The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-02-13
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\ RESUME OF THE WEEKS
oolN0e IN THIS AND oT1ER
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important Events Of tho Last Seven
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Miss Nell Shipman, motion pictur
actress, and her husband and man
ager, Bert Van Tuyle, are resting a
Spokane, Wash. from q battle through
70 miles OF ice and snow from theil
camp in northern Idaho to the stage
line. Van Tuyle was taken to a hos
pital to undergo amputation of his
right foot, seriously infected by gan
creme.
Twenty Los Angeles doctors of the
defunct Pacific Medical college there
are under investigation by the state
board OF medical examiners as quacks
or the fake medical diploma ring re-
Gently exposed In many state.
Three trainloads OF moving picture
stars went from Los Angeles to San
francisco where they attended the
big Wampus ball.
d. G. O'Shea, president of the fed
eral bank of Spokane, has issued an
invitation to all national farm loan
associations in his district, which
takes In southwestern Idaho, to be
present at meeting in Nampa, Idaho
February 8. An all day meeting for
the discussion Of association business,
methods and general consideration
OF the federal land bank and its in
terests has been outlined by Mr..
O'Shea. Formation of a district or |
ganization will be perfected at this
time.
Twenty-eight thousand young men
will be trained In the citizens mill
tary training camps in the United
States during the summer of 1924,
under present plans of the war de-
partment. OF this number 1000
VIII be afforded the opportunity of
receiving the benefits of these camps
IN the Ninth corps cara This Is 500
less than was authorized for 1923,
when many applicants were unable to
attend these camps due to lack of
accommodations. Owing to the great
popularity of these camps throughout
the Ninth corps area, 1t is essential '
that candidates make their applica-
lions on the earliest possible date. :.
Marking perhaps the most import A
Ant epoch in the history of expert t
ments for the extraction Of oil from
shaie, The Catlin Shale Products COM
pany of Elko, Nevada shipped car
load OF high-grade lubricating oil, a
coasisting Of 500 cases, each carrying r
Two ave-gallon containers. The ship o
ment Is being sent to the Catlin oil T
agency at New York City. e.
GENERAL y y
Seven men were drowned in oil ca
wo captains and five hosemen Of the al
Ire department. while fighting fire ID
It the Butler street plant Of the At
antic Refining company at Pittsburg, r
IT, The bodies were recovered after n,
he fire had been brought under con- n,
rol, with the monetary loss unesti- W.
mated. -
Overpowering their guards who ne
we're armed with shotguns, ten mill al
airy prisoners at Fort Logan, Denver, Gu
made their escape. The men. in al
barge of four guards, were working
a sand pit. In
Lawyers, teachers and business men Al
in Council Bluffs, Ia. in M
he marathon reading of the King mi
ames version of the New Testament De
t the Broadway Methodist church. w
by the pastor, the Rev. r. mi
urton Shepherd. Sixtv-four men and fic
omen took part, each reading for IS Is
linutes, beginning about o'clock So
aturday morning and concluding,
ithout intermission shortly before II ar
clock Saturday night. Er
carpet tack was removed from sci
le lung Of eight montis-old Cletus Ju
[oore OF st. Louis. and there is he
very indication that the baby will sci
recover, DR.. Chevalier chi
lckson, who performed the operation ha
the University of Pennsylvania old
)spital said. r
John II. voorhis, "a years old, sin
and sachem of Tammany Hall, the lay
lily man now living who attended pal
e last Democratic national conven- at
On In New York in 1868, when He
grafton Seymour was nominated, lau
Il be present when the 1924 conven- on
IN meets at New York June "a.
Davie Miller, said to be a west side pro
ng leader Of New York, was shot pro
ID seriosuly wounded in a myster- tina
US shooting affray in front of the of
! Sale theatre on Madison street. Go,
lother man was wounded. The to
thorities believe the shooting was Il
q outgrowth Of gang war. ATTIC
General Lee Christmas, former T
ldier of fortune and participant in can
my revolutions in Latin-America, IN
10 died after long illness, was wri
ried in the family tomb in Lafay 90
q cemetery at New Orlenas.
Roscoe c. (Fatty) Arbuckle, once il'e
nous movie star, accompanied by IN
ySiciau and an ATTORNEY. has ar let