The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-02-13
WASHING TON


= Idaho has been confined to his hon
2 for several days with a serious a
4 tack of influenza. His condition Tues
J day was regarded as unfavorabl'
and two specialists were called
o consultation but they reported afte
examination, that Mr.. Smith woul
probably be out again in a week.
Edward w. Box, donor of the $780,
600 prize for world peace plan, re
= peatedly told the senate propaganda
investigation committee that he RI
garded solely as his own affair thu
amount of money he has placed in {
trust fund to defray the expenses o
the contest
President Coolidge, after weeks o.
, consideration, disposed of two of the
four additional judgeship appoint.
! ments sending to the senate the nom.
nations of Charles b. Davis to be fed
eral judge for the eastern district OF
Missouri and Charles N. Pray to be
judge for the district of Montana.
The Supreme court has declined to
permit former Governor John c. Wal
ton OF Oklahoma to bring up for re-
view direct from the legislature the
impeachment proceedings which re-
suited in his removal from office.
George B. Christian, Jr, of Ohio
formerly secretary to President Hard
ing was nominated by President Coo
10 h. Of h4 Fol
trade commission.
Capture OF Victoria, capital of
Tamaulipas, by Mexican rebel forces
under General Lopez de Lara, was
announced in dispatch to De la
Huerta representatives at Washing
ton. 1t was added that General de
Lara would begin from his new van
tage point movement against Mon
terey.
Attorney General Daugherty has re-
versed the tariff commission in its
first report to the president under
flexible provisions Of the tariff act.
In the opinion sent to the White
House, Mr.. Daugherty has ruled that
the commissions construction of the
section laying import duties on logs
Of cedar, fir spruce and western hem
lock was incorrect. The president |
has returned the commissions report |
with the opinion to the commission
and instructions to proceed in accord
ance Herewith"
Friends of the eighteenth amend.
nent and the Volstead act are beav-
RS, and the enemies are rats, accord
ng to Wayne B. Wheeler, general
ounsel for the Anti-saloon league.
1r. Wheeler declared himself in
commenting on the meeting this
yeek of the Association Against the
'rohibition Amendment 1.-THE beavers
act last week." said Mr. Wheeler
eferring to the convention OF the
.ntisaloon league. "The rats meet
his week."
FOREIGN
The Labor government goes into
ction ahead of all expectations ].
amsay Macdonald kissed the hand
the king of Buckingham palace |,
uesday afternoon, thus sealing his :.
1trance upon the high office of |,
rime minister, and the exchange of :
Gals between the ministers of the old
tbinet and the new which took place
the premier's official residence in
owning street.
Nicolai Lenine, premier of soviet l.
ussia, is dead. The end came at 80 g
clock Monday, but tile death was t
It announced for some time after Il
ard. Lenine's death occurred at his L
untry villa near Gorky, where he f
d been living in retirement 1t came O
ter a sudden turn for the worse a
lminating In stroke which par a
wed his respiratory organism. K
The British dominions have unan- G
ously approved the draft Of the o
lglo-American liquor treaty, SUBJ l., !,
tied to them by the British govern u
sne. The draft thus approved had "
en- agreed upon by the London and a
ashington governments. The docu- y
mt only awaits signature and rati- VI
alton by the new parliament. 1t
not expected it will meet with any
rious opposition. :,
Sentences of imprisonment for life tc
! rarely imposed .on prisoners in al
gland, except in cases where the hi
ltence of death has been commuteel. 1t
stice Branson, however, did not h,
state imposing life Imprisonment az
ltence recently on man who was of
irged with having cut off both In
ads Of his step-daughter, Az years al
The cable steamer Faraday, which 30
ce her launching in 1874 has been 90
ing and repairing cables in all co
is of the world, is to end her days n,
Algiers, England as a coal hulk. pe
r successor, also named Faraday, an
nched this year, is now carrying
the work of cable laying.
he United States must insist upon liv