The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-03-26
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
A 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

AXE clubs training season wer
chronicled at Fresno, California whel
Rudy the Bee trainer, was Gale,
upon to care for two skinned ant
caloused fingers, sustained by Pitch
ers John Singleton and Harve.
O'Neil while pitching horseshoes in {
newspaper tournament.
Lewis Carr Butler, vice presiden
and cashier Of the defunct First Ma
tional Bank Of Rock ,Sprinks, Wyo.
was found guilty in federal district
court on three Of ten counts of an in.
dictment charging embezzlement and
misapplication of the funds of the
bank.
CORTLAND S. Dimes Denver oil oper
ator who was shot through the lung
New Years night at Los Angeles by
Horace A. Greer, chauffeur for
Mabel Normand, motion picture act
ress, left the hospital a few days ago
and is reported to have gone on a
hunting trip.
Declaration that he and his as
sociates are "going to resist the gov
ernment's effort to enjoin us from
proceeding with the work at Diamond
creek" was made at Phoenix, Ariz,
when informed that lie had been made
defendant in suit to halt construc-
ton of the Diamond creek dam on
the Colorado river.
l.. B. Lockhart former president of
two Montana banks, was arrested by
deputy sheriffs at Los Angeles on a
Geographic warrant from Great Falls,
Mont. The charge against him was
not revealed but the fugitive warrant
authorizing his arrest fixed his bail
at $4,000, in default of which he was
lodged in the county Jail.
A motion removing E. L. Doheny
as second vice president of the or
ganization was adopted by the Cal |
ffornia Democratic state central COM
mittee in meeting here. The motion |
also included request to Doheny
that he resign from the committee. |
GENERAL
A supreme court jury returned q |
verdict in favor of Beverly D. Harris,
former vice president of the National
City bank of New York in the mar
riage annulment suit brought by him
against his wife, Eleanor Elaine Lee
Harris, on charges that she misrep-
resented her origin before their mar
rage. -r
Hurting 300 pound bombs from {
height of several hundred feet. two !
Martin bombing planes piloted by
army filters successfully attacked the /
ice gorges in the Platte river near Co {
lumbus, Neb., sixty miles west of I
Omaha averting temporarily at least, h
further flooding of lowlands. q
Prince Wolfgang Won Hessen. ne
ohew of the former German emperor,
las arrived at New York. He said t.
here was no romance connected with a
lis trip and that he planned to visit il
friends. n
Miss Leila Lewis, 81, former book
Keeper at the First National bank of =
st. Paul, Mimi, was charged with
econd degree forgery by bank Off n
ials following her admission to au- a.
horities that by manipulation of
ummy account she obtained $4,000 of
he banks funds in the last two years. -
The first step of the $4,000, 900 agri- D,
ultural credit corporation toward To- di
re- mr. Of ~; |
nd banking relief in the northwest
ras taken Friday at a conference at ~
ismarch, n. D., between officials of u
nat state executives of the corpor- I'd
ton and members of it's North Da- 8.
ota advisory committee. ~
Mrs. Bertha Horchem, member of l.;
n air circus was instantly killed at th
lie municipal flying field at San si
ntonio, Texas, when the left wing OF
er plane crumpled as she went into a
'op at 1900 feet. The plane crashed oil
} the ground twenty feet in front de
the hangar and into the edge of the SIX
'owd of 5000 spectators. tn
Thirty-two hundred women "sat in" D,
l what is said to be the worlds
rgest card party ever staged in a
'om at Cleveland, Ohio. Eight hun lie;
ed tables covered the entire vast az
COR of the public auditorium when BIO
e bridge games started. The prizes gil
ere eight hundred pieces of cut glass b
embroidery one for each table. ley
Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight
Iampion has left the Polytechnic hos pa
tai at New York after a confine- al.
ent of a week following an operation 10
r hemorrhoids and an abscess.
Mrs. Letitia Lindsey, 20, mother of oe
Idge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver's NC
venile court, died at a hospital at 90
enver Sunday morning following a
dden attack Of pneumonia. Mrs. off
ndsey came to Denver from Jack the
n, Tenn, In 1877, with her husband, los
,ndv Tunsta11 LINDSAY ErnaroI sin