The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-07-26


Washington. The department Of ag-
riculture has just figured that 100000
tons of 1t are used each year in bind
ing the small grain crops Of the Unit
ed States into sheaves.
Il. f. CRADLE, president OF the Union
Of Railway Maintenance Of Way EN-
ployees, urged President Harding Sun
day to take drastic action to compel
the railroad executives and the strik.
ing shoft crafts employees to come to-
gether and settle their differences.
TIL war department has announced
the transfer of the Third battalion,
Fifty-third infanry from Fort Douglas,
Utah, to Fort d. A. Russell, Wyoming.
This is in accordance with the plan
announced by the department some
time ago, incident to q general shift
ing of troops In the west.
Dye manufacturers of the country
failed Monday In the fourth phase of
their long fight to have the existing
dye embargo and licensing system
continued after the coming into force
Of the administration tariff bill. The
senate. by a vote Of 80 to 80, struck
out provisions OF that measure under
which the embargo would have been
continued for one year, and might
have been extended for any part of
an additional year, Mt the discretion
Of the president.
President Harding, 1t was said Sun
day at the White House. Is of the
opinion that in an emergency, 1t would
not abridge the liberty Of any railroad
worker to draft him into service in
the event the government saw TT to
tax over the operation Of the carriers.
1t was stated, however. that the execu-
tive believed the railroad situation
would not become so serious that any
such step would be deemed necessary
by the administration.
Secretary Weeks has compiled a.
table showing that the war department
books for the last fiscal year show
prospective savings In the department
for that period Of approximately $7o,-
100000, OF which $50. 100000 "repre-
sents projects which were postponed
to later date" and $4O.O0O.OOO in
funds which will be returned to the
Incorporated balance IN the treas
ury. In July, 1921, the war department.
reported probable saving Of $27,-
10000 as indicated for the fiscal
year 1922.
Lieutenant James H. Doolittle To-
authorized by the chief Of the army
air service to undertake q transcon-
tinental airplane flight from Jackson
Vile, Fla. to Rockwell field. San Die
20. Calf.
FOREIGN
Chen Chiung-Ming's troops have
broken the drive of Sun Vat Sens
forces in the vicinity of Shiukwan,
China. inflicting considerable losses,
Chen Chung Ming, who controls the
railway between Canton and Shiuk-
wan, has sent $4,000 troops north
ward from Canton in the last two
days.
A half section Of land near Liner.
lex was donated by citizen Of Moose
jaw to the Russian save the children
fund and its sale netted the fund
$4,000. This Is believed to be the
largest individual donation to the fund
| In the dominion.
Two Japanese were arrested and
still are being held charged with TAX
ing pictures on the Mckinley military
reservation, five miles from Manila.
They are one Fujihara, steward on
the liner Arizona Maru, and Molnota
tel in Manila.
The German government is cOnsid.
ering declaring state Of national
bankruptcy. If this move is made it
will not affect the actual financial
condition of Europe at all.
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crest has been abandoned as result
Of an avalanche in which seven por-
ters were killed. Three members of
the expedition, c. L. Mallory. T. II.
Somervell and c. A. Crawford, had
narrow escapes.
-Four persons we're killed and more
than fifty injured when a passenger
train jumped the tracks as II was en-.
tering the Care du Nord. Paris
France, and smashed into the stone
wall which lines the approaches to
the station.
Armand Naudin, newly appointed
police perfect of Paris. was fired a,
az he was returning from the Long
champs Bastile day celebration, the
assailant. an anarchist named Gusta,
Bouvet, mistaking him for President
Millerand. The poor aim of Bowel
saved NJ. Naudin, all three bullet.