The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-10-21
TE[EeRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
n REsUME OF THE WEEKS
ooikos IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
Important Events Of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit Of the
Busy Reader.
WESTERN EPIToME

Three former San Francisco polio,
men, . lieutenant and two patrolmer
convicted Of landing liquor from
boat at South San Francisco in Jar
nary, 1928. we're ordered to prisol
BY ruling Of the United States cir
cult Of appeals at San Francisco. Tn,
three. who must serve terms ranginJ
from twelve to eighteen months IL
the federal penitentiary at Leven
worth, Kansas, and pay fines of $500
to $1,000 each are D. Herschel Bras
field. former lieutenant; Mark Will
yer and william Barton.
Word that e. p. Erckenbrack di.
rector OF the United States shipping
board emergency fleet corporation
for Europe, with headquarters In
London. and formerly north Pacific
coast district director OF the corpor
alton In Seattle, has asked to be re-
heved OF his duties by January, was
received at Seattle. Erckenbrack said
he wanted to return to the United
States.
United States Senator Tasker l..
Oddfe Of Nevada has appealed direct
" to President Coolidge for executive
action In behalf Of the white settlers
On the Pyramid Indian reservation,
near Reno, Nevada, who have been
compelled to pay for the lands some
q them have occupied since the COS
sf their full value, after the settlers
had devoted years to their improve.
msnt and cultivation.
Damages of $126,661 are asked by
ne Pacific Mail Steamship company
q Vow York from the Bethlehem
bodybuilding Corporation, Ltd, of {
Wilmington. Delaware, for alleged l
faulty repairs to the Pacific Mail {
Steamship Ecuador In October, 1928. '
N : hbed action filed in federal
court At San Francisco. The libelant
states that claims for damaged cargo
to $120,631 and that the =
salvage amounted to only s14,777
Tour persons were killed and e
NTH probably was fatally injured il
hear Pomona, Calf, when South a
brn Pacific express train struck an
automobile believed to have been
1riven by Frank 8. Davidson, 81, of
Los Angeles. Davidson, his son, a.
George =. Davidson, an unidentified o
10Y and an unidentified woman were tt
instantly killed, and Miss Irene Dav- in
dson was taken to hispital with b,
ritical injuries. W
Notification Of the Oregon state ia
asolfne tax is sought by group Of -, =.
utomobile freight bus operators in o..
suit filed in the United States dis 80
let court at Portland, Oregon. An
function is asked to prevent the hi
secretary Of state from further en- to-
rcement of the lay. A refund of in,
$4,000, 900 collected by tn,
70 state under the present gasoline Pa
law II demanded. LAT
GENERAL be
Wi
John Wingate Weeks has regret
lily stepped out of public life, re-
aQuishing his office as secretary of po'
n to Dwight F. Davis, assistant Sec mo
tary, world war veteran and hold ria
OF the distinguished service cross ma
r gallantry in action. wo
nov
A reprimand for Colonel William T. VIC
ltchell; an increased appropriation !.
T the army air service. This, ac-
riding to reports confirmed in sew -. 80
u quarters Is the present state Of sAe
nd Of the war department; but It g."
subject to change at any moment. Nop
Eleven members of party OF tour r1ta
J are known to have drowned when srr
pieasuie ooa' Oiara o. capsizeo cord
lie attempting to turn In a rough don,
, just outside Sebastian inlet, od,a
rida. The remainder OF the party od,a
'on nuoeieu '"en'y-ai'e were built
erat
ersonal income tax collections in TT
decreased $197,405. 1903 or 22.93 Carl,
cent as compared with 1922. ac- Will
ling to revised statistics made Men
Tic by the internal revenue bureau the
Records show that ants
8.321 persons filed income tax re- NJ
10 for 1928. The aggregate net in ., ~
10 was $24.s40. 134,364 and the tax snad
|,651,505 ~ :,
chool teachers Of Shabrona, ILL.,, furth
be required to spend at least recen
70 week-ends Of every month ence,
lin the confines Of the village, ac- killed
ing to an edict OF the school The
d. J. B. Stout, superintendent Of of tn
ols declared about half the teach in WI
have been spending their week. riser
out Of town and did not attend by tn
local community functions. Frenc
IS Catherine Hood, 10, play The
nd Instructor at the Omaha, Neb. the cl
stic park, south side, during the the W
summer. is in serious condi- lions
al n result of be,ng r,dnonnd The
'ur men who threatened to kill Gu ~
sco,sa 81. States
all summer" Miss Hood was ~ovarr
wandering and crying near MIL tendin
several miles distant at about hand /