The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-08-27
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\ RESUME OF THE WEEKS
DoiNGS IN THIS AND OTHER
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important Events Of the Last Seven
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WESTERN

dicted Kid Mccoy, ex-pugilist, 70
the murder of Mrs. Theresa w. Nor
here August IL last. He also wa
indicted for assault with intent t
murder and for robbery.
The waterworks at Winton, a Unio,
Pacific coal camp near Rock Springs
,Wyo., are nearing completion, sever
81 Oh the contractors who have beer
engaged upon the construction of diff
1erent section having been paid anc
1neir work accepted during the past
week. At the present time all of the
water used by this camp is hauled
IN by the railroad.
The city of Casper, Wyoming clos
ed deal for the purchase of 155
acres of land just west of the city to
De converted to park purposes in per-
petuating the location of Old Fort
Carpar, the first frontier outpost in
this part Of the state. A monument
erected on the site of the old fort
will be dedicated in September.
Because of the fire hazard which
sndangers the construction camps at
both east and west portal at the Moi
Tat tunnel, the forestry service clos
ed to all visitors the Colorado nation
n forest at east portal and the Arap-
ahoe national forest at west portal
Colorado. More than 5000 acres is
involved in the closing of the Colo
RADIO national forest and 1000 acres
In the Arapahoe forest.
G. w. Smith, paymaster for the
W. F. Pigg & Son, Denver gravel
contractors, was held up, shot in the
neck and robbed of 5000 payroll on
the east lake road near Clear Creek,
about five miles from the business
section Of Denver. The two bandits
who robbed Smith escaped in his
automobile.
Members of the Centenarian club,
ranging in age from 80 to 1O1, held
their annual frolic at Los Angeles.
A feature of the gathering was a foot
race for men of 80 and over, with
bobbed-haired "flapper' of 95 off
clatlng as starter.
Kemmerer, Wyo.-No other oil
field in the world offers crude gaso-
line and lubricating oils direct from
the wells, as does the oil fields north c
OF kemmerer. So high is gasoline
content is the oil from the wells in 7
Dry Piney Basin, that motor car t
gas tank may be filled and the car I
run perfectly with it. !
Salt Lake City.-The mining town 7
If Bingham, Utah. was the scent of ;,
100000 fire on August II, when
he city was threatened with com
olete destruction. The fire started
rom defective ammonia plant in a |,
neat market. A.
The Rev. Chalfant Dreves of Pitts II
'urg, Pa, was killed by fall into Il
IN abandoned gas-filled mine shaft e'
ear Howbert, Colo, Albert Davidson
I Howbert, who was accompanying d,
ne minister, was overcome by gas tn
the bottom of the shaft and was 81
escued by Henry Rogers of Howbert, tn
third member of the party. David to
pms condition is serious. tn
An investigation of the relations De
Ann Luther, actress and Jack F. co
White, wealthy mining man, which
Ill extend from New York to Los or
ngeles, with view to seeking basis re
ann act proceedings against the Pr
air, was launched according to an du
nnouncement by Lecien C. Wheeler, ed
gent at Los Angeles of the depart sill
ent of justice, and United States WI
ttorney Joe Burke. mr.
GENERAL
m Ing
The largest arrest in the history Of res
e Richmond, Virginia police depart IF
ent was made when 381 negroe ex- mr.
rsionists of Richmond were arrest fac
on blanket warrant sworn out bv oil
e town sergeant of Hopewell, ]. C. we
'dman. The warrant charged them Of
tn being fugatives from justice ons
d with looting the store of q Greek rio
srchant in Hopewell. wir
Unqualified demand for the death
nalty of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., Of
d Richard Loeb, co-murderers of we,
year old Robert Franks, was made ern
Judge John R. Caverly at Chica- La
when the state, through Thomas VIII
lrshall, assistant states attorney, aga
gan final arguments in the long nee
al battle. Lar
The body of one of the bandits who A
d up G. w. Smith, paymaster for who
Denver gravel contracting firm, wo,
the outskirts of the city, was Mo,
md Sunday a few miles from the -,
ne of the robbery. The body had y. ,
N riddled with bullets. Police a.
nd II wounds in it.
he Prohibition party will wage its WHIT
npaign on the merits of the party pri'
not on the dement's of other Off