The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-12-24
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WESTERN

Selma ranch home near Fresno. Cali
Put rope over rafter and aroun
her neck mounted barrel and she
herself through the mouth the We
mans husband told police. Both die
almost instantly, it is believed b
Svend Toulsen, the husband, VIII
found the bodies when he returne
10 his home from work on the rancl
Bloody finger prints on waite
faucet and washbowl supplied thu
only clues the police had to the muir
derer who killed Nels Anderson an,
mis- wife In their combination barber
shop and beauty parlor at Billings
Mont, by splitting their heads witt
IN ak. The two were found dead In
eneir place of business, with the
blood smeared az nearby.
The mercury dropped s degrees be-
low zero on December 9th, at Rock
Springs, Wyo., the first time it has
been below zero this year. 4 light
snow preceding the drop in tempera-
eure materially alleviated drought
conditions which have been threat
ening the sheep industry.
Charles Chaplin's 16-year-old bride.
Formerly Miss Lillita Louise McMur
ray, has met all requirements of the
California compulsory schooling law,
was announced by Raymond Dun
sop director OF the compulsory edu-
cation department at Los Angeles.
Tho state law allows part-time
studies for minors under 16, Dunlop
explained. and report has just been
filed by Miss Margaret Peterson,
tutor Of the young bride showing
that she followed twenty-four hour
a-week schedule of studies up to last
November II.
While pedestrians passed on both
sides OF the street unmindful of |
what was happening, four daring
young bandits held up three en-
ployees of the Pacific Gas & Elec |
tric company in front of the com
pany's office In tile downtown dis
tr1ct Of San Francisco and escaped
with $18,500 in cash. A second bag
containing $4,000 In negotiable bonds
and securities was dropped by one
of the bandits as they fled the
scene.
Five lions and three leopards,
survivors of menagerie which Her
man Zeigler says he tried for years
to ship across the Pacific after La
boriOusly collecting the animals in
oriental jungles, finally were per-
mitted to land at San Pedro, Cal.
They came in on the freiglter West
Carmona from Hongkong after II
Is said, they had been shipped back
to the orient on several previous oc-
rasions for lack Of permit to bring
hem into the United States.
GENERAL
The Grand Trunk elevator at Port I
Huron, Mich, containing 100000 bu-
'hels Of grain was destroyed, and the
barge Alexander Maitland, with a
.argo Of barley, was burned almost
o the waters edge by fire of unde- I
ermined origin. Early estimates
placed the loss at more than $500, 900. O
THAT provision in the house in Il
erted by Congressman Cramton OF r.
dichigan, which requires settlers on n
he new Salt Lake basin irrigation "
Project to pay interest on deferred n
ayments, will be stricken out when
he bill reaches the senate If it is
lot eliminated by the house." said :
'enator Reed Smooc, and the SEN .
tor is in a position to speak au-
horitatively because he is chair =
ian OF the senate subcommittee that :,
Ill handle the interior department .
Ill. But Representative Leatherwood =
,tends, II possible. to have this in
sresting feature stricken out before
Nh bill passes the house. o
Leo Koretz, money wizard who en- z
Ineered the s2.OOOO0O Bayano oil t,
ubble, came to the end OF his H. r.
ancial rainbow when he entered the ii
Id state prison at Statewide. Illinois e
} begin serving a sentence OF from 81
ne to ten years for three varieties ii
, swindling. Il
Supreme Court Justice Mahlon
Itney, retired died at his home in i
'ashington after long Illness. K
hen Justice Pitney was forced bv
20 strokes Of paralysis to go upon =,
e retired list eighteen months ago,
s physicians held out no hope OF fl
timate recovery. The inroads of G
e affliction we're so gradual, how s.
er, that after his retirement he to
IS able ut times to move about with M
sistance, and he was, In fact, con- D'
GUS until the end came, unaware Is