The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
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WESTERN


Staff Sergeant Alva E. Harvey, h
mechanic, was virtually abandone
by searchers Wednesday as search
ing parties reported failure, accord
ing to wireless messages from tn
north intercepted by the Bremerto
navy yards radio station.
The Ell Paso, Tex, National Banl
one of the southwest's largest inst
buttons has closed its doors. TIL
bank it is understood, was in weak
sned condition due to frozen" pa
per. The bank was saved from
closing three months ago, when ST.,
100000 in gold was transferred tt
the institution from the vaults of the
federal reserve bank of Ell Paso.
DR.. George Craig Stewart, rector
of st. Luke's church, Evanston, Ill.,
after twice receiving a majority OF
the votes of the Episcopal clergy OF
western Washington for bishop of
the Olympia, Wash, diocese, was re-
Jected by the lay delegates assembled
at Seattle.
Dwight B. Heard, publisher of the
Arizona Republican, and j. w. Spear,
its editor were served with citations
Tor contempt of court issued at Phoe,
nix, Ariz., by Judge Stephen H. Alb
hey of the Pinal county superior
court in connection with the publica,
ton of an editorial in the Republican
criticising Judge Abbey.
T. A. Lewis, Glenn county, Califor-
MIA farmer, believes he has the prize
mother pig. Her first litter, just born,
brought twenty-three pigs into the
world and fifteen are living. From
this litter Lewis will have within six
months more than a ton Of pork to
market.
J. III. Hume, said by department of
Justice agents of Long Beach, Cal to
have been president of bank at Ard
more, Okla, was arrested here on
advices from Oklahoma on charge
OF falsifying bank accounts to the
extent of $4,000. Hume was released
under $4,000 bond.
GENERAL
Mrs. Gladys Norman, &c years old,
has confessed to completely in a plot |
to swindle Ben E. Fereday, Iowa, a
farmer, out of $4,000, according to
department of justice agents of Min
eapolis.
Kate Klaxton, who starred fifty
years ago as Louise the blind girl, in
''The Two Orphans" is dead at her
home at New York. Miss Josephine
Cone, her sister, discovered the body
in the bathroom when she went to
Mis- Claxton's apartment
A hoax, conceived in the mind OF
. Des Moines, Iowa, newspaper re-
porter to test the theory that "any
bright criminal could prove himself
insane and thus escape punishment
for his crimes" proved successful
when John Duncan, the reporter
playing the part of the insane man,
was adjudged insane by the
sanity commission which ruled him
q dangerous lunatic" and remanded
him to the state hospital at Clar-
nda.
The Republican national conven>
ion will not nominate a presidential
candidate on Friday, June IS, in the
opinion of Fred w. Upham, treasur>
T of the national committee, but the
is likely to ajourn Thurs {
lay, June IL. {
Powers theatre. the old home !.
tead of the STAGE" has closed its
oors in Chicago. 1t will be RACED
D make room for modern hotel.
he theatre, one Of the oldest in the /
Test, had seated audiences of early c
hicago, and on it's stage had appear a
actors and actresses whose names {
re indelibly inscribed ON the pages e
stage history. In the earlier days II
was known as "Hooley's theatre" h
Displaying the same irresistible r
over and precision that marked its =,
performances Of last year,
ale's home-bred, American coached
ersity crew insugurated the Blues II
VA rowing campaign with a smash l.
& victory over Pennsylvania and y
olumbia in tile feature race Of the
angular regretta on the Housetonic "
yer. * ~
Mrs. Celia Cooney, bobbed hair
ndit, and her husband and partner =
crime, Edward Cooney, were SEN y
need to serve from ten to twenty re-
ars each in prison by County m
dye Martin of Brooklyn. W
rhe federal district court Of NeD- m
,ka was taken to task for allowing ty
uor, an exhibit in a bootlegglng
10 to be passed around for.pe3nbers II
the jury to saUS'py me, is
1ded down ef NARY w. u
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