Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-20

The finances Of the country made
good showing in September.
The democratic state convention OF
New Mexico nominated w. c. NC
Donald of Carrizozo for governor.
Cornelius N. Bliss died at New
York following long illness.
The Turks were unsuccessful In
their attempt to recapture Tripoli.
Railroads of the country are con-
sidering taking over express business.
The New York assembly passed the
Ferris-Blauvelt direct nominations
bill.
Seattle crowds were unusually cor
iial in their greetings to President
Taft.
John D. Rockefeller has installed
telegraph line to his home near Tar
rytown, N. Y.
Early returns indicated that the
woman suffrage amendment had been
defeated in California.
The funeral of General Henderson
took place at Omaha in the presence
of many mourners.
High water did great damage In
Wisconsin, almost entirely destroying
the town of Black River Falls.
Violation of the Sherman law in the
Pennsylvania hard coal cases was
charged in the supreme court.
In a speech at Bellingham, Wash,
President Taft predicted the opening
of the Panama canal in July, 1913.
Seventy proprietors of steel and
iron foundries met at New York and
discussed business matters behind
closed doors.
An Abraham Lincoln memorial mon
ument was unveiled at Council BUTTS
in the presence of distinguished visit
ors from abroad.
The department of agriculture has
prepared for confiscation of any SHIP
ments of unripe oranges or other un-
ripe fruit from Florida.
A movement to raise half million
dollars to build a national monument
in Washington to the memory OF the
women of the civil war was launched
at New York.
Members of the st. Louis police de-
partment refused to permit "Packy"
Mcfarland of Chicago and Grover
HAYES of Philadelphia to box SIX
rounds before the Mozart club.
The government crop report shows
there was improvement in September.
Members of the senate committee
arrived at Chicago to resume the In
vestigation of Lorimer's election.
Captain John Bradie, giving exhibit
tons at the South Georgia fair at Til
ton, was killed when he fell from his
balloon and plunged 700 feet to the
earth.
The body of William E. Curtis, the
widely known writer of Washington
who died suddenly in Philadelphia,
was taken to Washington and buried
in Rock Cook cemetery.
Despite the advent of the postal
savings banks, the savings deposits.
in the national banks are increasing.
From June 7 to September 1 these
deposits grew from 1884 100000 to
1854, 100000.
Edward Ellis and Walter Nowlan
pleaded guilty in the United States
district court at Davenport, Ia, to
charges of being implicated in the
operations of the Mabray gang OF
swindlers.
The Burnside shops of the Illinois
Central railroad became open shops,
formal notice posted within the
stockades informing the workers that
hereafter the road will deal only with
it's individual employees.
The Ohio Federation of Labor has
gone on record as favoring woman
suffrage. a minimum wage scale for
women and law providing penalty
for parents who testify wrongly as to
the age of children workers.
According to all reports the harvest
of 1911 in Denmark will surpass all
records since 1868. Not in forty-three
years has weather, labor and other
conditions proven so suspicious to the
farmer
Provision for establishment OF
parcels post and transportation OF mail
by aeroplane has been made by Post
master General Hitchcock in his an
nual estimates of Post Office depart
ment expenditures submitted to the
Treasury department.
Plans for a 100000 system OF
freight terminals in Minneapolis were
announced by the Chicago, Rock Is
land & Pacific Railroad company.
Two tracts of ground have been pur-
chased, the larger comprising thirty
acres.
The Germans of the United States
as represented by the German-Amer-
lean national alliance now in conven-
ton in Washington, signified their
wish that Germany enter into negotia-
lions with the United States for
general arbitration treaty similar to
those with Great Britain and France,
now pending ratification by the United
States senate.
The Italian authorities at Tripoli
issued a proclamation suppressing
.lavery Tripoli was the only remain
ing port on the coast of Africa where
slavery still prevailed, notwithstand-
ing the efforts of Great Britain and
France to prevent the traffic.