The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-10-22
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FOR BUSY READERS.
q RESUME OF THE WEEKS
ooINos IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of the Last Seven
. Days Reported by WIre and Pre-
pared for tho Benefit Of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

cratic nominee for governor of w,
eming. The party's conventio
named Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, w
dow Of the late Governor Williai
Bradford Ross, as a candidate to sue
eeed her husband.
In an effort to curb the inroads O
predatory animals upon the sheep an
cattle fed on the Wyoming ranges
the United States biological surve,
has stationed several of its crack pre-
datory animal hunters in districts O
Lincoln and Sweetwater counties
This is the first time in several year!
that much has been done to curb tn.
rapidly increasing menace of tn,
sheep growers.
James Cruze, motion picture di
rector, and Betty Compson, actress
were married at the formers home in
Flint Ridge, a suburb, near Los An
geles. 1t was filmdom's second we'd
ding celebration of the day, the mar
rage of Kenneth Harlan and Marie
Provost, both screen players, having
taken place few hours previous.
The entire business district of Bay
Center, the pioneer Willapa Harbor
town at Washington, was wiped out
by fire, with a loss of $4,000.
That Elko, Nevada will be the scene
OF = moving picture by the Famous
Players-Lasky corporation, featuring
the air mail service, combined with
desert romance, is the word brought
to this city by Byron Morgan, au-
thor, who has recently completed the
scenario.
Kate Lester, IS screen player of
mother roles, was possibly fatally
burned in her studio dressing room
at Universal City, in a mysterious
explosion. Miss Lester, who has been
featured in scores Of film produc-
tons, had just entered her dressing
room, after being ION the lot" all
day, when the explosion occurred.
Roland H. Pothier, former serge
ant of the 213th engineers, was ac-
Quilted by jury in federal court at
Tacoma, Wash. of the charge of MUIR
dering Major Alexander P. Cronk-
hite ,on the Camp Lewis military res
ervation, October rs, 1918.
Reports that several men were bur
led in landslide which occurred at
the rear of the Lincoln high school
1t Los Angeles sent two companies
Of firemen and a squad of police to
the scene.
The Wyoming League for the
Preservation of Fish and Game, the
mother chapter of which is in Rock
Springs, is urging every fish or game
association in Wyoming to send
lobbyists to the state legislature in
1925 to work for a revision of the ,
'tate game laws. /
GENERAL
A suit for 100000 damages for
nutilation alleged to have been in
urred at the hands of Nathan Leo !
,old, Jr., and Richard Loeb, was filed
n circuit court at Chicago by Charles
Team, q taxicab driver.
Senator Frank Brandegee Of Con- c
'ecticut, prominent for years among
he Republican leaders of congress,
committed suicide at his home at !
Worried and distracted,
Is friend said, over financial diff
ulties, he went to an unused bath '
DOM on the third floor Of his house
nd just before dawn took his own
ife by inhaling gas.
Subscriptions for the United States o
100, 100000 share Of the $780,
10000 German loan exceeded $500, d
100000, according to official an e
ouncement, within twelve minutes
fter the books were opened at New
'ork. The subscription was more =
IAN four and one-half times as large 9
) the total available and thousands
orders were still untitled when the !"
ooks closed.
The war department expects to ask n
ongress for s23,000,0oO for the army II
ir services, including regular bud n
ct allowance of $4,000, 900 and a =
supplementary estimate Of $4,000, 900. ~
Secretary Wilbur has character b,
ed the projected Australian lie
-uise of the American navy as an p
Eher step "cementing the bonds of 81
between the two countries h
Officers and men of the fleet, are
'oking forward with great pleasure Ell
the anticipated trip to Australia" in
Wilbur said. a,
Announcement that applications :,
" adjusted compensation have been :.
,ceived thus far from 1900 900 war =
sterans was made by Major Gen :.
al Robert C. Davis, the adjutant :
sneral Of the navy. Veterans en- :"