The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-25

n Frederick W. Upham, 81, of CT
\ cago. formerly treasurer Of the R
u publican national committee is dea
= at Palm Beach, Florida from cerebr;
. hemorrhage.
> The house passed and scented to tn
senate bill by Representativ
8 French, Republican, Idaho, whereof
the federal government would relir
quish to Kootenai county, Idaho, it
right to a parcel of land upon whicl
the Fort Sherman military reserva
ton was once situated. Fort Sherman
was abandoned as military reserva
ton in 1886.
Josiah Kirby, deposed president o.
the $37000,000 Cleveland, Ohio, Dis
count company, entered pleas of moi
guilty to three new indictments re-
turned against him last week by the
special county grand jury and fur.
nished $4,000 bond in each case. Nc
} trial date was set.
| After an hours wrangle, the house
passed bill to reward the world
filters substantially along the lines
recommended by the war department.
An appropriation of 100000 for
lighting the foot and mouth disease
would be authorized in a resolution
adopted by the senate.
Police of the District of Columbia
have began drive against liquor
law violators, with the purpose of
making the capital bone dry for the
Inauguration next month.
The De Soto hotel, handsome red
brick structure, six stories high, and
one of the Oldest and finest tourist
hotels in the south, was badly dam
aged by fire at Savannah, Ga. Near
ly half Of the building was Quilted
by fire and the rest of it water-soak-
ed. The loss is at least $250,00O.
A cash payment of $50 each to the
1768 Crow Indians of Montana was |
authorized by Secretary of the Inter
Tor Work to help them through the
winter. The money is paid from the
Crow tribal fund accumulated
through the sale of reservation lands
granted to the state of Montana for
public schools.
A resolution of the house commit
tee on commerce and labor advocat-
ng rejection of the child labor amend
nent to the federal constitution was
adopted by the Vermont house of
representatives. The state senate has
ret to act upon the amendment. The
'ote on the resolution was 229 to 8.
The Cambell Towne company of {
Oshkosh, Wis, has submitted the
highest bids to the department of the |
Interior on stand of s37 100000 feet t
t timber, comprising the Creek unit c
f the klamath Indian reservation in |
'regon. +
FOREIGN n
The higher court at Rangoon, Bur- c
Ia, has dismissed the appeal of the Y
lree Buddhist priests and one lay.
ian, who last November were SEN Ii
need to prison terms for assaulting O.
nd seriously injuring Professor and IL
lrs. Paul Gleason, American mis- d
onaries attached to Judson college te
ere. II
Gustav Bauer, former imperial II
ancellor, has been expelled from ..
e Socialist party of Germany. His 90
pulsion was due to his alleged con-
ction with the Barmat financial
andal.
King George of England is suffering ba
pm a feverish cold, it was announ- of
d, and will be unable to fulfill his ii,
bic engagement for a few days. gu
Reports from America that Big ai'
II Haywood, the former /. w. w. ~
der, had returned to the United Ca
ates are untrue. He is employed no
travelling speaker by the Inter IN
tional Society for the Relief of De
'rkmen in Prisons Abroad and has Gel
t completed tour of southern wa
ssia in which he made sixty five
eches.
terrific explosion of fire damp, M
ich occurred in the Stein mine near he,
Germany, caused one Of wb
greatest disasters in the history 10,
German mining. The number of for
d has gradually mounted until now sta
is feared the total deaths will by,
ch the neighborhood of $50. nle
orty thousand London school chill
4 are influenza victims, In some
IS less than half the average at S
lance being in the classrooms. Ore
entire British Isles are in the Wa
of an epidemic that is spreading sig,
/ alarming rapidity, although the Ter,
ase itself is comparatively mild. sho
axity in the matter of marriage ~,
long been charged against mem r.,