The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-12-10

clan, on five charges of robbing tn
mails with gun, five charges Of ma
robbery and one charge or conspirac
to rob the mails, each in connection
with the $2,000,000 Rondout, ILL.,, mai
| train holdup on June II.
| The federal grand jury in New
York returned an Indictment agains
the New York Tribune company
publishers of the Herald Tribune, al
leging the unlawful printing and pub
fishing of parts of the income ia,
returns. The Indictment was OBJ
tanned by United States Attorney
Hayward at the request of Attorney
General Stone. No individuals were
mentioned in the indictment.
With his fangs piercing his owr
body, kelly" the big rattlesnake
hat won fame last spring through
broadcasting his rattle from the
Pennsylvania State college radio sta
ton was found dead in his cage by
Professor George B. Green, his own
er, and head of the college nature
study department.
Sometime during the next year the
new navy dirigible Los Angeles will
make separate flights to Panama and
England, Rear Admiral William A.
Moffatt, chief of the bureau of
aeronautics of the navy department
declared.
An oldtime inaugural parade still
is among the possibilities for next
March. President Coolidge wants
his Inauguration to follow the modest
lines of the Harding Inauguration
ceremonies of 1922, but he will not
if there is an elaborate parade
in keeping with the dignity of the Of
flee. When it comes to the question
Of reviving the inaugural bill, how
ever, President and Mrs. Coolidge are
standing pat on their veto and do not
expect to attend any social function
on the evening of March A.
Captain A. J. Wilson of Fair Haven,
Mass, master of the schooner Perry
Setter, was instantly killed when his
vessel was rammed and virtually cut
n two by an unidentified steamer in
/ fog thirty miles south of Cape Hat
,eras, according to information
brought to New York by the United
fruit liner Calamares from Cuba.
A bird bath, constructed of stone
rom France, is to be left in Piney
Branch valley, Washington by Am
assador and Nine. Jusserand, as a
permanent expression of gratitude to
he songsters that gave them relief
uring the war from their burden
f anxiety and anguish.
Howard M. Gore of West Virginia
'as appointed secretary of agricul.
Ire, to succeed the late Henry C.
Wallace. Mr.. Gore, who has been
citing secretary since the death of
[r. Wallace, can serve only until
ext March A, when he becomes gov
nor OF his home state.
FOREIGN
1t is announced that the Prince of
'ales will leave England about
arch 25 for South Africa. The
-ince will visit en- route Gambia,
ezra Leone, the gold coast Nigeria
I'd st. Helena.
In its reply to the recent British
tie, the soviet government, it is I'M
probably will reiterate it's
'mand that the authenticity of the
nous Zinovieff letter shall be pass
upon by an arbitration commits
On.
The French government has decided
ask parliament to ratify the Gen
"a protocol for security and dis
mament, despite the fact that
'ance is acceding to the British
oposal to postpone discussion of (
e protocol by the council of the
ague OF nations.
The Britiah government is going to
thho.d further action in Egypt to
the British demands, only
TT of which the Zagloul ministry !.
reed to, and to communicate of !,
tally with London regarding them. :
Seven hundred and fifty idle coal
ners from the Fernie district of o
itish Columbia forced out of en- S
,yment when the mines shut down O
e to lack of business, are to be a
zen work on British Columbia high u
y projects immediately, Minister ,
Public Works w. H. Sutherland q
S announced
ruan Chi-Jui of Japan, "chief Of s.
scutive power" title which he II
ected to designate his position as a
I'd of the new central Chinese v
yernment has named his cabinet.
e most outstanding feature of the