The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-08-20
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RESUME OF THE WEEKS
DoINGs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
Important Events Of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
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Busy Reader
WESTERN

LOLA, was gored to death at his farn
thirty miles south Of Bearsford, S. d
Clay county.
Details Of the purpose of a sever
million dollar suit to be filed thi
month by the government against tn,
Skinner & Eddy corporation, war
time shipbuilding firm of Seattle, fol
adjustment Of claims and counter
claims involving two hundred million
dollars Of shipbuilding transactions
were given out by Oliver B. M
Brown, special assistant appointed by
United States Attorney General Har-
Ian F. Stone.
September "a has been designated
~ the date for the big celebration at
Burns, Oregon, to mark the opening
Of the railroad in this territory.
Documents in the Oregon compul
sorry school attendance test cases
were forwarded to Washington last
week. The law, which was declared
unconstitutional by three federal
Judges at Portland, Ore, thus goes
to the United States supreme court
for final decision. The case may
be argued this fall.
H. J. Mallen, Los Angeles business
man and sportsman caught a 52S
pound sword fish off Santa Catalina
Island. 1t is said to be the largest
Of its kind ever caught with a rod
and line. The sword fish was twelve
feet, six inches long and four feet
ten inches in girth. His sword was
% inches long. The fish knocked
In the side of the boat and disabled
the propeller in his final plunge.
Nine persons were killed and five
seriously injured when tornado de-
molished the farm house of Henry
xuns, a farmer residing four miles
east of Thurman, Colo, according to
information received at Denver. 1t
was reported that at least two of
those injured would die.
Two masked bandits entered the
bank Of Salt Creek at Lavoye in the
center of the Salt Creek oil fields,
Is miles north of Casper, Wyo., held
mp four clerks and escaped with two
sacks Of money. The loot was said
to have amounted to several thous-
and dollars, the total being un-
known.
A tempting offer which may carry
Jack Dempsey, worlds champion
heavyweight boxer, across the Allan
tic to meet Tommy Gibbons, in Lon
don, was made to the champion by
m English syndicate, it was an
nounced at Los Angeles by Jack
kearns, Dempsey's manager.
For the first time since the Indians
the bow for the breachload-
Ing rifle, an American deer was kill ,
I'd with an arrow. The animal fell
to Miss Virginia Ayres of San Fran
cisco, who uses 81 pound bow,
nearly double the strength of the or
binary weapon, and steel-headed ar
rows. a
Chlorine gas will be freed into I
The Palisade mine, near Palisade, q
Colo., in the hope of driving the three t
men who are alleged to have robbed b
he Palisade postoffice of more than c
$4,000 in stamps and cash from the I
property.
GENERAL b
John w. Davis opened his cam v
'aign for the presidency of the Uni q
ed States In a vertiable torrent of e
AHA rain that soaked the thous- ii
'nds of persons who had journeyed
rom many cities to witness the for
nal ceremonies to notify the candi-
ate of his selection as the standard 4
carer of the Democratic party, at u
w. Va. "
Need of the defense test" schedul- u
d for September IL is demonstrated y
y the character Of the opposition, Il
secretary of War Weeks says in !. =
,tter to Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, =
resident general Of the Daughters =
the American Revolution, in &C. :
a communication pledg- :"
lg the support of twenty seven vet
ran and patriotic societies. m
H. w. "Brodie" Stephens of Ana ca
onda, Mont, former star end at IL
ennSylvania, was named as end bl
oach for the varsity football team :
MS year at the University Of Penn re
ylvania. The announcement was in
Iade by Head Coach Lou Young ana CT
onpletes the staff Of coaches. 81
Americas white haired veterans
raved a driving rain in Boston TO til
arch once more to the sound of fife 1t
nd drum. The Grand army Of the bt
epublic drew it's thinning ranks to- tv
ether for one more parade-perhaps fl
8 last here. Those who answered by
lie call to arms in 1861 as lads, fired
18th enthusiasm to do their part in al
sving the Union, walked as bravely OF
,day, some of them almost tottering m
Others still erect in their old age, W
'er mile Of wet and slippery pave to