The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-08-20

nOuncec that on retirement OF Genel
J al Pershing, September 10, next, MI
, jor General John L. Hines, now der
!. uty chief of staff, would be appoint
ed chief of staff by the president.
A telegram from Henry Ford ask
ing that his name be withdrawn fror
the list of candidates for the Repub
lican nomination for United State
senator in the Michigan primary wa
received at Lansing, Mich, by Secre
, tary of State Charles Deland.
Unless the people of Salt Lake ba
sin, or those of them interested il
irrigation development, can get to
gether behind some particular uni
of the proposed Salt Lake basin pro
ject, there can be no appropriation
by congress next session for new
project in Utah. This opinion was
expressed by DR.. Elwood Mead, COM
missioner of reclamation who has
just returned from an extended trip
through the west.
Ambushed on their way home from
work, five nonunion workers in the
Bull Hills coal mine, eighteen miles
east of Wilburton, Okla, were shot
down and one seriously wounded by
unidentified men hidden in the I'M
derbrush.
William Dein, New York cyclist,
has left Venice, CAL, on his bicycle
for New York, in an attempt to shat
ter the coast forecast record of TWEEN
ty-four and one-half days now held
by Clarence Wagner. Dein peddled
out here in thirty-one and one-half
days, but is confident that he will
reach Tottenville,, Staten Island, in
less than twenty-five days on the re-
turn trip.
Narcotics valued at $4,000, the
greatest quantity ever seized in
Michigan were found by police in a
trunk shipped from New York to
4 Detroit peddler, alleged to be the
TOOL of drug ring.
Because he struck Mrs. Frank B.
Doyle, of Long Beach, CAL, and beat
her husband with a pick handle,
Aaron Deckleman a taxi cab driver
of Chicago, was fined $1,000 and
costs and sentenced to serve one year
in the house of correction last week.
It was the maximum penalty.
Robert P. Skinner, American con-
sui general at London for more than
ten years has been ordered trans
ferred to Paris to succeed Alexander
". Thackara, who retired as consul
general on July l because of age.
Consul General Horace L. Washing
on, stationed at Liverpool, will sue
zee Mr.. Skinner in London.
Two violent rain and hail storms, |
by high winds swept
Indiana, killing five persons, injur-
ng a dozen others and causing heavy |
damage.
Assets amounting to $332,53O,953,
we're held by building and loan as
in the United States at
he close of last year, according to
n inquiry conducted by the Ameri-
an Savings, Building and Loan In
titute and announced by the Ma
ional Association of Real Estate
'oards which is urging their for
nation.
Decision to terminate the army
round the-world flight at Seattle
as been announced definitely, at the
ar department. The terminating
oint had been left open, pending
of claims of other Pa
fic coast cities to secure the desig-
alton.
FOREIGN
Ten Egyptian soldiers were killed
nd nine wounded In a collision with
ritish troops Mt Atbara following
sturbances in which Egyptian
oops attacked the British with
ticks at their barracks, says an Ex-
lange Telegraph dispatch from
afro.
An abortive attempt was made to
ing about radical communist re-
1T at Libron, Portugal A few bombs
pre- thrown but they caused no dam {
70 and several persons were arrest 5
. The place and military now are
control of the city and conditions /
e normal. {
The French academy has finished
9 first volume of its revised die =
mary Of the French language. The /
lume contains letters A to ii. 1t $
ok forty-six years to complete, I
wing been begun in 1878. Suppos-
g the learned body requires an 6
ual amount of time to ponder over :
g seventeen remaining letters. &
nety-six years, or very nearly a a
injury Will elapse before the great d
'rk is finally completed.
The establishment OF chain of n
from ono op1 of fha A ~, o,i =,