The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-07
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RESUME OF THE WEEKS
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important Events Of the Last seven
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WESTERN

Tho rail mill Of the steel plar
- the Colorado Fuel & Iron compan
resumed operations after being i'd
for several months. Five hundre
men started work and will be EN-
paoyed in two shifts of eight hour
each, It was announced at Pueblo
Colorado.
John Ellegood, sc, was killed, $40,
900 worth Of property was ruinet
and three buildings were wrecked in
. double explosion at the Du Pont
Powder company's plant at Du Pont
Nash.
Tho conviction of L. H. Lathrop, S.
g. Champlain and George w. Clark,
officials Of the Northwestern I'm
provement company of Pocatello, Ida
10, ON = charge of using the mails
70 defraud in connection with $40,-
600 real estate transaction, was up
held by the United States circuit
court Of appeals at San Francisco.
Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, governor
elect Of Wyoming, will not attend the
ceremonies in January inaugurarlng
Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson as governor
sf the Lone Star state, it became
nkown at Cheyenne, Wyo. The Wyo-
ming legislature will be in session at
the time and Mrs. Ross said she felt
she should remain at Cheyenne.
Matthew Decker, held as suspect
h the Staying Of Walter w. Power,
automobile salesman, was positively
identified in Los Angeles by Mrs.
Ethel Garcia as the man she saw
running from the scene of the killing,
II WAS announced at the district attor-
ney's office.
Two more large Nevada wool clips
have been disposed of, according to
word received in Elko, the first bring
ing the top price so far recorded of
lS cents, and the second bringing 43
tents. The top price clip is that of
Adams and McGill in White Pine
county, amounting to approximately
700, 900 pounds and is one of the larg-
ut in the eastern part of the state. /
Effective Immediately an embargo ,
vas declared by the California state
apartment of agriculture on the i'm
into California of live poul-
ny consisting of chickens, turkeys, ]
'eese, ducks, pheasants, pigeons and ?
ca fowl from the states of North Da- S
ota, South Dakota, Kansas, Illinois, A
indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. o
! GENERAL
The fourth Mrs. Willard Mack left |
er husband in New York she said, n
ecause he drank too much and now
II. Mack has come to regard her t,
oint of view with favor. Mr.. and is
lrs. Mack, before their attorneys, ts
cached separation agreement and k
le author-actor- producer told her he in
ould provide her with every posi- Sc
e comfort until a divorce is OBJ to
lined. be
A forty-four- word letter, reposing
the eye of a needle, has been re- VI
lived at the Smithsonian Institute a. a.
ne microscopic missive, which was ~
mt to the institute for display be- ue
re the annual meeting of the board
regents, is SO small it has to be al
agnified eighty eight times before be
can be read. 1t measures exactly m
l1.250th of a square inch. The text W.
the letter follows. "This is 81
ude, hurriedly prepared, large sam M
OF the micro-engraving, trust it Ju
II contain a moment Of interest to mi
e regents and regret that time pre- SCI
nts preparing an exhibition more
rthy Of their inspection. Believe de
to be-, your cordially, Alfred Nc pc
ven" SUI
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The Missouri Pacific railway, which, 60
-ough recent acquisition of control 90,
the Gulf Coast lines and the In me-
Great Northern railroad NO,
zane the largest transportation ~.
stem on the United States announ-
the purchase of fifty additional ~
omotives, 5000 freight cars ana oa'
ty cabooses at an aggregate cost me
about 100000. ''e
Tames Higgeson, 81, of Oklahoma we,
y, conductor on st. Louis and for
, Francisco train, was suffocated VIII
lie directing passengers to safety up
en- fire destroyed two coaches Of the
train. ed
he House committee investigating
shipping board received testimony cial
wing the board held S43 claims nov
is deferred liquidation division ag- lou
CITING SLIT ,OO0O,00O0 on which it pas
estimated only 100000 could be s s.n'
ected. 80
tatements by number Of univer- citi
law school deans indorsing the H
d labor amendment to the consti- Sw,
on were made public by the head adv
rtefs of the national organization sale