The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-02-18
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aaginst livestock shipments from Cal
Hornia and Texas because of the foo
and mouth disease has been liftet
BY Governor Hunt, on recommends
don of DR.. S. E. Douglas, state vet
erinarian.
Seven minutes late in reaching
court, Judge Charles S. Monroe Of
Los Angeles imposed 81 fine upor
himself. "The court sees that he is
tardy," Judge Monroe said, address
ing himself Therefore, the court
h fined 81, just as any attorney OF
attache would be-" Clerk Harry
Moore reached for the money and
credited it to the county.
A wheat shortage in the Pacific
Horthwest-one of the great wheat
producing sections of the country-is
In prospect until the next seasons
crop is available, according to infor-
nation from leading millers of Port
land, Ore.
The estate of Congressman julius
Kahn, who died in San Francisco last
December 10, was bequeather to his
widow, Mrs. Florece P. Kahn under
the terms Of the will filed for pro-
bate here. The will, which was
drawn at Washington, D. c., January
II, 1912, named Mrs. Kahn as exc
eutrix and expressed confidence she
would properly care for their two
sons. The value of the estate was
not disclosed.
Kid Mccoy, -prizefighter, con-
victed of manslaughter in Los Ange-
les, last week with the death last
August of Mrs. Theresa w. Mors,
was sentenced to from one to ten
years in San Quentin prison. Superior
Judge Charles S. Grain, before pass
ing entence, denied the defense mo-
ton for a new trial, which contained
charges of fifteen counts of error
during the trial. The most promi-
nent of the charges was directed at
the compromise verdict" of man
slaughter.
The Western Pacific Railroad com
pany has effected a new wage agree
ment with it's firemen, engineers and
hostlers, it was announced at San
Francisco by E. w. Mason, vice
president and general manager. The
men were granted conference re-
Gently to settle wage differences. I'm
der the agreement, the firement and
engineers in passenger service will
get an increase of "a cents a day
and in freight service of SO cents a
day. The hostlers will be given 32
cents day increase. Several hun
dred men are affected.
GENERAL
DR.. Richard R. Lyman, professor
Of civil engineering at the Universe
ty of Utah, one of the experts on the
sanitary districts board of review,
predicted that the nation as we'll rs
Chicago, would be endangered by di-
sease if relief be not found from the
supreme court decision limiting the
amount of water district can with
draw for diluticn Of city's sewage.
The old and the new generations
Of the Ponca Indians are represented
In tribal council formed at Ponca
City, Okla, for the purpose of push
ing the tribes suit against the gov
eminent for $11,0O0,000. The Poncas
claim the government owe them for
former tribal lands in South Dakota
and Nebraska.
The congressional junket to Pana-
ma in 1921, which has been so wide
" advertised by Mrs. Frank D. Scott,
wife of Representative Scott of Mich
gan. in her defense against her hus-
bands suit for divorce may be in
vestigated by the house judiciary
Leo Koretz, promoter of the Bay
ano oil bubble, who fleeced scores
Of friends and relatives out of mil
lions of dollars, died at Statewide,
H., in the state penitentiary. The
promoter, who for years conducted
his phantom financial ventures SO
quietly and effectively that trusting
relatives and friends begged him to
lake their money, declared when he
vent to prison few weeks ago that
he did not expect to come out alive.
Government operation of Muscle
Shoales was disapproved by the SEN
ate, 48 to 81, but the whole ques-
ion Of the final disposition of the
great power and nitrate plant was
eft in the air.
What is said to be the oldest neck
ace in the world, $4,000 years old,
Idornment Of cave woman of south
I'm France, is in the custody of Frank
). Logan, vice president of the Art
institute of Chicago. Gas far as is
Known, the beads are tho oldest OBJ
ects fashioned by man." said Wal
er J. Sherwood Of the Art Insti-
ute, ever unearthed in the history
f archaeological excavations" Pro
essor Alonzo w. Pond of Beloit
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