The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-11-01
WASHINGTON

, WASHINGTON
The administrations, It was declared
on high authority. will in all prubabi-
lily send recommendations to con.
gress for revisions of the Volstead act
| which will modify the situation re-
| sulting from the attorney generals
recent ruling regarding foreign ships
and the United States prohibition law
The Interstate commerce commits
sion soon will pass on the application
Of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rail-
road company for authority to build
a thirty-twO-mile line in Iron county,
Utah, from Lund, on it's main line. 20
Cedar City.
Fire losses on railroads in this coun-
~ declined nearly 100000 in 1921,
as compared with 1920.
An embargo on importation of arms
and ammunition into Mexico is to be
rigidly enforced by the Mexican gov.
eminent.
Governor r. Mont Reilly of Porto
Rico, whose administration has been
under repeated fire from various
quarters, is praised as "a thoroughly
honest and highly patriotic man" in
letter said to have been written by
President Harding.
The treasury's new offering of $780,
100000 Of AN per cent 3O-year bonds
has been over-subscribed approximate
ly $1,000, 100000 was announced by
Secretary Melon.
Standard Oils great stock dividend
declared is appraised as the first of
many fine melons ripening in the Wall
street patch, all of which must Ne
picked within the next four and one
half months to escape the heaviest
outstanding penalty the revenue law
imposes-a 25 per cent tax on undis
tributed earnings.
Because of the illness of Mrs. Hard
ing, the usual winter programs of the
White House social functions, includ-
Ing diplomatic, army and navy, ju-
dietary and legislative receptions, have
been Cancelled.
Maternal morality is increasing and
no progress is being made towards it's
reduction despite extensive research
and development of modern methods.
The old barn yard rooster cannot
travel by United States mail, but day
old chicks may according to a post
office department announcement.
FOREIGN
Large crowds watching the gliding
competitions at ItfOrd hill England
witnessed flight Of / hour and SO
minutes by Captain F. p. Raynham
in craft of British manufacture.
The announcement that the Nation.
an Unionist association has issued a
summons for an emergency conference
Of the party dropped with a bang in
to the troubled political arena and
made everybody jump.
After holding the office of prime
minister through seven of the most
critical years of British history-three
years of war and four years of re-
construction - David Lloyd George
went into the wilderness.
There is no tendency in the French
government to rejoice over the pass
ing of Lloyd George and his cabinet
This was given definite assertion in
official quarters
Lloyd George outlasted all the
statesmen who guided the nations
through the world war; In the tur-
moil of readjustment that followed
that conflict he Kept his seat at the
steering wheel when all around him
were losing theirs
The Federation Of Syndicates Of
the federal district of Mexico has de-
creed 24,hour general strike in sym
pathy with the employees of the
Toluca and Mexico City Brewing COM
pany.
the coming season Is going to be on
a bigger and better scale than ever,
according to the impresarios who are
to handle the arena events.
paris, as leader OF fashion, IL
finished. It is Americas turn" Thus
declares Lady Duff Gordon in Lon.
don.
Scoring serum 'cures' for lung dis.
eases as "cruel receptions which are
In NO cases permanently successful"
Professor Georges Arnold officially