The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-02-18
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and only one in Wyoming, the Ma
trona Pipe Line & Refinery CON
pany of Casper, which will receiv
refund of $20,983.
Fire thought to be of incindar
origin destroyed city block at New
ark, N. j., with one woman unac
counted for and scores driven int
the street. The damage was estimates
at 100000.
Charged with embezzlement of be
tween quarter and a half million
dollars in stocks belonging to loca
clients of their late brokerage firm
Berman A. Plummer and George H
Crowford were indicted at Marietta
Ohio, by the Washington county
grand jury on eleven indictments
covering 23 different counts.
Reformatory sentences were hand
ed down in District court at Grand
Island, Neb., to R. F. Miller, 20, Of
Knox City, Mo-, and Robert Wright
23, of St. Paul MINI. Miller received
from one to twenty years for alleged
cashing of worthless checks and
Wright receiving a term of from one
to seven years for an alleged auto
theft.
Josiah Kirby's activities on the
west coast are to be the subject of
another federal investigation it de
veloped, while his attorneys at Cleve-
land, Ohio, were making ready to
prepare his defense against federal
and state indictments growing out of
the two-year-old collapse of the $780,
100000 Cleveland Discount company
Kirby organized and once headed.
A resolution proposing entry of
this nation into the werld court was
introduced by Senator Wills, Repub-
lican, Ohio. 1t carries a provision en-
bodying the recommendation of Pres
ident Coolidge that the United States
not be bound by any advisory opin-
ions of the court.
Records of American fliers indicate
that the United States air service
is technically and in personal equal
to any in the world, Dwight w.
Davis, assistant secretary OF war, tes-
titled to before the house aircraft
committee. Americas weakness, he
said is due to lack of material and
the smaller number of fliers. Lieu
tenants Wade and Harding, two Of
the world filters, were called to tes-
tify.
A budget amounting to approx
mately $18,000,00O will be recon-
mended to the triennial convention
of the Protestant Episcopal church at
New Orleans this summer according to
program plans presented by Lewis
B. Franklin, vice president and treas
urer of the national church council.
The budget, Mr.. Franklin stated, has
been adopted by the national bishop
and council. If carried out, it will
involve increased expenditures of
nearly 100000 over the present
triennial.
Bernard Grant of Chicago has been
given another lease of life. Grant
was under sentence to hang January
10th. Governor Len Small granted
reprieve to April IT. The case of
Grant came to notice when Nathan
Leopald and Richard Loeb, slayers
Of little boy, escaped with life SEN
fences. Grant killed policeman in
a holdup. A monster petition was
sent the governor asking his life be
spared and pointing out that while
Leopold and Loeb, rich youths, es-
capped the gallows, Grant, poor boy
was being sent to his doom without |
a legal chance.
FOREIGN
Professor A. Wannach has recently |
performed number of surgical opera
lions at the Dorpat, Lithuania, uni
versity hospital which have attracted !
much attention because hypnosis was
for narcotics. The pa
tents are alleged to have suffered
40 pa!u.
Frank B. Kellogg, the American
to the court of st. James
will accept the post of secretary OF
state rendered him by President Cool
dge on the resignation of Charles
Evans Hughes.
Owing to the lack of incriminat-
ng evidence against him in connec-
ion with the murder of General Sir
lee Oliver Stack, sidar of the Egyp-
ian army, Abel Rahmen Fehay, or
,anizer of the notorious vengeance
society" has been liberated. He was
arrested December 81 and was given
IN exhaustive examination before the
ourt.
The Swiss national railways will
pend $S,000,000 in 1925 to continue
he work of electrifying the entire
ystem' of the country, according to
he government budget for 1925. AL
eady 400 miles of track have been