Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-29

More than 100000 animals were
| inspeced during the last fiscal year by
the United States bureau of animal in
dustry.
Protests are pouring into the SEN
ate against precipitate action on the
Russian treaty.
Col. w. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill Is
going to put in another season at the
show business.
The supreme court will adjourn
from december % until Monday,
January IS.
The urgent deficiency bill, carrying
appropriation of $2,270,000, was pass
ed in the House.
Democratic Leader Underwood said
it was unlikely the house would pass
an omnibus building bill.
Congressman G. o. Lobeck OF Ne
braska will file as a candidate for
denomination as congressman from
the Second Nebraska district.
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad
were acquitted of the shooting OF Mil
lionaire w. e. D. Stokes.
An eighty-million dollar highway
improvement appropriation bill has
been introduced by Representative
Prouty of Iowa.
The constitutionality Of the Illinois
statute to indemnify the owners OF
property for damages occassioned by
mobs or riots was upheld by the SUI
peme court of the United States.
twenty-five damage suits, aggregat-
ing sS2,4OO, were filed against the
Bayless Pulp and Paper company OF
Austin, Pa, and against President
George c. Bayless.
The will of John R. Walsh, the Tor
mer Chicago banker who died early
in November following his release
from the Leavenworth penitentiary,
was admitted to probate.
An investigation to determine why
the price of sugar was increased sew
eral cents a pound last summer was
begun by the house committee ap-
pointed to investigate sugar con0i-
tons.
Twenty-three sticks of high-power
dynamite were found by a gardener
buried in shrubbery at the residence
OF Arthur Let's, owner of two of the
largest department stores in Los
Angeles.
On or before July /, 1912 is the
time fixed for the payment to China
Of the 100000 pesos, as indemnity
for subjects of that country massacred
in Torreon by Mexicans during the
recent revolution.
Charles E. Hyde. OF Pierce, reputed
wealthiest man is South Dakota, real
estate operator and banker, was found
guilty on three counts of using United
States mails to defraud, with maxi
mum penalty Of $1,000, fifty-four
months in prison, or both
Captain Samuel H. Harper. SO years
old, mayor of Ottumwa, former state
commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and twice state senator.
died Of heart trouble. He was cap
tain Of the Forty-sixth regiment Unit
ed States colored infantry during the
Civil war. vs.
The government filed in the federal
court at Los Angeles suit to dis
solve the plumbing trust. The allega-
tiOns are made in a bill in equity that
the Pacific Coast Plumbing Supply as
ISOLATION "and others" have conspired
since 1907 to restrain trade and inter-
state commerce. i,
Twenty-Five damage suits, aggregat-
ing $S2,400, were filed against the
Bayless Pulp and Paper company OF
Austin, Pa. and against President
George G. Bayless, individually, to re-
cover for losses caused by the going
out of the mill company's dam at
Austin on September 30 last.
At New Rochelle. N. Y, character
izing the age as one Of the greatest
unrest and discomfort which the
country ever knew, Jacob Gould
Schurman, president of Cornell uni
versity, discussed conditions and pro-
posed remedies in an address before
the Peoples Forum.
At Portland, Ore. Mysterious Bill
"" (Amos) Smith, at one time a
we'll known welterweight prize fight
er, was shot and probably fatally
wounded by A. B. Loomis, captain OF
a river steamer. The shooting was
said to be the outcome Of a series OF
uuarrels in which the two men had
engaged.
Not content with furnishing to the
University OF Michigan some OF its
most prominent men both among the
faculty and the student body, the
state OF Nebraska has this year sent
to the university its most perfect
freshman. The man who. in the
opinion OF DR.. George A. May, direc-
tor of Waterman gymnasium, Is most
worthy of that title is G. A. Berge OF
Indianola.
Personal.
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