The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-09-26
PERsoNAL

4 John @. Skinner, chief of the sale
J division OF the quarter masters corp,
bertrand Weiss, Herman Miller, wer
8 indicted Thursday charged with con
spiracy to defraud the government.
After firing five shots from a re
volver in an attempt to kill. himsel
, in his apartment Thursday, and SUI
fering only three slight scalp wounds
Charles Bowman, New York broker
was arrested on charges Of violation
OF the firearms law.
Federal officers arrived at Paw
huaka, Oklahoma with ten men CAP
tured In the Usage hills, Wednesday.
whom they charge are members OF the
bandit gang which early Tuesday held
up passenger train near Okesa and
escaped with registered mail.
Edward Kelly one of the Republi-
cans whom the free state authorities
have been hunting, was shot and criti-
cally wounded by government troops
Saturday, near Belfast. Kelly ,and
companion are said to have been en-
gagged in posting republican literature.
Viscount Yasuya Ucilido was for
mal1y installed, Saturday, by Crown
Prince Hirchito, as acting premier of
Japan, succeeding temporarily Pre-
mier Kato, who died Friday.
In a letter to Senator Gooding,
made public Saturday, President Coo
lidge declares a special session of
Congress does not at this time seem
eXpedient.
Secretary Mellon Of the treasury let
1t be known definitely Monday after a
conference with President Coolidge
that he would remain in the cabinet.
State competition for Nebraska coal
firms is threatened by Governor Bry-
an, who announces that he has almost
completed arrangements for supplying
coal to local public committees to be
sold to consumers below the present |
prices.
John Pavilion, Austrian coal min
er, pronounced the outstanding hero
of Tuesdays explosion in the KEN
merer Coal company mine No. /, at
Frontier, Wyo., was brought to the
state mental hospital at Evanson,
Wyo. Saturday. He is insane as a
result of his experiences.
Jack Russell, held by the chief Of
police Of Minneapolis, Mimi, on SUI
spicion of being an escaped convict
Of the Utah state prison, has been
identified as Joseph d. Rose alias
Russell, who escaped from the Utah
Prison road camp in Washington
county, April 10.
FOREIGN
The city of Vera Cruz is entirely
cut off from the rest Of the country
Is result Of a general strike of rail-
road employees of that city. The
strike was called In sympathy with
who had been out for
some time.
Eastern Oriental liner Changsha, ,
British, carrying passengers and :
reight from Australia to Manila, has 8
rome on the rocks at Tigi bank near
he Tawitawi islands of the Philip {
lines, according to radio advices. /
France is standing pat upon her re- l
'arations demands, it was revealed s
vhen the foreign office officially pub t
ished the note sent to London in re-
ly to the British reparations COM
1unication of Aug. II. 1t is so
age document, laying all Frances I
ards upon the table, and answering e
he British document point by point. G
or the first time France officially t
cts forth 28,OOO,0O0,00O gold marks b
s her minimum demand from Ger s
lany, plus sufficient credits from Il
class" reparations bonds to pay any k
ar debts claimed by Frances allies. s.
Premier Tomosaburo Kato died Fri
ny afternoon at Toxic, apparently
ON a complication of maladies that
eakened his heart beyond repair. Ell
dmiral Baron Kato was born In 1859 IN
AZ ndb a ibliAS uAohCQ CdlCC IL thS ~
avail, administrative and diplomatic IL
'rvices before he was elevated to b
e premiership last year. j
After boring hole through their -
'ison wall, fourteen convicts escaped w
-iday from the national penitentiary. y. "a
hey included Ramon Silverra, the i'
,anisl extremist. whose extradition
ON Uruguay caused Communist
rlkes in Buenos Aires and Monte
deo early last month. 81
General Ong, commanding an army
Picking troops at Chihma, eight mil 80
northwest Of Annoy, delivered Mon :,
y, an ultimatum to Chag- Tse-Ping, ..
e eastern ally OF Sun Yat-Sen, say
9 that Annoy must be evacuated.
Advfcea recefved from Seoul Korea ! ~,