The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-08-05
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WESTERN EpIroME

consumed in selecting a jury, nj
men and three women were impan
Cd at Los Angeles to hear eviden
eoncerning the alleged plotting
three men to kidnap Mary Pickfo
screen star. and hold her for $780,
ransom. Court adjourned until Il
testimony is started.
Buried for eighteen days beneat
tons Of debris, the body of Chrissi
Kicker, z, daughter OF Mr.. and Mr.
Morrill, Kicker of Neihart, Mont, wa
recovered from the accumulation @
muck that flooded the ravine beIo,
the Silver Dyke mine on July 10th
when the dam broke after beinl
weakened by earthquake shocks.
Mrs. May Putnam Christ, IS, South
Dakota suffrage worker, in 1912 a
delegate to the Democratic national
convention is dead at the home of
her daughter at Pasadena, Calf.
Turgatee, Oregon and vicinity were
covered with a sheet of water foot
deep, which swept over the lowland,
washing out the tracks Of the Oregon
Washington Railroad and Navigation
company to the aggregate OF about
one and a half miles. The greatest
damage was done at Nelson and Wea-
herby. No loss of life has been re-
ported.
William D. Brown. 99-year-old Cali
fornia pioneer and said to be the old
est Shriner in the world, died at
Berkely, Calf. He was born in Char
sottesvflle, Va, and would have
reached his one hundredth birthday
ON December 4 OF this year.
Applicants for licenses to drive au-
tomobiles in California must submit
evidence of their mental and physical
fitness under the terms of the law
passed by the last legislature which
became effective July oath. The new
law also forbids the use of
speed traps" as mean of determin- q
ng the rate at which a machine ia z
raveling. The trap" used for many e
ears, was method of timing the L
peed OF machine between two ar h
itrary points on the state highway. Il
GENERAL -
An important corps In New York's al
reat white collar working army rails
the standard Of revolt. The NUM- ed
pal engineers, $500 strong and rep OF
'senting the largest single aggrega- ar
On OF their profession in the world.
ltside of military establishments
an organization which has w
its object Improvement of salary We
"a working conditions Comparable hi
tn the dignity, training and respon. ii'
'ility OF the position" OF
be
Mrs. Guinvere Sinclair Gould. the tic
7stery woman who worsook a Choir
position on Broadway to live with Ru
late George J. Gould for ten years n,
or to the death of his wife, aston arr
ed her friends by becoming the m a
de OF George st. John Broderick. fro
'count Dunsford, at New York. He cd,
the Oldest son and heir of the Earl hos
80
FAX reduction to the amount of at as
IT $500, 100000, with exemptjon ~ MAJ
taxes on incomes of 5000 or less pen
elimination Of the miscellaneous com
inheritance taxes. was urged at ing
by Senator COPELAND mill
1ocrat, New York. He advocated expt
lctfon IN surtaxes to 10 per cent to a
xteen persons were injured. none I'll
fteen hundred prohibition agents ~ :.
lose their jobs not later than Oc- 1000
10, In the biggest shake-up in 49,,
enforcement service since the en- ava .
ent of the volstead act. A vast o,ns,
rity Of the forty-eight state ad- h. -
strators will be among those to ,,an
No more than 800 will be appoint 49,
the new force with which II ia
to make the nation completely FIJI
humid
packt
ndreds were paic-stricken and "a of a
north section Of Chicago was The
IN when gasoline barge OF the rade
company, on which were 90 The
'"on' eApioded with a terrific tional
terrifying blast and a roar Of at Ed
which leaped 400 feet into the operat
The barge. known as the Re- future
was moored at the time In the by ad,
branch OF the river just OF the recon-,
north side plant and will n,
e property. cent,or
sly, when the New England Elk Fran
!. running as second section Of of a o,
Fe train No. 10 was derailed Of ner,
ashout seventeen miles east Of the inc,
N. NJ No.
than four hours before he was plovees
lecuted Russell Scott was saw banks
the gallows for the second the maj
thin week when Judge JOS creases
David convened a special SEES other b.
court at Chicago and issued decide y
4 habeas corpus staying the Bank en-