The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-04-30
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4 RESUME OF THE WEEKS
DOlNGS IN THIS AND OTHER
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WESTERN

Associate Justice Louis w. Myers
Of the state supreme court of Califor-
mia was named chief justice of that
tribunal by Governor Richardson to
succeed Justice Curtis D. Wilbur, who
was named recently as secretary of
the navy.
United States Senator d. X. Wheel
Or. prosecutor of the senate Daugher-
ty investigating committee, was in
dicted at Great Falls, Montana by a
federal grand jury on charge Of I'M
lawfully receiving money as retainer
fees to influence the issuance of oil
and gas prospecting permits by the
secretary of interior and commission
er of the general land office.
Postal receipts at Boise and Chey-
enne for March fell below those Of
March last year. Last months re-
ceipts at Boise were $2O,192, or 500
per cent drop. and at Cheyenne they
were $11,102, a drop Of 17.8 per cent.
Reno, with receipts of $12,95O, made
q gain of 1713 per cent.
Earl Wilson. automobile racing
driver, was fatally injured when his
car crashed into the fence at Ascot
soon after reaching the hospital,
where an operation was to have been
performed in an effort to save his
hfe
His car buried a snow bank
when he was caught in heavy
storm on high mountain pass near
Egnar, Colo, while attempting to go
into Utah. William V. Ton, 81, Pueblo,
wandered about in the mountains for
several days before being found by
forest rangers and taken to shelter.
In spite of all that could be done for
him he died from exposure.
David b. M. A1dred, railway postal
clerk OF Cheyenne, Is in custody on a
federal charge Of embezzlement of
mail matter after fire last week
which partly destroyed a mail car
and its contents at Hanna, Wyo. AID
red. it Is charged sold parcel post
mail from the damaged car to per-
sons at Hanna. He denies the charge
The state OF Washington, Is stand
ing pat in It's quarantine against the
section infected with foot and mouth
disease. DR.. Pelton of the agricultural
department said. The department had
q request from Contra Costa county,
Cal, for permission to ship a carload
Of asparagus, but the request was
denied.
Although Mrs. C. R. Stone, 81
year old resident of Tupunga, sub
urb, has lived within a gunshot of
Hollywood's movie studios since the
first crude pie throwing comedy
days, she saw her first motion pic
ture at Hollywood last week.
GENERAL
Daylight saving time goes into ef-
feet in Chicago at 2 a. M, April 81.
1t also will be effective on the same
date in New York City.
Customs officials are investigating
reports that a prominent Chicago
woman, whose name is not disclosed,
is the owner Of recently imported
emerald necklace, valued at 81, $780,
600, on Which the records are said to
show that so per cent duty has not
been paid.
A string bean on the sidewalk In
front of the Blotky Commission COM
pany's plant Omaha caused him to
slip and break his leg. Adolph Sch
wRrtz, laborer, alleges in a suit for
$4,000 against the company and the
owner of its building. trial of which
began Monday IN district court
Jewelry valued at $4,000 was stol-
en- by burglars at Chicago, who cut
their way through network of burg
lar alarms and two brick walls of
jewelry establishment district. They
overlooked 100000 worth of unset
diamonds. The men worked undetect-
ed for hours police estimated
Two companies of the Kentucky
National guardsmen were ordered to
the mining camp of the Liberty Coal
& Coke company on Straight creek in
Bell county by Governor w. j. Fields.
An outbreak Of labor trouble was
marked by killing OF one man and
wounding of another Thursday.
Joseph Howard Willard. United
States ambassador to Spain from
1913 to 1921 is dead at New York. He
was born in Washington in 1865.
A gas leak was believed RESPONSE
BILE for a fire which destroyed st.
james Methodist Episcopal church
OF Chicago, doing damage estimated
at $500, 600 The church was the home
of the wealthiest congregation in
Chicago.
Congressman John w. Langley Of
Kentucky was indicted by a federal
grand jury at Ccyington,, Kentucky