The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-08-26


Postmaster General Hitchcock IL
cutting down the deficit in his depart
ment.
The mayor Of Ell Paso, Tex. was
killed by falling wall during fire.
Uncle Joe Cannon says he will
again be a candidate for the speaker
ship. ....
Exposition buildings at Brussels
burned, entailing a loss of $6,000,000
to 100000
Joseph vending, alleged slayer OF
Alma Kelner. reached Denver on his
way to Louisville.
President Taft is to get rid Of his
political Jonahs. beginning with Bal
linger September Is.
Congressman Carter gave important
testimony before the congressional
committee at McAlester.
The papal nuncio at the Spanish
court has been warned to make ready
to depart on short notice.
Great Britain's new battleship, the
Lion. is to be the biggest and fastest
naval fighter in the world.
If Mayor Gaynor RECEIVERS he will
probably be the democratic nominee
for governor of New York.
Claude A. Swanson has been ap-
pointed U. s. Senator from Virginia in
place of Daniels, deceased.
Serious floods continue throughout
Japan. Thousands of houses are sub
merged and many lives were lost.
One OF the first duties Of the United
States supreme court will be to pass
on the Kansas bank guaranty law.
Serious floods continue throughout
Japan. Thousands of houses are sub.
merged and many lives have been
lost.
The establishment of national
home for the deaf at Colorado Springs
was urged at the worlds congress OF
the deaf held there.
The funeral Of Bishop Dunno OF Dial.
las, Tex, who died at Green Bay. Wis.,.
was held at Chicago in the Church OF
the Immaculate Conception.
An army paymaster's safe contain
ing $4,000 was stolen from the maneu.
yer camp at Pole mountain, twenty.
five miles west of Cheyenne.
The Carriage Manufacturers asso-
citation OF the United States in session
at Louisville resolved to advance the
price of vehicles for the season Of
1911.
The governmental naval bill to be
laid before the Reichstag this autumn
will ask for an appropriation to build
three battleships and one battleship
cruiser.
Four hundred Punjabis and Hindus
have sailed from Calcutta for San
Francisco. according to advices which
reached the department of commerce
and labor.
One Of the principal reasons for the
slump in the sale of automobiles in
the rural districts is that the farm
ers begin to realize that the upkeep
OF machines Is many times more than
what was represented by statesmen
and dealers. and only recently rubber
tires have advanced 20 per cent. and
the promise of still another advance.
In fact. there Is no limit scarcely ex.
cept a prohibitive one to what tires
can be advanced under the Rubber
Trust. One agent says, Il venture to
say We will not again sell to the farm.
ers to any extent until prices of ma.
chimes and supplies, In the manner
Of upkeep. tires. etc. are greatly re-
duced."
The population of Pittsburg, Pa, is
533,S05, an increase of s2.393. or 1872
per cent, as compared with the COM
bined population of Pittsburg and Al
legheny of 451.512 In 1900.
Acting Secretary Pierre of the In.
terror department appointed a conn.,
mission to determine the competency
Of Indian allottees on the Santee In
dian reservation in Nebraska.
American trade with Japan may be
seriously affected, in part at least.
when the duties In the new Japanese
tariff law will 60 into effect. This
fear was expressed In a statement by
the state department.
The coal lands In North and South
Dakota, amounting to about million
acres. which were recently with
drawn from the public domain by
President Taft, have been opened to
homestead settlement.
Four persons were killed and three
were seriously injured when a south
bound passenger train on the Lake
Erie & Western railroad struck an
automobile at a crossing one mile
east of Rochester. Indiana.
The establishment of federal com.
mission. on the order of the inter-
state commerce commission, for the
control of Alaska was adopted by
Jacob II. Schiff. the New York bank.
er. who has Just returned from a tour
of the territory.
Mrs. Judith Ellen Horton Foster,
noted throughout the country as a
temperance lecturer and writer and
advocate Of missions and philanthro-
ply. died in Garfield hospital In
Washington.