The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-15

changes in the monetary system; civil
service retirements; a customs service
free from practical politics.; business
like methods in the daily transactions
of the government and abolition of rec
tape wherever 1t clogs the wheels o
the governments business are among
the recommendations in the annual re
port of Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh, presented to congress.
The United States district court fol
the eastern district of Pennsylvania de
cided that there is no general conspir
acy among the anthracite coal carry
ing railroads or coal companies to re-
strain trade or commerce, or to mo-
| nopolize the trade or to maintain GER
tain prices, but it did decide that the
!! Temple Iron company is a combination
of anthracite coal carrying railroads in
violation Of the Sherman antitrust
law.
Information reaches st. Paul, Mimi,
from Menominee, Mach, that Nan Pat
terson, who was tried three times on
the charge of murder, was married to
Sumner Prescott, young manufacture
err of Marinette, Wis. at st. Paul on
October "a last.
1t costs so much per capita to edu-
cate the children of Montclair, N. j.,
that the school board has engaged
Prof. Paul H. Honnis of Harvard uni.
versity st $50 day to investigate
and report as to how the expenses of
the schools may be reduced.
Eighteen persons were hurt, twelve
cars were wrecked and hundreds of
car windows were broken at Toronto,
Ont, in riots growing out of objec-
lions to pay as you enter cars.
Eighteen men, including three po-
lice officers, were injured, II street
cars reduced to scrap and the win
dows in over 200 more smashed in a
riot of Toronto, Ont, citizens follow
ing mass meeting called by Mayor
Geary to protect against the installa-
ton of pay-as-you-enter cars.
Striking garment workers, number
Ing 10000 men, women and children,
marched from their respective head.
quarters in Chicago in driving snow
storm to the West side baseball park,
where they braved the chilly blasts
and shivered in the cold while they
listened to speeches from their lead
ers. Leaders pronounced it the great
est parade of hungry workers since
the march of Coxey's army.
Five votes elected w. N. Ruby to
the Colorado supreme court because
the parties neglected to put up candi-
dates to fill the unexpired term of
the late Chief Justice Robert w.
Steele.
The ancient absolute regime in
China will exist only historically after
the Chinese New Year in January,
1911. 1t Is stated that the throne has
decided to accede to the resolution of
the imperial senate, praying for the i'm.
mediate creation of constitutional
cabinet.
The issue of whether or not Will.
liam Lorimer is entitled to his seat
in the United States senate will be
submitted to that body before the
Christmas recess of congress, accord
ing to the present plans of the sub.
committee that is taking the evidence
in the case. That was the program
announced by Senator Burrows, chair.
man of the committee on privileges
and elections.
George D. Horras, formerly a bank
er of Sioux Falls, S. D., was released
from the Leavenworth federal peni-
tertiary after serving three years for
Of the national banking laws.
Horras was only twenty-six years old
when he went to prison.
Seven Chinese girls brought to San
Francisco in the steamer Mancnuria
assert they were kidnapped for the
slave trade in Hongkong and confined
on the ship in locker IA feet square,
into which no light was let during the
whole voyage.
Mrs James Mckinney, the wife of
Congressman James Mckinney of the
Fourteenth district of Illinois, died at
D. c., OF paralysis.
Exonerating Secretary of the In
terror Ballinger on all the charges
brought against him and condemning
his accusers as having been inspired
by deep feeling of animosity, built
upon supposed difference in policy
conservation, majority of
the congressional committee which in
vestigated the so-called Ballinger-Pin-
chot case submitted its report to con.
gress.
Juan Sancho Azcona was arrested
at Washington by direction of the de-
partment of justice on request of the
Mexican government. Azcona is a
of the inner council of the
Mexican revolutionists. He was
known to be closely associated with
Francisco I. Madero, leader of the in
Azcona is a former
of the Mexican congress and
4 journalist.
Fire destroyed the Fendrich cigar
factory, the largest independent fac