The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-12-10
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FOR BUSY READERS
n RESUME OF THE WEEKS
ooINce IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
Important Events Of the last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

70 be inaugurated governor of Wyon
Ing January 5, the ceremony will
~ simple and bief as the occasio
will permit. Mrs. Ross will be i
mourning for her husband who die
less than eight weeks ago. Their
Will be nothing in the way of merri
ment
Alleged refusal of the Southern
Pacific company to grant conference
with engineers national brotherhood
over increased wage demands hav
resulted in the polling of secre
strike vote over the entire system
It Is announced.
Splits asking judgments aggregat
Ing $16,687 against Rudolph Valen
tho, motion picture actor, were filec
In superior court at Los Angeles BY
assignees of Robertson & Webb, film
booking agents, who allege the money
ID due them for obtaining employ
ment for Valentino with Famous
Players Lasky corporation in Novem-
Der, 1921.
Peter Allen, 10, and Ernest F.
label, 33, were killed at Butte, Mont.
when the cage on which they were
being lifted, with twenty-five other
men, from the 2900-foot level of the
Mountain Consolidated mine of the
Anaconda Copper company, was
hoisted into the sheave wheel at the
top of the gallows frame.
Orders issued last June for the de
struction of alleged boil weevil in
Tested cotton crops in the Postvalle
area near Tucson, Arizona were de-
clared unauthorized, illegal and
void" in report filed in United
States court at Phoenix by H. l..
Partridge, special master in chan
Gerry.
Elko county, Nevada desert, EN-.
bracing thousands of acres in the
eastern part of the country, is the
mecca of the sheepmen of Utah and
Idaho, besides a large number of
LEGAL sheep owners. Sheriff Harris
Is now checking up the sheep and
reports that thousands are being
driven or shipped to the desert for
The winter months. The recent storms
insure plenty of moisture for the
sheep.
Hearst hall, University of Califor-
MIA women gymnasium and center of
women's activities, planned as me-
mortal to the late Phoebe Apperson,
Hearst is to be $1,O0O,OOO structure.
This was revealed by President w.
". Campbell of the University at
meeting of the board of regents at
stephens union on the campus.
~ GENERAL
The Boulder dam bill, which is
o be taken up again next week by
he house committee on irrigation,
will not pass congress during the
hort session if Representative E. o.
.eatherwood can prevent it. The
Utah congressman, who exposed the
nquities of this bill during the hear
ngs last session, showed wherein that .
i'll might operate to impair the
ights of Utah and other states of the
PIPER Colorado river basin, returned !
0 Washington determined to carry ,
n from the point where ne left off
hen this legislation was sidetracked
ast June.
Hamilton Holt, former editor of the
lew York Independent and well
nown league of nations advocate,
as unanimously nominated for Unit
l States senator by the Democratic
late convention at New Haven, Conn.
he nomination was by reclamation.
The election of Mrs. Miriam A. ,
erguson, Democrat, as governor of
exas at the November election
i'll not be contested. This announce
ent was made after two-day con- :
'rence Of state Republican leaders.
Farmers in Manitoba, Canada, Just !
cross the line from North Dakota,
re threshing in the snow, according
reports received at Grand Forks.
+. D. The grain is being hauled
sleds. l
From present indications the water T
lortage that visited Salt Lake last
INNER will not occur this coming S,
,ar as the snow fall in the noun u
ins near town is extremely heavy i
r this time Of the year. II
Mrs. Fannie Christian of Rozel,
an, has been elected to two offices -f
justice of the peace and town s,
ip constable although she had not :
en- a candidate for any office, the ef
fetal canvass of the November d.
sction disclosed. ~ e,
R. T. Daniel, millionaire property nj
1ner of Tulsa and Dallas, Texas
5 sigred an agreement giving his
fe 81 000 0O0 worth 0f nr0nerfv in 81