The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-03-19
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WESTERN

The State Highway Commission a
their last meeting, held In Cheyenne
awarded the contract for the q
bridges on the new stretch OF high
way between Big Piney and KEN
merer, Wyoming. The successful
bidder was James Turpin OF Wheat
land. who had just recently completed
q Job for the commission up state.
Arrangements have been complet-
ed for destroying approximately 5000
cattle and 5000 hogs in five counties
In California under foot and mouth
disease quarantine. Although Mon
terey county was placed under quar-
antine with Alameda, Contra Costa,
Napa and Solano counties, G. II.
Hecke OF the state department of
agriculture reported that "the prog
ress of the epidemic appears to have
been checked"
Mrs. Inez Simons was instantly
killed at Berkeley crossing, Oakland,
California, and her husband was fat
ally injured when their automobile
was struck by Southern Pacific in
terurban train. Mr.. and Mrs. Simons
formerly residents of Salt Lake, were
undertakers and were en- route to
embalm body when the accident
occurred.
Governor Joseph NJ. Doxon of Mon
tana Monday issued a proclamation
rlA
California because of the reported
prevalence OF the foot and mouth
disease in that state. The quaran-
tine is effective Immediately.
One man is dead and two others
are In a critical condition from in
turies received in an oil fire which
damaged the Associated OIL Com
pany's tanker Alden Anderson and
completely destroyed the Red Stack
tug Sea Prince at San Pedro, Calf.
Drastic orders have been issued by
state and county officials of Califor-
MIA In an attempt to check the spread
Of the foot and mouth disease Which
is said to have increased in Califor-
MIA alarmingly.
GENERAL
Housewives in Rockport, Ind, are
paying 10 cents for Idaho potatoes
according to news item in a
Rockport paper received in Boise by
T. Z. Warnke, postoffice clerk.
A $4,000 peace plan competition
for the best educational plan to pro-
vide world peace and international
Justice" was announced at Chicago :
by Augustus o. Thomas. president Of
the World Federation of Educational
associations which will make the
award. @
Chairman Ben w. Hooper of the !
United States railway labor board :
announced at Chicago that he will not
be candidate for reelection.
A chemical discovery said to be :
one of the most important of the
twentieth century has just been made :,
at the fixed nitrogen research labor :.
ehOAy Ut W ocAiShtOiit lOltbSOl AL -
thur B. Lamb of Harvard announced.
The discovery is that Of a new
catalyst which will bring about the
permanent union of hydrogen and n
nitrogen atoms and will yield ii per q
cent OF ammonia. Professor Lamb h
said. :,
Pearl White. motion picture star. =
appeared in crowded Brooklyn y
courtroom recently to testify in the ?
trial of $4,000 damage suit filed
against her and the Fox Film corpor- n
alton by Lohn Beatty, an expert =,
equestrian. :,
Sixteen children are being given III
the Pasteur treatment In Cleveland.
ohio hospitals as precautionary
measure following an epidemic of IN
rabies among pet dogs here. Police M
said twenty-dogs either have been
killed or have died from the disease. g..
Fifty-nine OF. paintings and thir- al
teen water colors by John Singer I'll
Sargent were insured for $1,000, 900 U
as an exhibition of the artists work m
opened in Grand Central Gallery at tn
New York. The insurance. it was tn
said, was to protect the owners of
the pictures against possible vandal-
Ism of the sort that resulted in the re
splattering of ink on Mr.. Sargent's "a
The Synagogue" in the Boston pub ~
lie library.
Teapot Dome, the Wyoming field
eased to the Sinclair oil interests,
S now connected with Kansas and vi
he refineries around Chicago by "
l400-mile pipe line said to be one of ~ ~
he longest in the world. The main liz
pumping station on the new pipeline
las just been installed at Elmont, VI
Kansas. ei
Captain John S. Ainsley, Los An 70