The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-12-12
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
y RESUME OF THE WEEKS
oOINGs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events OF the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pro-
pared for tho Benefit of the
Busy Reader
wEsTERN


the l. @. c. for authority to construc
and extend from Malheur Junction
Oregon. to Crane, Oregon, with
branch from Crane to Burns, q tota
distance of 80 miles.
The distinction of being the frs
B1rl to be sentenced to the Spokane
city jail for auto speeding fell upor
che shoulders OF Leta Bostwick, at
tractive coed from Cheney norma
school. After admitting she hat
travelled, at speed OF 35 miles ar
hour, she was ordered to jail for one
day by Judge Witt
1t took just five minutes and six
seconds for Hartford. Conn, radio
operator to ask the North pole
FLOWS the weather. and get reply
via Catalina island, according to
Major Lawrence Mott, signal corps,
0. Il. c., whose experimental station
here served as the connecting link
between Hartford and the Macmillan
polar expedition In wireless con-
versation.
The Columbian crack passenger
train OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul rnilroad, which left Seattle Fri
day, ran into an open switch less
than mile from the Union passenger
station at Chicago and demolished
two empty coaches of suburban
train, injuring two railroad employees
and wrecking a small tower.
One hundred thousand gallons of
gasoline, which was to have been
shipped to Kobe, japan, for use in re-
construction in the devastated areas
Of that country, was burned in fire
at the Petroleum Export corporations
warehouse at San Pedro, Calf.
A fish hatchery to supply the
streams OF southwestern New Mexico |
VIII soon be established on the west |
fork of the ella river, according to ].
r. Bengard superintendent of the fish |
hatchery at Libosa Springs.
Edward Collect demonstrated In a |
orawl at GoIdfield, New. that his skull
was impervious to a pistol bullet.
The missile splintered when It struck
his head, the larger portion of the
slug being removed from Collects
skull with little Inconvenience to him.
Another fragment cut a furrow eight
inches deep in wall.
Last Sunday the Yukon river was
frozen over at Dawson for the first
time this winter, the latest date in
Inc memory OF the oldest sourdough
residing in the territory. Three
weather records have been broken
This year. Last year the river was
covered with Ice on November 16.
The season of navigation on the river :
opened May 10, 1923, two weeks earl
Ter than any on record here. From
May to Novemer "A, the mean tenn
was 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
GENERAL
Louis I. Lehmier, 90, recently was !
AIKEN from his scantily furnished ..
enament home In the east side OF
New York to Welfare hospital, a state
charitable institution, where he died
asst Wednesday. supposedly poverty t
stricken. When his will was filed 4
or probate Sunday 1t was found he t
lad left more than 100000 to char 4
ty. including gift OF s75.O 900 to his c
'ative town MaiAz, Germany. t.
An eyewitness to the actual shoot
ng picked Joseph Diamond out of
lineup at police headquarters in New
FORK as the man who shot and killed 3
William S. Barlow. one Of the two Q
ank messengers murdered in the u
$4,000 holdup in Brooklyn eleven
ays ago. N
Samuel Roscoe, his wife and seven ~
hildren were burned to death when ;.
heir home on hill half mile from q,
he village Of Confluence. Pa. was
estroyed. All the bodies were re-
overed
Americas biggest steamship, the ST
eviathan, established a new worlds d.
ecord for westbound navigation OF el
he Atlantic. Cherbourg and New W
ork, arriving At New York after
IN OF five days, seven hours and d,
wenty minutes. with an average CT
curly speed Of 24.17 knots. This pi
roke by thirteen minutes the prev W
'us record held by the Cunard Maui W
etania, OF five days seven hours al
lirty three minutes. ca
Jim, collie, is back at the home
his master, Leroy Goethe, at Da- b,
ota, Ill. after having tramped from 10
lineral Point Neb., distance Of w
lore than 500 miles. &
Victorious over railroads. interur-
an lines and rural chambers Of com =
lerce, who opposed her, Miss Helen !.
chultz, "a years old, owner OF the -
ed Ball bus lines, authorized by thel
,wa railroad commission to operate m
line between Des Moines and Ma III