The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-02

Inc Illinois state tax COMMISSION
has fixed the rate of state taxes for
lext year at so cents on each $lOO OF
assessed property valuation.
National banks of the country must
soon make a showing of their condi'
ton.
Memphis, Tenn, has a population
of 131,105 according to the statistics
of the thirteenth census.
Because it was fined for infractiOn
of law, the window glass trust has
'etallated by reducing wages.
Demand for tariff revision will be
made to the coming session of con-
sress by the knights Of labor.
All contests for the patent1ng of
lands in the oil country of California
are being held up by the government.
The supreme court of the United
States has adjourned for it's Thanks
giving recess. 1t will No
vember %.
GOvernor-elect John A. Dix spent
~S4,372.30 in aid of his campaign, ac-
cording to a statement of election eX-
penses filed with the secretary of
state.
Twenty years in San Quentin prison
was the sentence imposed in San
Francisco upon DR.. Robert Thompson,
convicted Of murder in the second de-
gree.
The successful campaign of Eugene
N. Foss, the democratic candidate
for governor of Massachusetts cost
him $4,000, according to his sworn
return.
Prof. w. T. St. Claire, one of the
oest known educators of the middle
west and former principal Of a high
school in Louisville, Ky, committed
suicide.
The New York state department of
health is seeking the cooperation of
'arious %railroades operating in the
state in abolishing the common drink
.ng cup from trains and railroad sta
ions.
Exports out Of this country in Oc-
.ober were larger than in any pre-
tlous month in the history of the
United States while imports we're
lDouI t,UUV,VUU less IMAM IN the same
month last year
Senator T. p. Gore, of Oklahoma, in
an interview, said that at the coming
session OF congress the deomcrats
should revise the wooden schedule
and also the tariffs on wood pulp.
and print paper.
AS he result of a letter to the
Navy department, which is regarded
by officials as insubordinate in tone
Major H. c. Davis who is in com
mand of the marine guard at Guam,
has been ordered home.
Lugano and Como, E. T. Stotes.
bury's crack pair Of roadsters, which
took the blue ribbon at the Horse
Show in New York, were sold to Wal.
ter Winans for $4,000. This is a
record price for a horse show trans,
action.
A letter was made public from
Woodraw Wilson, governor-elect OF
New Jersey, in which he said he had
decided to resign as professor of poll.
tics and Jurisprudence in Princeton
university, thereby severing all con.
nectiOn with the teaching body of the
institution.
The federal governments title tc
the property in dispute in the case OF
Oberlin NJ. Carter, former captain in
the United States army, the out.
growth of the Savannah river and har
Dor Improvement frauds, was confirm
ed by the United States circuit court
Of appeals in New York.
Isaac and Manning Phillips, mem
bers of the firm of I. & NJ. Phillips
importers, at New York, we're arrest,
ed, charged with having defrauded
the government out of duty on wooden
wearing apparel imported from
France by mean of false consular in
voices.
The opening gun in a fight of retail
hardware dealers of Pennsylvania and
neighboring states for the elimination
of jobbers and catalog houses was
fired in Pittsburg at a meeting of hard.
ware merchants. The object is to
combat 5 and 10 CEN stores and SINH.
lar establishments.
Memorial stamps in honor of the
approaching centenary of Charles
Dicken were placed or sale in New
York. They are of large size and are
intended to be used as book plates.
The profits will go to Dickens's des-
cendants, none of whom has the fiene,
lit of any copyright fee.
A bumper corn crop and unusually
heavy receipts of cattle and pork at
the Chicago stock yards are given by