The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-12-19
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS.
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

October receipts from the Nevadi
state gasoline tax of two cents a gal
lon will bring the total derived from
that source so far this year close II
100000 and with two months more
returns to be made 1t is expected tina
close to $4,000 will have been col
lected since the law went into effec
on March Goth.
A group of Los Angeles men backed
by the chamber of commerce has in
vited the Republican national com
mittee to hold the party's 1924 con.
vention In Los Angeles.
]. T. Sanders, resident of Payette
Ida, lost $50 in cash and had his cal
damaged Friday when he invited a
pedestrian to ride with him. The
pedestrian pulled gun on the motor
list after having ridden about two
miles, asked Mr.. Sanders for his cash
and then told him to leave the car.
Three naval airmen were killed at
noon Monday, when two airplanes col
lided at an altitude Of about 1000
feet at a point almost directly over
the bridge between Coronado and
North Island, California.
Federal prohibition enforcement Of
ficers operating in Nevada, were or
dered to San Francisco to remain I'M
til after Christmas holidays to aug
ment the force to prevent dry law
violations of drinking in downtown
cafes, according to w. r. Paget, in
ments here.
Four hundred passengers from the
Cunard liner Fransonia, which dock
ed at San Francisco Sunday morning,
were guests of the city. The liner
sailed Tuesday for the Orient, con-
tinuing it's world cruise.
GENERAL
An alleged plot to rifle sacks aboard
the American liner Mongolia was re-
yealed Saturday, when three mem
bers of the crew were brought back
to New York on the Mlnnekahda from
Hamburg. The theft was discovered
when opened sacks were found float
ing on the Elbe.
Governor McCray will not resign
his office as result of the indict-
ments returned against him, lie stated
Monday. The indictments charge him
with larceny, forgery and embezzle-
ment.
When she makes her debut on a
New York concert stage on December
10, Mrs. Henry Clay Wright. SO, of
Austin, Texas, will crafty the ambi-
ton of a lifetime. Married fifty
seven years, with four children and
seven grandchildren, Mrs. Wright has
not gray hair, only a few fine
wrinkles and her voice is clear and
firm.
Eight deputy sheriffs and a county
detective raided the Gunner College
If Natureopathy at Hartford, Conn,
and took twenty-six students and pro-
'essors before the grand jury which |
g investigating fraudulent practice |
If medicine.
A United States labor board deci-
lion issued Tuesday, at Chicago.
granted wage increases of l to 2 cents
IN hour for 22,612 maintenance of way
employees on seven railroads. The
Increase is retroactive to June 1, 1923.
Nine. Takani Miura. Japanese prima
Iona, announced at Des Moines Sun
lay she had received word that her
DR.. Masataro Miura, noted
apanese physician, had been granted
divorce from her in the courts of
'okio, Japan.
The superdreadnought West Virgin
a, which was commissioned here
sunday compares favorably in some
aspects and unfavorably in 9TH
rs with ships of the latest class in
he British and Japanese navies. &C.
ording to figures made public Sun
ay.
Thousands of Virginians turned out
unday and joined by representatives
t European and Latin-American ma
ions and many other visitors, paid
'ibute to President James Monroe on I
he centennial anniversary of the !
lonroe doctrine. K
Maurice, Lux, a 10 year old boy
ON Shelbyville, Ind, Saturday won
lie title of Corn Prince" of the In {
irrational Grain and Hay show here {
hen his ten ears of White Dent Corn
on over several hundred other
lnior entries. t
The government continued its war
gainst illegal oil operations when it I
eturned one indictment charging Al t
len and one woman with misuse Of c