The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-03-11

Omaha Indians in Thurston county,
Nebraska, are to be placed on a new
footing.
The court of commerce feature was
retained in the administration rail
road bill.
Rufus j. Lakeland, president of the
Boatman's bank, st. Louis, died, aged
30 years.
T%wenty-four are known to be dead
in the avalanche in the Couer d'Alene
mining region.
A grandson of Ole Bull, the famous
Norwegian violinist, is said to be To-
Gated in Omaha.
Insurgents of the house nope Rep
resentative Hinshaw Of Nebraska will
stand for reelection.
Representative Henry introduced a
bill to compel the extradition of the
beef barons to stand trial.
J. G. Baeschlin holds that retailers
are largely responsible for the higher
cast of living these days.
The senate passed the bill author
hing the issuance of $4,000 900 worth
of certificates for irrigation projects.
A bill was introduced in the senate
to form a Rockefeller foundation with
headquarters probably in Washington.
Without excitement or ceremony
President Mendoza vas formally in.
augurated president of Panama, sue
ceeding President Obaldia, who died
several days ago.
The English army estimates for
1901 show a total for maintenance
of $13S, SOC. 900. This is an increase
over the estimates Of the preceding
year of $1,625. 900.
Witnesses in the Chicago oleOmar-
garine hearing told how the traffic
was carried on in the west.
Mayor Shank announced that he
will make an effort to have women
appointed to the police force of In
dianapolis.
At Chicago Judge Lands sentenced
a persistent violator of the oleo-
margarine law to six years in the
~penitentiary.
Senator Brown, chairman OF the
senate committee on patents. made a
favorable report OF the bill creating
a patent court of appeals.
Prof. Louis j. Moore. brother-in-
law Of President Taft. was elected
dean of the college of liberal arts
in the University of Cincinnati.
Attorney General Thompson holds
that Nebraska is not liable for $248.-
600 damages said to have been infiict-
Omaha.
All employees Of the breweries In
Buffalo. numbering about 700 men,
will receive an average increase in
wages Of 81 weekly by contracts just
signed.
The bill granting right of way to a
pipe line across the public lands Of
Arkansas for oil and gas from the
fields of Oklahoma was favorably
acted upon by the house committee
on public lands.
From the Lincoln asylum last week
there was sold seventy hogs at 1920
a hundred. The total amount re-
ceiyed for the bunch was $1,47S.44.
The freight, %yardage, feed and com
mission amounted to 1851, netting
the state $l,443.O7.
Frank Sweetser, an American resi-
dent of Matagalpa, has visited Rear
Admiral kimball and protested
against the forceful entry Of his house
by q Nicaraguan officer. who attempt
ed to recruit his servant.
The committee in charge of the
county option convention to be held
in Lincoln March IA and Is has ar
ranged with Governor Hanly Of In
diana to deliver the principal address
on the night of the 14th.
Prophesies that the late meat boy
colt would bring higher and not lower
prices were realized in New York,
when beef sold at $11 a hundred
weight. Wholesale; mutton at II
cents a pound retail. pork loins at 16
cents and upwards and lambs at 20
cents.