The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-04-23
,TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
a RESUME OF THE WEEKS
D0INGS IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for tho Benefit of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

Nevada's loss from fire during 1872
amounted to $3,324,52O according to
Ueport of the National board of Fir,
Underwrte. most of which was pre-
ventable, 1t says.
Police OF Denver are looking for 4
~well-dressed, gray-haired man." sus.
pected of plotting an attempt to kid.
nap the two young children of Mrs
Helen Elwood Stokes, recently sued
tor divorce by her millionaire husband,
". Il. d. Stokes.
Fire, which threatened to destroy
the town OF Benson, fifty miles from
Bisbee, Arizona was checked shortly
after 1t had RACED half block, caus-
ing property damage estimated at
$4,000.
''Rain-maker" Charles Hatfield con-
tracted to produce two inches of rain
fall for the Coalinga, Cal. district for
$4,000 but he did not figure on being
victim of the rain he produced. Hat
field spent Wednesday night in the
limbs Of tree In the mountains near
here, where he had set up his rain
wooing towers, following a cloudburst
which washed out his tents and made
the roads impossible.
Albert Wicks is back at the Nc
Neil island federal prison after hav-
ing gone with guard to Leeds, Utah,
to the deathbed of his father, James
Madison Wicks. The son will finish
his sentence next August and at that
time he will return to Leeds to claim
the $4,000 estate of his father.
DR.. John Scott Barker, former
manager Of sanitarium for narcot-
&c adicts in Oakland and another in
southern California was sentenced in
the federal district court to serve
five years in Leavenworth prison for |
violation Of the Harrison narcotic
act. He served notice of an appear
Through railroad and highway con-
struction activities that will take
place in Elko county, Nevada, dur !,
Ing the next four or five months, ap- .
nine millions of dollars y
will be expended, it is estimated.
Preparations are being made by fl
civic organizations of Los Angeles b
10 hold great sunrise Easter SER a.
vice at the Los Angeles coliseum
which more than $4,000 persons are 80
to attend. The first Cali y,
'ornia Easter sunrise service was b.
leld on Mount Rubidoux, in River 80
ide, sixty miles southeast of here, ~,
n 1909. The idea was the out
rowth Of an informal gathering of
'ational figures at Riverside. One Of
UGH group included Theodore Roose- lei
cit, DR.. Henry Van Dyke, Jacob Riis ha
nd Bishop Conaty. ov
GENERAL vii
Watched by gaping crowd of 1000
pper east side residents, James Boil fol
nd, crazed man barricaded behind of
le locked doors of his stationery de,
ore at New York, exchanged more roy
IAN 100 shots with seven policemen kel
sfore he was MORALLY wounded. bre
Adolfo de la Huerta, leader Of the
st revolutionary cause In Mexico, era
IS landed at Key West. Fla. and the
Is gone into the interior OF the nm,
nited States. Mexican Consul Gen. ROW
al Enrique d. Ruiz has been ad- Wi
sed by Mexico City. ed
Total February sales of new outo. wei
obiles and motorcycles for the en- r
g country aggregated $136, 7SO, 900, a m r
crease OF 1913 per cent compared sig,
tn the previous month and an in ind
ease Of 1872 per cent compared with n
year ago the seventh federal re- 70
rye bank has announced. res,
One fireman was killed and a the
operty loss estimated at between but
. million and two million dollars dpe
. caused when fire of undeterm- the
I'd origin destroyed the Lynn Eng Thi
h high school at Lynn, Mass. Fire arm
N Arthur Preble died from injur- uns'
to his head from falling slate. ther
II dozen other firemen were in out
ed. Il,
William B. Leeds, Jr., son of the grea
plate millionaire, his wife, form NJ.
Y Princess Xena of Greece, ana OF
5. H. H. Thompson had narrow Che
ape from drowning when the t'ral
rch Regalon, in which they were amb
Yelling, sank in southeast wind Ze
it was making its way across the chur
nd to Brunswick from Saint ST. from
MS Island fore
he name of Saten Island poll So
an and banker, who once was as Brit;
ated with an internationally agail
wn financial organization, was rublt
ed by authorities with the MUIR Conn
Of Mrs. Maude Bauer in Chelsea, in
en- Island. ject
William B. Seattle, president Of COME
liam B.. Seattle & Sons, structur- Ge
of Pittsburg, Pa, Germ