The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-26
4 REeUME OF THE WEEKS
DoiNoe IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of tho Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit Of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

season of the Pacific Coast leag
failed by a five-to-t three vote
ebtain the approval of the league
directors and club owners at the
meeting at Seattle. The propos
70 dispose of the Salt Lake team +,
Long Beach and to remove its ba.
Of operations to San Francisco ais
failed to receive unanimous approva
Benjamin Bergman, prominer
merchant of Ruth, Nevada was hel
up and shot to death by three ur
masked men in his store The stor
was full of people at the time, bu
the men made their escape throug
The rear door of the store and hav
not yet been arrested. Forty-fiv
thousand dollars In the safe was lief
untouched.
Fire attributed to spontaneou.
combustion destroyed the coaling bin.
Of the Union Pacific railroad at LII
Bale, Colo, causing damage estim-
ated at $4,000.
John A. Hicks, an inmate of the
county poor farm at Los Angeles
asks divorce from his wife, An
ntete p. Hicks, and alimony of 500
month, in pauper's complaint on
file In superior court. Mrs. Hicks,
the complaint states, enjoys the in
some from property valued at $4,000
while the plaintiff "is compelled to
live on charity"
After eluding search for three
weeks, Jack Wilson, who is accused
Of having robbed the State bank at
Alton, Wyoming, unwisely returned
to his old haunts, walked into a trap
set for him and is now in Jail. Sheriff
u. G. Oakley, hearing that Wilson
Intended to return to Kemmerer, in
structed Deputy Sheriffs Lawrence
Miller and Rud Bennett to be on
watch. Wilson virtually walked into
the arms Of the two deputy sheriffs
Federal Judge Charles N. Pray at
Great Falls, Montana disqualified him.
self from sitting as trial Judge in the
prosecution of Senator B. K. Wheeler,
who was indicted here last April on the
charge that he had accepted fee
for representing client before fed
eral department after his election to
the United States senate. Senator ,
Wheeler's trial will be held here in .
December before a judge to be as
signed to the Great Falls court .by
Senior Judge Gilbert of Portland.
While the nation was in a furore !,
:hoosing president ard divers and i,
undry other public officials, there
we're five precincts in Idaho county, 9
IDAHO, whose calm remained unruf- :,
led, it developed. County Auditor :
ienry Pelcher reported on the tele- :
hone fom Grangeville that in the
i've precincts, totaling twenty five re.
'istered voters, the polls had not been = :.
pened at all. u
Fourteen miles of new road on the W
lock Springs -Pinedale route to the
'ellowstone park have been opened
traffic by the state highway de-
artment Of Wyoming during the past III
eek. The new road replaces several vt
nd grades in the only gap through a
lie White mountain ridge to the Eden ne
alley on the old Oregon trail and %
'ene of the massacre made famous -
? "The Covered Wagon"
eInAI IL
w. W. Irwin of Wheeling, W. Va, I'M
ist imperial potentate of the An be
emit Arabic order, Mobiles of the tic
ystic Shrine, died in hospital at CT
lttsburg, where he underwent an tn
'eration several weeks ago. He ST
rived as postmaster of Wheeling
ring President Wilson's asminis i.
alton and was imperial postentAte h.;
the Shriners of North America in il
Is and 1914. -.
Records of five years standing were An
ashed at New York by the enthu- Ius
site trading in the stock market, wn
'ulting in the turnover of 1885, 500 ane
ares of SOC separate issues. Since 'All
now famous liquidation marker nc
November IL, 1919, when stocks \
'lined 3 to 10 points in a day anc Eli,
neral Motors led the way with a leo,
drop of 60 points, there has not MOI
m such volume of business on md
New York Stock exchange. The ID
h record of separate issues traded ind
is 517 shares on Dec ,mber 20, ,ur
%. elt
If the 435 members who were
ted to the house of representa- No,
s which will be sworn in when the If
ty-ninth congress assemblies in Car
ember, 1925, sixty are raw re- per-
is who have seen no previous le- MOI
alive experience in Washington. s {
ion O'Bannion, several times tive
STONED by the police in connec- A
with brewery and liquor viola lion
S, was shot five times and killed ng
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