The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-07-30


pen.
Chairman Aldrich seems doomed to
lose his r5int on specific dutie. on CO.
ton goods, and the ad valorem rates
will be substituted.
The urgent deficiency bill was
passed by the house after four days
of tempestuous debate. The amount
carried by 1t 10 s454.s09.
Mrs. oliver II. p. Belmont, wife OF
the Millionaire In New York, expects
to attend the state equal suffrage
convention in Des Moines in October.
Reports from all parts OF Mexico In
dictate that the sentiment In favor OF
strike in sympathy with that of
train dispatchers by the engineers and
conductors OF the merged railroads
of Mexico, is rapidly crystallizing.
Wright brothers aeropiane broke
the American flight records In travel
ing seventy miles in eighty minutes.
Lieutenant Adams, with whom SUIT
ton was fighting, when he was killed,
contradicted himself much In recital
In court.
President Falleries will appoint NJ.
Leon Bourgeoise, premier OF the
French cabinet
Iowa scientists are excited over the
discovery of a large number OF skel.
etons to mastodons and prehistoric
horses along the bluffs OF the Mis-
souri, river In Harrison and Monona
COUNTIES
The Wax ee..=--.....snt has passed
nrdpnSnt that soldier whose death
resulted from an accident while en-
gagged in athletic contest encouraged
by the officers of his regiment was in
the line of duty.
Money order transactions in the
postofiices Of the country have grown
to SO large an extent In the last year
or two that 1t is now necessary to
maintain force Of $50 accountants.
bookkeepers, assorters and examiners
in the Office of the auditor of the post.
office department.
Reports from all parts OF South Da-
kota continue to give glowing ac-
counts Of the excellent condition OF
crops of all kinds.
Sixteen persons. five of them WON
en-, met death by drowning in the
waters either surrounding or in the
vicinity of New York Sunday.
Edward Hayden. Omaha, head Of
the great department store. died sud-
denly in that city few days ago.
Two killed and a score injured. one
probably fatally, was the sudden ter
mination of a baseball game in Lead.
when the lightning struck in the grand
stand.
There We're 1916 persons to each
library and an average of seventy-twu
volumes to every one hundred PERSONS
In the United States in 1908. accord
ing to a bulletin issued by the United
States bureau Of education.
An aggregate of $3.50. 494.59s in saw
| ings deposits In the national banks Of
the country is shown in the complete
| report issued by the comptroller oil
the currency on returns from the ma
tional banks. under the call for thei.
condition on June %.
| Washington.
A. N. Sager of St Louis Is In Wash
ington and has given IL out that an i'm
portant movement is on to build vi
shipping on the Mississippi river ant
its tributaries. A S10.0OO,000 corpora
ton will be chartered In Delaware
known as the Mississippi Valley Trans
portation company. 1t will put new
type Of steel steamers on the Missis
sippi and its tributaries, both on tn,
upper and lower rivers.
Declaring that any corporation
which keeps Just and true books o
account" can make up the return re
Quired by the proposed corporation
tax law and meeting other attacks Of
that measure. Attorney General Wich
ersham made public letter he ha
written to Wall street firm Of ae
cSautants who ch-..-n5e some provis
ions Of the proposed law as "asss
lutely impossible of application"
Some notable instances OF the di.
advantages in which United State
: imports into France are placed by tn
. operation Of the pending Franco-Cal
adian taritf agreement, Just ratified
the French parliament are given |
reports which have reached tho sta,
department.
Postmaster General Hitchcock ha
I concluded agreements with the post
( authorities Of Denmark and Japan, b
which after August l. 1909. parcel
{ exchanged with those countries ma
be accepted up to $50 In value, an
eleven pounds in weight. The eleve
I pound weight limit now applies to a
Q countries except France and Swedel
President Taft visited . nickelodo
to see himself In action on q movin
Q picture screen. The scenes depicte
d were at Petersburg. Va. where II
). president went about month ago
!. assist in the dedication Of the Fo
Q Mahon monuments.
I Personal.
vi NJ. BRAND, an avowed c..ielt.., b,
y been preferred the premiership
j france.
Q President Taft will 60 south in q
fhn