The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-05-20

Senators Bufkett and Brown hAv(
given no assurance that they win vota
Tor the railroad bill.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany has appealed its case to the
| supreme court
President Taft paid tribute to the
foreign soldiers who helped the Unit
ed States to win independence.
The house will investigate to de.
termine II the sugar trust bought the
friar lands.
Former President Roosevelt II e1.
pected to be the guest Of honor and
principal speaker at the formal open
ing of the International bridge across
the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Tex.
in July.
Statues to two Polish-Americah
heroes were unveiled in Washington.
President Taft's railroad bill a
amended is a long stride forward In
railroad legislation.
The senate has passed the omnibus
lighthouse bill, which makes pro-
vision for aids to navigation prae-
tically on every coast of the United
States. AS amended in the committee
on commerce 1t carries items aggre-
eating about $2,500,000.
The New York Stock exchange win
be closed for two hours on Friday.
May 20. during the funeral of King
Edward.
Montreal exporters fear a grain fam.
iEe at that port, owing to the refusal
of Manitoba grain men to market last
years crop for less than 80 cents.
Advices received at Guayaquil state
that the Peruvian government has sta
toned 100000 men along the frontier
to resist invasion.
The county treasurer at Seattle
forced the Seattle Electric company
to pay up 100000 of delinquent taxes
by seizing IL of its cars.
King Edward VII died at Bucking.
ham Palace. London. after an illness
of about one week, with pneumonia or
complicated throat trouble. All Eng
land mourns for the beloved ruler,
and from all over the British empire
and other countries condolences
poured In. Edward Is succeeded by
his second Oldest son, the Prince Of
Wales
The French minister OF marines
has ordered that all ships Of the
French navy carry their flags at half
mast until after the funeral OF King
Edward.
The department OF justice at Wash.
ington has begun its crusade against
the bucketshops of the country.
The demand Of the administration
for two new battleships will be grant
ed, the senate committee on naval
affairs having practically decided to
accept the provision Of the house bill
on this subject.
The federal government will con-
struct a wireless station at Omaha.
The house passed bill providing
that Indian lands near Falls City in
county. Neb.. be included
in the Nemaha river drainage i'm
provement now being made.
After twelve years the Inflated bat
tleship Maine Is to be removed from
Havana harbor and the bodies which
went down with the vessel and will
be inferred In the national cemetery
at Arlington.
A Nicaragua citizen has written
the American consul that cruelties
are being practiced in Nicaragua.
Mayor Mccarthy is trying to show
that San Francisco is the proper place
for Panama exposition.
There is disposition Of the house
to hold back the postal saw
ings bank bill.
The tomb of Edward VII will be be-
meath the memorial chapel at Wind
sor.
Nearly a thousand bodies have been
taken from the earthquake ruins at
Carriage, Costa Rica.
An imperative edict at Picking sum.
mons the national assembly to meet
October 3 and announces the appoint
ment Of ninety-six members repre-.
senting all classes.
The senate judiciary committee has
reported favorably a bill to aid the
states bordering on Lake Michigan to
break up gambling on specially chart.
cred boats along the coast.