The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
ITELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS.
= RESUME OF THE WEEKS
ooINcs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of tho Last seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pro-
pared for the Benefit OF the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

Decreases of ten per cent in tn
paintings of winter wheat in Wash
lngton and Idaho and an increase o
. per cent in Oregon are estimates
n the December report of the fedora
division of crop and livestock esti
mates for the Pacific northwest a
Spokane. Wash.
Secretary Of War Weeks in a tel
eeram received at San Francisco ap
proved, with conditions a plan II
bridge the Golden Gate, the entrance
70 San Frsncisco's harbor. 1t is es
Aimatsd me project will cost $21, 000,-
900.
Five persons were killed, twenty
ens miles east of Chehales, Washing
} Ton, when tree, hurled over bluff
BY q high wind, crashed through the
Top Of an automobile stage.
Tho rail mill Of the steel plant
sf the Colorado Fuel & Iron company
resumed operations after being idle
for several months. Five hundred
mon started work and will be en-
ployed in two shifts Of eight hours
each, it was announced at Pueblo,
Colorado.
John Ellegood, Sc, was killed, $780,
900 worth of property was ruined
and three buildings were wrecked in
. double explosion at the Du Pont
Powder company's plant at Du Pont,
Wash.
The conviction of L. H. Lathrop, S.
3. Champlain and George w. Clark,
officials Of the Northwestern I'M
provement company of Pocatello, Ida
no, on a charge of using the mails
TO defraud In connection with $780,
600 real estate transaction, was up
held by the United States circuit
court Of appeals at San Francisco.
GENERAL
Twelve employees of the Lehigh |
Valley Coal company at Scranton,
Pa, who arc to take = vote next |
week OH the question of joining in
strike with the $4,000 en-
ployes of the Pennsylvania Coal COM
pany, who have been idle three weeks
we're warned by District Union lead
srs that any such action would be
at violation of union
avs, and would be dealt with accord
ngly.
The national elimination balloon
ace will be held at st. Joseph, Mo-,
IN Memorial day next year, according
o letter received at st. Joseph
rom the National Aeronautic associ-
Ition by Carl Wolfley, Missouri gov
'rnor of the organization. The win
Ter of the event will be the United
'tates entry in the international CON
est in Europe. ,
The fourth Mrs. Willard Mack left I
er husband in New York she said,
ecause he drank too much and now
ir. Mack has come to regard her
oint of view with favor. Mr.. and q
irs. Mack, before their attorneys, :
cached a separation agreement and :
10 author actor producer told her he !
'ould provide her with every posi- h
le comfort until . divorce is OBJ
lined.
A forty-four-word letter, reposing :,
! the eye of a needle, has been re- 4
lived at the Smithsonian Institute. 8
he microscopic missive, which was T
mt to the institute for display be- a
re the annual meeting Of the board :,
regents, is so small it has to be .
agnified Lightweight times before II
can be read. 1t measures exactly
11.260th Of square inch. The text
the letter follows. "This is a h;
ude, hurriedly prepared, large sam in
e of the micro engraving, l trust it n,
III contain moment of interest to ia
e regents and regret that time pre- p
nts preparing an exhibition more S,
orthy Of their inspection Believe tie
to be, your cordially, Alfred Nc az
ven." pt
The Missouri Pacific railway, which,
rough recent acquisition of control vi
the Gulf Coast lines and the In as
irrational Great Northern railroad 81
came the. largest transportation wi
stem on the United States announ- pi
the purchase of fifty additional m
5000 freight cars ana pr
rty cabooses at an aggregate cost as
about s9.0O0.O00. hi
The two-masted British schooner
Duffy, with liquor said to be val rs
4 at 100000 and a crew of eight pc
itish subjects, was captured at st
w London, Conn, by the coast Al
ard destroyer, Downes and lowed Of
o port. i'm
Federal Judge Davis of St. Louis pr
ltenced Harry Flackskamm, 81, u
mp collector and broker to four mi
lr term at Leavenworth prison and
nav a fine of $4,000 for possess tn