The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-28
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agree that the Colorado river compac
become binding on this state and tn
other five commonwealth which hav
ratified the compact, provided tn
was introduced in the state senate
ct Denver, Colo.
An experiment in the determination
Of cougars in British Columbia with
satnip, was begun by the provincial
game conservation board. A bottle
of an extract declared capable of lur.
ing the big cats into place where
hunters could easily kill them, was
received from Washington, D. C.
The South Dakota senate defeated
by vote of 35 to joint resolu-
ton ratifying the child labor amend
ment to the federal constitution. The
vote came after a futile effort by
. handful of supporters of the resolu-
ton to defer action.
Elizabeth Lee Stark, 90, said to be
the second woman in the United
States to cast ballot is dead in Den
yer, Colo. Mrs. Stark voted at Chey-
enne, Wyo., September s, 1870, short
~ after the territory of Wyoming
granted the right of the ballot to wo-
men. The only woman to vote before
her was Eliza A. Swain, who preced-
Cd her to the polls that morning by
. few minutes.
Two men help up the assistant
cashier of the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company at Seattle, Wash,
and obtained $4,000 in cash and $12,-
600 in checks which he was going to
deposit in a bank.
William Francis Ryan, recently con
victed of wholesale bank swindling at
Los Angeles, was sentenced to 264
years in San Quentin penitentiary.
He received a sentence of from one
to fourteen year on each of twenty
six counts of forgery, all to run con
secutively. Ryan's method, as was
brought out at his trial, was to open
a bank account, cash check else
where, and then withdraw the bulk
of his funds before the check was re-
turned to the bank.
A Mitchell Palmer, former alien
property custodian, probably will be
called by the defense as a witness in
the Hackfeld sugar suit on trial at
San Francisco, in which former
German sugar companies in Hawaii
are seeking an accounting on the
ground that property worth $17,500,
900 was seized during the war and
sold for $7,5O0,000.
GENERAL
Heber H. Votaw, brother in-law of
President Harding, will retire as sup
erintendent of federal prisons March
4. He has informed Attorney Gen.
eral Stone that his health will not
permit him to continue as head Of the
prison system, a position he has held
since April, 1921, and his resignation
has been accepted with expressions of
regret.
There will be no general strike of
the mine workers of District No. /
in sympathy with the 1000 men now
out in the Pittston section, it was de-
cided at meeting of the of the gen.
eral grievance committee at Wilkes
Barre, Pa.
Resolutions providing for the re- 7
moval of the 1917 impeachment judg- G
ment against James E. Ferguson, t
former governor of Texas and restor- ?
stion of his Eligibility to hold office
was introduced in the senate by Sena-
tor Hardin of Kaufman.
a
Moe Truman, son of Chicago \
rabbi, president of Young Judea in v
New York City and prominent in a
Brooklyn socisl circles, was reported t
by authorities to have confessed to f
forgeries totalling $1,300,O00 in the f
business of the Equity Finance and "
Service company of which he was
director.
The American Sugar Refining COM e
pany of New York after having paid a
no dividend on common stock since o
1921, is now 100000 to the good o
and in position to resume payments a
Earl d. Babst, president, told the e
a
DR.. Richard R. Lyman, professor
If civil engineering at the UNIVERSE a
" of Utah, one Of the experts on the C
sanitary districts board of review, a
predicted that the nation as well as "
Chicago, would be endangered by di
cease if relief be not found from the p
supreme court decision limiting the v
amount of water a district can with y
lraw for ,dilution of city's sewage. Il
Gerald Chapman nortious bandit and s.
prison breaker for whom a nationwide tt
oarrb has haen mazda has heon can Il