The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-12-14

-. a.t:'..Se, E5i: IL s on
half military, more than 1000 person
paid tribute to the memory of Lieu
tenant Colonel c. w. Whittlesey, com
mander of the famous '.Lost Battalion
VINO disappeared from q vessel boun,
for Havana.
Two women, both whom say they
are widows of Anton J. Wiechers, once
said to have been a convict in Michi
gan, are cOntending for his $52,OO(
estate. He died in San Francisco In
September, 1919.
New York tenants who wax angry
when landlords add Is or 20 per cent
to their apartments rents have less
cause for complaint than tenants in
Petrograd. BY official Decree, accord
Ing to a radio dispatch from Moscow,
Petrograd rents have been increased
by 2OO times the amount paid on Octo-
Der l.
| Receivership for the Ku Klux Khan
and possible criminal action against
Edward Young Clarke and Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Tyler will probably be the next
move on the part of thousands of
Klansmen who have resigned from the
organization following the nationwide
exposure of the Klan's workings.
WARRINGTON.
One OF the lesser matters that the
conference still has to deal with is the
nature Of the control, II any, to be i'm
posed on the private manufacture and
sale Of munnixons.
Samuel Gompers, discussing the
arms conference declared a naval
agreement, would be a magnificent
achievement" but If the conference
stops there 1t cannot be said to have
succeeded.
The Japanese delegation declared be.
FORE the committee on far eastern ques-
lions that Japan has no intention at
present of "re:,nQuish.ng the important
rights she has lawfully acquired" In
Port Arthur.
That President Harding will face
serious opposition to several of the ad.
Manifestations foreign and domestic
policies In the approaching regular SEES.
sion Of congress. even republican lead
ers Of the senate In sympathy with the
administration viewpoint comedies.
Charles w. Morse, shipbuilder and
hnancier, who arrived at Harve was
directed by Attorney General Daugher.
ty to sail from Harve back to the Unit.
ed States.
Defending what he described as his
own liberties and the liberties of his
ceuntrymen," II. A. Widemann of New
York filed in the supreme court brief
In case in which he asked that the
national prohibition amendment be de.
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Approval Of advances aggregatina
more than $6,5OO,OOO was announced |
by the war finance corporation. Agri.
cultural and livestock loans Of $6,42O
OOO were distributed among twenty.
four states. including Nebraska, Col.
0TAHO
Iowa, South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Ne.
vada and Texas,
1t Is the view Of prominent Japanese
publicists that upon the return of the
Japanese delegation to Toxic a crisis
will be experienced in Japanese poll.
tics. which Is likely to result in the dis
solution Of the diet and the holding Of
new elections. This issue, It is said
promises to be concerned more with
domestic than with foreign affairs, az
1t Is the sense of Japan that the Wash.
lngton conference will produce results
which will be highly beneficial to Ja.
pan.
FOREIGN.
Alarmed by reports OF the plumber.
Ing OF big hotels in Vienna, Berlin boni.
races are taking precautions agains,
any outbreak which may occur there
TO the tune Of 'Sdnlzenfels an the
Rhine," an old German waltz, played
BY cornetist. a troop train with coo
homeward bound left Cob.
lens for Antwerp. where they sailed
for the U. s. A. The famous Stolen.
rels castle was one Of the nearby re.
sorts popular with the soldiers.
1t Is now more than 100 years since
the Thames was frozen over and an
Ok was roasted on tho ITO Thoro =, |