The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-19
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
RESUME OF THE WEEKS
DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit of tho
Busy Reader
WESTERN


TO traffic by the state highway de
partment of Wyoming during the past
week. The new road replaces several
bad grades in the only gap through
the White mountain ridge to the Eden
valley on the old Oregon trail and
scene of the massacre made famous
ty "The Covered Wagon"
One Of the largest sheep transac-
tons of the past year was consum-
mated at Rock Springs, Wyoming,
when Mrs. Lander johnson sold to
John Arambell her one-half interest
in the Midland Livestock companv
and the Dunton Sheep company,
which have an annual clip of close
to $4,000 pounds.
-Four persons were badly injured
apparently thirty were less seriously
hurt, suffering cuts and bruises, and
about 22O were shaken up when the
Great Northern Glacier Park limited
NO. left the track about one mile
south of Gardner, North Dakota.
Cornelius Cole, former United
States senator, 102 years and TWO
months of age, died at his residence
at Los Angeles. Cornelius Cole was
survivor Of the most striking and
picturesque period in the history OF
California-the era of the placer min
er, the Vigilantes, the Pony Express
and the trans continental railway
builders; of momentous political and
social controversies, startling crimes
and summary punishments.
Seven men, members of the crew
of the 6000-ton tanker Alden Ander-
son, which was destroyed by fire
at Avon, about twenty-five miles
northeast of San Francisco, are miss
Ing and believed to have persisted in
the blaze, which caused damage esti-
mated at $1,25O,OOO, according to Off
Gals of the Associated Oil company,
owner of the vessel here.
The government has rested its case
against the Pan-American Petroleum
and Transport company for cancel
lation of leases and contracts on the
Elk Hills naval oil reserve in Califor-
mia.
Iceberg head lettuce, once ranked
luxury and produced only on the Pa
clflc coast, is rapidly becoming west
ern staple. During the past three
years a score of production districts
have been developed through the en-
terprise of packers and shippers.
Shipments are made from not only
California, but also from Colorado, /
Utah, New Mexico, Oregon
and Washington. Eastern markets
have been developed for this succu I
ent vegetable as rapidly as produc-
ion has increased.
The next meeting of the ITO Grande
commission to discuss the diversion
# the waters of the upper Rio Z
irande for irrigation purposes will q
'e held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, p
n January or February, according to
Herbert Hoover, secretary of COM t,
nerce. b
GENERAL u
Sheriff Merrill of ST. Lucie county, :,
florida, shot and killed four members =,
f the Ashley gang, notorious East
'oast of Florida outlaws, according .
0 information reaching the Miami Z
Ierald. Those killed were John Ash Sc
~, Mobley, and two unidentified x
TENDERS of the gang. D
After having been adrift for three te
avs off the Florida coast in launch,
ad only in the highest summer cloth
lg, M. j. Mabry, Miami newspaper /.
IAN; c. C. Stewart, Miami engineer( o. D
nd H. R. Cunningham OF Chicago C
ere landed at Norfolk, Virginia by
lie italian steamer Valentino Ctda. CO
pros;dar+ coo,;ar - =, til
Farm Bureau federation to "a "a
spress a preference on new secrc- d
Try of agriculture TO succeed Henry !,
'allace, federation headquarters an "
,unced.
Cozy Dolan, fo~me, coach of the I'M
ew York Giants, banished for al A
ged completely in en- attempted 'ol
'ibery deal with Jimmy O'Conaell h
i'll seek damages of rot. less than WI
100000 in the suit he plans to bring It!
,ainst Baseball Commissioner Ian dis
S, according 10 w. ]. Fallon, Dolan's an
torney. rel
General Pl,.arco Elias Gales,
esident-elect of Mexico, was for Ru
ally welcomed to New York by May. ms
Hylan. The mayor received him Ion
the city hall, after William H. of
oodin, chairman of the mayors COM aft
ittee for the reception of distin-
ished guests, had escorted him from ma
5 hotel. Upon the visitors arrival Try
e street cleaning departments band the
aged the Mexican national anthem. ha
For the fifth time in the history aba
the United States the general eIac M