The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-10-21

Fire destroyed Pier &C." Of the
Southern Pacific terminal company in
the western portion of Galveston
Loss. estimated at $12O.o0O.
The president withdrew 4,1O0 acres
Of land from the public domain in
Montana.
Fire totally destroyed the Adeline
Sugar company's plant at Franklin,
Pa. Loss, $4,000
The Standard Oil company an
nounce a reduction of fifty points in
refined petroleum.
Governor Albert w. Gilchrist OF
Florida has announced that he will
not be a candidate for United States
senator.
Thomas J. O'Brien, the American.
ambassador to Japan, will sail for the
United States October IS on a sixty
days leave of absence.
Walter Brookins, the hero of the
Chicago-to-Springfield will attempt a
flight continuously from Springfield to
St. Louis, a distance of eighty-five
miles.
1t is officially stated that the British
wal office is considering the possibili'
ty Of securing a regular supply OF
horses for the mounted troops in
Jamaica.
The will Of Horace B. Silliman OF
Cohoes, N. Y, a former textile manu-
facturer, %bequeathes the estate OF
more than 100000 to philanthroplc
purposes.
T. P. Nelson of Seattle, was elected
grand president of the Danish Broth
erhood, defeating H. H. Vogt OF Dav-
export, Ia, who has been president
twelve years.
Joe and Ed Chandler, negro high
waymen, we're killed and Ed Black, a
third member of the gang, was mort
ally mounded in Huntsville, Ala, by
Sheriff Mitchell and a squad of depu'
ties.
BY an order issued y the p%ostoffice
department land grant railroads here
after will receive only 1888 for
each 1000 pounds Of mail carried in
was S17.10.
Social Washington was deeply in.
terested in the recent cabinet meet
ings at the White House. at least in
that part of them which had to do
with the filling of the vacancies on
the supreme court bench.
Adolph Rothbarth. the hop mer.
chant, who pleaded guilty to having
defrauded various banks in New
York out of $500, 900, was sentenced
to serve not less than three and not
more than seven years in Sing Sing
prison.
There was a substantial increase,
number of wooden cross-ties pur-
chased for consumption by the steam
and electric railroads in the United
States in the calendar year 1909, as
compared with the number purchased
in 1908.
Sir William Reloar, the English
ph~ilanthrOpist and former lord mayor
of London, who has been in the Unit
ed States and Canada a month, sailed
on Sunday on the Celtic of the White
| Star line, after pronouncing the Am
erican women the "smartest dressed
m in the world"
The Standard Oil company through
it's official publicity representative, J.
|. C. Clarke, has announced that the
company has inaugurated a 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 / cents a gallon from 9A tc
SA cents at the refinery, and refined
oil in tanks from 6R to SIC cents
gallon. In part the statement reads:
THE Standard Oil company has in
augurated a campaign to increase the
worlds consumption of refined oil
The level of prices for refined oil to
day in the United States is lower
than at any time during recent years
and as a direct result of these prices
the consumption of refined oil in thi!
country is increasing. The same pol
icy is now being actively pursued
abroad"
The worlds record for the long dis
lance throwing of a baseball, that hat
stood for thirty-six years, was broker
at the field day meet between the Gin
cinnati and Pittsburg National League
teams when Sheldon Lejuene of tn
Evansville club of the Central leagu'
threw the ball 426 feet 6 IA inches, 9
feet II IA inches over the record.
An alleged scheme for the assassin
alton of President Taft was unfolde'
to Miss Della G.. Torrey, aunt of tn