The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-10-13
Hoke Smith was elected to serve

Returns indicate that Gov. Joseph M
, Brown, who defeated Smith two
years ago, and whose name was
placed before the voters as an indie
pendant Democratic candidate, did not
receive a majority of the votes cast
in any one of the LAG counties Of the
state.
All but two of the bodies taken
from the wreck of the Illinois Trac
ton system at Staunton, ILL.,, have
been identified. The complete list OF
dead numbers 81. Motorman Lier.
man and Conductor Leonard, in charge
of train No. IA, were arrested and
taken to Carlinville for the coroner's
inquest.
The cotton and corn crop of Geor-
gia is estimated at $200,O00,O00 in
the annual report of the commission
err of agriculture made public in At
lanta.
The Standard Oil company through
its official publicity representative, j.
l. c. Clarke. has announced that the
company has inaugurated cam
paign to increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined OIL" and is lower
ing prices of kerosene in Europe and
the far east. This action follows that
OF August last, when the Standard Oil
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels 1 cent gallon from 9% to 81
cents at the refinery, and refined oil
IN tanks from 6& to 51a cents a gal
ION. In part the statement reads:
The Standard Oil company has inau-
gurated a campaign to increase the
worlds consumption of refined OIL
Inc level of prices for refined oil to-
day In the United States is lower than
at any time during recent years, and
as direct result of these prices the
consumption of refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol
ICY is now being actively pursued
| abroad"
Inc thirtieth annual meeting of the
Farmers National congress opened in
Lincoln, Neb., with President Joshua
strange in the chair, and delegates
present from every state in the union
The two-year-old kentucky Futurity,
valued at $4,000, the feature of the
annual fall meeting of the Kentucky
Trotting Horse Breeders association
at Lexington, was won by Justice
BROOKS who set a new worlds record
His time was 2:11H and 2:O9h.
Or. George F. Kunze, a geologist of
national rerute declares that it will
be impossible to erect a bridge over
the Hudson river to connect New
York with the New Jersey shore ow-
ing to lack of rock foundation.
The senate half of conference
committee at Denver, COL, invaded
the lower house of the state legisla-
ture, usurped the speakers chair and
remained in possession until the house
members of their body consented to
report of inability to agree.
The dry-farming congress, now in
session at Spokane, Wash, has re-
fused to change it's name, but the
word international" will be put on it's
letterheads.
The first appearance of a Japanese
in New York divorce court has just
been recorded. The decree orders
John Sa Sa, Japanese tailor, to pay
his wife $500 year for the support of
herself and their four children. The
wife is an Englishwoman.
Portusal's capital is now completely
in the hands of the Republicans, who
have formed provisional govern
ment with Theophile Braga as presi-
don't 40 80 Nd
green is flying over all the public
buildings including the town hall. The
Warships greeted the hosting of the
Republican flag with salvos of artil-
lery 1t is impossible to estimate the
number of killed and wounded in the
fighting, but it is expected to reach
several hundred.
There are 500 fewer saloons in
Greater New York than there we're
month ago, according to excise re-
ports. The proprietors of the 500
failed to comply with the conditions
under which new licenses were
granted.
The steamer Chiriqui, owned by the
Pacific Steam Navigation company,
plying between Panama and Buena
Ventura, is reported at Panama to
have been sunk by boiler explosion.
Seventy persons were aboard. Their
fate has not been learned
John Armstrong Chanler, brother of
Bob" Chanler, has entered a prize
pig at the Virginia state fair which he
has named Dolgorouki after the Rus.
sian nobleman who has played a prom
inent part as the friend of Cavalieri,
the wife of his brother.
The National Association of Com
mercial Executives, whose aim is to
help business by promoting the ideal,
well governed city, met in annual con-
vention in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The German Society of Pennsyl-
vania unveiled in Philadelphia
bronze statue of General Peter Muh-