The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-03-12
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> oil counsel, Owen J. Roberts and A
! lee Pomerene, have received frol
1 President Coolidge their instruction
J and their commissions, establishe
their headquarters and announced n
time would be lost in diligently an
s urgently undertaking legal proceed
ings. both criminal and civil.
Aided by group of Republicans
most of them insurgents, hous
n Democrats Tuesday eliminated from
the revenue bill the Mellon incom'
tax rates. By vote OF 100 to 196
schedule advanced by Representa-
tive Garner, Democrat. Texas, wa,
substituted.
Under the captain, utah Land
: Grab is Charged by Cattlemen; Con
3 gressional Probe May Result From
/ Transfer of 10000 Acres by U. s.
, the Washington Times Tuesday
printed a story which to uniformed
parties, carries the idea that the
Strawberry valley grazing area, con-
nected with the Strawberry valley
irrigation project, gives promise OF
taking its place alongside of Teapot
Dome.
President Coolidge in approaching
the selection of a new secretary Of
the navy to succeed Edwin DENLY
will endeavor to obtain tile services
of q man having some knowledge
of mining and engineering as well
as naval affairs.
An effort will be made to bring
Obregon of Mexico together next May
at Albuquerque, N. M. as guests OF
the annual convention there of the
United States Good Roads association
and the Bankhead National Highway
association.
Secret preparations for trans
Attic aerial expeditions are being
made in France Germany and Rus
sla, according to information given
navy department officials by Haakon
II. Hammer organizer in the United
States for Road Amundsen VEN
ture of his own this summer into the
north polar regions.
An appropriation of 100000 to
complete the government dam on the |
ella Indian reservation in Arizona |
was requested OF congress by Presi-
dent Coolidge. He transmitted a com.
from the interior depart
ment saying that if additional money
was not made available there was
great danger Of destruction by floods
Of work already done.
Three once famous American bat
tleships, which now lie sunk in Tan.
sier sound, sixty miles below Old
Point Comfort, with their decks rip
ped open and their steel plating
shattered by bombs, will be sold at
AUCTION at the Washington navy yard
N March 10.
A nationwide inquiry by the federal
rade commission into the milling
nd banking industries was ordered ,
y the senate in adopting a resolution ,
y Senator La Toilette, Republican J
FOREIGN
There is no foundation for the re- +,
ort that Prime Minister Macdonald /,
England contemplates resigning .
he foreign secretaryship at an early =
ate, and it is equally untrue that ;
10 Ina1fh 10 or
)ciation states, 1t is authoritatively =
formed. The premier had slight y
I'D ten days ago. =,
Omar Pasha who, with his son and o
'other, were arrested in Rome in n
inuary 1923, has been found guilty
crimes against the security Of the 81
allan state by military court and "
'ntenced to eleven years in prison. II
In order to help them in their work, al
rtain London magistrates will at cl
nd lectures on lunacy four days a Of
eek, commencing in March. The te
urse has been organized by the
sntral Association of Genital Wei dt
re and, after their lessons in the W
orning, the magistrates will visit In
rtified institutions for detectives, to
isons and remand homes. of
The population of Sweden has In. ci
eased 20 per cent since 1898; 1t is
lay in excess of 100000. The CEN
: Of population due to the develop N
mt Of hydro-electric power and the ~
ploitation Of the mining and timber m
lustries in the northern districts, w,
8 consistently moved to the north on
is today farther north than ever IN,
fore. or,
Regarding the difficulties between TIT
ward Carter and the Egyptian gov CO..
lment in connection with the tomb III
Tut-Ankh-Amen, the Associated col
,ss was officially Informed Sun pa
: that the Egyptian government
decided to take energetic steps a
fulfill what 1t considers are its aDl
igations toward science and the w.
)lic. air
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