The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-11-21
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WESTERN

'O'oiS VI san rTduc1ScO electe
James Rolph, Jr., mayor for the fourt
consecutive time, returned DistriC
Attorney Thomas f. Finn to office
reelected two incumbents, Lille Z
Jacks, and Sylvester j. McAtee a
police judges and retained in offic
five out of nine members of the boar,
of supervisors.
Law enforcement officials includin,
peace officers. prosecutors, justices o
the peace, city judges and judges O
Utah, met with state and federal Of
dcials at Salt Lake City, Tuesday. tc
map out policies and measures look.
Ing to the strict enforcement of the
prohibition laws of the state and ma
ton.
Eight counts of embezzlement
were returned Tuesday by the federal
grand jury at Salt Lake City, against
Francis N. Cope, former bank clerk.
who was arrested in California by
state authorities. The indictment is
based on the alleged defalcations of
sums ranging from 500 to $4,S1O.5O
over period of two years, dating
from Sept. %, 1920.
Andrew Anderson, shot and Instantly
killed his wife, Josie Anderson then
turned the gun on himself shortly
after noon Thursday at Ogden, Utah.
The bullett pierced Anderson's' head
q ID n 10 q
the couples children, Merle, 10, Tia,
8, and Billy, 2, were in the kitchen
when the mother was killed. Their
screams and the shots soon drew a
crowd.
The most pronounced earthquake
shock felt in recent years in the I'M
perial valley was recorded Monday.
The Virginia hotel at Calexico was
shifted several inches on its founda-
tions, and damage was done to other
buildings.
The Wells-Fargo Nevada bank and
the Union Trust company, two of San
Francisco's oldest financial institu-
ions, are to be consolidated, 1t was
announced Monday. The new, insti-
ution will be known as the Wells
Fargo bank and Union Trust Com
)any and will have deposits in excess
II $100,000,000 and resources of $780,
100000.
Lee Cordes of Lankershim, Calf,
vas arrested by posse at Los Angel
8 and charged with having robbed
he Burbank State bank at Burbank,
short time before. Under the car I
ct OF his car was found $2700 which I
Ulcers said was taken from the bank. e
GENERAL
Democrats were elected Tuesday in t
II three states where there were
elections = Kentucky, v
[aryland and Mississippi Vermont Q
here the only senatorial contest was n
cid, returned a Republican-Porter +
|. Dale, who DEBATED Park H. Pollard, Il
,usin OF President Coolidge. ii
The bodies of 81 miners, killed
uesday in a gas explosion at the e,
Inc Of the Raleigh Wyoming Coal a
'mpany. near Glen Rogers, West 81
a. are in undertaking establishments s,
Mullens. The last body was brought
the surface late Tuesday night. W
While hundreds were passing the pl
CIV York's busy corner at Broadway OF
i'd FOrty-seventh street Wednesday, IT
rec well-dressed men entered the Ell
welry store of julius Howard, fore p'
the proprietor and a clerk into a Ut
ar room and rifled showcases Of M
welry valued at $4,000. The BAN bl
is escaped.
Holding the townsmen at Ogden, TO
ansas at bay for two hours early pr
lursday bandits blew the safe of the III
,den State bank and escaped with al
undetermined amount Of cash, Ell
erty bonds and other valuables. The IA
bbers numbered from 8 to 10 men. TIC
Within a few hours of each other,
0 passenger trains Of the Gulf
asst lines, the first from Houston on
d the second from Brownville, were DO
ecked few miles west of Corpa, du
risti. Texas, Monday morning. In 81
III cases the wheels of the tender st'
the tracks, derailing the coaches Jul
d, in the case Of the first train, OH
srturning the locomotive.
Francis Turpin, railway engineer pr
d Hazel M. Conard, were found I'M
Id in an enclosed automobile at Ga
sston, Iowa. Physicians said they CO.
had been overcome by me
mes from the exhaust, finding their SUI
y into the machine. an
Two convicts escaped, third was
It and a fourth was knocked down sIl
ing jail-break at the eastern al
litenitary at Philadelphia. The OF
minals all Of them long-termers.
de break through the front gate fol
the prison. SCI
triple drowning occurred at Spoo- DC
: Lake, when Vernon LaPage, 26, as