The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-06-17
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a RGaUmE OF THE WeENe
ooIN0s IN This AND OIHE"
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important Events Of the Last os''"
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pared for tho Benefit Of tho
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WESTERN EPiToME

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20 the Los Angeles police headqua
ters by Cliff Bergere. automobile rae
driver. with the statement that II
feared It was connected with an a.
tempt upon his life. has been 1ouh
upon analysis to contain quantit
Of deadly poison, the police annour
ced.
When arrested at San Francisco
Nears Hansen, 2S, confessed to TN
police that he had tied up hand ant
foot between fifty and hundred girl
and women In that city seeking EN-
ployment from him in answer to ad
vertisements for stenographers, Typ
lists and apartment house managers
A Jury In federal court awarded
to the Brookings State bank OF BROOK
ings. Ore, verdict OF 81 actual dam
ages and $17,5OO punitive damages IN
the banks suit against the Federal
Reserve bank OF San Francisco. the
Brookings bank claimed 1t had SUI
fered from practices Of the reserve
bank in forcing 1t to comply with the
rule for par collection OF checks.
Ex-Governor Louis F. Hart OF
Washington will not have to STAND
trial in the Pierce county informa-
ton charging him with an attempt
TO solicit bribe. Superior Judge
Teats sustained the demurrer to the
information which was argued be-
fore him recently. Judge Teats
ruled that the elements Of bride
we're not set forth in the information,
sustaining the objections raised by
Attorney Maurice Langhorne in be-
half Of the former chief executive.
Eddie Hubbard, veteran air mail
carrier, fell more than $500 feet into
Lake Washington near Seattle, Wash
ing, but suffered only slight injuries.
The plane, new type naval plane,
which Hubbard was testing, was
much damaged.
Figures compiled during the last
five years by the largest moving pic
ture producing companies Of Califor-
mia reveal that the aspirant to star
com in the films must overcome 3d.
900 to / chance OF achieving success.
Dorothy Ellingson "jazz GIRL" alleg-
ed slayer OF her mother, will under
10 an operation for appendicitis. 1t
trial
postponed Trial date was advanced
from June is to August Is by Super
Tor Judge Harold Louderback OF San
Francisco, when told the operation
was necessary.
GENERAL
A brass band and several hundred
persons met Albert Gowan and Char
les McPhee. paroled rum runners OF
Glocester, Mass, as they stepped
from a train that had brought them
from Atlanta penitentiary. Efforts by
the chamber OF commerce and the
city council to have the celebration
called off were only partially success
full. They did succeed, however, in
Inducing those who were arranging
the home coming to cancel plans for
. parade.
Chicago gunner and thugs met a
severe but costly repulse at the hands
Of police and citizens, when two gun
men, one of them q notorious bad
man" were shot to death and another
but recently tried for murder, was
latally wounded. One of the gunner
Dlain managed to exc out shot as
he fell dying, and 1t found its mark
u the heart OF Joseph Baggott, vet
sran policeman. Baggott died later
n q hospital.
Knocked out for the first time
Iince he started boxing fifteen years
,go, Tom Gibbons has given up his
ambition for the worlds heavyweight
and will retire from the
ing Gibbons, who was floored twice
~ Gene Tunney. the former A. E. F.
champion, in the tewlfth round and
out while he was gamely
Trying to pull himself up the ropes,
has not made the announcement Of
but he has decided to give up
boxing.
The tombstone over his fathers
grave In Waldheim cemetery, Chica-
30. which fell when he attempted to
climb 1t, resulted In the death OF Les
Ter Laclche. years old. His mother
was placing flowers on the grave and
sobbing as the boy tried to climb the
slender shaft three feet high. II top
pied. fracturing his skull.
The United States blockade against
'um runners along the Atlantic coast
has driven the booze boats that for
nerly operated there into the Gulf
II Mexico. according to officers OF
he coast guard cutter Commache
hat arrived at Houston, Texas, after
! twenty-four hour cruise.
Charges that conspiracy among
God adulteraters has nullified the
ederal pure food and drug act were
aid before President Coolidge by DR..
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