The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-09


81 The die proof of the new woodro
\ Wilson l7-cent stamp was complete
by the bureau Of engraving and prin
ing and Postmaster General New Al
nounced that work will be rushe
to have the first issue placed on sal
December %, the birth date Of tn
war president.
Jake Schafer broke all worlds re,
ords for a championship billiar
match with a run of 432 points a
Orchestra hall, Chicago, in the fina
block Of his match with Edouard Hor
emans for the 1872 balkline title, Blu
nevertheless, lost his championship
to the Belgian. Schaefer's dazzling
display came in the thirty-first in
ming Of the match, after he hat
floundered miserably all evening
When he started his spectacular of
fort to retain his title he was $3.50
points behind the challenger. When
he finished he was nine points from
running out.
Former United States Senator Car.
roll Smalley Page died at his home
at Hyde Park, Vermont, at the age
OF 81 years from a stroke of paralysis
suffered November "a. He was gov
ernor of Vermont from 1890 to 1892,
and served in the senate at Washing
ton from 1908 to 1923.
Mark Ham, aged Chinese tongman,
at Cleveland, Ohio, hanged himself
in the county jail few hours before
a white mans jury was to say wheth-
er he was to die in the electric chair
for the murder Of zee Chock in a
tong war. The prisoner used a
rope made from a blanket.
On the same day that Governor
Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas issued
her proclamation offering a $500 re-
ward for liquor conviction Of any per-
son worth $4,000, George Brady, her
negro butler at the executive mansion
was arrested by Travis county author.
tiles on charge of possessing liquor
Tor sale. A car in which Brady and
another negro were found was search
I'd, and officers reported finding sew
snteen half-pints of liquor. The ne
,ro said he had been under sentence
o hang, but his sentence was COM
nuted by former Governor F. P. Hob
~ and that he was afterward fur
oughed by Governor Pat NJ Neff and
'1ven conditional pardon by Gov
rnor Ferguson.
r. A. Chase, farmer near Quincy,
H., is patient at the Pasteur In
titute at st. Louis, having been bit
rabid mule. About three weeks
go dog went mad and it is suspected
lat the mule was bitten while in the
asture. When Mr.. Chase went to
ok after the needs of the mule, it
2rang up on him and bit his right
and.
Battered by land and bombed from
70 sky. Navy struck it's colors to I
rmy In farewell eastern gridiron
assic which climaxed a season of
'sets by running strickly true to
rm, 10 to 8.
SD FOREIGN M
Growing surprise is expressed in
tn official and unofficial Chilean =
'cles at africa, Chile, that Washing
4 has not reacted in any way to :
lgustin Edwards speech accusing
neral Pershing, as chairman of the q
plebiscitary commission,
Partially toward the Peruvians.
The London colonial office Off u
lily announced that the percentage m
standard rubber production which DC
y be exported from Ceylon and IA
laya for the quarter beginning Feb 10
ay l will be raised from IS to 100 IN
cent.
was reported at Geneva that the gr
committee appointed by the league ha
nations to investigate Greek and no
garian conflict has found that tn
ece was at fault by invading Bull foI
Ian territory without submitting in
matter to the league. The COM ,
tee also recommends that Greece MI
fined $225,000 mi
gal
'inston Churchill, chancellor of the on
lequor, replying to questioners In "a,
house of commons, said that II moi
1T Britain's debt to the United cor
es had been funded on the same ,
rs as Italy's the amount which dox
British government would pay vo,
ng the present year would be ap- mi,
imately $11,000,000 instead of dor
100000
It DIR. Alexander Graham Bell, but .Ae
essor Refs, German teacher was az,
inventor of the modern telephone. -Ao
riding to claims advanced in the
Umshau ON the occasion of the ~
tn anniversary Of the telephone. IN. m
lments- have been produced to =.
that Refs advertised instru- 10
s ito reproduce the voice at dis .no
stations" He called the instru- 49,. -
the telephone. .