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

Ne South Dakota rural credits boarc
was pronounced guilty of contemp
e6 the state supreme court at Pierre
B. D., and was sentenced to tire,
months in the Beadle county Jail AM
70 pay = hne of $780,.
w. c. Billy Lewis, clerk o.
6weetwater county, died In the Wy
sming General hospital at Rocl
Springs, Wyo. after several years Of
suffering and three months OF con-
hnement. Lewis was one Of the pio-
neer peace officers Of this section, be-
ing identified with the policing OF
this city and county for the last thir-
ty five years. He was reelected
county clerk at the last election.
Ten buildings, comprising most of
The business section of Main street,
were destroyed by fire at Shoshoni,
Wyoming. The flames were famed
by high wind, and low water pres
sure hampered the work of firemen.
The loss Is estimated at more than
t100,0090. Included in the buildings
destroyed was the Shoshoni State
bank and the Savoy hotel.
Michel Harry De Young, publisher
Of the San Francisco Chronicle, died
following an operation for intestin-
al trouble. He was rs years of age.
Said to have attempted to extort
e2600 from Mrs. M. Andrews, as
pears Of age, owner of restaurant m
Balt Lake, Richard Edward Nord-
strom, % years old, civil engineer ano
former University of Wisconsin ath-
Iste, was arrested by federal postof-
bee inspectors at Los Angeles and
|odged in the county Jail to await &C
bon on a blackmail charge.
Herb Wilson, bandit, murderer and
'lffer" from San Quentin prison, told
} federal court at Los Angeles the
underworld story Of the organixa lion
Il the gang that is alleged to have
planned the 100000 mail truck hold
Up here in March, 1921.
George Vickman, SO, formerly of
shinelander, Wis, prison guard, is I
n a hospital Mt Carson City, Colora-
% suffering from wounds that may
rove fatal, received in an attempted
rison break at the Colorado peniten-
larry here. Little hope is held out for
is recovery.
GENERAL .
DIR. Francis Peabody said that n
ames M. Rolph, son of the mayor s
San Francisco, whom he has been n
at the City hospital at
oston, Mass. for four months was :,
rogressing favorably after his recu- =,
grafton from two recent relapses. :,
. added that at no time had he been - -
doubt as to the diagnosis Of the :.
ness rs severe one of typhoid fe- :
II, and expressed the opinion that
ere was little doubt as to Rolph,s fl
innate recovery, &c
Senator Butler of Massachusetts ~
rs sued for $4,000 damages by
leodore G. Thomas, resident Of the Bi
nited States soldiers home, who le
inns the senator made a complaint st
the postoffice department that as
tomas had sent the senator an ma
onymous and threatening letter. w
Six employees were injured and sew D,
II other bruised and cut when an
plosion in the engraving depart
mt of the Chicago Evening Am
can shook the Hearst building. VIII
my windows were shattered and Do
ployees were ordered out Of the the
1ding when flames broke outy al of
ugh the fire was short-lived and des
small damage. it
)r. /. o. White, for twenty eight ie'
RS state geologist of West Vir- /
ia and one of the oldest living DIRE
duates Of West Virginia uniyer- cas-
:, and Mrs. Julia Wildman have ten
n married. The marriage license The
e DR.. Whites age as 76 and that girl
the BRIDE as ~. wit
resident Coolidge coined a new u'S'
rary motto in regard to public L
nments: Don't start writing it has
Il the time is so short you can't Der.
&c it long" He enunciated this who
lciple when official visitors ask neb
him how his inaugural address cou
coming on, and to what length er,
manuscript would extend. He the.
the anxious ones that he hadn't and
ten much of anything yet. cere
lie quest is over at Cave City, f
her Earth, after clinging grimly, of
fe and in death, to Floyd Collins OF
more than seventeen days, finally reta
endered and without warning, occu
ed tiny hole between rescue g. :
t and the natural tomb of the A
explorer. Peering down this of '
fissure into Sand Cave, the brave the
.ers, who had waged an equal com
,at with the natural forces of men
earth, saw that what they had whit
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