The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-01-14

Senators Burkett and Brown may
split on the selection Of a new district
attorney for Nebraska.
Death has thinned the ranks of dis
tinguished figures in the world OF
sport to an unusual extent in the
year now near its close.
The board of governors of the Elk.
plorers' club voted to eXpel DR.. Cook
for alleged deception.
EFF direct primary laws are safe and
can be operated wisely, then their
scope can be extended" said Leslie
M. Shaw, eX-secretary of the treas
Teachers association in Indianapolis.
George Hanley, a farmer living two
miles east of ColfaX, Ia, drove his
wife from home at 2 o'clock in the
morning and with the thermometer at
least II degrees below zero, she was
compelled to walk in her gown and
without shoes to a neighbours resi-
dence, half a mile away. She was
badly frozen.
The centenary of the birth of Will
liam Edward Gladstone was CONNIE
morated not only in the land of his
birth, but in countries like Greece, the
Balkans and Armenia.
Senator LOrimer fears he is beins
ignored in the matter of patronage
in Illinois.
President Taft is trying to find a
way to make future payments in the
Panama canal work and reimburse the
treasury for amounts expended from
the working balance for canal dig
gicg. To do this the president wants
canal bonds authorized in the Payne
tariff law.
Zelaya is on his way to Mexico City,
where his stay is indefinite. He is in
no ems a prisoner. In an interview
he said Secretary Knox had been un-
July harsh.
Gambling in futures is to form the
subject of a conference soon to be
held at the white house. President
Taft proposes to arrive at a means, if
possible, of preventing an unnecessary
amount of stock market trading in flu
ture deliveries of wheat, corn, cotton
md other products.
Reports from the east say Mr.. Will
lard has been offered the presidency
Of the B. & O. railroad.
P. l.. Cue, who lives near Tecum-
sch, Neb., has a photograph. recently
taken, Of a grist mill erected near
P%erryopolis, Fayette county, Pa, in
177G, by George Washington. The
mill is in daily operation at this time.
New York striking shirtwaist MAX
ars voted to refuse the settlement
offered by the manufacturers and de-
clared their intention to continue the
strike until all of their demands are
granted.
The Atlantic coast, all the way from
Boston to New York, was swept by
the worst storm for many years.
Senator Norris Brown has filed il
the supreme court at Washington q
brief in a Nebraska railroad case.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
set about to reduce the deficit in his
department.
The president is concerned lest the
Standard Oil decision, if affirmed. has
a bad effect on the business world.
The insurgent victory in Nicaragua
is declared at Bluetields to have beer
overwhelming.
At Topeka, Kan, Judge John G
Pollock in the United States distric'
court declared the Kansas bank guar
anty law to be invalid.
While driving home in a covered
wagon loaded with Christmas gift
for their nine children, William Payne
and his wife, Mary, Of Hamilton, Ohio
were killed by a traction car.
The health Of Mr.. Bryan is reported
better and he has gone on to Cub;
for recreation.
Washington.