahoma field. A heavy cloud of
smoke hovers over Ponca City, more
than 20 miles away. The local Off
ces Of the Conan company have not
been advised as to the cause Of the
fire.
With the exception of Sanup's Boy
and Old Posey, both of whom may be
dead, the entire band Of regenade
Piute Indians, of Southern Utah, are
under arrest. There are now 81 In
dams under guard at Bluff and Bland
ing, Utah, and at least four OF the
captured Indians will be indicted for
fnsurrection and prosecuted by the
federal government.
Salt Lake county Sheriff B. r. Har-
ries must stand trial in the Third
district court to establish right and
title to the office he now holds. This
Is embodied In the decision OF Judge
McCrea who overruled the demurrer
to the amended complaint filed by W
citizens seeking to GUST Harries from
the office OF sheriff on the grounds
of religious interference in politics.
Samuel D. Nicholson, United States
senator from Colorado, died at his
lone in Denver. Carcinoma, or can
,er of the liver, caused his death. he
lad been Ill for nearly a month.
GENERAL
A policeman's overcoat, used as a
life net, saved the lives OF two wo-
nen who jumped from windows OF
lazing apartment building at Chlca-
%.
Flying over the one kilometer
curse in Dayton, Ohio, wilbur
Wright field, Lieut.. r. L. Vaughan,
y making an average of 233.SI miles
n hour. set a new worlds record.
lie exceeded the worlds record OF
1901 made by Sadi Lecointe, the
'rench flying ace, by SO Vaughan
from Logan, Utah.
Four persons, three women and a
ian. were killed in a spectacular
re which swept through the Prince
IN apartments in the theatrical dis
let in New York.
The American Telephone ana Iele-
raph company of New York nave
owed another step toward forming
billion dollar corporation when
ock increases to that amount we're
lthorized.
II has been learned that short
re of approximately 100000 exists
the accounts of the kirksville,
O.. Trust company. The cashier OF
IA hank. L. f. Gibbs committed
Iicida in the vault of the bank.
Everett and Clyde McMurray, con-
cted of the theft Of several thou
nd dollars worth of confiscated
NOR from the Polk county Jail at
a. Moines. Iowa, December p, were
ptsnced to from one to ten years
the Ausmosa prison by Judge Bon
r.