The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-12-16

work by the short session of con-
gress.
Nebraska has a population of 1902.
PA. a gain of lis per cent. since
1890.
1t is said there will be no pension
legislation at the short session OF
congress.
Over thirty million dollars are to
be asked for river and harbor i'm
provements.
Much of the red tape in various de.
partments of the postoffices is to be
dispensed with.
Lack of scientific methods was
charged against railroad managers at
the shippers hearing.
J. A. Cudahy will soon leave Oma'
ha for Chicago to become head OF the
big packing company.
Secretary MacVeagh favors a high.
er rate of interest for future issues
Of Panama canal bonds.
The planting of Pacific coast sal
mon eggs have proven successful IN
waters of New Hampshire.
Foreign steamer companies are ac'
cused of combining to squeeze out
American shipping interests.
Louis D.. Brandeis, who says he can
save the railroads a million dollars a
day, has been proffered a job.
Grace Rolph, the Fender, Neb., girl.
says she was not kidnapped by a Mex
lean, but left of her own accord.
The population of the state of
Maryland is 1,294.45O according to the
statistics of the thirteenth census.
Hitchcock, (dem.) for senator from
Nebraska. got 1866 more votes than
.Burkett. present republican senator.
Following its Thanksgiving recess
:the supreme court of the United
States handed down many decisions.
The legality of the Nebraska, Kan
,sas and Oklahoma bank guaranty law
'is soon to be argued in the supreme
court.
Cardinal Sanminiatelli died at
Rome. He was born at R~adicondeli in
1910. and was proclaimed a cardinal
in 1901.
The Peruvian government has no
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established between New York anG
.Callao.
A November without wind. precipi.
tation, OF sever cold gave Nebraska
farmers perfect opportunity to har.
vest the corn and make snug for the
winter.
Andrew Carnegie was showered
with - f,,1n tor1y ,,arroroc an bir
seventy-third birthday, which he qui,
city celebrated at his home in Fifth
avenue, New York.
Governor Shallenberger of Nebras.
ka told Champ Clark how to reform
the next democratic house by follow
ing precedent of the democrats in Ne.
braska legislature.
Festivities were held in Panama in
celebration Of Panama's independence
of Spain, which was gained in 1919 by
the republic of Colombia, of which
Panama formerly was a part.
John Windon of Randolph county,
Alabama, and Joe Wheeler of Carroll
county, Georgia, were acquitted of a
peonaSe charge in the United States
NiS COuII IL 4lOllSUIlGIy, AID.
Leave the cities and settle on
farms" was the burden of the ad.
dresses delivered at the annual con.
vention OF the Federation of Jewish
Farmers of America in New York.
The tWenty-fOurth case of typhoid
fever developed at the naval academy
when Midshipman X. c.. Woodward
nf tho frct ,1o-, ,,,~- .1-:44x1 -,
naval general hospital for treatment
The University of Nebraska was
again to the fore at the international
stock exposition in Chicago. In the
slaughter tests the university was
first in one class and first and second
in the other.
w. P. ~Letchworth, aged 81, widely
known as a philanthropist, is dead
at Glenn Iris, near Portage, y. Y
With his death 1000 acres of park
including the falls Of the upper Gene
see river, become by his gift the prop
arty of New York state.
To ask that the president recon-
mend additional pension legislation
Representative Phil Campbell of Kan
sas called at the White house. Mr.
Campbell suggested to the president
that he enforce the bill! adopted at
the last grand encampment of the
G. A. r.
7. B. Fitzpatrick, national treasurer
Of the United Irish League, cabled
10000 to John f. Redmond, leader OF
the Nationalists in the British parlia.
ment, for the ~furtherance of the cause.