The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-06-25
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Mrs. John d. Sherman of Este
Park, Colo, defeated Mrs. Wallace ]
Perham, of Glendive, Mont, by tw
to one vote in balloting for the pres
idency of the General Federation o
Women's Clubs, according to officia
returns obtained at convention head
quarters at Los Angeles.
The national college of romano
crashed when "Brick" Mueller, Cali
fornia athlete hero, was sued for di
vorce by his beautiful actress wife
Bernice Berwin. She charges that h,
was cold, Indifferent and for time
deserted her.
Conviction of William Fitzpatrick
sheriff of Bonner county, Idaho, ano
his deputy, Henry Thompson, for vio-
lating the Volstead act, was upheld
by the United States circuit court OF
appeals at San Francisco. Fitzpatrick
was sentenced to a year in Jail and
q fine of $1,000. Thompson was SEN
fenced to six months in Jail and a
fine of $500. Harry Severans, third
defendant is fugitive from justice.
Mrs. Beatrice Alexander and T.
Little, both of Boomers Ferry, Idaho,
are dead at Spokane, Wash, as a re-
suit of an automobile in which they
were riding being struck by locomo-
tive at a crossing in Boomers Ferry.
The woman was killed Immediately
nj i ~l ,.tI,,
Amid the cheers Of thousands bling
ling with the firing of presidential
salute. President Obregon of Mexico
arrived at the international boundary
at Nogales.
Six men and two boys members Of a
fishing party were pounded to death
on the rocks of Newport bay jetty
Santa Clara, Cal, when the launch
in which they were heading out to
sea was swamped and capsized. Five |
others were saved.
That Kenneth Ross MacLean, and |
not Nettie Volk. MacLean, his girl
wife, smothered to death their infant
daughter in hotel in Brunswick,
Me-, last February beat and kicked
his wife into insensibility and then
abandoned her, are the sensational
charges contained in two suits filed
in the superior court at Tacoma,
Wash.
The size and quality of walnut
crops may be increased every year
through discoveries made by Profess
sor L. d. Bachelor director of the I
division of orchard management of $
tile University of California 1t is an 7
nounced by university authorities. a
Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, president =
Of the General Federation Of Women's
clubs in biennial session at Los An
geles announced she would ask the ).
to petition President Coo
idge to call a new international
Of world forces to further p
limit armament. u
Before an impetuous Chicago, ILL.,, y
crowd that broke a courtroom door y
rom its hinges in an effort to see a
he confessed kidnappers and slay :
,rs of 13-year-old Robert Franks, :.
Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard y
loeb, millionaires' sons, pleaded not
yuilty to charges of kidnapping for y
.ansom and murder and heard Aug q
lst A fixed at the date of their trial. II
One man was killed and damage
stimated at more than a million al
ollnrs done by tornado, originating y
d the southern part of Indiana which q,
wept west and north for about fifty A
niles. Edward III. Hilbert, % years II
Id, was electrocuted when a high r
oltage transmission wire was blown IN
cross an automobile in which he was OF
Iding near Connorsville Two com a,
anions were severely shocked.
The annual meeting of the United ra
tates Sugar Manufacturing associa- &C
on has closed at Minneapolis. OF
tephen II. Love OF Salt Lake City, IL
tab, was elected president and isl
AIRY A. Austin of Washington, ID. c., Of
.certary for tile ensuing year. The Sc
lree days session were well attend va
| and much interest was shown. at
any delegations of farmers and re- be
OF beetgrowing sections liza
the northwest were here, endeavor- tai
z to interest the sugar makers in wa
factories in their respec Sc,
We localities. ed
The motor trip of Frank Bell, sec
tary to Senator Dill, Washington, in
route to Seattle, was halted at M
ayton, Ohio, when officers said they su'
und eight gallons Of whiskey in
s car. Bell paid fine of 500 n
d costs and resumed the journey, ~,
mus the booze. N.
C. w. Higgins, 65, for % years ha
itor of the Golfers Magazine at Ing